[Books] Travel with Kids: The Definitive Guide to Family Holidays Worldwide

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Book Details

ISBN-10: 1906098034
Paperback: 384
ISBN-13: 978-1906098032
Publisher: FootprintHandbooks;1stedition(January1,2008)
Language: English
Book Dimensions: 8x7.5x1inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3pounds

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Travel with Kids: The Definitive Guide to Family Holidays Worldwide--- Product Description
Travel with Kids shows you how to get family holidays right - before it's too late and your children want to go on their own. The first definitive worldwide guide to family travel, it is packed with 400 pages of inspiration, advice and ideas for taking your children anywhere from Cornwall to Cambodia, Alaska to Zambia. Travel with Kids provides all the expert advice you need to start planning unforgettable family holidays, from picking the perfect Caribbean Island or Apline ski resort, to planning a malaria-free safari, from trekking safely in the Himalayas to finding the best fossil beaches in Dorset....and literally thousands of other tips and suggestions.

About the Author
William Gray is a 37 year-old, award-winning travel writer, TV presenter and father of twins. Last year, he was invited by the BBC to present family travel pieces for the 2006 series of its flagship Holiday programme (attracting over five million viewers). William is also the family travel columnist for Wanderlust magazine and regularly contributes travel features to The Sunday Times and numerous other national and international publications.

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Travel with Kids: The Definitive Guide to Family Holidays Worldwide Reviews:

Great info, shallow categorization of kids' interests

This book has extensive information for travel with kids in almost every corner of every continent.Full of pictures, it is written in a bright, accessible style.Disappointingly, emphasis is on places they are likely to have heard of (Orlando, Italy, Australia), rather than places their parents might simply wish to take them, and on beaches and adenaline-charged activities rather than on museums and quiet activities.There is really nothing wrong with this focus, except that, to a large extent, it explains the obvious.This book also has a presumption of dysfunction about the dynamics of traveling families, and is particularly ugly in its references to teenagers.Perhaps the author is just being funny, but my wife and I read several of the descriptions and just sort of looked at each other disgustedly (i.e., we didn't laugh).The author apparently feels that the depth of a teenager's travel-savvy extends no farther than recreational shopping or finding an adrenaline-rush.Quote from the section on France: "Fashion-conscious teenage girls will enjoy browsing the shops [of Paris], and might even tolerate mum and dad tagging along-- as long as they bring their credit cards."Also, on Berlin and Amsterdam: "Of course, you probably won't get teenagers within a hundred miles of either Amsterdam or Berlin unless you tempt them with... the promise of retail heaven."On Asia: "If your teenagers are more into retail therapy than adrenaline abuse, take them to Dubai..." etc., etc., etc.The pitch of this one-note song only makes me wish for a different book geared toward families with tots/children/teens who DON'T view a family trip as an occasion to incubate brattiness.The author clearly expects much less from his readers' children than he does from his own, who are "fantastic little travelers, always happy to confront new challenges."

On a side note, it is curious how many places are simply excluded from the book, presumably because they are not as interesting to children.But isn't the purpose of the book to help parents travel with children to places where child-focused activities are more elusive?For example, there is nothing about the American Midwest -- never mind Chicago with its Sears Tower and world-famous aquarium and science museum.While several countries (such as France, Italy, Greece, and Turkey) get detailed chapters to themselves, many countries, such as Japan and Russia, are altogether excluded.

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