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Encounter Yvonne,

Founder & Manager

I personally needed childcare when I moved to San Diego 11 years agone. Like most parents, I assumed there were standards for temporary childcare; in reality, there are NO state standards or licensing requirements for temporary childcare. The idea for Destination Sitters was built-in! I wanted to Give Parents Peace of Heed® when traveling with their children, and so I created the strictest screening requirements in the industry for our sitters.

Our Services

In-Room Babysitting

Every sitter arrives with a purse of games, books, and age-appropriate activities for your children.

Fully Checked & Vetted

Every sitter is Kickoff Aid & CPR certified, background checked, drug tested, and reference checked, personal and professional person.

Special Needs & Multilingual

Upon request, we have sitters who can care for families of children with special needs or speak other languages.

Sitter

Outcome Childcare

Nosotros provide stress-free group childcare that fits your budget and a broad diversity of activities for your part.
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Wedding Childcare

Nosotros provide on-site childcare at your hotel or venue. We piece of work direct with your wedding coordinator or venue.

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Pet Sitting

Traveling with your pet? Hire a sitter to feed, play, walk, and snuggle with your pet, considering pets are family besides!
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OUR SITTERS ARE

Get-go Assistance and CPR Certified
Background Checked and Drug Tested
Interviewed and Reference-Checked

OUR SITTERS WILL

Make it in a Destination Sitters polo shirt
Wear a Destination Sitters photo ID tag
Bring a bag of toys, games, and books for the children's amusement

OUR SITTERS CAN

Accomodate families with children of all ages
Care for your child with special needs
Be bachelor during late hours for long sits

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About Our Company

Destination Sitters is a superior babysitting service for traveling parents. Whether you are traveling for leisure, business, or a hymeneals, this time you tin bring your kids – your children will be looked after in the safety of your hotel room. Nosotros refer prescreened, fully vetted and trusted sitters at your travel destination – we come straight to your hotel, vacation rental, Airbnb or effect venue!

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The Team

Yvonne Lane Wonder

Founder & Managing Director

Equally the founder and managing director of Destination Sitters, LLC, an entrepreneur for over 35 years, and the mother of two children, I strongly believe that family comes first. Particularly when traveling abroad from home, in that location is nothing like the peace of mind that comes from getting great professional help to care for your children. I and my partners, along with our office staff, have that one goal in mind with everything we do.

Davis Goodman

Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel

Davis has worked for 30 years for major constabulary firms and businesses in the The states and around the world and has started, managed, grown and sold numerous companies. With a BA from Harvard, an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (England), a JD from Stanford Law School and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Davis is uniquely poised to assistance the company to provide the highest quality in the industry. Davis is as well a full-fourth dimension father of 2 boys.

Alex Wonder

Operations Manager

As the business organisation operations managing director, Alex helps develop social media marketing strategies, provides easily-on customer service, schedules, and conducts on-site inspections for corporate events and weddings, and organizes staff for events. He also recruits hotels and sitters for childcare, researches and prepares plans and materials for marketing to clients, and interviews prospective part staff. Alex graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas with a degree in film after spending his commencement two collegiate years at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.

Artemis

Hot Mess

Outgoing & very friendly; makes friends with anybody; into everything—if it moves, she hunts information technology; "Nose Connoisseur" –sniffs everything—it'south equally if she is reading the morning paper! Loves afternoon naps; walks/runs vii days a week and adores her brother, Apollo.

Apollo

Mr. Cuddles

Shy but curious; must have fifteen minutes of morning cuddles or pouts all solar day! Once he knows you, he is a 75lb. lap domestic dog. Follows his sis, Artemis, similar a puppy and ruins near of her hunts by barreling by her. Loves his mommy, afternoon naps in the sun, and walks/runs seven days a calendar week.

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Contact us

We ARE Open: ix:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific
seven Days a calendar week
Phone: 888-Sit-KIDZ (888-748-5439)
Electronic mail: info@destinationsitters.com
OFFICE HOLIDAYS: Easter Solar day, Mother's 24-hour interval, Memorial Twenty-four hour period, Father's Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving Eve (open until 1pm), Thanksgiving, Chrismas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, New year's day'due south Day

Destination Sitters is an fantabulous babysitting resource for the traveling parent. Nosotros provide fully screened, vetted, and trusted sitters at your travel destination – we come directly to your hotel, vacation rental, or Airbnb. We too practice pet sitting and can provide elderberry care by watching or accompanying an elder parent.

WHY YOU SHOULD USE DESTINATION SITTERS

While everyone assumes that the state has minimum standards for temporary childcare, at that place are NO state standards or licensing requirements for temporary childcare. Destination Sitters created the strictest requirements in the industry for its sitters.

All sitters

are background checked, drug tested, & wellness checked (TB)
are both First Assistance & CPR certified
have professional and personal references fully and thoroughly checked
are university students, nursing students, (many of whom are too life guards, EMTs, tennis instructors, etc.), school teachers, and and then on
average betwixt 22-28 years old, though we as well take older sitters (minimum age is 18)

We are referred by 1400+ of the finest hotels, wedding and effect planners in Los Angeles, Orangish County, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs area, Silicon Valley/San Jose, San Francisco, Las Vegas, NV and Orlando, FL. that trust u.s. for the guests needs. We have local offices and local sitters in each area & comport liability insurance.

Parents can book directly on-line or by calling united states at ane.888.SIT.KIDZ (1.888.748.5439)

We match our babysitters with the parents' and children's needs. Afterward making a reservation, parents will receive a sit confirmation confirming their hotel, date and fourth dimension requested, whatsoever specific instructions for the sitter and a profile of their sitter. Bookings must exist for a minimum of four hours and can be longer. Reservations are held with a credit carte and in that location may be counterfoil fees if booked sits are cancelled inside xx-four hours of the sit time or otherwise.

Our sitters volition arrive 15 minutes early to make sure yous can be on time with your plans and to go over your specific instructions and our permission forms. Babysitters wear a Destination Sitters' polo shirt, have a picture show ID and bring age-advisable toys, games, books, and activities.

Our babysitters' boilerplate age is between 22-28 years old and each must have experience in child care. Destination Sitters interviews every babysitter.

Destination Sitters created the toughest and strictest screening standards in the industry.

Our sitters are

• CPR & First Aid certified
• Background checked
• Drug tested
• Health checked – TB negative
• Professional references checked
• Personal references checked

ALL screening MUST be completed before a sitter tin sit down. Sitters go far in:

• Destination Sitters logo polo shirt
• Destination Sitters photograph issued ID Tag
• A purse of toys, books and games for the child(ren)'s entertainment

OUR MISSION

We don't sit; we play!®

Near of our childcare providers are studying to be nurses or are pre-med or are college or graduate students in a diverseness of fields (international business concern, economics, teaching, etc.). We take professional nannies, lifeguards, Emergency Medical Technicians and school teachers. Quite a few have taken child development classes, and all just love children.

Many of our babysitters are bilingual, with over half a dozen languages represented. We also have older sitters as well as teachers who specialize in families of children with special needs. Our babysitters' experience, references and talents speak for themselves.

While anybody assumes that the land has minimum standards for temporary childcare, there are NO state standards or licensing requirements for temporary childcare.

Destination Sitters created the strictest requirements in the industry for its sitters.

All Destination Sitters
1. are background checked, drug tested, & health checked (TB)
2. are both Kickoff Assist & CPR certified
iii. take professional person and personal references fully and thoroughly checked
4. are undergraduates, graduates, students, moms, and grandmothers
v. average between 22-28 years old, though nosotros likewise have older sitters (minimum age is 18)

Many companies claim to be "Licensed and Bonded." Since in that location is no state "license" for temporary childcare, their license is merely a urban center business license, which all businesses are required to buy. The bail is nearly oft either a surety bond (for the sitter to get paid) or for theft (commonly limited to $three,000-$5,000) for the possessor, non the sitter. A bond is not liability insurance.

Parents can request the same bodyguard every time or for multiple solar day sits. We will do our best to arrange the same sitter for a family'southward babysitting request. It's subject to the bodyguard's availability, nosotros suggest booking your sit request at least 24 hours in advance, and more if it's a multi-twenty-four hour period request. Of course, whatever last-minute sit requests are ever subject to the staff on hand and our confirming a babysitter to y'all.

After booking a bodyguard, parents will receive a sit confirmation, which includes the sitter's profile and specific information confirming their hotel, hotel's accost, engagement(s), and fourth dimension(s) of their child care request.

Parents should review their sit down confirmation and make sure ALL data they provide to u.s.a. is right; confirm the dates and times provided. Many cities have hotels with similar names and/or multiple locations.…For example: Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, Iv Seasons, Loews, etc, all have several hotels in each area in which nosotros provide child care services; we desire to send the sitter to the correct location.

We suggest you make a child care reservation at to the lowest degree 24 hours in advance to match your children with the best babysitter for your needs, but we will brand every try to volume whatsoever aforementioned solar day babysitting asking and tin usually accommodate you lot. Any terminal-infinitesimal sit requests are always subject to the sitters on hand and all requests to our confirming a babysitter to you.

We do not accuse a belatedly booking fee or bureau fee.

ane. Online reservation

2. Talk: 1.888.748.5439

Nosotros will exist happy to go over whatever questions you might accept. We are here to serve your child care needs when traveling. We strive to create Peace of Mind ® for the traveling parent by providing a fully screened, vetted and trusted babysitter to y'all when on holiday.

We hold your kid care reservation with a credit card. In near cities you tin can either charge the babysitting fees to the credit card on file with us or pay cash to the sitter. If the babysitter'south fees are charged to the card on file at the end of the sit, you will ostend the sitter's full hours, and whatever reimbursable expenses (eastward.g., at some hotels, sitter's parking) on our invoice and a receipt volition be emailed the following day. In some cases, you may pay the babysitter with cash at the end of the sit down for all fees.

Nosotros regularly get the question: what virtually tipping the sitters? If the sitters did a dandy job and you want to show your appreciation, delight feel free to tip! The babysitter greatly appreciates a tip, simply tipping is at your discretion. Nearly families tip between $x to $20 on an average sit, more if longer hours or multiple day sits.

Surprisingly, states have no required standards for temporary child care!

In order, to give parents Peace of Mind ® when traveling with their children, Destination Sitters created the toughest and strictest screening standards in the industry.

Our sitters are

• CPR & First Assist certified
• Groundwork checked
• Drug tested
• Wellness checked – TB negative
• Professional person references checked
• Personal references checked

ALL screening MUST be completed before a sitter can sit. Sitters get in with:

• Destination Sitters logo polo shirt
• Destination Sitters photo issued ID Tag
• A pocketbook of toys, books and games for the child(ren) amusement

Many of our babysitters:

• are bilingual, with over half a dozen languages represented
• specialize in children with special needs
• do pet sitting
• provide elder care by watching or accompanying on elderly parent
• are newborn specialists

Our babysitters' experience, references and talents speak for themselves.

We require all the babysitters whom we refer to exist CPR & First Aid and additionally they are:
✓ Background checked
✓ Drug tested
✓ Health checked – TB negative
✓ Professional person references checked
✓ Personal references checked

ALL screening MUST be completed earlier a sitter can sit.
Sitters arrive in/with:
✓ A Destination Sitters logo polo shirt
✓ A Destination Sitters photo issued ID Tag
✓ A bag of toys, books and games for the child(ren)'s amusement

Destination Sitters has national service areas for your convenience. Delight refer to one of our locations in a higher place to observe the rates for your region.

We are referred by over ane,400 of the finest hotels, wedding & event planners, wedding & convention venues, destination management companies, military balls & deployments, and organizations like the NFL & NFL Players' Association that trust us to provide kid care for their needs. We give Peace of Mind® with our trusted standards and professionalism when on vaction with your family.

Absolutely, you tin can contact usa by:

Telephone
• 1.888.SIT.KIDZ (1.888.748.5439)

✓ Part hours 9:00am – 6pm, 7 days a week
✓ A live 24 60 minutes answering service exterior of business hours
✓ A Destination Sitters agent on call after hours for questions regarding only confirmed bookings.

Email
• info@destinationsitters.com

Confirmed sits must be cancelled in advance or a cancellation fee will be charged.

Please read through the unabridged policy; cancellation fees vary depending on the length of time of the sit and the number of days booked. Delight call us if you have any questions!

Destination Sitters babysitting requests for i-solar day and only iv hours must be cancelled at least 24 hours in advance of the reserved babysitting start time or a 4-hour minimum accuse at the confirmed hourly rate will be charged.

For two, three or more than multi-twenty-four hour period sits of four hours each, a 4-60 minutes minimum charge at the confirmed hourly rate will be charged for each day that sits have been booked, unless the sits are cancelled the same number of days in advance. Then, for instance, if you take booked a hotel babysitter for two days, that sit of ii days must be cancelled at least 48 hours before the reserved sit start time or two 4-hour minimum charges (i.eastward., 8 hours – one iv-60 minutes charge for each of the two booked days) at the confirmed hourly rate will be charged. Sits of three days must be cancelled at least 72 hours before the reserved sit kickoff time or iii iv-hour minimum charges (i.e., 12 hours – one 4-hour accuse for each of the iii booked days) at the confirmed hourly rate volition be charged. Sits of iv days must be cancelled at least four days in advance of the reserved sit start fourth dimension or four, 4-hour minimum charges (xvi hours) at the confirmed hourly rate will be charged.

For sits longer than iv hours each twenty-four hours or for more than four days, at a minimum, the above policy shall apply; still, please contact the role to see if an boosted cancellation policy could apply to your sit.

We expect forward to providing you with hotel babysitting, consequence childcare or childcare at other destinations!

Many companies merits to be "Licensed and Bonded." Since in that location is no state "license" for temporary childcare, their license is simply a urban center business license, which all businesses are required to buy. The bond is virtually often either a surety bond (for the sitter to get paid) or for theft (ordinarily limited to $3,000-$five,000) for the owner, not the sitter. A bond is not liability insurance.