Adoption Travel Tips

Here are some of my travel tips, hopefully they are helpful to someone out there. For a more general list search the web or visit families with children from Vietnam.

We flew Eva Airlines Evergreen Deluxe class and loved it! We where very comfortable and was worth the extra money. You can get Continental Airlines miles for your trip, even if you book it through a travel agent. I signed up for there frequent flier program online and got a number immediately. Now have enough miles from combining our miles to get one free trip anywhere in the U.S.

The hotels we stayed at didn't have dressers, so you might want to pack some hangers to help organize your stuff. The last thing you want to do is be searching your suitcase for a clean shirt and not have any!

At the Rex hotel the water was so hot you could burn yourself really easy. This makes cleaning the bottles really nice but not so great for your hands. Brings some tongs or buy some at the tax market across the street.

Some of the more tourist stores took U.S. dollar, this could save you on the exchange rate, we took 1500.00, and came home with 400.00. Buy things when you see them, we didn't have time to go back or do a lot of shopping, so I wish I had bought more when I saw it.

For us eat became extremely difficult as we where trying to deal with a new baby. I would suggest bring some power bars for when you cannot eat.

The baby wipes are not the greatest in Vietnam, I brought two 80 count wipes and ran out.

Bring lots of easy clothes, cotton pants, onesies, leave the cute stuff for home. Also don't worry about things being too big, it's easy to dress a baby in clothes that are a little big than try to get them into a outfit that fits just right.

Take lots of pictures, this is the one time when you want that camera with you at all times and take tons of pictures!