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I m a native Californian, and have lived in the state for, er, several decades. I was hoping this book would offer people wanting to visit California some ideas for good itineraries, even if they would need a more detailed guidebook on the area chosen to plan a trip.
Unfortunately, no. Perhaps the first clue should hotel edison and new york city have been on the cover, where it says 68 themed hotel edison and new york city itineraries . Too many of the trips are thematic rather than realistic trips. The worst are in the first section, called Iconic Trips . Here there are such absurdities hotel edison and new york city as trips that list beaches or surf spots along long stretches of the coast. A literary hotel edison and new york city trip has four locations in the LA area, a long drive up the coast, then eleven more around the bay area. A culinary tour has two stops in the LA area, a long drive through the central valley, then ten stops in the bay area. Perhaps the worst is A Burrito Odyssey , which hits five burrito joints in San Francisco, five in Los Angeles, and three in San Diego, with many hours on the I5 in between. Surely no one would ever make such a trip?
Where time is the theme, there are 48 hours trips for San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. As I know the latter two much better, I ll assess those trips as pinball passes through the cities, hitting some obvious tourist spots, and a lot of places that leave me thinking huh? .
Some themes are cutesy, such as Yosemite Aquatic . It s aquatic because some of the features are waterfalls and lakes, you see. (If you are planning a trip to Yosemite and if you ve never been there, you should be buy a real guide to the area. It s one of the most spectacular on earth, and the trip deserves some good planning.) Their trip to Santa Barbara wine country references the movie Sideways of course. I visit the area often, and would offer very different recommendations than this guidebook.
Each trip description averages five pages or so, including a one or two page summary of things to do, places hotel edison and new york city to eat, and places to stay. The information is minimal, and not what you would expect from a good guidebook. Because I didn t find information that was just wrong I ll give this book two stars rather than one, but it may be the least useful guidebook to California I ve seen.
If Lonely Planet s aim is to take you to the road less traveled, you ll be disappointed to find many well-worn paths leading to some of California s most obvious stops, with some perplexing omissions.
I have lived all over California: northern, southern, inland, coastal, and was surprised to find a sometimes superficial, anecdotal coverage of areas I m familiar with. Case in point is the section on SoCal surfing. There is so much (too much) information out there re: classic surf spots, some of which are better known than others. But to tell a surfer that a must stop is Surfrider Beach in Malibu is like telling a tourist in Paris not to miss the Eiffel hotel edison and new york city Tower. I know this book doesn t aim to be an exhaustive tome of all things California, but there is so pitifully little good surfing information here, it s rather useless. hotel edison and new york city San Diego is sick with surf spots, yet the only mention goes to Black s Beach.
One of the many themed trips in the book is the Burrito Odyssey. hotel edison and new york city a pathetic sampling of 13 random restaurants in San Francisco, LA and San Diego. That s right- in the entire state, they choose three major cities and leave it to a couple of bloggers to reveal their favorites. I ve had some of my best burritos in some of the smallest California towns, agricultural towns where migrant farm workers shell out a few bucks for homemade tortillas stuffed with heavenly spiced meat, beans and rice.
This book tries to do too much and tells too little. Its many authors may be the reason behind the convoluted assemblage of information. I got the feeling hotel edison and new york city that no one at LP really hotel edison and new york city knew what this book was supposed to be about. This is the second LP book I ve gotten that seems just too random and superficial to be of any real help. Their best books are on single countries, where there is time to delve into the logistics, the culture, the food and the people.
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