Planning Tokyo: Booking our Hotel and Setting up our Suica Card
Our first international trip with our girls was to, if you cannot tell by the title, Tokyo, Japan! It was my husband and my third trip to Asia but first trip to Japan so we were not exactly sure what to expect. Our kids were 7 months and 2.5 at the time, so we were a bit nervous to say the least! We were extremely lucky that we both got parental leave for both of our children, but since we both telework, we were able to flex it even further. We took a portion when they were first born and a portion once they were older to enjoy as much as we could of their first year! This meant we had two weeks of parental leave we knew we wanted to use in May to spend one-on-one time with our kids exploring somewhere new. Searching flights, we found relatively cheap tickets to Narita on Hawaiian Airlines so we booked them before they rose (thankfully we did because they went up over $400 within 2 days and never went back down). When we booked a hotel, we were a bit confused on the explanation of...