Anonymous wrote:hey, I live here and this is an impossible/crazy itinerary. You have some great stuff but need to revise.

Saturday:
*Please Touch is good!

*The Doylestown castle playground is a solid hour or hour and a half drive from downtown Philly. It's a great playground but unless you are taking a daytrip to Doylestown or have a reason to go there, it's WAY too far. Instead, you want to go to the Smith Playground. Like Please Touch it is in Fairmount Park. It has an old fashioned wooden slide and lots of cool equipment, an area for tots, and an indoor playhouse for younger kids.

*You will be close-ish to the art museum if you want to check out the steps. The Rodin museum is more indoors than out, but there is some outdoor sculpture near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You could see those and walk down along the path along the river, and gaze out at the boathouses.

I don't think I'd do Mural Mile with young kids. It's also geographically far. If you want more stuff, I'd consider doing the natural history museum (Academy of Sciences). But realistically you have plenty already.

Sunday:
*I am not into Reading Terminal Market but I know a lot of people love it. I would just choose a fun diner and have a sane, unstressful breakfast, but that's your call.

Franklin Institute is good (and/or Academy of Sciences, which is smaller but good).

By Franklin Park, do you mean Franklin Square? Mini-golf and hamburgers and playground? Could be OK, parking is horrendous there. There's a Firehouse Museum just a block away, if your kids are into that. You might want to do the pop-up park along the river instead (beer garden too!). Keep in mind this is the other side of town from the Franklin Institute.

You can also take a ferry from there to the aquarium, which could be entertaining.

Anonymous wrote:hey, I live here and this is an impossible/crazy itinerary. You have some great stuff but need to revise.

Saturday:
*Please Touch is good!

*The Doylestown castle playground is a solid hour or hour and a half drive from downtown Philly. It's a great playground but unless you are taking a daytrip to Doylestown or have a reason to go there, it's WAY too far. Instead, you want to go to the Smith Playground. Like Please Touch it is in Fairmount Park. It has an old fashioned wooden slide and lots of cool equipment, an area for tots, and an indoor playhouse for younger kids.

*You will be close-ish to the art museum if you want to check out the steps. The Rodin museum is more indoors than out, but there is some outdoor sculpture near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You could see those and walk down along the path along the river, and gaze out at the boathouses.

I don't think I'd do Mural Mile with young kids. It's also geographically far. If you want more stuff, I'd consider doing the natural history museum (Academy of Sciences). But realistically you have plenty already.

Sunday:
*I am not into Reading Terminal Market but I know a lot of people love it. I would just choose a fun diner and have a sane, unstressful breakfast, but that's your call.

Franklin Institute is good (and/or Academy of Sciences, which is smaller but good).

By Franklin Park, do you mean Franklin Square? Mini-golf and hamburgers and playground? Could be OK, parking is horrendous there. There's a Firehouse Museum just a block away, if your kids are into that. You might want to do the pop-up park along the river instead (beer garden too!). Keep in mind this is the other side of town from the Franklin Institute.

You can also take a ferry from there to the aquarium, which could be entertaining.