The Traveling Nanny LLC

06/16/2026

Travel doesn't always go smoothly...the first thing you pack is your flexibility...

06/16/2026

Ok... the comments on crazy things people say is amusing!

06/15/2026

My granddaughter is coming to NYC in July & arriving around 7:30pm. I was going to get her a car service but the cost is high. We just splurged on a hotel on W 42nd.

She is only here for 4 days so don't want to waste time going back & forth from Brooklyn. Trying to be as thrifty as possible only to find rare to fine hotels with 2 beds. Those that did were expensive! So I decided I would use subway/bus to go and meet her at 7pm. There is a free shuttle bus (Q70) that can get us to subway stop with only a 6 min walk when we get off. I was hoping they still had the one that dropped you off at Grand Central!

After much searching with price in mind, I finally found (booked direct & saved versus third party booking)
POD on Timed Square which was a perfect location for things on our agenda.

Still wasn't "cheap" but one of the best deals for 2 beds! I stayed at a POD in Amsterdam once and found them artsy & fun! It is a very small rectangle shaped room. Every inch has a purpose! Still, unlike a hostel private soundproof units with shower bathroom.

What makes PODs interesting even with small rooms is their social area is nice with a bar, food and good size relaxing areas plus big area outside with decent views.

Our room has bunk beds. She didn’t mind and thought it was kind if a cool looking place when I shared website.

I like they have a 12pm checkout and will hold your bags if still exploring.

Will post pictures and tell you if it is as nice as last POD place! It cracks up when a viewer lists as a con, "rooms are small"! Dude! Did you read the description?!!

https://share.google/iiMyxMDXoCwceb785

Pod Times Square Hotel

4.1 ⭐ · Hotel

06/09/2026

A simple explanation

06/09/2026

What does a former travel nanny & now Newborn Care nanny do when waiting for her client's baby to be born?

Look for a project of course!

Meet Tracey Chipps , nanny extraordinaire AND gifted artist! She was chosen to compete in the Peoples' Artist competition started by Johnny Depp to encourage artists to advocate for their art.

Each artist has to find folks to vote for them. Then at 10pm each Thursday they share who makes it to next round. Our nanny community rallied around Tracey to vote! We are down to top 5 artists & after being #1 in her group, she is now 2nd place. You can buy votes and sure some artists have paid sponsors but we have just try to widen the voting area and have made in this far on just the circle of love voting!

If you want to help a young artist achieve her dream type in the link below (FB won't let us type in links) and just click on free vote!

Feel free to share with friends who care about the Arts too!

06/03/2026

True...

06/03/2026

Thoughts? Not sure I agree with lifetime ban but maybe 5 years? Figured they were already arrested and once sobered up, remorse. Mandatory Anger Management or AA meetings?

But definitely a 5 year ban. In UK they could take trains & fly out of another country if ban is in UK.

"I'll kill you!" — that's what one passenger screamed at cabin crew on a Jet2 flight this April before allegedly punching a flight attendant in the face.

The UK Government has had enough.

Ministers are now drawing up plans for a national 'no-fly blacklist' — a database of violent and abusive passengers shared across all UK airlines.

Get banned from one carrier, get banned FROM ALL OF THEM.

Possibly forever.

Right now, thugs who cause chaos in the air can simply book with a different airline and carry on.

Strict data protection laws stop carriers from warning each other.

These plans would close that loophole for good.

Air rage incidents have more than tripled since 2019 — from 390 reported cases to over 1,245 in 2023.

Flights diverted.

Families' holidays ruined.

Crews assaulted.

A YouGov poll found 75% of the British public support a ban list.

But civil liberties groups are already raising alarms — who decides who goes on the list? How long do you stay on it? Is there any route back?

Do you think a lifetime flying ban is the right punishment — or does this go too far?

06/02/2026

A nice post for celebrating Flight Attendants. The link takes you to the Instagram with its 8 swipes talking about what they give to the job.

Well done Two Guys on a Plane

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZAlAl-lsgy/?img_index=7&igsh=MWt6MnNsaWNub3ZmbA==

06/01/2026

You do have rights if it happens to you. I can't imagine paying for business/first class and being downgraded with only 40% refund.

Probably these rulings will not affect most of us but still good to know who to contact

06/01/2026

Hmmm...book seat the moment you are eligible..usually 24 hrs...have never been bumped...maybe I should knock on wood to be sure...

"Oh yes, I would love to pay $30 for the worst seat on the plane, how'd you know?"

That's what one passenger posted after screenshotting American Airlines charging extra for a middle seat in the last row — right next to the bathrooms.

This isn't a premium seat. It's not extra legroom. It's the seat every experienced traveler actively avoids.

So why would anyone pay for it?

Because American Airlines bumped 14,758 passengers off their flights last year — more than every other U.S. airline combined. If you booked Basic Economy and didn't pay for a seat in advance, you're first in line to get kicked off an oversold flight.

Meanwhile, Delta involuntarily bumped exactly zero passengers. Southwest bumped 226. United, 309.

American bumped 14,758.

So that $30 isn't really buying you a seat. It's buying you protection from an airline that oversells flights and then charges you to survive the consequences of their own policy.

Passenger Colonel Mongke said it best.

And honestly? He's not wrong.

Would you pay $30 just to guarantee you make it onto a flight you already bought a ticket for — or would you take your chances at the gate?