Product Description

William Gray, author of the award winning "Travel with Kids", has turned his attention closer to home, bringing you a definitive guide to great value, family-friendly holidays throughout England, Scotland and Wales. "Britain with Kids", provides advice on where to take the kids from tots to teens, explore the great outdoors in Scotland and Wales or simply get to know London from knee height. This guide provides all the holiday essentials and planning resources, regional highlights, where to eat and sleep for any budget and of course what to do on those rainy days! This title offers essential tips and advice on how to beat the credit crunch. It is visually striking, and inspiring and practical enough to serve as an effective holiday planner. Covering England, Scotland and Wales, this guide is perfect for family holidays that don t cost the earth. All eventualities are covered in this title - rain, snow and even sunshine! It s fun and it s free: where to fly a kite, go rock-pooling, hunt for fossils... Over 170 beaches made in child heaven. Big days out, from train rides to zoos and science museums. Pitch-perfect campsites, plus forest lodges, farmstays and hotels. Food glorious food, from fish and chips to farmers markets. How to make the perfect sandcastle, plus 37 theme-park thrills. Action stations: bike rides, walks, canoeing trips, sailing, surfing...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17253 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
* Travel with Kids voted Best Guide Book by the British Guild of Travel Writers.
* The perfect book to have to hand when planning your family's annual holiday. Junior Magazine
* One of those rare finds: a practical family guide as well as an entertaining read. The Independent on Sunday
* A genuine must-have for parents with itchy feet everywhere. Angels & Urchins Magazine
* Packed with inspiration and advice. Wanderlust Magazine --What the press said about TRAVEL WITH KIDS

From the Publisher
William Gray, author of the award winning "Travel with Kids", has turned his attention closer to home, bringing you a definitive guide to great value, family-friendly holidays throughout England, Scotland and Wales. "Britain with Kids", provides advice on where to take the kids from tots to teens, explore the great outdoors in Scotland and Wales or simply get to know London from knee height. This guide provides all the holiday essentials and planning resources, regional highlights, where to eat and sleep for any budget and of course what to do on those rainy days! This title offers essential tips and advice on how to beat the credit crunch. It is visually striking, and inspiring and practical enough to serve as an effective holiday planner. Covering England, Scotland and Wales, this guide is perfect for family holidays that doesn't cost the earth. All eventualities are covered in this title - rain, snow and even sunshine!

From the Author
Family holidays in Britain are riding a new wave of popularity. And it's not simply due to the strength of the euro, the credit crunch or concerns over the costs of flying further afield.
The fact is there's never been a more varied, enticing or exciting range of things to do or places to stay. Not only is Britain beautiful and diverse, with beaches and national parks to rival the world's finest, but its family attractions - from castles to woodland adventure parks - are some of the best you'll find anywhere.
BRITAIN WITH KIDS is a celebration of all these things and much more. It aims to inform and inspire; highlighting accommodation and local food that won't cost the earth, as well as trumpeting the best child-friendly activities, back-to-nature escapades and big days out - many of which won't cost a penny.

With all types of accommodation covered from the cool and quirky to farm favourites and pick of the pitches, BRITAIN WITH KIDS also has `fun and free' sections as well as information on the top beaches and the best family friendly activities for your destination.

Don't let your family holidays languish like seaweed on a sluggish tide, coming and going with barely a ripple of excitement - explore Britain with your kids and give family holidays a fresh surge of adventure.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic bible for planning great holidays and days out with your kids!
I don't normally write reviews, but felt moved to after reading the couple of really unfair ratings here.

This is a great book. It is not a guide to everywhere in the UK, so that you can find some half-baked thing to do with your kids wherever you happen to be. Most parent's will arrange their trips around their children not the other way around - if only for a quiet life! This is a guide for planning your time away around your children so that you can take them to the best of what this country has to offer.

Yes, there could be a few more maps, but 2 stars? Un-warrented, and somewhat suspicious...

Don't be put off by the negative (commercially-competing?) reviews. This is a fantastic guide to the best of travelling with kids in the UK. But it is more than that, William's information on how-to travel with your kids will make you a better, more fun parent!

Have kids? Booking a UK holiday? Buy this book!
As an avid fan of holidays in the UK we are always on the look out for inspiration on where to go on family holidays and what to do when we get there. Anyone in the same situation should definitely buy this book!

It offers an entertaining, inspiring, and informative guide which will provide any family with fun-packed holidays or great days out across the whole of the UK.
We now know where the 170 best family-friendly beaches are, 'must do' lists for each area and great ideas for big days out. A huge choice of places to stay and eat for all budgets (including camping with 'pick of the pitches'), 'Action stations' for local activities, loads of free stuff to do in each area and even a list of things to do if it rains!

Combine all this with a fresh and colourful layout, an easy-to-navigate format and some fantastic photos and you end up with what has to be the best UK Family Travel book on the shelves.

Now my only concern is whether I can do justice to William Gray's guide on how to build the perfect sand castle!!!!

Great
Really good book, arrived on time, lots of useful information, will put it to good use.