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Rooms have great kid approved features, such as enormous TVs, Nintendo, interactive KioPhones, and MAINstage audio systems. Watch for Kimpton's signature "Kids Rule" programs and indulge in fab-o kids' amenities like cooking classes taught by a member of the Silverleaf Tavern's culinary team, arrival amenities including coloring books, crayons and puzzles, and milk-and-cookies turndown service.

Best of all, they offer an in-room pajama party complete with pizza, ice cream & soda. AND the hotel provides a babysitter while Mom & Pop take a romantic chauffer-driven limo ride around town and enjoy dinner for two.

If you have the budget and want to stay somewhere luxurious, the Four Seasons New York is actually child-friendly. Lavish amenities for the kids are included -- including their own toiletries and bathrobes.

Children under 18 stay free (although at nearly $600/night "free" is a relative term), and they offer activities for the kiddies as well as special menu items. Complimentary cribs, strollers, games, coloring books, and a DVD and video game lending library round out the features catering to families. Very, very wealthy families.