Fodor's San Francisco 2010: With the Wine Country (Full-Color Gold Guides) |  | Author: Fodor's
Publisher: Fodor's
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Map
Pages: 520
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 1400008522
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9781400008520
ASIN: 1400008522
Publication Date: October 13, 2009
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Product Description
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in San Francisco!
•Updated annually, Fodor’s San Francisco provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guide book.
•Fodor’s San Francisco features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.
•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in San Francisco.
•Experience San Francisco like a local! Fodor’s San Francisco includes unique photo-features that impart the city’s culture, covering Chinatown history, Cable Car rides, Alcatraz lore, Golden Gate Park activities, and much more!
•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.
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 Great Book About San Francisco November 25, 2009
The Footpath Cowboy (Kingston, NY United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
FODOR'S SAN FRANCISCO 2010 is a great book about the San Francisco Bay Area. It describes each part of the area in detail, discussing recreation, dining, nightlife, shopping, sightseeing, and lodging in great detail. You can find great places to get exercise and healthy places to eat, so that you can come back from the area not needing to wear clothing made in countries that convict foreigners on false charges. There's also a discussion of independent music stores in this book for those who love serious rock. This book is a must-own for anyone interested in the West.
Great source of information, but NOT a guide October 13, 2009
Shopper (USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A 10 day, first time trip to San Francisco can be daunting, especially if it is undertaken solo. In order to make the most of the time, I purchased every guide I could find and read it cover to cover. Here are my thoughts on Fodor's:
PROS:
- covers in GREAT detail all available attractions in each part of the city as well as the surrounding area; I carried the guide with me at all times; if lost or if I wandered into an area off my itinerary, I could easily find an appropriate place to eat/visit and/or find contact info to cover most emergencies;
- gives wonderful background information, including historical facts;
- offers sound travel advice to and within the region;
CONS:
Quite frankly, for someone who has never visited the city, that massive amount of info arranged in geographical order is overwhelming and not necessarily conducive to creating an itinerary in line with one's individual interests. For that reason, I think Fodor's is most useful once you find yourself in the city. The guide would be much improved if it invested in an extensive chapter on how to create an interest focused, length-of-stay based itinerary (general, historical, culinary, architectural interest, etc.). This need pertains not just to the San Francisco guide, but to any Fodor's guide. The guide has a very linear way of thinking about tourists: they eat, sleep, shop, and want to see a few museums...The end. Well, that is not how most of us travel. And so, Fodor's is not so much a guide to the area, but rather a detailed description of the area...
Once again, I recommend it once you find yourself in the city, but the guide is no help with creating an exciting itinerary...
San Francisco better traveling February 2, 2010
Joaq Perez (Mexico City)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We have been Fodor's confident users since long time ago. The new Fodor's guide to San Francisco gave us a little trouble finding the way of using it, due to changes in map and places locations. Also we had trouble finding the right way to find reliable restaurants while on the way. We had to buy the Zagat for that.
But as a frequent user I rely on the always different aproach of Fodors to a City as San Francisco, that can consume your time without having seen the best. We did find the alley of the China Town fortune cookie manufacturer, as did enjoy hiking up to Coit tower avoiding getting there by car, and of course avoided the crowded tourist packed piers. Always Fodors tips are reliable and different. And security wise we didn't aproach to the areas Fodor's gave us the warning. Thus enabling us to have a comfortable and peacefull trip.
We will continue trusting Fodor's.
Good Old Fodor's - Never Misses January 30, 2010
Paula Marcus (Bar Harbor, Maine)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have used Fodor's Guides all over the world and have never been dissatisfied. In Kyoto, for example, the book advised us to just go for a walk on the street where our hotel sat and we would have an adventure. We did and while admiring a sidewalk shrine we were invited to the graduation ceremonies of an Ikebana and Tea Ceremony school. It was a spring time thrill complete with girls in kimono and wisteria in their hair in frosty January.
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