Book Description
From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World
"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
-Chicago Sun-Times
"Indispensable"
-The New York Times
Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide:
*Over 50 detailed profiles of hotels rated and ranked for value and quality
* The best restaurants for every taste and budget
* All the details on London's attractions-which ones are worth your while, and how much time to budget for the must-sees
* Money-saving tips, including how to get into museums for free or reduced prices, and how to tour London on a double-decker bus for a pound
* All the details on how to enjoy London with your kids
Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......2005-12-13
My wife, 3-year old son and I spent six months in London. We took 4 separate city guides with us, but consistently referred to the Unofficial Guide for the base of our information. Not only did we develop confidence in the recommendations (museums, restaurants, parks, transportation, and even medical assistance), we found the book easy to understand and navigate. I thank Lesley Logan and her publisher for an excellent book.
Thanks for the great guidebook!!.......2004-01-03
London turned out to be one of those places that I really enjoyed....and I believe it was made more enjoyable because we had done some research and planning before going. The Unofficial Guide provided information other than the mainstream stuff you read in all the other books. It added interested pieces of information that made even the planning process a pleasant one.
Careful using the voltage converter recommendation!.......2001-11-09
Page 67 of the book tells you to buy a voltage converter and that the input to the converter should be 110 and output is 220.'
WRONG. The input voltage INTO the converter from the plug is 220 volts, OUTPUT, into the US device, is 110 volts. Be CAREFUL with that recommendation.
Otherwise, a fairly typical unoffical guide - these City guides are useless for restaurants and hotels, there are so many dozens of nice local restaurants and hotels in every city in the world [except NYC which has maybe 20 decent hotels] thast I find you can save ALOT of money and get a nicer place just looking around a little.
As for prices, BE CAREFUL to check prices for things in the USA. PAY in POUNDS and use a credit card- example is the Heathrow-London train - EurRail Same thing applies to London tube, ...
Also, use your credit card to get cash in London, even with charges for cash advances and interest for a month, you'll save on getting ripped off at airport currency bootths or banks, esp. in the USA.
Great guide!.......2001-02-09
I just purchased this book after checking out 10 different London guide books at the library. This was by far my favorite! I have never been to London before and this has been the most helpful book I have used in planning my trip. It provides the very basic information, such as what line is the correct line at customs and currency information. Additionaly, it has tons of info, such as the exact cost of an attraction, restaurant, or hotel (no vague words or symbols), nearest tube stop, what time of day to go to the site to avoid crowds, lots of insider tips (ie. to avoid lengthy security checks, leave your bags homes when visiting Houses of Parliament), and approx time you should allow to see the site (I couldn't find this info in any other book and I was specifically looking for this tidbit). It also has ratings of appeal for each age group in addition to the authors own personal rating. For example, for Site X, it might give it 2 stars for preschooler, 2 stars for grade school, 3 stars for teens, 3 stars for young adults, 4 stars for adults over 30, and 4 stars for seniors. This is perfect for family planning. There are two minor reasons I did not give this book 5 stars: the author uses its own "zone" system (zones 1-12) to group together attractions, hotels, etc. This might work perfect for other cities and is a good idea, but since London has its own official Zone system for public transportation, this can be confusing for London firsttimers like myself who are still trying to figure out London's transportation system...you have to constantly remember when the author says zone 2, he doesn't mean London's official Zone 2. I wish the author had chosen a different word than "zone" for his own groupings. Also, I could not find any info about the changing of the guards nor about the Horse Guards (perhaps I just missed it?). No tourist guide book can be considered complete without this information. Nonetheless, this is my favorite guide book thus far and will definetly be with me on my trip to London in a few weeks.
A literate travel guide!.......2000-06-17
This book is worth the price of admission just for the History of London section. Wittily scribed, with a great - and fun - sense of place. Logan's style is breezy, economical, yet thorough. Three Cheerios for this London Guide written by a Yank!
Customer Reviews:
Review.......2007-07-21
This is a fantastic book. I don't know where to begin. It tells the whole story of Apple and gives us a lot of info on the business/Apple side of the group. It is presented as interesting stories, and there are a lot of quotes from those involved. I have read a few hundred Beatle books, and this is in my top 5. If you want to hear about the music, though, the book will not be of much interest to you. This is about the business of Apple.
Required Reading for Fab Fanatics.......2007-01-29
This is a fantastic book. Detailed, well-researched and filled with the kind of arcana that this life-long Beatle fan loves. This is a history of the Apple Organization from its inception to today. It follows the careers of Apple employees, the few artists that were signed to the Apple record label, those signed to Apple music publishing and, of course, Beatles are found throughout. Based on research, but the author also conducted interviews with still living Apple staffers, artists, etc. Fascinating.
Book Description
The Unofficial Guide to New England & New York with Kids is packed with information and tips for planning a New England or New York vacation that everyone in the family, from tots to parents, is sure to enjoy. Author Laurie Bain Wilson, who has taken countless trips to New England and New York with her ten-year-old son, has rated and ranked all of the best attractions in the area according to age group. You'll find complete coverage of New England's natural attractions, along with the best outdoor adventures for families, from learning to ski in Maine to canoeing on Lake Umbagog, a National Wildlife Refuge, in New Hampshire. Wilson has also ferreted out the best kid-friendly and kid-favored restaurants and accommodations, with choices like Papa's Pizza on Cape Cod, where a pizza and mozzarella stick lunch by the sea costs about $5, and the Mystic Marriott Hotel and Spa in Mystic, Connecticut, which offers a kids-stay-free promotion. With maps, tips on how to keep kids happy on vacation, and a list of what to take, the Unofficial Guide to New England & New York with Kids is the only guide you'll need to plan a perfect family vacation in New England and New York.
Book Description
From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide
® to Walt Disney World
®
"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
—Chicago Sun-Times
"Indispensable"
—The New York Times
The Top 10 Ways The Unofficial Guide to England Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip:
- Information that's candid, critical, and relentlessly objective
- A complete planner for all of England, including London, all three southern regions, plus Bath, Oxford, the Cotswolds, the Heartland and Welsch border, Cambridge, East Anglia, York, Yorkshire, and the Lake District
- Honest advice that lets you make informed, comfortable choices, whether you're a repeat visitor to England or a first-timer
- Insider tips on finding the most charming hotels for the best prices, whether you want a classy room in Notting Hill or a country house in Windermere
- Hundreds of restaurants, attractions, and pubs reviewed and ranked for quality and value
- A complete guide to the region's cultural and historic sights—from Stonehenge to Buckingham Palace—with helpful hints for making the most of your time
- Tips on how to save money without cutting corners
- Expert advice on how to use everything from the London Underground to coach bus service to get around the region
- The inside story on shopping—where to get the best for less
- Everything you need to know for a worry-free vacation
Get the unbiased truth on hundreds of hotels, restaurants, attractions, and more in The
Unofficial Guide to England—the resource that helps you save money, save time, and make your trip the best it can be.
Customer Reviews:
Great for London.......2007-07-14
Unofficial Guides are usually very well written and helpful and this one is no exception. The book starts off with some basic information on traveling to England (when to go, how to get deals, etc.) before moving on to more specific information for various geographic areas of England. The most extensive coverage is reserved for London, which is probably wise since most tourists will certainly focus their stay around that magnificent city. Other places of interest are covered as well with all the usual suspects (Bath, Stratford-upon-Avon, Stonehenge, Cotswolds, etc.) all covered reasonably well. The writing is clear and concise and the book is well organized. It is a very solid entry and useful guide for visiting England.
Having given the book its due, it is not the best guide to England as a whole. I used this book as well as Frommer's extensively while planning my trip and must say that Frommer's does a better job of covering the country as a whole. This is largely due to the fact that the Frommer's guide is a whopping 300 pages longer and every bit of that goes into describing various parts of the country. It is worth noting that if your trip will be limited to London and the surrounding area then the Unofficial Guide is a worthy choice as I actually preferred it's format and information for the city to the Frommer's book.
In summary, this is a quality book but if you truly plan to explore beyond London then I would recommend purchasing the Frommer's England guide first. The Unofficial Guide was the best I found on London itself and I can recommend it without reserve if you limit your trip to the city. Another worth while purchase is the Eyewitness Guide which has fairly sparse information on specifics but with all its color photos and maps, is unparalleled at giving you a sense of a place to help decide if a specific location is worth visiting.
Book Description
Here is the lowdown on 255 hostels in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Whether you're looking to party or just looking for a clean, quiet, affordable place to crash, this guide will get you exactly where you want to go. The author tells it like it is with his at-a-glance rating system and candid descriptions. Entries include his opinions on cleanliness, safety, hospitality, party potential, best bet for a bite, the hostel's "gestalt," and what to see and do in the area. He'll also tell you how to get there using your own feet or wheels, or by public transportation.
Customer Reviews:
Maybe great once, but not anymore.......2004-05-04
This book meant well, but we set out for Ireland this last March and found it to be horrendously out of date. We found ourselves lost for three hours in the center of Limerick searching for the hostels listed, only to find out they had all gone out of business. It also calls for bringing your own linens -- all hostels in Ireland now provide a blanket, sheets, and pillow. Pretty much the only linen under your own discretion is a towel. The beginning section is good for learning the base facts behind hostels, but it's still no longer a book to be trusted anymore... At least until a new edition comes out.
Great accomadation guide.......2003-11-06
The second edition continues in the fine tradition of the first.Ireland, like New Zealand and unlike the UK, has a lot of private backpacker hostels as well as the official Youth Hostels.So a seasoned traveler needs a guide like this and not just the YHA handbook.Commercial Web sites on hostels often rave about the huge "free" breckfasts some may offer, but omit to mention a hostel has no self catering kitchen. So you have the added cost of having to eat dinner out.This book is really good on saying what the catering facilities are like.Places like Dublin, Galway and Belfast have a LOT of hostels and picking one that is not a dud or miles from the pubs is important.This guide sifts through all the hostels of the big cities and gives a few hot picks on the best of the bunch.In the above 3 mentioned cities in my experience of staying there,the picks were spot on.
Hostels Ireland.......2000-05-10
Paul Karr has done his homework and he receives an A+ for the information in his Hostels Ireland book. My wife and I spent 7 weeks treking Ireland summer '99 and found his book to be invaluable. The information was clear, concise and accurate. Things change and so do hostels and some hostels he recommended we liked better than others. But we did not stay any where we disliked or felt the information in the book had misled us. Hostel Ireland was our bible and served us well. It was our "Lonely Planet" for where to stay. He did a great job and I'm looking forward to any future editions.
I'll have to write another review when I get back!.......1999-08-22
I leave for Ireland in 10 days for a 2 week stay. This book was invaluable in planning my trip and I'm sure has cut down on the expenses. I was able to read it in one night and quickly scanning the reviews was made simple by clever icons giving each hostel the thumbs up, thumbs done, a cleanliness factor, party index, and general brief review.
Excellent, up-to-date descriptions, ratings are questionable.......1999-07-12
Paul Karr offers a comprehensive, honest, regional survey of the best hostels in Ireland. I had the opportunity to stay in four of them recently and I disagree with the ratings that he presents, espe cially in the section "Paul's Picks". Both the Old School House Hostel in Dun Laoghaire and the Bru Hostel on Inisheer Island were average, uninspired hostels, adequate, but certainly not worthy of special attention. I did, however, stay in 2 other hostels which were rated "thumbs up" and found them to be wonderful - clean, friendly, spacious and fun. They are the Old Mill Hostel in Westport and the Aille River Hostel in Doolin. I would not have had the pleasure of staying in either of these without the help of this book. Thanks, Paul!
Book Description
The Unofficial Guides® are the Consumer Reports of travel guides, offering candid evaluations of their destinations' attractions, hotels, restaurants, shopping, nightlife, sports, and more, all rated and ranked by a team of unbiased inspectors so even the most compulsive planners can be sure they're spending their time and money wisely. Each guide addresses the needs of everyone from families to business travelers, with handy charts that demonstrate how each place stacks up against the competition. Plus, all the details are pulled out so they're extremely easy to scan.
The Unofficial Guide® to Bed & Breakfasts in New England is a refreshingly candid new voice on the B&B scene. Unlike other guides that praise every inn as charming and cozy, the Unofficial Guides® team of inspectors criss-cross the region and select the very best inns and B&Bs, offering truly comparative descriptions and rating each selection for value and quality of rooms. Includes a photo insert of our top-rated inns and lovely illustrations of 35 properties.
Five Reasons Why This Is the Best B&B Series You Can Buy: Complete Coverage: Only the Unofficial Guides® profile and evaluate 300 top inns and B&Bs in all price categories, from budget to deluxe, and include a directory of over 250 other great places to stay Critical Evaluations: Only the Unofficial Guides rank and rate each B&B (other B&B guides read like promotional brochures). Personal Inspections: Each B&B is personally inspected by independent travel professionals (most other B&B guides are written by the innkeepers themselves) Honest Selection Process: Each B&B has been chosen on its own merits; no fees are accepted (most other B&B guides charge innkeepers to be included) Ideal for Families & Pet Lovers: Only the Unofficial Guides identify pet- and kid-friendly places, and recommend the best rooms
Customer Reviews:
A Real Find.......2000-02-14
If you are looking for the perfect book about B&Bs in New England (or about small Inns), I've found it for you. I have used this book and have found its information accurate and its prose elegant. Having visited many a B&B, I have made quite a few discoveries-thanks to this book-wonderful places I never would have found on my own. I recommend this book to all!
Average customer rating:
- Correction to author bio
- Finally!
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The Unofficial Guide to Golf Vacations in the Eastern U.S.
Joseph Mark Passov
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds
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ASIN: 0028634047 |
Book Description
The Unofficial Guides are the Consumer Reports of travel guides, offering candid evaluations of their destinations' attractions, hotels, restaurants, shopping, nightlife, sports, and more, all rated and ranked by a team of unbiased inspectors so even the most compulsive planners can be sure they're spending their time and money wisely. Each guide addresses the needs of everyone from families to business travelers, with handy charts that demonstrate how each place stacks up against the competition. Plus, all the details are pulled out so they're extremely easy to scan.
The Unofficial Guide to Golf Vacations in the Eastern U.S., the first in a new series, rates and ranks the best golf vacations east of the Mississippi. Inside you'll find the lowdown on golf packages and arranging tee times, tips on how to play the most challenging holes, candid advice on where to stay and dine, and what to do when you're past the 18th hole. Complete with a gorgeous 8-page full-color photo insert of the best courses.
The Top 5 Ways The Unofficial Guide to Golf Vacations in the Eastern U.S. Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip:
- Courses rated for challenge, terrain, variety, beauty, facilities, and value, plus tips on getting onto the most popular courses
- Advice on how to plan and get the most out of your golf vacation--and play more golf for your money
- Suggestions on where to bring the family, and where to go on your own
- How to evaluate golf vacation packages
- Insider information on playing the top courses
Customer Reviews:
Correction to author bio.......2000-06-27
I'm not writing to review this book, I'm writing to correct an error in the author's bio (The "corrections" section of your website did not have a space for this, so I'm doing it here). Joe Passov is the former editor of LINKS Magazine, not the current editor. Please do not post this message, just make sure the correction is made. Thank you.
Finally!.......2000-06-18
Finally a travel guidebook that offers something other than meaningless fluff! Passov is a great storyteller who relates what's its really like to play some of the best golf courses in the eastern U.S. You'll want to clean the grass off your shoes after browsing the chapters. In addition to honest and informed opinions on the golf courses, Passov also provides an encyclopedic amount of information on resorts, restaurants, and other activities in the vicinity of the golf courses. If all guidebooks were this breezily written, entertaining, and full of hardore travel info, you'd never have a bad vacation or a disappointing round of golf. My only hope is that Passov will cover the rest of the country-- and the world-- soon so I know where to go next for a great golf vacation.
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The Unofficial Guide to Wales
Colin Palfrey , and
Arwel Roberts
Manufacturer: Y Lolfa
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- It was SO cool
- A GIRL
- spice girls rock!!!!!!!!!
- This book has everyhting you want to know about Spice Girls!
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Your Unofficial Guide to Everything Spice
Alexandra E. Fischer
Manufacturer: Scholastic
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ASIN: 0439042984 |
Customer Reviews:
It was SO cool.......1999-03-30
I think this book is GREAT!!! It reminds me of the great spice girls and geri.I just love them!! Cant wait for the next book!
A GIRL.......1999-01-27
I THINK THAT IT IS ONE OF THE BEST SPICE GIRLS BOOKS EVER IT GIVES LOTS OF FACTS ABOUT THEM AND IT HAS REALLY GOOD PHOTOS!!!!!
spice girls rock!!!!!!!!!.......1999-01-03
i think this book is great. I have never read anything like this before.If you are a die-hard fan of the spice girls then, you must have it.
This book has everyhting you want to know about Spice Girls!.......1998-12-26
The book "Unofficial Guide to evrything Spice" has articles about each of the Spice Girls,and some facts about them like what kind of music they listen to,their birthdates,and ...I'm not about to spoil the rest for you! This book also has a trivia about the Spice Girls to see how much of a Spice File you are.It also has an excample of a day in life of the spice girls schedule.Plus it talks about their movie Spice World. At the end of the book it has a discography of the Spice Girls and websites you should visit,and a WHOLE lot more and it's filled with colored pictures!! If you are a Spice Girl fan like me you should definitely get this book.
Book Description
The Unofficial Guides are the "Consumer Reports" of travel guides, offering candid evaluations of their destinations' attractions, hotels, restaurants, shopping, nightlife, sports, and more, all rated and ranked by a team of unbiased inspectors so even the most compulsive planners can be sure they're spending their time and money wisely. Each guide addresses the needs of everyone from families to business travelers, with handy charts that demonstrate how each place stacks up against the competition. Plus, all the details are pulled out so they're extremely easy to scan.
The Unofficial Guide to Bed & Breakfasts in New England is a refreshingly candid new voice on the B&B scene. Unlike other guides that praise every inn as charming and cozy, the Unofficial Guides team of inspectors criss-cross the region and select the very best inns and B&Bs, offering truly comparative descriptions and rating each selection for value and quality of rooms. Includes a photo insert of our top-rated inns and lovely illustrations of 35 properties.
Five Reasons Why This Is the Best B&B Series You Can Buy: Complete Coverage:
- Only the Unofficial Guides profile and evaluate 300 top inns and B&Bs in all price categories, from budget to deluxe, and include a directory of over 250 other great places to stay.
- Critical Evaluations: Only the Unofficial Guides rank and rate each B&B (other B&B guides read like promotional brochures).
- Personal Inspections: Each B&B is personally inspected by independent travel professionals (most other B&B guides are written by the innkeepers themselves).
- Honest Selection Process: Each B&B has been chosen on its own merits; no fees are accepted (most other B&B guides charge innkeepers to be included).
- Ideal for Families & Pet Lovers: Only the Unofficial Guides identify pet- and kid-friendly places, and recommend the best rooms.
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