Professional travel childcare for families, hotels, weddings, events, and destination plans
At Destination Sitters, we believe family vacations should be enjoyable for everyone—including parents. We provide professional, on-demand babysitting services in active U.S. service markets, helping families arrange reliable childcare while traveling.
Whether you are on vacation, staying in a hotel or vacation rental, attending a wedding, joining a conference, or planning a night out during a getaway, Destination Sitters helps connect families and planners with pre-screened sitters who come directly to hotels, vacation rentals, venues, events, and childcare locations.
Our service model focuses on safety, professionalism, play-based care, and peace of mind for parents who need trusted childcare away from home.
Childcare services built around travel, hospitality, weddings, and events
Destination Sitters serves parents, guest families, planners, venues, hotels, resorts, and event teams with childcare support designed for real-world travel logistics.
Hotel, Airbnb & VRBO Babysitting
Babysitting support for families staying in hotels, resorts, Airbnb homes, VRBO properties, and vacation rentals.
Wedding Childcare
Childcare coordination for ceremonies, receptions, wedding weekends, destination weddings, and guest families.
Event Childcare
Group childcare support for conferences, corporate events, trade shows, private events, and family programs.
Pet Sitting
Pet sitting support for travelers staying in pet-friendly hotels, resorts, Airbnb homes, and vacation rentals.
Founder & Managing Director
When I moved to San Diego more than 17 years ago, I needed childcare myself. Like most parents, I assumed there were standards for temporary babysitting—but I was shocked to learn that no state standards or licensing requirements existed. That realization led me to create Destination Sitters.
From day one, my goal has been simple: Give Parents Peace of Mind®. To achieve that, I established one of the strictest screening processes in the industry. Every sitter we refer is thoroughly reviewed through our screening and credential process.
What began as a personal need has grown into a trusted nationwide service. Today, Destination Sitters operates in active U.S. service markets and is recommended by hotels, wedding planners, and event coordinators.
As both a mom and the founder of Destination Sitters, I understand how important it is to know your children are well cared for—so you can truly enjoy your time away.
Meet the Destination Sitters team
Destination Sitters is led by a team focused on professional service, customer support, sitter coordination, family safety, and smooth childcare logistics for travel, weddings, and events.
Yvonne Lane Wonder
Founder & Managing Director
As 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. Especially when traveling away from home, there 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 law firms and businesses in the US 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 help the company to provide the highest quality in the industry. Davis is also a full-time father of two boys.
Alex Wonder
Operations Manager
As the business operations manager, Alex helps develop social media marketing strategies, provides hands-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 office staff. Alex graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas with a degree in film after spending his first two collegiate years at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.
Artemis
Hot Mess
Outgoing & very friendly; makes friends with everyone; into everything—if it moves, she hunts it; "Nose Connoisseur" –sniffs everything—it’s as if she is reading the morning paper! Loves afternoon naps; walks/runs 7 days a week and adores her brother, Apollo.
Apollo
Mr. Cuddles
Shy but curious; must have 15 minutes of morning cuddles or pouts all day! Once he knows you, he is a 75lb. lap dog. Follows his sister, Artemis, like a puppy and ruins most of her hunts by barreling past her. Loves his mommy, afternoon naps in the sun, and walks/runs 7 days a week.
Need childcare for travel, a wedding, or an event?
Destination Sitters can help you choose the right booking path for hotel babysitting, pet sitting, wedding childcare, event childcare, and service-area questions.
Trusted by traveling families, wedding guests, event planners, and hotel visitors
Read parent and client reviews from families, travelers, planners, and event guests who have used Destination Sitters for hotel babysitting, Airbnb babysitting, VRBO childcare, wedding childcare, event childcare, pet sitting, and related travel childcare services.
Very professional and friendly. Answered all my questions. The sitter Maria did a fabulous job with my two boys. They said they enjoyed her watching them and playing games.
I just left this review on Yelp and thought I'd share with you: Our family went on a work/family trip to Anaheim. I spent my days with our two daughters (ages 9 & 7) while my husband was at his conference. At night, the husband and I had many events to attend. We hired Destination Sitters on a recommendation from a co-worker. We were assigned Kathy N. as our sitter and could not have received a better sitter for our girls! She has a nurturing personality, along with an education background. She kept our girls thoroughly entertained by bringing her own games to play with them, her swimsuit to hang out at the pool, and her genuine attitude of caring about children. Never once did we have a doubt the girls were well taken care of, as all they could talk about the next day was how much fun they had with Kathy. If you're traveling and need a sitter, put your mind at ease and go with Destination Sitters!
Love the ease of making the reservation. Simple, straight-forward price where it is only an hourly fee. No extra or "hidden" additional costs. Greatly appreciate Yvonne making the reservation with the same sitter (Lauren) for the day where Lauren came in the morning for 4 hours then return to the hotel in the evening for another 4 hours. This really helped my 2year old adjust easily with Lauren. Just wanted to add that Lauren Crites is fantastic! My 2-year old can have stranger anxiety where if I'm not there, she would not want to stay with a sitter. Let me just say, my daughter immediately adjusted with Lauren. There were no tears. I was able to easily leave her in the hands of Lauren without any worry. Lauren is very calm, flexible, easy-going, extremely attentive to my 2 year-old and would even interact/play with my 5year old (he didn't feel left out) while at Camp Pelican. Thank you for making our visit enjoyable. Now I have a reason to return to the area again!
We planned to use Destination Sitters to watch our 4-year-old during a conference. As it turned out, due to a medical emergency, we used them much more then anticipated. The sitters were fantastic. After one day, the first thing my daughter asked after waking was when the sitter would arrive. When told at 8:30 am, she said that was way too long to wait! While we planned in advance and reserved time for the conference but unfortunately needed more at the last minute and Yvonne went out of her way to help! I could not say enough positive about the service and the sitters. We will be using them again in the future!!!
I loved the initial customer service. Alex made sure to find the right sitter for our six-month-old twins. Maria was excellent. Our babies were fed, changed, and completely asleep when we returned. She also updated us with texts.
We had never used a service before, so we were very nervous. The moment we met Laura, we felt at ease. She was very professional and kind. Our daughter liked her immediately. Additionally, the service was easy to use and set-up. The staff was easy to work with and courteous. We really appreciated the advanced information regarding the sitter. She even called us ahead of time to check in. Very good experience.
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