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Travel with Children (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Paperback)

by Maureen Wheeler (Author), Cathy Lanigan (Editor) "The fun of travelling with kids car start at the planning stage ..." (more)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 4th Revised edition edition (1 Feb 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0864427298
ISBN-13: 978-0864427298
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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...Lonely Planet, the intrepid traveler's bible...' --Los Angeles Times, April 2005

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It's a small world after all! This well-researched guide now covers every region of the globe, proving it's actually quite a kid-friendly place. With travel advice that's as heavy on fun as it is on practicalities, the main goal is to ensure kids enjoy their trips as much as grown-ups do. Travel with Children is brimming with tips on tantrum-free travel with toddlers to teens.

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2.0 out of 5 stars The art of stating the rather obvious, 2 Nov 2005

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I'm a fan of the Lonely Planet guides (although generally prefer the 'Rough Guides' format and writing style) and now that we travel independently as a young family thought there might be some useful tips that would help us. Instead, about a third of the book offers advice that is either so obvious its valueless (remember to pack a couple of your children's favourite books and toys - really, I'd never have thought of that!), are too impractical to work (only take two changes of clothes for each child - one to wash, one to wear... her kids must be a lot better behaved than mine, when there's dirt about!), or downright dangerous - a section on travelling when pregnant completely omits to mention the fact that there are no malaria pills that can be taken when pregnant, meaning you have to avoid malarial areas or take the risk.

The second two-thirds of the book is a country-by-country guide to travelling with kids. There are three problems here, one inevitable, two not. The first is space - by tackling pretty much every country, few get more than a page which means advice is pretty sketchy and generally limited to a few words about the capital city. There is no advice on specific hotels or accommodations that are well set up for travellers with kids. It was also dispiriting how few local attactions had been sought ought, generally it was a list of the usual zoos, musueums and commercial playparks, amusement parks or water parks. The final gripe was that the tone was unrelentingly positive, almost as if it was propaganda to make people nervous about travel with kids do it. This is fine up to a point, but there was not one story (the country accounts are interspersed with individual traveller stories about their experiences in different places), that was not totally successful. Given that kids get ill/have accidents more often than adults this seemed ridiculously one sided - where were the accounts of trips spent in darkened hotel rooms ferrying the child to and from the toilet after they ate something dodgy on the first day? The long waits in foreign A&E departments, to be treated for a dog bite, after a child petted a stray? To avoid examples of these simply gave the anecdotal notes in the text a rather unreal air.

Having said all this, its not totally useless. The guide is okay in a general way, the stories make quite good reading. But if you have any common sense or empathy with your kids, then you don't need this book - by a good country guide for the place you're travelling too instead.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Full of advice but nothing unique or anything common sense wouldn't help you with, 10 Jan 2008

By	Marie Hughes "yorkreject" (hornbaek) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bought this before we travelled around the world for 4 months with our 4 and 2yr old - we went from the UK, USA, Oz, NZ to Malaysisa and Borneo
It really didn't give us anything new we hadn't gained from the general Lonely Planet books.
Of course you have to plan, of course you need to make certain some standard facilities are near by and of course you need to think about safety - but a standard trip to London would prepare you for that.
We found all the countries we visited geared up to travelling with kids, hotels/restaurants would go out of their way on portion size / healthy eating and most countries have officially sanctioned tourist offices - these were especially useful in NZ and Malaysia.
I would recommend this if you've never taken your kids on holiday or you suffer from nerves at the thought of getting on public transport with them. Also, it is another book to carry - and that weight needs to be signicantly valuable!

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