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Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up |  | Author: Holly Hughes
Publisher: Frommers
Category: Book
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 58232
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 576
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 047047405X
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.202
EAN: 9780470474051
ASIN: 047047405X
Publication Date: August 10, 2009
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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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500 Places to Take Your Kids allows parents, grandparents, and kids to create a lifetime of shared memories while visiting destinations the whole family can enjoy. Here are cities, zoos, sports shrines, museums, castles, beaches, outdoor activities, and more—500 thoughtfully-chosen places that will enchant and beguile both the young and the young at heart. 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. Free companion podcast is available for download!
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 Pretty goo April 22, 2010
D. Frazier (Cleveland, Ohio)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up by Holly Hughes is a fairly decent book that gives nice descriptions for vacation destinations. I question some of the 'family friendly' locations but overall the places described appeared interesting.
Family Travel in the United States and Around the World January 21, 2010
Bryan Carey (Houston, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like to travel and since I have two young kids, I try to keep vacation trips within the confines of what I think will interest them- at least for part of the trip, anyway. Given this desire, it make sense that I purchased and utilize Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up. This guide offers 500 different travel destinations for kids of all ages, including both domestic and international travel options.
This book is organized based on the type of attraction and as you browse through this guide, you will quickly realize that there isn't any particular order to the destinations and some will be further surprised by the selections themselves and the omissions. The entries are not listed from best to worst; alphabetically; by size; or anything else. They are random, based on type of attraction. Some of the more popular world wonders, like the Grand Canyon, Great Wall of China, Eiffel Tower, etc., are included, as they should be. But there are some popular places that are excluded, along with some unusual selections that will have some travelers puzzled, such as the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania or the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin. These are not exactly top tourist attractions and there are certainly many more popular natural attractions that could have replaced them. But the guide included them anyway, most likely to provide balance and diversity.
500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up is a reference guide, but the writing is a little different from the straight- forward, factual type of material you find in almanacs and other guides. The writing in this guide is friendlier, with most of it written in second person and, of course, written with children in mind (it also includes a recommended age, for each attraction). The book's authors mention children in most every entry and they point out specific areas of different attractions that children will enjoy most. The majority of places included in this guide will appeal to adults also, so even if you are childless, you will like the destinations included in this reference guide.
This guide isn't sorted geographically, but there is a geographic index along with many useful maps to help you locate a destination more quickly. By checking the United States map, for example, the avid family traveler can quickly find out which destinations are located in his/her local vicinity. This is very helpful, but there is one limitation of the map: It lists only the names of the cities that include a destination listed somewhere in the book. The map doesn't include the name of the actual attraction, so it only serves as a cross- reference to the adventures within.
Travel is my favorite activity and Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up is a fun, informative guide to family- friendly travel destinations around the United States and the world. It will take time to get through all five- hundred places with my kids, but we will certainly have a fun time trying as we seek out new family adventures and learning experiences, courtesy of Frommers.
 Dumbed down new edition with fewer places to visit December 4, 2009
Travel Queen (NY United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was excited to see a new edition, although hesitant since I thoroughly enjoyed the first edition and even used it to plan a few trips to Arizona and Texas. Yes, some of the places were unrealistic, and no, I don't plan any trips to China, but the stuff in the US was pretty good. With the new edition, they took out 44 sights and only added 39 new ones (yes, I actually counted). They did some funky splitting of previously mentioned sights to get to their magic "500" number. As an example, in the old edition, London got a single mention with various sights included in the text. This time around they split that section into FOUR different "must-sees". VT got totally shafted and with the exception of the Geffrye Museum in England, all of the places dropped were in the US.
So what did they add? Lots of Australia and New Zealand sights, plus Europe and Asia. I'm all for a less US-centric approach, but some of the stuff they added was stupid- it's more important to ride the Tokyo monorail than visit the Gateway Arch in St. Louis??? Or how about Luna Park in Australia versus the National Zoo?? (Although, to their credit, they did add the Giant Panda of Wolong in China if you want to see them).
I also completely hated the layout of seven great views, parks, etc. They dropped tons of information and extras. In the previous edition, they had a section on cities to visit with a selection of highlights in the city. In the new version, Paris got dumbed down to the Eiffel Tower "for a great view". I agree, but there's more to Paris than the Eiffel Tower. It was the same with the other cities. I'm sticking with my old version and using my new book for a paperweight.
Take the kids along November 24, 2009
Michael D. Bigham (Portland, OR)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall, this is a decent, but not great travel guide. For example, I would agree with the two Oregon entries, Crater Lake and the Snake River canyon are great trips for kids, but would argue in the case of the Snake, there are more accessible rafting trips that kids would love in the state, most notably the Deschutes or the Rogue Rivers. The entries for each destination were short and informative; perhaps too much so. I would have rather seen less destinations and more detail
Nice Book For Adults Too November 20, 2009
J. Smith (Left Coast USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has a pretty comprehenisve list of great, educational things to do all around the world.... and there lies the problem. Not too many American families with kids are going to be traveling to the Great Pyramids at Giza, the Louvre in Paris, or Vatican City. It might have been more realistic to concentrate more on domestic car trips and less expensive things to do. Or maybe re-title the book, 500 places to take yourself before you die.
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