The kids have an opinion too
A wonderful hotel can be wrong for a family. A great excursion can start exactly when a seven-year-old stops being reasonable. We look at ages, pace, timing and the bits that rarely appear in brochures.
Contuhijo · Since 2008
Family travel is a different way to travel.
And we have been thinking about it since 2008.
We love traveling with kids.
What Contuhijo is
We do not make trips for “two adults and two children.”
That works for booking a room. It tells you much less about a family. There are schedules, ages, tiredness, excitement, teenagers, children who make friends in thirty seconds and adults who take a little longer.
That is why Contuhijo is not a single brand. We created different projects for different people, different moments and different ways of traveling.
Kids are not coming along for the ride. They are traveling too.
Three brands that explain the group
There is no single way to be a family.
ViajacontuhijoGroups, trip leaders and programs built from scratch for parents traveling alone with their kids. The destination matters. The way the trip works matters even more.→ViajacontufamiliaTrips where the kids have a real plan — and so do the adults. Hotels, activities, pacing and support designed around how families actually travel.→Papá Noel en LaponiaOur Arctic specialty since 2012: snow, huskies, snowmobiles, cabins, guides and the man in red. Carefully organized so the magic never depends on improvisation.→
We have had time to get things wrong
Since 2008 we have learned that experience is not knowing everything. It is recognizing faster what matters, what does not and what looks small until it becomes the whole trip.
We are not an algorithm
Technology helps. Then product, booking, administration, finance, marketing and travel people have to make decisions. Humans remain surprisingly useful.
The boring part matters
Licenses, protections, conditions, processes and named responsibilities. We want the excitement in the trip, not in finding out who answers when something goes wrong.
A short history. Promise.
We have learned a few things since 2008.
2008
Viajacontuhijo
A personal need becomes a group-travel model for single-parent families.
2010
Contuhijo S.L.
The idea becomes a company built to develop specialist travel brands.
2011
Viajacontufamilia
The model expands to family group travel.
2012
Papá Noel en Laponia
We go north. Very north. Finnish Lapland becomes a defining specialty.
2016
10K
A historic year: 10,000 travelers.
2023
Across the Atlantic
The group starts looking seriously at the U.S. market.
2026
LATAM becomes the present
Latin America becomes part of Contuhijo’s international consolidation.
The people behind the screen
We are not “a multidisciplinary team.” We are these people.
Booking, product, administration, marketing, finance and content. People with names, faces and years of experience.
Founders
Ernesto Daubar
Founder · Managing Director
The person to blame for all of this starting.
Founders
Cristina Morillas
Co-founder · Finance Director
Magic is great. The numbers still have to work.
César Martínez Prada
Product Director
When a trip feels easy, somebody probably thought very hard about it first.
Esther López
Head of Administration
Trips should have adventure. Administration really should not.
Laura Boyarizo
Head of Digital Marketing
Before you pack a suitcase, somebody has to make you want to pack it.
Nati Serrano
Senior Travel Advisor
Thirty years in travel teaches you what to recommend. More importantly, what not to.
María Gómez Horno
Travel Advisor
The trip starts when you start asking questions.
Nathalia Arévalo
Digital Team · Content
Part of the trip happens before departure. It is called anticipation.
Contuhijo
Family travel. For actual families.
The kind that arrive late, laugh, argue about who packed the charger, have small children, teenagers, one adult, two, grandparents, cousins or friends who became family.
We love traveling with kids. And since 2008, it shows.
