Kids First: Condé Nast Traveler’s Family Travel Podcast

28 September 2026

“We are small, but we like airplanes, trains, and ships.” “Discovering new places with our parents.” “Nice hotels (and tents).” “Down with the kids’ menu!” “Children are people.” “We want a robe in our size.” “In favor of cannonballing into the pool.” “Stop saying there are ideal cities to go with kids. Either all or none, cities belong to everyone.” “Down with child-phobia!”

After noticing that many hotels placed in the same category “children and pets allowed”… the Condé Nast Traveler editorial team wrote this manifesto. The idea? Give young travelers the place they deserve in the equation. Thus was born Kids First, a podcast that aims to give voice to today’s and tomorrow’s travelers, while laying out the most fun and thorny issues: from the need for adults only spaces and silent train cars to the most common (and avoidable) clichés about family adventures.

A nomadic interview space where there is room for everyone, where topics are treated with warmth, closeness, imagination, and, above all, a sense of humor, and in which experts in children’s leisure, artists, chefs, psychologists and all those who wish to contribute to the conversation will appear.

In the first episode, Adventure awaits us, we spoke with the Canarian actress Mariam Hernández, who is preparing the second season of the series Padre no hay más que uno (Amazon Prime Video) and who travels around the world with her daughter Nahla.

In the second, How we pack, we will have Mateo and Valentina’s parents: Álex Miralles, creative director of the men’s line at Pedro del Hierro, and his partner, Estefanía Grandío, founder of the children’s and women’s clothing brand The New Society.

Aoife Brennan

I write about culture, gastronomy, and lifestyle with a deep interest in the places, people, and traditions that shape how we live. I am drawn to stories that feel thoughtful, vivid, and rooted in real experience, whether they begin in a gallery, around a table, or in the rhythm of everyday life.