Family travel, business travel or any type of travel can be hard after recently having children, especially for women. While plenty of places offer family-friendly perks, parents traveling without their children while breastfeeding are often overlooked or mistreated. After an incident of a woman forced to discard her pumped breast milk before going through TSA, the travel industry took action to help make traveling easier for parents.
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants takes a step in the right direction with the launch of a new global program this September to support families traveling with breast milk. Through the Kimpton On Demand Family Fridge Program traveling mothers can get a Mini Me Milk Fridge put in their room upon request. The fridge is different from the conventional hotel mini-fridge, allowing parents to easily store breast milk while on property at the temperatures required by the CDC.
This program takes off in more than 70 Kimpton properties as a complimentary service in order to alleviate stress that often comes with family travel. Additionally, each property includes a dedicated fridge for employees who need to pump throughout the day.
The fridges are compact and can easily sit on a countertop in the room and are specifically qualified to maintain the proper temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit to store cold milk.
Read This Next
Remembering Rainer Jenss
News
Sep 5, 2024#WhereverFamily
Insta FeedAge Specific / Multigenerational
Oct 10, 2024Venture into local food markets to sample diverse cultures and flavors
Prepare for sensory overload. Every country has unique sights, smells and sounds. In local markets they’re dialed up to the max. If you really want to get to know a place, start at the market.
Sponsored Content
Sunflower Accessibility Program Featured at O’Hare and Midway Airports
Travelers with invisible disabilities passing through O’Hare and Midway International Airports can now discreetly signal they need assistance thanks to a new Chicago Department of Aviation partnership that helps create more accessible and inclusive spaces.
Destinations / North America
Oct 10, 2024SeaWorld Orlando Unveils World’s First Fully Immersive Arctic Flying Theater
Family travelers, prepare for the spring 2025 opening of Seaworld Orlando’s latest groundbreaking attractions: the world’s first-of-its-kind Arctic flying theater. Families will fly over icy landscapes and also descend frozen waters to come nose-to-nose with the world’s creatures, like Beluga whales, Orcas and walruses. Housed indoors, the attraction operates rain or shine.
Slideshow
Oct 10, 20248 Haunted U.S. Cities for Family Travel
It’s time to start dreaming of your next family trip. Here’s some destination inspiration for you. Take a visual journey through these haunted U.S. Cities with us.
Sponsored Content
Travel to Madrid with the Family and Find Activities to Keep Everyone Happy!
If life were a city, it’d be Madrid. Sometimes it can be quite the challenge to find a destination just right for the whole family. Different tastes and ages make agreeing on where to go seem impossible. Unless, of course, the destination you have in mind is Madrid. With all of its new immersive museums, musicals, soccer stadiums and monuments like Royal Palace, anyone who suggests coming to the capital is sure to get a unanimous yes!
Hotels
Oct 10, 2024This Resort Just Launched a “Cravings Menu” for Expecting Mothers
With babymoons on the rise, treat yourself to one last getaway before all your trips become centered around family. More and more resorts and hotels create babymoon packages, but Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resort take it to the next level by catering to guests’ pregnancy cravings while they are on their trip. A new 24/7 Cravings Menu is now available at all resorts across the Caribbean from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Jamaica to Turks & Caicos to Grenada and beyond.
ShareThis