| Paris With Kids 2nd Edition (Open Road Travel Guides) | 
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Sales Rank: 153515
Category: Book
Author: Valerie Gwinner
Publisher: Open Road
Studio: Open Road
Manufacturer: Open Road
Label: Open Road
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1593600623
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.43610484
EAN: 9781593600624
ASIN: 1593600623
Publication Date: June 27, 2006
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Product Description
You're going to Paris? And taking the kids? No problem - Paris with Kids offers a pro's insider tips for reconciling the adult, romantic side of Paris with the city's kid-friendly, adventurous aspects. The author presents a wealth of advice on how to plan a family visit to Paris, and how to have a blast while you're there. It shows how to enliven the tourist experience of Paris for youngsters: sending them searching for gargoyles, tracing the Secret of the Sorcerer's Stone in the Marais, and of course stopping by EuroDisney and the Eiffel Tower. There are countless anecdotes relating the people, events, and legends that make up the story of Paris. Paris With Kids also features kid-tested recommendations for family-friendly hotels and restaurants, both in Paris and on day-trips outside the city. We include where to shop with kids for food, clothing, toys, English-language books, and other souvenirs; we offer our favorite playgrounds, green spaces, and amusement parks, suggestions for sports activities, and where to see magic shows, ride in a hot-air balloon, find kids' gourmet cooking classes, and how to make museums fun and enjoyable for the little ones.
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 fun and useful guide to Paris with kids April 9, 2008
Having just returned from a visit to Paris, our family found this guide to be helpful and fun. It's organized by neighborhood and lists hotels, restaurants, sites of interest to families and children, fun facts to keep kids amused, and useful information about hours of operation, prices, nearest metro stop, playgrounds, etc. Very handy.
 disappointed with hotel recommendations February 13, 2008
Our family of 5 is travelling to Paris soon and I was eagerly awaiting this book to aid in planning. There were plenty of family-friendly hotel recommendations all over Paris. When I checked out the reviews on travel websites of the recommended hotels, I found most of them had primarily negative reviews. Perhaps this is due to the fact that this edition is a few years old and not updated. A family of 5 does not easily 'fit' into Parisian hotel room configurations(most rooms hold 2-3 people max.), so my hope was that this book would explore possibilities for us. I got the feeling that 'family-friendly' meant 'budget' in this book.
I hope that some of the sightseeing recommendations are helpful for us to maximize our visit.
The addition of a map in the book, as in other Parisian travel guides, would have been helpful as I had to buy one separately.
 Head and shoulders above the rest September 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have several different guides for seeing Paris with kids but this one takes the cake. What we've particularly enjoyed are the suggestions of other sights within a vicinity that make it easy to plan a day or an afternoon. We definitely would have missed some of these smaller sights -- such as the shopping passages along the Grand Boulevards and the bird market on Ile de la Cite -- that our kids truly enjoyed. Gwinner offers sensible and imaginative advice that make sightseeing with kids a pleasure.
A Great Travel Guide Period May 1, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is an excellent travel guide that happens to focus on things that are especially appealing when you are traveling with kids. The descriptions of the sites around town are interesting and well done. Even though this edition is a few years old, the restaurant and hotel recommendations were still extremely helpful in the spring of 2006. It was especially nice to have recommendations for places that mainly drew Parisians in areas that had heavy tourist traffic. This enabled my son and I to really experience Paris rather than just be exposed to other tourists. I looked at some other traveling with kids books and even bought the Cadogan guide but this one was head and shoulders above the rest. If you are bringing your child or children to Paris, I would suggest combining this with a guide that includes good maps of the city such as the Moon Metro Paris.
 OK, but there are better ones out there. April 9, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
No maps, no discussion of Disney paris, A must for children in Paris. A better one is by Truszkowski, which has great color pics and maps and better info.
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