Fodor's Around New York City with Kids (Around the City with Kids) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: July 5, 2005

Insider tips • Trivia every kid will love • Kid-friendly snack spots • age-appropriateness ratings • Admissions, phone numbers, web sites

PLAN 68 GREAT DAYS WITH KIDS IN A FLASH! Local mom Mindy Bailin has handpicked 68 simply fabulous things to do in and around New York City with a child in tow. You'll look at old favorites in a new light, from the Statue of Liberty to the Bronx Zoo—and blaze new trails all over town, from Clay Pit Ponds State Park to the New York Hall of Science. Every page is loaded with fun facts and helpful information.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; 3rd edition (July 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400014948
• ISBN-13: 978-1400014941
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,246,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Written with humor and fun, this book made our trip the best!, April 14, 2006

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Love to Research "jhu04" (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fodor's Around New York City with Kids (Around the City with Kids) (Paperback)

Thanks to this book, we were able to figure out just the right bites of the big apple to take. We also were prepared for when we'd have to wait in line, and we saved big bucks through the author's tips on Broadway on a Budget. We used the author's fun facts to impress our kids. For example, if you were to look at every piece of art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it would take more than four years to see it all! We used several guidebooks. This one was by far the best!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference but not comprehensive, November 19, 2006

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Marcy Gomez (Kansas City, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fodor's Around New York City with Kids (Around the City with Kids) (Paperback)

"New York City with Kids" is a great travel reference guide but it certainly is not comprehensive. The guide mainly includes those well-known tourist attractions that New York City is known for but anyone who has been to NYC knows that this fabulous city has more to offer than just the museums, parks and tourist attractions. My kids, for instance, had as much of a blast just going through FAO Schwartz, and the flagship stores for Toys R Us (the ferris wheel, 2-story Barbie doll house and huge dinosaur are tourist attractions by themselves), the American Girl Shop and Build-a-Bear Workshop during our visit. Or grabbing lunch and yummy dessert at "Serendipity." Since this tour guide deals mainly with actual tourist attractions (e.g. Statue of Liberty, Museum of Natural History, the Intrepid) references to these also noteworthy (at least in my kids' eyes) "sights" are not included.

In short, I think this book could benefit from going beyond the tried and tested tourist attractions and also explore some of the shops, cool restaurants, pastry / candy or dessert parlors, etc. that make New York City such an amazing place to visit for kids and their parents. If you're traveling to NYC with kids, get this book but also pick up another more comprehensive book on New York (like the Frommers, Fodors or Michelin guides, which usually have a chapter or sections devoted to kids) to really experience the best of what New York City has to offer.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars POCKET SIZE FUN, June 23, 2006

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Carol Weston "bookclubmom" (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Around New York City with Kids (Around the City with Kids) (Paperback)

68 Fun Things to Do -- from Jones Beach to NBC Studio Tour, with the usual destinations as well. New York is so extraordinary that a lot of guidebooks try to be all too thorough. But really a short and sweet book can do the trick. If your young visitors are age seven and up, give them Melanie in Manhattan too, a novel about a New York girl. (Warning Melanie and her brother Matt the Brat have a favorite museum game called Point Out the Naked People. Their art teacher mom has no idea....)
CAROL WESTON melaniemartin.com