If you are looking for something that will hold your dgd attention as well then Mystic, ct. has an aquarium and the seaport with the living history museum etc. Our ds have class trips there and love the place. If you consider the amish country in Penn, the best motel we like is the Willow Valley Inn/Resort. They also have great plays at Sight and Sound, even if you are not religious just the theatrical aspect of them is superb, especially the noah and the ark one with the live animals etc. Also in conneticut we have been to gillette castle, the branford trolley museum, they give you a ride too. Just for dh and myself we like the queeche gorge area of New Hampshire by Dartmouth College.