Baltimore is really nice around the Inner Harbor. My husband works for CSX Railroad and had to go down for some training in February. We decided that we would make a little trip out of it and I would take the kids to the Aquarium and Children's Mueseum (Port Discovery). Our kids are 2 and 4. They loved it all.
Just a word of warning!!! On the morning we were scheduled to drive home to Pittsburgh, my Husband still had another meeting to attend so that is when we loaded everything into our truck and went to Port Discovery. We got there around 10 am and looked around and then decided to have lunch at the attached McDonald's. While we were eating, we were approached by a homeless man wanting money. I just sent him away and he went to another table, there were two young women with small children who were very frightened and went to tell a manager, well the homeless man was told to leave and before he did, he was very angery and went for the two young women who had went to the manager. He did leave before they had to call the police or before he really made a scene. Needless to say, it was scary for all of the young children that were around.
I really don't think twice about going into the city, but this was kind of a scary situation. After that, we went back to Port Discovery until about 2 p.m. and decided to leave and see if my husband was finished so that we could drive home. When we got to our truck, which was parked in a parking garage near Port Discovery, we found that someone had broke out my daughters window and stole everything except for her Uno cards. They had taken her DVD player and all of her Disney movies. Now, we were in the City with a broken window in February and we still had a 4 hour ride home. The maintenace men from the garage helped me sweep out all of the glass that was everywhere. In the kids car seats and on every surface. By that time, someone had brought my husband to that garage and he was there to help me with two crying kids. My DD (4) could not understand why someone would want to do this to her. That same day, they said that atleast 5 other cars had been broken into. Like I said, we were not there for very long and I am just thankful that we did not walk up while they were still at the truck and we were able to replace everything that was stolen.
Please make sure you park in a lot that has security!!!!! That is something that I would have never thought of until now. Another tip, they had obviously looked into the window by wiping the dirt off and they could see everything in plain site, may sure you put everything in the trunk so it looks like there is nothing of value to be stolen.
Needles to say, my dd (4) doesn't have any desire to revisit Baltimore.
) and stayed at the Wyndham. We were surprised by the amount of homeless people and often times were approached for money. One evening (9pm) while walking back to the hotel from the Harbor area, one man followed us for about 4 blocks, going on & on-my DH is 6'4" 225 lbs. and DBIL is a bulky 5'10", but it didn't matter, this guy kept following us...my sister and I were so nervous-we also had homeless people wandering into the hotel lobby and they were also very present in the harbor area. All of that being said...it still was pretty nice (the restaurants are great-yummy crab cakes 
