Amsterdam

[Anonymous]

My husband and children (4 and 2) will be meeting me in Amsterdam next month after I finish with a conference. What do you recommend for small kids in Amsterdam, in terms of activities and sights? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

sightseeing boat tour might be cool for the kids. not so much the sightseeing, but the boat ride itself.

[Anonymous]

If you are able to travel out into the countryside, there's a great miniature city called Madurodam near The Hague.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the suggestions!

[Anonymous]

I would also recommend a boat sightseeing trip. We were there without my daughter (who was 3 at the time we went) but there are some nice parks and gardens that your kids will enjoy and also there was a neat looking museum near the water (not far from the train station, actually) that was maybe science and technology or something but we noticed a lot of kids there. You could check into that - it might have some appeal for smaller kids. Amsterdam is also very bike friendly - you could look into renting bikes with child seats and toodling around that way. We stayed in a nice residential neighborhood at the Hotel Zandbergen (which I would also recommend) but the neighborhood was great and had a lot of very nice, neighborhoody and family friendly restaurants.