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...interactive music and mathematics show on until February 2004. In the Zoomlab, kids make cartoon films or take a virtual walk in space. In the Zoomstudio they get in touch with their creativity with the help of young Austrian artists. Under-6s and their parents can explore undersea worlds in Zoomocean. Information: Museums Quarter, short walk from city center; www.mqw.at; www.kindermuseum.at. Children $6; adults $4 Beijing: Beijing Shadow Troupe Handcrafted 2-D leather puppets perform short plays to music among the curio sellers and cafés of Beijing's antiques district. After the show, buy a souvenir puppet...
FISH TALE With its dazzling undersea adventure Finding Nemo, Pixar proves once again that digital cartoons are the wave of the future...
...Jules' Undersea Lodge Key Largo, Florida...
...fastest-growing trends in travel is theme hotels. There are concepts for every taste: from the elegant Library Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where room numbers are based on the Dewey decimal system of classifying books (900.004 for the Asian History room), to the adventurous Jules' Undersea Lodge at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon in Key Largo, Florida, where guests scuba dive to the entry of their underwater accommodations. "This is a real trend for the traveler who has been there, done that," says Mary Tabacchi, professor of hotel management at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. "There...
...Smaller hotels helped pioneer the idea. Jules' Undersea Lodge opened 16 years ago, when its owners decided to convert a former oceanic-research laboratory into a cozy two-bedroom hotel with a common living area. The rooms are small, but there's air conditioning, a VCR, a microwave and a mini-fridge. Air and power are supplied by cable, scuba courses are offered to all guests, and room service is delivered from the surface, 6.5 m above, in a "dry box." But the prime attraction is the meter-wide windows that give guests a unique view of the wildlife swimming...