Trip IdeasFodor's Family Boston with Kids, 1st Edition
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About This Book
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Boston!
•Fodor’s Family Boston with Kids is a new series combining the city's best experiences, restaurants, and hotels with the age-appropriate information, tips, and ideas you need the most when visiting Boston with your family. Handpicked selections by local parents cover a variety of interests and tastes, so you make the choices for a perfect trip, every time.
•Plan your trip to Boston more easily than ever with key information at your fingertips: Detailed maps, age-appropriateness ranges, kids admission prices, family-friendly hotel amenities, and top five lists of the very best things to see and do in every neighborhood we cover.
•Where can you find the best ice-cream place in the Back Bay? The most worthy playground in Beacon Hill? A public bathroom in Government Center? Our “Where Can I Find?” charts created by local parents give you the neighborhood-by-neighborhood inside scoop.
•See Boston in a different way with fun “Treasure Maps” showing you and your family the sometimes hard-to-find spots where famous movies were shot or where real history was made.
Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Boston!
•Fodor’s Family Boston with Kids is a new series combining the city's best experiences, restaurants, and hotels with the age-appropriate information, tips, and ideas you need the most when visiting Boston with your family. Handpicked selections by local parents cover a variety of interests and tastes, so you make the choices for a perfect trip, every time.
•Plan your trip to Boston more easily than ever with key information at your fingertips: Detailed maps, age-appropriateness ranges, kids admission prices, family-friendly hotel amenities, and top five lists of the very best things to see and do in every neighborhood we cover.
•Where can you find the best ice-cream place in the Back Bay? The most worthy playground in Beacon Hill? A public bathroom in Government Center? Our “Where Can I Find?” charts created by local parents give you the neighborhood-by-neighborhood inside scoop.
•See Boston in a different way with fun “Treasure Maps” showing you and your family the sometimes hard-to-find spots where famous movies were shot or where real history was made.
Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.
Table of Contents
About This Book ............ 5
What’s Where ............ 6
Bad Weather Plans ............ 8
If Your Kids Like ............ 9
Quintessential Boston ............ 10
For Free ............ 11
When to Go ............ 12
Chapter 1: Exploring Boston ............ 13
Beacon Hill & Boston Common ............ 14
The Old West End ............ 21
Government Center ............ 25
The North End ............ 29
Charlestown ............ 33
Downtown Boston ............ 38
The Back Bay ............ 45
The Fenway & Kenmore Square ............ 53
The “Streetcar Suburbs” ............ 57
Chapter 2: Exploring Cambridge ............ 63
Harvard Square ............ 65
Brattle Street/Tory Row ............ 73
Kendall Square/MIT ............ 73
Chapter 3: Where to Eat ............ 77
Boston ............ 79
Cambridge ............ 93
Brookline ............ 95
Jamaica Plain ............ 98
Chapter 4: Where to Stay ............ 101
Boston ............ 104
Boston Outskirts ............ 126
Cambridge ............ 130
Chapter 5: Performing Arts ............ 139
Chapter 6: Sports & the Outdoors ............ 149
Beaches ............ 150
Parks ............ 151
Sports ............ 154
Chapter 7: Shopping ............ 165
Major Shopping Districts ............ 166
Department Stores ............ 169
Specialty Stores ............ 170
Family Fun ............ 183
Travel Smart Boston with Kids ............ 189
Index ............ 207
About Our Writer ............ 224
Maps
What’s Where Boston ............ 7
Beacon Hill & Boston Common ............ 17
The Freedom Trail ............ 20
The Old West End ............ 23
Government Center & the North End ............ 26
Charlestown ............ 35
Downtown Boston ............ 42
The Back Bay, the South End & the Fens ............ 50-51
The “Street Car Suburbs” ............ 58
Harvard Square ............ 67
Cambridge ............ 70-71
Where to Eat in Boston ............ 82-83
Where to Eat in Cambridge ............ 96-97
Where to Stay in Boston ............ 112-113
Where to Stay in Cambridge ............ 132-133
Boston Shopping ............ 172-173
Cambridge Shopping ............ 174
Treasure Map ............ 184-185
What’s Where ............ 6
Bad Weather Plans ............ 8
If Your Kids Like ............ 9
Quintessential Boston ............ 10
For Free ............ 11
When to Go ............ 12
Chapter 1: Exploring Boston ............ 13
Beacon Hill & Boston Common ............ 14
The Old West End ............ 21
Government Center ............ 25
The North End ............ 29
Charlestown ............ 33
Downtown Boston ............ 38
The Back Bay ............ 45
The Fenway & Kenmore Square ............ 53
The “Streetcar Suburbs” ............ 57
Chapter 2: Exploring Cambridge ............ 63
Harvard Square ............ 65
Brattle Street/Tory Row ............ 73
Kendall Square/MIT ............ 73
Chapter 3: Where to Eat ............ 77
Boston ............ 79
Cambridge ............ 93
Brookline ............ 95
Jamaica Plain ............ 98
Chapter 4: Where to Stay ............ 101
Boston ............ 104
Boston Outskirts ............ 126
Cambridge ............ 130
Chapter 5: Performing Arts ............ 139
Chapter 6: Sports & the Outdoors ............ 149
Beaches ............ 150
Parks ............ 151
Sports ............ 154
Chapter 7: Shopping ............ 165
Major Shopping Districts ............ 166
Department Stores ............ 169
Specialty Stores ............ 170
Family Fun ............ 183
Travel Smart Boston with Kids ............ 189
Index ............ 207
About Our Writer ............ 224
Maps
What’s Where Boston ............ 7
Beacon Hill & Boston Common ............ 17
The Freedom Trail ............ 20
The Old West End ............ 23
Government Center & the North End ............ 26
Charlestown ............ 35
Downtown Boston ............ 42
The Back Bay, the South End & the Fens ............ 50-51
The “Street Car Suburbs” ............ 58
Harvard Square ............ 67
Cambridge ............ 70-71
Where to Eat in Boston ............ 82-83
Where to Eat in Cambridge ............ 96-97
Where to Stay in Boston ............ 112-113
Where to Stay in Cambridge ............ 132-133
Boston Shopping ............ 172-173
Cambridge Shopping ............ 174
Treasure Map ............ 184-185
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