Fodor’s Around Washington, D.C. with Kids, 5th Edition
Product Description
The Family-Friendly Guide to Everything Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the perfect spot for a fun and educational family vacation. Rich in history and learning opportunities for children and adults, this cultural mecca is full of unique family experiences that will create memories to last a lifetime.
Now freshly revised and updated, this comprehensive book is your personal tour guide to our nation’s capital. Included is everything from must-see historical sites, parks, and monuments to inside information on activities for parents and teachers with kids of all ages.
Inside you’ll discover:
•Up-to-date reviews of the top family attractions
•Budget- and family-friendly lodging, dining, and shopping
•Suggestions for pre- and post-vacation activities
•Maps of Washington, D.C., and surrounding area… More >>
I purchased this book after getting a great deal on a hotel in a posh DC neighborhood. While I was excited about the hotel, I was quite concerned about finding affordable, child-friendly places to eat in the area. I chose this guide because along with descriptions of kid appropriate attractions, it recommends nearby eateries. The recommended places to eat were just what I needed to keep our daytime food expenses reasonable. Be warned that many of the recommended attractions are either seasonal or too far from public transportation to reach on foot (we traveled pre-Memorial Day and swore not to drive in DC traffic after parking our car at our hotel). Also, you’ll need a separate map because only street addresses are provided. Otherwise, it was a helpful, compact travel book that paid for itself in meal money saved.
We used this more than the Fodor’s Washington DC guide and the Eyewitness Guide. The prices, times, where to eat and Metro stops were easy to find and read. The tips about the best times to get to a specific site and when to buy tickets were great. Our kids are 11 and 8 and the suggestions about what might be interesting to them were spot on. I’d recommend this book to anyone going to DC with kids.
We bought this for a trip to D.C. with our nine-year-old granddaughter. I bought it expecting it to be for her benefit, but it turned out to be for mine. I would have spent hours on the Internet getting the information given in this book. The most useful part to us was the information on which Metro stop to use for each attraction. That alone made it worth the price. The information on where to eat was very useful, too. It was small enough to fit right in my purse so I didn’t have to carry it around all day. We had already decided on the sites we were going to visit, so I didn’t use it for that purpose, but nevertheless, it had interesting facts that I could relate to my granddaughter. It was well worth the purchase.
My 10 year old son loves this book and so do I! It tells us the important stuff, location, contact info, prices, ages & hours. It also gives us little things like places to eat and fun other thing to notice and do while we are at each place. We LOVE this book!
This book gave us great ideas for places to take our 6 year old. Most importantly, he is allergic to everything and autistic. This translates into an extemely picky eater. With it’s recommendations for kid-friendly eating, Around Washington, D.C. with Kids is a God-send!