Frommer's Washington, D.C., With Kids (Frommer's Family Travel Guides)

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This completely updated edition is packed with ideas and activities for every day of the year, and gives you the lowdown on child-friendly hotels and restaurants. It s full of incredibly detailed tips right down to which hotels offer cribs and rollaway beds and which restaurants offer high chairs and kids menus. Inside you ll learn where to find hands-on, interactive educational experiences and children s entertainment, from concerts and children s theater to puppet shows, and there are plenty of tips for how to introduce your kids to historic attractions. All this, plus details on parks, kid-oriented shopping, and places to play. Beth Rubin has written extensively on family topics for more than 30 years, and has lived in the D.C. area since the early 1960s. During that time, she has played tour guide to her own two children as well as the offspring of numerous relatives and friends. Her experience and tell-it-like-it-is style make this well-researched book indispensible to anyone living in or visiting the nation s capital with kids in tow.