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Each entry contains all the information families need to help plan a trip: age ratings, service details, and nearby kid-friendly hotels. A Specialty Index organized by type of trip helps families discover places and activities for all ages and interests, while a Geographical Index allows families to locate attractions across the world or simply across town. Photos throughout the book help bring destinations to life.
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Product Description
500 Great Reasons to Say,"Are We There Yet?"
This bestselling guide takes you across town and around the globe to 500 of the mostexciting places on earth. With more than 40 new destinations, this revised edition is packed with things to see, do, and explore—from the Painted Desert (United States) and the cave homes of Coober Pedy (Australia) to a camel safari (India) and Dracula's Castle (Romania).
Complete with hotel information, age recommendations, Web sites, and more, this guide provides the advice you need to plan a trip the whole family can enjoy—and remember for a lifetime.
Places to Go & Things to Do Around the World
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The natural world: awesome vistas, flora, and fauna
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Offbeat attractions: weird and wacky fun
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History: from ancient wonders to modern marvels
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Rides and thrills: bobsleds, dogsleds, and everything in between
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Art and architecture: galleries, buildings, and monuments
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Science: space centers, natural history museums,and more
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Sports: halls of fame and sporting events
Look Inside Some of the World's Most Kid-Approved Places (Click for more information)
 Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks: Giant Trees of the Sierras |  Versailles: Palace of the Sun King |  Biscayne National Park: Florida’s Homegrown Coral Reef |
 Howe Caverns |  Liverpool Beatles Tour |  Parc Guell: Super City Park |
 Sea Kayaking in Acadia National Park |  Rollercoasters: Bigger Is Better in New Jersey |  Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre |
- Paperback: 10 pages
- Publisher: Frommers; 2009-08-10
- Label: Frommers
- Studio: Frommers
- ISBN: 047047405X
- Sales Rank in Books: #12851
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118 of 124 people found the following review helpful:  Interesting but Unrealistic, By Austinlvr "movie lover" (Merritt Island, FL USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up (Paperback) I had high expectations for this book but they fell flat. First, the layout is o.k. but not great. Areas are grouped by categories such as "Out and About" and "On the Water." As the book covers the world, I think it might have been better to be laid out geographically and maybe cross-referenced. As for the selections, they are very diverse. Some make sense but some I really don't feel are appropraite for children, except for maybe the very well travelled child. For example, number 397 is Mount Fuji: Scaling the Symbol of Japan. The age range is 8 and up. The author writes, "Take a shortcut directly to Kawaguchiko's Fifth Stage by bus from Shinjuku Station (be sure to book in advance); the trip takes about 2 1/2 hours. From this starting point it's about a 6 hour climb to the summit, with another 3 hours to make the descent; at the top, a 1-hour hiking trail circles the crater. The highlight of the classic Fuji Climb is to watch the sunrise from the peak, which in summer...Read more 71 of 76 people found the following review helpful:  Aspirational list, By penguinblue (CT USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up (Paperback) I'm surprised by the number of negative reviews of this book so I thought I would offer my own counterpoint. This is the best list I've found of aspirational places to take children. The only comparable list book I've found is the ever-popular 1000 Places to See Before You Die, which isn't oriented around kids at all. Of course they will all want to go to Disney World, but this is a different type of list. These are places that kids should visit to understand more about the world, how people behave, how science works, and what life is like for people who aren't always like themselves. It is not a list of fun places to take little kids.
We've been lucky enough to have visited 97 of the places with our kids, now aged 15 and 20. It's been a blessing to us to be able to visit places like Thailand, which is wonderful, and the Great Barrier Reef and indeed Mount Fuji and Hiroshima. People in Japan take many kids ages 8 to 10 to the muesum at Hiroshima; it's a fantastically well...Read more 65 of 73 people found the following review helpful:  A fairly useless book, By IndyDon (Indiana) - See all my reviews This review is from: Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up (Paperback) Wow, was I disappointed when I cracked this book open. My two main complaints are layout and site selections. I cannot believe that sites are grouped by general similarity rather than geography. The geographical index at the back of the book just does not satisfy me. Any book like this should be organized from a geographical standpoint in my opinion. You will be required to look at the geographical index at the back of the book to find anything specific. I was hoping the book focused on the US or let's be wild and say North America. While I did not count them up, I would guesstimate that almost half of the sites are outside of North America. You would have to be extremely wealthy to visit many of these places and a fair number really are not place where I would want to take "kids" as they would only appeal to high school age or above. There are better books out there - in this case the Internet would serve you better. |
