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COVID travel with grandparents, grandkids: How to plan, what to know


Allison Tibaldi
FamilyVacationist.com
Skip-gen travel, also called gramping, is a growing travel trend of grandparents and grandkids traveling together without the children’s parents (so it skips the middle generation).
With pandemic fatigue hitting hard, a skip-gen vacation might be exactly the kind of multigenerational vacation that kids, parents and grandparents all need this year. 
Parents can certainly use a break from nonstop family togetherness. Kids have cabin fever from the monotony of virtual schooling and homebound routines. And for grandparents who’ve been isolated from family for a year, hugging the grandkids tops their vacation wish list. 
Fortunately, after a year in lockdown, there’s growing optimism that the worst of the pandemic is behind us. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced those who are fully immunized may travel “at low risk to themselves,” though the agency is still not recommending travel gi ....

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