u/T_AnotherOverthinker

Ciao everyone,

We are 2 couples with 2 young children ( one infant one toddler ).

We are traveling to Italy for 21 November to 26 November.

We are landing in Rome on 21st.

We plan to be in Rome for two days 21 & 22.

We are flying back from Milan on 26th afternoon so we are thinking to visit Venice for 25th and then Milan for a couple of hours in morning of 26th before heading to airport

I will genuinely appreciate your help and guidance for 23-24-25 November.

I am wondering if we should do Amalfi coast or not because of the season?

Anything in Tuscany? Lake como? Lake Garda?

Anything absolutely other than all these which would be great to visit?

Our plan is to have slow paced stroller friendly -ish ( hello cobblestones ) travel.

We appreciate nature, love beautiful architecture, I don't think with babies we can do much of climbing up down and museum sort of thing. But still open to suggestions of what might be good?

I was wondering if 2 days Rome followed by 2 days at Lake Garda and 1 day at Venice before the last day at Milan

Is this good?

Any suggestions for any swaps?

Should we change anything for the middle days?

If not any suggestions on must visit?

Thank you very much in advance!

My husband (36M) has got a work assignment in Paris for 6-months and I (30F) joined him with our toddler (2YO) coming from a very humble beginnings and fairly middle class life as a couple we knew this was a pretty special opportunity almost like once in a lifetime so we set aside savings to explore Europe while we're here. It's been little over 2 months now we've only done three overnight trips in two months, along with a couple of day trips. Most of the time we're just living a fairly normal life in Paris as our base.

The problem is that almost every trip has ended with something going wrong, and it's gotten to the point where I'm genuinely anxious at the thought of planning to go somewhere.

Our Eiffel Tower day started beautifully, but my toddler fell face-first on a moving escalator. Thankfully he wasn't seriously injured, but it could easily have ended in the hospital. I also had a nasty fall in the metro that same day.

Our day in Provins ended up being unexpectedly stressful. We spent much more money than we'd planned ( due to some event there were escalated prices and entrance fees which otherwise isn't there ), barely got to see the town, and by the end of the day we essentially had to go hungry ( not because of financials just how poorly the logistics turned out )

Our Fontainebleau trip involved losing our baby carrier (the very first day we used it), staying in a terrible Airbnb, and struggling to find food because of sort of false advertising by the host about timings around the town.

In Switzerland, my toddler pulled his elbow the very first day 3000m above the sea and 60km from the hospital with pead ER ( He had never had it ever before and well given his age he is a ridiculously active child but that day it happened without a fall without anything major just his usual stuff ended up hurting him this way )

And this last weekend, we went to Belgium for his birthday. We had a wonderful day until our wallet was stolen. We lost cash and had around €3,600 in fraudulent card transactions (currently being disputed for chargebacks but God knows if and when that ll happen). Instead of celebrating his birthday that evening, we were at the police station and dealing with banks and insurance. By the time we were done, our little boy had fallen asleep on his own without birthday dinner let alone a celebration.

I know some of these things are just unfortunate travel mishaps, and some are simply bad luck. But when they keep happening one after another, it's hard not to feel like every trip is waiting to surprise us with the next disaster.

For those of you who travel a lot, especially with young kids, is this just part of the experience? Have you ever had a run where it felt like every trip went sideways?

What I'm struggling with is whether this is just what longer-term travel feels like. Do enough bad things naturally happen over months of travelling? If yes do they eventually, start to outweigh the good memories? Or have we simply had an unusually unlucky run? Or at the end of the 6 months these things won't matter but the memories will?

If you were me,

Would you keep travelling and hope the luck changes / even outs or would you slow down and just stay in Paris for the rest of the trip?

I'm honestly looking for perspective from people who've travelled a lot ( because we haven't really travelled that much honestly) , right now I'm finding myself feeling more anxious than excited about the remaining months.

I am requesting everyone to please please be kind, I am genuinely scared anxious and overwhelmed right now! As a mum as a partner i feel just so defeated to see this happening to my little family! Especially for my husband he is the kindest most hardworking person ever he had seen such a struggle during his childhood and even growing up he has worked so much so hard to be able to afford this for the both of us and I am now genuinely petrified of something worse happening if we keep traveling but also breaks my heart thinking what if I loose out on and as a result my baby and husband loose out on experiences as well all this just because I didn't have the right perspective.

Requesting some guidance or support or stories!

Thank you everyone for your time.

Hello everyone,

Hope you are having a great weekend.

We are travelling to Brussels for our son's 2nd birthday.

We were originally planning to go to antwerp zoo on the birthday , followed by a day at Bruges and last day at Brussels local sightseeing.

However on another post about the hotel area I got a couple of suggestions of different zoos and on our Switzerland travel one of the reddit buddies suggested emosson trains which ended up being the best part of our trip.

So asking here hoping to recreate the same magic in Belgium!

What should we do

We would be needing public transport for everywhere. And my child is so small so preferably only stroller friendly options please.

He loves animals and all things water.

We are reaching late night on Thursday to Brussels - straight to hotel

Staying Friday - Saturday and Sunday - returning Sunday evening back to Paris.

Thank you very much for your time effort and suggestions in advance.

Thank you.

Hello everyone,

Hope you are having a great weekend.

We are travelling to Brussels for our son's 2nd birthday.

We were originally planning to go to antwerp zoo on the birthday , followed by a day at Bruges and last day at Brussels local sightseeing.

However on another post about the hotel area I got a couple of suggestions of different zoos and on our Switzerland travel one of the reddit buddies suggested emosson trains which ended up being the best part of our trip.

So asking here hoping to recreate the same magic in Belgium!

What should we do

We would be needing public transport for everywhere. And my child is so small so preferably only stroller friendly options please.

He loves animals and all things water.

We are reaching late night on Thursday to Brussels - straight to hotel

Staying Friday - Saturday and Sunday - returning Sunday evening back to Paris.

Thank you very much for your time effort and suggestions in advance.

Thank you.

Hello wonderful people!

Kind of long read and lot of asks but please bear with me! 🙈

We are coming to switzerland next weekend for 4 days, We are 2 families with 5 adults and 2 children ( under 2 )

We are staying in a beautiful Airbnb at Sion - Mayen de l'ours and driving there form paris.

I have been trying to do research and figure out an itenary but this is all from Google and AI so I would really really love inputs from people who have travelled here, live here or know about these places.

We reach here on Saturday noon and would need to reach back at paris Tuesday night so we do have fair amount of days I believe.

I am humbly requesting suggestions for

1. Snow mountain cable car day ( Veysonnss? ) - I do understand in July snow isn't sure but well a fella can hope!

2. Scenic train ride ( sierre funicular? ) I am unable to buy tickets online

3. Sunset gondola / open chair lift or something similar -

4. Famous swiss mountain playgrounds

5. Lake ( St. Leonard underground lake and Majingse )

6. Waterfall ( Cascade de la Pissevache )

7. Chocolate factory/museum or similar - ( Maison Callier Broc )

We will have sion guest card and I suppose we also have an option to get valais discovery card.

Anything else you would suggest we should do?

Any changes?

Anything to book right now?

This trip is such a dream come true and I know we ain't covering the big famous tourist places but with children and in July we want to do less crowded places with slower pace and still be able to enjoy the dream that switzerland has been for all of us!

I am depending on your good graces to help me plan the best itinerary.

Please! Pretty please!

Thank you very much in advance!

Bonjour everyone,

We are a group of 5 adults and 2 infants looking to rent a car from paris for 2 days to drive up to normandy.

We tried google and walking till the address showed there and failed miserably! 🥲

I am hoping some of you can guide us please?

Ideally we want to be able to visit the place see the car understand the process and then rent but open for other options too.

Sixt seemed quite expensive 🙈 Any other options? Maybe someone local?

Merci beaucoup in advance to everyone for their time! 🙏🏻

Hi Everyone,

I hope this post is allowed.

We are ( couple and a baby ) planning to go to Brussels next month - the bus will drop us at gate du midi bus station Brussels at 11pm in night, our hotel is less than 200 meters from there so it's just 3-4 minutes walk.

Is this safe?

Anyone that travelled this time - this area can vouch please?

Hi Everyone,

I hope this post is allowed.

We are ( couple and a baby ) planning to go to Brussels next month - the bus will drop us at gate du midi bus station Brussels at 11pm in night, our hotel is less than 200 meters from there so it's just 3-4 minutes walk.

Is this safe?

Anyone that travelled this time - this area can vouch please?

So we are a couple with a 23 month old baby!

We were going to go to Mont Saint Michael tomorrow in a private bus tour but have cancelled it given the heatwave ( the actual time exploring would have been 12-5 pm and we weren't confident doing it with a stroller and toddler in increased temperature )

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So what do we do tomorrow?

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We really don't want to sit around...

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Petite palace?

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Seine?

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We went to luxumbourg gardens effiel and montemartre already.

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Is there any options with AC?

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Toddler friendly?

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We are in la defence area and would be taking metro.

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Appreciate all the help in advance!

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Thank you.

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Hello everyone,

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Long read alert but please stick around and help if you can.

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I am really looking for some help here from you good folks before I go any further in this.

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So we rented a house / villa in Bangalore 3 years back ( April 2023 )

The owner stays in the US so we have never met. The whole thing was coordinated over the phone ( WhatsApp rather ) via the previous tenants that were vacating.

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We have had a pleasently great stay at the house for 3 years we paid rent on time. The owner never interfered it was too good to be true untill it wasn't.

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So this year January 2026 we got to know from my spouse's organisation that they would be sending him out of country for work assignment for 6 months. While we still didn't have the visas or exact timelines we still informed the landlord immediately ( screenshots are there ) he then called and we discussed the whole thing and told him that while we don't have exact date yet it can be between march-april. As our notice period was 2 months. This made sense to inform him in advance and we did.

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Later things got delayed due to war and everything. And we kept him posted about every day. In March another WhatsApp conversation was ( screenshots are there ) where we requested that as we would be vacating April end or Early May can we adjust the two months rent in the deposit. ( 2 lakh deposit ) He said let's see we will discuss he did agree to it later which we were thankful for.

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Then it got delayed till may end due to visa delays. And we let him know of this somewhere in the beginning or April that due to visa delays we would be vacating may end.

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As he or any of his family isn't in India I myself put up ads for the villa on rent and coordinated visits and found him a tenant early may.

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We vacated the house 29 may. Handed over the keys 30 may morning and flew out.

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He never arranged anyone to visit or inspect the house while we were there ( I also reminded him the same 2 weeks before our last date ) he only did it after we had flew out of India.

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He then went on to send 60+ images of random chipped paint and discoloration and exterior walls rain damage etc. saying the house wasn't maintained well and he will have to spend more than the deposit to fix it ( at this point after all the deductions( 1 month rent for painting and cleaning) and adjustment he still had 74000 with him )

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His primary concern was that we had caused a seepage and wall damage ( he couldn't produce even one picture or inspection notes for this )

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Now the kitchen sink used to leak once every few months and we would call a plumber and fix it. Now he is saying there is an internal leakage of this tap inside the walls and that has caused the whole wall to damage - ( he sent one pic for damage which was chipped paint off of outdoor wall which was 4-5 feet away from the actual wall behind the tap ) how is a structural plumbing issues of seepage is my mistake is beyond me.

Still I went on a call with him and his wife explained every single picture he had sent. ( 80% of it was issues which would be anyway fixed when the painting would happen for which we had already paid )

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He still ended up charging 5000 for that new kitchen tap ( yes one sink tap - no bills no payment proofs is received so far )

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Then in second call the wife took over conversation and I at this point desperate and scared for my money in a new country alone with an infant while my partner had to work really long hours in this assignment did lot of negotiations sent proofs of conversations pictures etc but still at last they insisted we should fix 5 things before the deposit closure can happen

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They said they had changed jet sprays of all 4 bathrooms wanting to charge me 2000 for it. Why, because the pressure was low and some holes of jet sprays were blocked ( Bangalore - hard water? ) when I asked the new tenant he confirmed the jets aren't changed. When I said this wife called me screaming on top of her lungs - after requesting her not to call because I had my child who was awake and I was alone ( have screenshots ) she called like 5 times and I picked. Then they said they thought jets are changed because plumber said so but he is gonna change it the following weekend if I don't want that to happen I need to call a plumber and get it repaired. I agreed for that too.

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The other things they wanted

1. I change the plywood of that kitchen sink cabinet because seepage has made it bad ( I have an image of our moving day showing the developed fungus in that same cabinet )

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2. Electric panel door - It was broken the day we moved in - society staff who confirmed it won't be fixed is still there.

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3. All four Jet spray repairs

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4. There was a crack in one bathroom tile which I am fairy sure had been there before but as I had no proof I agreed to fix it too

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5. A flush board that came off in one of the bathrooms - it was repairable but they insisted I change the whole thing because it had water rust marks - I did it too.

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I have a call recording ( not fully because it was WhatsApp call on my phone and recording was happening on my husband's phone ) where the wife has agreed that once I fix all these after deductible electricity bill they would return my deposit.

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I spend 8000 fixing all this ( I had already spent 2000 on the day of handover for a cleaner who would clean as per the new tenant's requirements and left cleaning supplies there too )

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Now when I send the proof of work done and final calculation he owed us 65000+ ( after the 5000 kitchen tap and the electricity bill deduction )

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The owner calls and tells I still need to pay for the plaster of the kitchen sink cabinet wall damage and because he doesn't have anyone to do that work yet he will do it next weekend let me know following week after that and return the money later. Out of sheer frustration and mental exhaustion I got emotional and my voice broke as I was arguing about his wife agreeing and him changing words - this dude screams at me saying he would cut the call and never have any conversation about this if I cry!

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I asked him to hold off 2-3k for plaster and give back rest of the money then send the proof of spending later and do the full and final ( at this point I was really scared for my money )

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Then he goes on to say that he would also hold 10 days rent because the notice period isn't counted from January it's counted from when the date confirmation happened after April first week. The date confirmation happened very early April but as it was on WhatsApp call we have no proof.

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Basically I stayed till 29th paid till 31st.

New tenant occupied from 30th and is paying.

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He wants to charge me 11000+ for the same one week that new tenant is staying there and paying him rent.

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I disagreed and shared proofs and everything.

He still didn't budge sent 50000 and now is saying your account is closed dont message me.

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He still owes me 11-12000 if not more!

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My husband insists that we send him legal notice as he can't charge two people rent for same days same house ( given that we haven't even stayed there )

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I am confused how would that go?

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Plus given the kind of proofs we have, should we do it? Or what we did doesn't count as notice period?

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Another mistake on our end, the rent agreement expired in January and as the move out conversations had already been happening he said we are fine not to do the agreement. We do have all agreements up untill then.

The agreement was under his FILs name ( power of attorney ) but all rents and deposit and the 50k back everything happened from his account.

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I have never agreed to close this after 50000 I kept saying please send everything that you owe us.

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He also delayed the payment by like almost 3 weeks after we vacated.

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What should we do?

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Should we send legal notice?

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Are we in wrong?

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Do we have a shot at getting our money back?

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We have already spent close to 10,000 after moving out + 2 days of extra rent + found them a tenant+ nearly 10000 in wrongly claimed repairs on top of all that this 12000 is really stinging!

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Please guide us, what are our legal rights? Will legal notice help? How do we do it?

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We are in Europe for next 5 months and he is in USA the FIL is in Hyderabad and the house is in Bangalore.

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Thank you very much for reading this far and help!

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Hello everyone

I know we might be cutting it too short!

We really wanna do Versailles this Saturday or Sunday

Which day is better?

We have a toddler and we would be taking stroller, will they allow it inside? I read bulky ones aren't allowed but there are slings to borrow or something like that? Please explain these details to me.

I am debating a full access passport ticket ( 35 euro ) or a trianon estate one?

I know we definitely want the 4pm slot we reach like 10 or 11 go to gardens in the morning helmet at noon and then see the estate at 4. - does this make sense?

Please guide.

Thank you.