How is this itinerary? Doable or not? - Netherlands, Belgium, Paris

[Anonymous]

Op. To the PPs above - My superficial NYC trip was just fine for my family and my kids enjoyed it and didn't want to leave. They liked it so much that I'm planning another superficial NYC trip using the Chinatown bus next time.

We switched up things when it did not work out as planned so that's what we will do if we get tired. I'm sure we will have a wonderful trip in spite of you naysayers.

I am also currently looking at Europe tours focussed on photo ops for Instagram. I need to increase my followers.

[Anonymous]

OP if that was what you enjoyed in NYC then I think your trip sounds fine. I was going to say that it sounded like too much sitting on buses and going between sites without doing anything at the sites, but it sounds like that is how you prefer to visit places, and so I think it will work well.
I don’t think there is much is Antwerp. I’ve been several times as I have family there and in Brussels and neither city is an exciting tourist destination but Brussels probably has more to do/see. It would also be totally reasonable to go to neither!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP if that was what you enjoyed in NYC then I think your trip sounds fine. I was going to say that it sounded like too much sitting on buses and going between sites without doing anything at the sites, but it sounds like that is how you prefer to visit places, and so I think it will work well.
I don’t think there is much is Antwerp. I’ve been several times as I have family there and in Brussels and neither city is an exciting tourist destination but Brussels probably has more to do/see. It would also be totally reasonable to go to neither!

Bruges is top of my list. Any recommendations on where to stay there?

I have to see if there is a direct train there from Amsterdam or if we have to switch in Brussels. If switching we may as well get down and see the main square and the palace in Brussels before heading out to Bruges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op. To the PPs above - My superficial NYC trip was just fine for my family and my kids enjoyed it and didn't want to leave. They liked it so much that I'm planning another superficial NYC trip using the Chinatown bus next time.

We switched up things when it did not work out as planned so that's what we will do if we get tired. I'm sure we will have a wonderful trip in spite of you naysayers.

I am also currently looking at Europe tours focussed on photo ops for Instagram. I need to increase my followers.

The troll emerges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP if that was what you enjoyed in NYC then I think your trip sounds fine. I was going to say that it sounded like too much sitting on buses and going between sites without doing anything at the sites, but it sounds like that is how you prefer to visit places, and so I think it will work well.
I don’t think there is much is Antwerp. I’ve been several times as I have family there and in Brussels and neither city is an exciting tourist destination but Brussels probably has more to do/see. It would also be totally reasonable to go to neither!

Bruges is top of my list. Any recommendations on where to stay there?

I have to see if there is a direct train there from Amsterdam or if we have to switch in Brussels. If switching we may as well get down and see the main square and the palace in Brussels before heading out to Bruges.

I mean this in a non-snarky way, but since your main priority seems to be taking pictures, just search Bruges on Instagram and see what comes up and decide from there. There will be some hotels that are insta-famous, just like I’ve come across several insta-famous restaurants that have been decorated specifically to look good in photos with neon lights or flower walls or whatever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP if that was what you enjoyed in NYC then I think your trip sounds fine. I was going to say that it sounded like too much sitting on buses and going between sites without doing anything at the sites, but it sounds like that is how you prefer to visit places, and so I think it will work well.
I don’t think there is much is Antwerp. I’ve been several times as I have family there and in Brussels and neither city is an exciting tourist destination but Brussels probably has more to do/see. It would also be totally reasonable to go to neither!

Bruges is top of my list. Any recommendations on where to stay there?

I have to see if there is a direct train there from Amsterdam or if we have to switch in Brussels. If switching we may as well get down and see the main square and the palace in Brussels before heading out to Bruges.

I mean this in a non-snarky way, but since your main priority seems to be taking pictures, just search Bruges on Instagram and see what comes up and decide from there. There will be some hotels that are insta-famous, just like I’ve come across several insta-famous restaurants that have been decorated specifically to look good in photos with neon lights or flower walls or whatever.

Unfortunately with kids, I have a budget. Safety and budget take precedence. Insta photos can be done at any of the sight seeing places.

Kids and me are planning to take a picture laying down and carrying a castle on our heads

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Anonymous wrote:Will you have any children with you?

Yes, 2 teens - which is why I included all these day trips with canal rides, climbing a windmill, cheese making demo

One is also into photography - she was busy taking pictures of kites and buildings when we went to see the cherry blossoms while we were enjoying the flowers.

This reminds me of my mother. Traveling with her meant WORK. If she had paid to take us somewhere, we were going to see every single thing there was to see. Your teens have the rest of their lives to visit places.

Except OP is visiting everything from the OUTSIDE only.

I think that's what feels off putting as someone who's lived in one of those locations. It feels like someone trying to perform a visit. Like those people who methodically check off rides at Disney while their kids melt down.

Sit at a Cafe, have an aperol spritz and watch people on the canals. Or something. But this whole rushing around to take photos outside of places you don't even bother to go into? It's weird.

More like if people took their kids to Disney and just took pictures next to all the rides while they melted down, and no one actually rode them.