Holiday close to home with Frommer's new With Your Family titles to Wales and Scotland

Frommer's 27 March 2009

Discover some of Britain's best-kept secrets with Frommer's two new UK With Your Family titles. As holiday costs keep Britons closer to home this year, the launch of Wales With Your Family and Scotland With Your Family are set to be exciting additions to this innovative collection of guidebooks providing in depth and up-to-date information on the best family-friendly accommodation, dining, attractions, events and unknown treasures. The Frommer's With Your Family guides are written by British authors and are the UK's leading destination-specific family guides.

Being aimed exclusively at young families, the pages are packed with hundreds of images and useful information not found in the usual guidebooks, including recommended ages for attractions and advice on baby services and child-friendly policies. Unique insider knowledge and advice includes:

· ‘Finds' known only to locals giving indispensable insights into the region. In Wales, you can see the most beautiful castle called Castell Coch nestling in the tree-covered hillside as you drive along the M4 - it looks like the Bavarian fairytale style castle in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Children love the spiral staircases, choosing which of the fantasy bedrooms they would like to have themselves and seeing a working portcullis and drawbridge

· Destination tips to ensure a fun and stress-free family holiday. The Scotland author advises that if you have toddlers, buy them colouring-in books and pens at Fort William station kiosk - the four hours in the train carriage with only a small corridor can drag if you're just two

· ‘Overrated' activities and great ‘value' deals to ensure families do not waste their time or money and get the most our of their holiday. The cheerful chippie Something's Cooking in Wales has had its praises sung by seafood guru Rick Stein. It's all done with homely panache - children adore the servers in their ties bringing out vast plates of crispy cod and chips from just £4.99.

· Fun facts, trivia and special moments to help family holidays come alive for the children. In Scotland, not to be missed is the chance to take football penalties against a goalkeeping dog at Bogbain Adventure and Heritage Farm

· Tips on sustainable accommodation and attractions. The Greenwood Forest Adventure Park in Wales is a real child pleaser - with lots of beautifully crafted things to clamber across, the emphasis is on environment rather than thrills and spills. However, there's plenty of shrieks from The Green Dragon Coaster - it really is the world's first environmentally-friendly (small) rollercoaster - powered by the weight of passengers in a funicular rather than the National Grid

· A handy introductory chapter dedicated to family highlights giving a brief insight into how best to go about planning your trip as well as round-ups of the top ten family experiences, accommodation and family eating. For one of Scotland's spookiest attraction, walk the eerie 150m tunnel at Scotland's Secret Bunker in Troywood, Fife - after your youngsters have had their spills in the weapons room, return to the surface for the comforting sound of birdsong

The new titles join the Frommer's With Your Family series - other titles include Devon and Cornwall and Ireland. Each book provides an in-depth guide to everything needed to make the perfect family holiday.

Frommer's Wales With Your Family by Nick Dalton and Deborah Stone 9780470723203 £12.99 Paperback
Frommer's Scotland With Your Family by Ben and Dinah Hatch 9780470723029 £12.99 Paperback

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Author information
Frommer's With Your Family Wales
Nick Dalton is a freelance writer who has written regularly on travel and other subjects for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Times and Sunday Express. He also contributes to numerous travel, ski and music magazines and writes regularly on family travel for takethefamily.com

Deborah Stone is a freelance writer who works regularly for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, working on both travel and lifestyle supplements. She has worked for the Daily Express, written for The Times, Daily Mail, parenting and travel magazines and for takethefamily.com. She writes about gardening as well as travel and family life. She and Nick live together in Wimbledon with children Georgia and Henry.

Frommer's With Your Family Scotland
Ben Hatch started out as a tea boy in the Royal Bank of Scotland. He became a recruitment consultant, sold advertising space and then lawn-mowers, worked in a video shop, as a postman and on the MacDonald chicken sandwich station before finally becoming a journalist on various local papers. He quit reporting to become a novelist in 1997. He has written two works of comedy fiction, The Lawnmower Celebrity and The International Gooseberry. Ben was tempted into travel writing by his wife Dinah who he lives with in Brighton

Dinah Hatch went into travel journalism after deciding that crime reporting for regional papers involved just a few too many evenings talking to dodgy people in dark alleys. Since then she has worked for a wide variety of national newspapers, magazines, trade publications and websites and writes extensively on the travel industry

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