4 Days in Phoenix
 

Spending four days in Scottsdale with a 8 year old. What are some fun things to do??? Help!!!!

Kathy, <BR>Our 8 year old daughter enjoyed using the self-tour audio tapes that you can rent when at the Heard Museum. We enjoyed them too. <BR>Otherwise, she enjoyed the hotel's pool.

East of Scottsdale is Lion Country, park with different kinds of cats and other animals. Corner of Scottsdale and Chaparrel Roads is the McCormick Train Park..good for picnicing...downtown Old Scottsdale is fun to walk around with stopping at the Sugar Bowl for lunch or dessert. A Desert Jeep trip arranged through any hotel/motel would be fun, along with an afternoon or evening at Rawhide...for dinner and western type show...drive out to Carefree and Cave Creek. Downtown Phoenix has a fabulous Science and Technology Museum/IMAX Theater and as long as you are downtown you should stop in Bank One Ballpark(BOB) for lunch or dinner at TGIFriday's...great ballpark with retractable roof...and, Arizona Center downtown has all sorts of great quality touristy shops and restaurants. You could do the downtown area the same day you do the Heard Museum, not far from each other.

When my daughter was about that age she loved Rawhide (see previous post) as she got to gamble (all fake money, real tables) among other things. She also loved to play mini golf, and there are many great courses in the valley. There's also the Phoenix Zoo which I remember as being very good. If you're from a colder area, just being in the pool is a treat.

it is not 'LION COUNTRY' but 'Out of Africa'. <BR> <BR>I second the Sugar Bowl - all the other suggestions are also very good