About
A British company, entirely focused on Dubai
Little Traveller is run from the United Kingdom by people who know what it is like to plan a long-haul trip around a nap schedule. We work with established suppliers and delivery partners in Dubai who know the hotels, the traffic and the standards expected of them.
Why we started
We are Courtney and Sadia, and we have an eight-month-old. We also travel a good deal more than is entirely sensible with one.
Every trip began in the same place: a suitcase open on the bedroom floor and the two of us working out what our baby could manage without. A travel cot counts as a bag. A car seat counts as a bag. The steriliser, the bottles and a week of nappies in a size you cannot count on finding when you land are all competing for the same allowance as the clothes, the paperwork and the pushchair that gets taken off you at the aircraft door.
Whatever you decide, you are wrong twice. You carry things across a continent and never open them, and then at seven in the morning in an unfamiliar city you find you are missing the one thing you actually needed.
We assumed we were simply bad at packing. So we asked — the parents in our families, friends with toddlers, anyone who had flown with a small child that year. Every one of them had a version of the same story and several had a worse one. Nobody had solved it. They had all quietly absorbed it, trip after trip, as part of the price of going anywhere at all.
So Little Traveller is the thing we kept wishing somebody would offer us: the bulky things already in the room before you get there, the everyday things waiting in the right size, and one person to talk to about all of it. You bring the passports and the clothes.
How we work
We are the only company you speak to
Several businesses touch your order. You deal with one of them. If something goes wrong at any point in that chain it is ours to fix, not yours to chase.
We would rather say no
If we cannot source something to the standard we would want for our own children, we say so and tell you where else to look. A confident no is worth more than an unreliable yes.
We answer in plain English
No account to create before you can ask a question, no automated runaround. A person reads your message and replies to it.
We tell you when we are wrong
Deliveries are late sometimes and equipment fails sometimes. You will hear it from us first, with what we are doing about it.