Where can I find an EXPERIENCED travel nanny to fly London - Sydney - London?????????????????

[Georgiaplus1]

I'd rather not pay a recruitment agents fee, I've searched google, and still nothing......

I need an experience nanny who has the experience of entertaining my 2 year old son for the flight from London to Hong Kong (stay over night) then Hong Kong to Sydney - stay in Sydney for a month then back again. I'm a nervous wreck! I'll be on the flight too but can't stand the thought of my son not being happy or being able to run around.

I'll of course pay for the nanny's flight etc, does anyone know where I can find someone with experience without paying a recruitment fee?????

Thanks

i wasnt mean to start and i will admit i was the first poster but i just didnt like her attitude.

Sorry to hear that, Starry. You know I wouldn't offend you ... I just read your previous posts on this thread and took your experience of in-flight to be down to incapacity rather than unwillingness

Well, you know where I am, darling girl.

Desi, you read right, I only had help once, and that was because of ill health.

I know where you are!

Anyone who has been on MN for any reasonable amount of time will realise that there is the full range of Mum's on here from the perspective of disposable income and any cashed up MNer with any sensitivity should take this into account before posting like this. The fact that the OP gave very little detail about her circumstances initially and when she did post a second time declined again to elaborate on her circumstances I think doesn't look good. If I were truly wronged by fellow MNers I would not hesitate to defend myself with something more that 'Phuck off'.

With that in mind I will say that I have done Germany to Oz and back as follows: Return with DH and DS1 aged 11mths; Oneway with DH and DS1 aged 16mths; Return with DH DS1 3.5 DS2 1. I undertook the bulk of the caring because that is the DC's preference at the ages they were. The trips just with DS1 were in Business Class, but it was wasted except for the little more space. There was no help from the hosties and more tension from fellow travellers.

I would not classify any of these as HELL and get quite annoyed when friends with or without children decline to visit because it is such a long trip. As posted earlier it is just one day out of your life. The hardest part of the trip IMO is not in the plane but in the airports, juggling luggage etc etc, so I would heartily encourage anyone travelling without a DH or companion to at least have someone take them to the airport and meet them at the other end. BTW next time I go back to Germany I will be doing it with three!!

PS: I am a SAHM but when on holidays Kids Club (particularly Club Med) rules - just ask my DC's.

Georgiaplus1, I am aghast at the attacks you've had. It's a perfectly reasonable question and if people can ask on Mumsnet about how to claim benefits or get on the list for council housing and be treated with perfect civility, I don't see why people at the other end of the financial spectrum can't be treated the same way.

You could try re-posting this on members.essentialbaby.com.au - you might find an Australian nanny who may be able to help, and you probably won't get any of the class warfare attitude. You'll also find lots of people on asiaxpat.com.hk who routinely do what you're proposing and will give you advice.

Screw the bitter posters here, they're just seethingly jealous and trying to disguise it as superior parenting skills.

well said ninedragons.

What a nasty thread.

I've done a 2-day longhaul trip solo with a very active, mobile, non-sleeping dd1 and it was unbelievably grim. Arriving at the other end totally knackered (and jetlagged!) wasn't fun either.

If I had to do this again and had the means, I'd jump at the chance of having an extra pair of hands.

Hope you find someone good, georgiaplus1.

Just to chip in another suggestion, if you only need the nanny for the flights and not for help when you're in Sydney, you could go to Lonely Planet's thorn tree board. If you can find an Aussie nanny in London wanting to return home and an English nanny in Sydney also wanting to return, you could buy two separate one-way flights and not have to worry about putting the nanny up for a month in Sydney.

Good luck - I hope you find someone suitable.

It's the OP here!!! Thanks for all the useful suggestions, i never expected to be such a long thread - must shoot - the electric gates to the house have just jammed on the Range Rover and the damn cook has just spilt foie gras on the kitchen floor!

lol

lol too

...

Nanny for a long haul flight. Whatever next.

I am terrified of flying - most flights involve a panic attack of some description for me (range from full blown hyperventilation to simply sitting in my seat terrified half to death).

Hasn't stopped me. Proud to say 18 flights last year alone - DH and I managed our 21 month old and our four year old between us.

Oh the luxury...

9 of those flights were long haul (11hrs +).

Georgia...LOl!
LOL.

"Feel the fear and do it 18 times in a year"

Serious respect, Dejags.

Although travelling with DH is easy peasy of course. You can even go to the toilet occasionally if you have DH with you.

[welliemum desperately tries to gain the upper hand in travelling-with-toddler cred]

Doesn't count if there are 2 of you. That's EASY.

Nope. Going solo is the only way to get cred.

Now, I've done UK-OZ 4 times solo with DD. A few UK-Thailand. Gazillions in Europe (they don't count, far too easy )

Actually, now DD is nearly 5 I don't think I can even compete. 4 is just a breeze. Last time DD just watched back to back flushed away while I ate the many meals served up and napped.

On arrival in the UK we breezed into the new swanky lounge, ate and drank and had posh multi-nozzle showers with free molton brown toiletries, got changed into fresh clothes and carried on our journey ooop-north with a train (having pit stopped in M&S for nibbles and a little bottle of wine). Bliss.

[retreats with tail between legs in the face of unbeatable solo record by arfishy]

I know when I'm outclassed. [humble]

And at civilised travel with your dd. When we travel, even if DH is there, it's just a zoo. I age 5 years with every plane trip.

A friend is about to fly home to the UK from Oz with 3 under 5's.

[faints in horror]

Now that's cred. Now DD is fully trained (eg, keeps clothes on, doesn't wet herself, only spills around 40% of offered drinks, screams for less than 1 hour, watches WHOLE films, etc etc) I feel the whole experience just isn't traumatic enough for me.

not sure if anyone else has suggested it georgiaplus1 as I've not read the whole thread - (I was too shocked by how vicious so many posters got ) but I am sure you would find someone suitable on thegumtree.com Its a great website.

I've only ever had such lovely support on here, I'm really sad to see this 'other side' of mumsnet. Is it really necessary?? I'm all for expressing opinions but could it not be done without the nastiness? I get the humourous posts, they're great and I"m all for witty banter but there is more than a sprinkling of just plain nasty and bitter on this thread and its not attractive.

Ok, I have the 'cred' have done it solo with two children ... so I am 'credful' ...

However if I had the cash, I would hire a nanny, definitely.

I absolutely refuse to believe anyone who wouldn't do the same.

It's always the same on mumsnet ... those who haven't got that much cash slam into newbies who come here asking an honest question about money if the question makes out the OP has money ... The same as those "How much disposable income do you have?" threads where people come on and say shit comments like "My heart bleeds for you" yada yada ...

BUT if it had been a well known and much loved MNer like PrincessPeahead (just using her as an example) come and ask the same question of the OP of this thread it would have been all, "Darling, how wonderful for you, look at 'this site'"

You all KNOW what I am talking about.

Georgia, I hope you find someone for your flight and you have a fab holiday ...

I am off back to Facebook ...

Me too. I've done London to Oz solo with two pre-schoolers. Cred please!
And it was ok. It certainly had its moments and a lot was said through fixed smiles and gritted teeth, but we all survived and I would do it again if I absolutely had to.

Although my very first choice would be to let someone else do it. Without question.

cred here too - i've done uk to oz solo with a 5mth old and was a very nauseus 8wks pg too!

but, i would defo pay for someone to help me out - the flight wasn't too bad, but would have been great to have someone help at the airport after checkin!

actually - if i could afford to have a nanny fly with us, i'd dump them down in economy and enjoy peace and quiet up in business

well I can't offer any advice unfortunately, we haven't been on a plane since our honeymoon 11 yrs ago, our kids are the only ones in the class who haven't flown!

am jealous of the poster who is wanting the nanny, I admit it

in fact maybe I could be the nanny?

{would need a passport first}

dejags, what on earth are you doing flying so much? do you have an interesting job or are you just loaded!

OP again - good news! A conclusion to this shocking thread! (for anyone who still cares.....clearly not the NorthernRockCod bird or her buddies!)

A gorgeous nanny has been hired to help my son and I do the flight - she'll then explore Australia while I spend time with my family.

I'm not mentally challenged - I just want someone to help me do the journey!

i've done the flight 4 times before this, just my son and I so I think I've also earned some cred - not to mention loads of frequent flier points hence the reason I can afford to get a nanny to help me as it'll cost me NOTHING!!!