Are local parents helpful with travel planning?
When you’re planning a trip do you want to speak with a local parent?
I ask because I always do, and I wonder who feels the same way. In November, I planned a trip to Japan for my family and kept going back and forth on whether we should bring a stroller for our 5yo twins. I asked the parents I knew. I went to forums like these. I asked AI. But everyone shared something different and I ended up confused. Then I spoke to my tour guide in Kyoto who was a dad. He said don’t. His opinion finally closed a question that had been opened for a month.
As a result of this trip, I ended up building a feature on Togethr (traveltogethr.com) that matches parents with a Local Parent on a call to answer any open travel questions. My hope is that this connection between a visiting and a local parent will ease the anxiety a lot of families have when traveling. Or it can spark discovery and allow families to travel like locals. Right now it’s early (limited cities) and I’m honestly trying to validate whether this is something other parents care about at all.
I’d appreciate any and all of your thoughts. TIA!