Need a baby-friendly suggestion for a quick vacation.

My wife and I are closing in on our 5th anniversary. We have a 17 month old daughter.

We're debating taking a small trip to celebrate our anniversary. We're not looking to spend too much on this trip, though.

Do any of you have a kid-friendly suggestion? I would appreciate it.

We live in the Suburbs, north of Philadelphia (PA). I'm thinking somewhere in the 1500-1800 price range, if possible. My wife and I and our kid.

spronk_sl said:

I'd skip stuff like the caribbean, hawaii, europe, etc because too far to fly sucks with a baby.

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Tell me about it. We took a 16 hour flight to Japan with her in September to finally show her off to the grandparents, aunt/uncle, and her great grandfather. My wife is Japanese, and her entire family lives over there. Split between Niigata, Tokyo, Yamagata & Kyoto. So they all got together and spent a long weekend together with us. Good times. The flight sucked though. Little Natsumi was fussy for a good 80% of it, and pretty much refused to sleep (well, I think we got 1-2 hours of sleep in total).

There's a pretty cool indoor kiddy water park in the Pocono's. We've talked about going there, but I think she's still a bit too young. We take her swimming right now, but she can't really do anything on her own outside of walk and climb. It'll happen eventually.

Well, my wife asked me about Aquariums. We've been to the one in Baltimore a few times, and she wanted to experience something new. I did a google search and it told me that the Atlanta Aquarium is actually the biggest one in the world. Huge huge number of fish (120k compared to Baltimore's 13k), including Whale Sharks. So we decided to schedule our Anniversary for a trip to Atlanta. We found a $75/person ticket to see a bunch of tourist things there. So we signed up. It's going to run us around $1600 total between airfare and hotel. Not terrible, plus it's something that will keep our daughter entertained.


Then I see that there's a post on this forum about Atlanta so I read it... and people say it's a shit hole. Oh well, we're still going. August 10th through the 17th. Should be ok, and we can try out some of the restaurants mentioned in the other thread.
http://www.rerolled.org/showthread.php?2411-Atlanta