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Advice: Free Family Fun – Use Your Membership on Vacation.
When making family vacation plans and looking for ways to cut corners one obvious way to save money on attraction admissions may already be in your wallet. If your family belongs to a children’s museum, science museum, art museum, the zoo or the YMCA, check your membership guide for reciprocal admission privileges at similar facilities nationwide.
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Washington DC: A Family Vacation on a Budget – Free and Fun Stuff.
For a city destination Washington DC has a terrific high value and low cost ratio making a family vacation bargain. When looking for entertainment in DC, one thing’s for sure: you don’t have to spend a dime. All of the city’s famous monuments are free of charge, as are the 15 museums in the Smithsonian system of museums and the National Gallery of Art.
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USA: Washington DC, Family Vacation Idea - Go Where the Shopping Is Terrific.
The neighborhoods of Washington, DC have become the place to go for unique shopping. Home furnishings, shoe stores, and food emporia are tucked between cafes and row houses in Dupont Circle and on Capitol Hill. Other up and coming neighborhoods, such as the U Street district and along the 14th Street corridor are also home to some wonderful treasures.
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Washington DC: Family Vacation Fun - Rockets, Dinosaurs, and a Panda.
For families it is field trip heaven with interesting activities and events throughout the year. DC offers enough fun stuff for families to fill a book. From sniffing scents at the U.S. Botanic Garden or counting bugs at The National Museum of Natural History to riding the carousel on the Mall or taking the Metro to the National Zoo, the city is amazingly fun 24/7/365. Our action list focuses on the best places to enjoy science and nature including the best options for families.
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Washington DC: Family Vacation Ideas - Dugouts, Espionage, and the Pony Express.
The fact is DC works for families but enjoying the city with your children takes some planning. From the new age looking Museum of the American Indian and the intriguing International Spy Museum to the more cozy National Postal Museum and the new interactive The Museum of Holocaust, the city presents plenty of ways to enjoy a family field trip. Go for the fun of it, being bored is not one of the options.
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Advice: Reducing the Hyper Part of the Holidays.
The holidays often become more stressful than intended. If you are looking forward to the hectic holidays with both joy and dread there is still hope. Some of the stress and dread can be removed by planning ahead. For adults as well as children of all ages days are filled with events, on top of normal schedules. The result is often stress and exhaustion even before the turkey and the pumpkin pie.
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