Any help on family trips to Philly area?

I was just wondering how many days/nights I would need to be able to do all of this with my DD who will be a month shy of 3 years old at the time:

-Sesame Place
-Please Touch Museum
-Adventure Aquarium
-Philadelphia Zoo

I don't want to have to rush that much, I'd like her to really enjoy Sesame.

Not sure if I need 3 full days or 4, 5, more, to do all the activities with some time to eat a nice meal in between??

Advice?

Re: Any help on family trips to Philly area?

Sesame is full day. Please touch museum is at least 4 hours and I am not sure about the other 2 places but I would only want to do 1 thing a day, so I would do 4 days at least (especially if you will be traveling in and out 2 of those days). Me personally I would add a 5th day for some down time (maybe hotel pool or just sight seeing).

ETA: I think I have been to that aquarium and also a 4 hour day, plus it is a good 30 min drive out of Philly...give or take w/ traffic.

Message edited 10/3/2014 5:52:32 PM.

Any help on family trips to Philly area?

We were just there this wknd. Drove down Friday morning and went straight to the zoo for the afternoon. Saturday we went to please touch. Sunday we did the aquarium on the way home. It was more than enough time. If you are also doing sesame I would stay 3 nights instead of 2.

Re: Any help on family trips to Philly area?

We were in this area over the summer. The Please Touch Museum took us about half a day. After that we went to a playground nearby - it was really fun and unique. I can't remember what it was called though! But it was REALLY close to the Please Touch Museum, in a park area (sort of like Central Park in NYC), was free, and was created by a couple who lost their son. HTH!

I think we also did the Adventure Aquarium (in NJ, right across the bridge from Philly?). We spent half a day there also.

HTH!!!