Fodor's Family Adventures, 4th Edition : More Than 700 Great Trips For You and Your Kids of All Ages

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Summary: The BEST
Review: Recently I went a little crazy on Amazon, buying a mini-library of travelling-with-kids books. Of all of them this one is THE BEST!! It is full of once-in-a-lifetime experiences that I either had no idea about or only dimly thought of. For example, it suggests taking a covered wagon train camping trip. Or overnight llama trekking in Maine at a turn of the century lodge. Or dinosaur digs for kids. I could go on and on -- these are only the ideas that caught my eye (I skipped whole sections on sailing and water trips).

The information is comprehensive and concise. They give great age guidelines and managed to find, for example, a dinosaur dig that takes young kids (only for a few hours) -- most seem to be geared toward teens, but I have a dinosaur-crazy six year old.

Also, I liked that there was a range of price -- with most trips falling somewhere in the middle, as do I suspect most families. I've read books where you pretty much backpack through Europe with your kids and that is a little too rough for us. On the other hand I get annoyed with books that include vacations where the cost is something like $4000 a *day* (See, Little St. Simon's Island in Georgia!) If we had a vacation budget like that we wouldn't need books like these!

This book is great for sparking ideas and for the actual planning of a trip once you decide. I was also very happy with how many suggestions are included. I have no doubt there really are 700. If you buy just one family travel book this is definitely the one.