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Family Guide London
DK's Family Guide London, from the groundbreaking family travel series, is written by parents and guarantees the entire family will enjoy their trip. With child-friendly sleeping and eating options, detailed maps of main sightseeing areas, travel info, budget guidance, age range suitability and activities for each sight, the Family Guide London is the ultimate guide to stress-free family travel.
288 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2012
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May 10, 2023
DK travel books are the best pictorial travel books around. They are often light on practical information, but strong on ideas of what to do, and explaining what you seeing when you get there.
This family guide to London is no exception. Organised by area, it is really suitable for frequent visitors to London, as each section is discrete from the other, so travel from one to the other, isn't really explained. You wouldn't want this to be your only guide to the city if you were infrequent visitors. It does have a number of places I would never have thought of taking the children, or didn't no existed, so it has opened up the city beyond our regular haunts.
Once you have decided where you want to go, the book comes into its own. If you need a break from the gallery or museum you are visiting, then this book has some great child-friendly eatery recommendations (and some decidedly odd ones, upper-end places where I'd be nervous of going even without the children. Having said that, I'm not really a fine-diner!). Best of all is a heads up on the local playgrounds. Thirty minutes on the swings and slides to let off steam, can revitalise a day out. And that's just for me! So all in all, a handy guide that if not essential, can certainly maximise your enjoyment of a visit to London.
This family guide to London is no exception. Organised by area, it is really suitable for frequent visitors to London, as each section is discrete from the other, so travel from one to the other, isn't really explained. You wouldn't want this to be your only guide to the city if you were infrequent visitors. It does have a number of places I would never have thought of taking the children, or didn't no existed, so it has opened up the city beyond our regular haunts.
Once you have decided where you want to go, the book comes into its own. If you need a break from the gallery or museum you are visiting, then this book has some great child-friendly eatery recommendations (and some decidedly odd ones, upper-end places where I'd be nervous of going even without the children. Having said that, I'm not really a fine-diner!). Best of all is a heads up on the local playgrounds. Thirty minutes on the swings and slides to let off steam, can revitalise a day out. And that's just for me! So all in all, a handy guide that if not essential, can certainly maximise your enjoyment of a visit to London.
May 29, 2019
A very thorough and informative London guide for families; nicely illustrated and fairly up-to-date. It helped us find kid-friendly venues and activities for planning our London trip.
December 3, 2016
This is a regular travel guide. I don't think it is any better than the others. On a second thought, there are better.
September 21, 2019
Very helpful information for planning our trip to London. Good suggestions for kid activities. Highly recommend the Florence Nightingale museum for a fun morning or afternoon.
October 25, 2015
Very useful with great engaging photos and "Kids Corner" features every few pages.
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