 A huge timesaver |
| Review Date: July 9, 2007 |
| Reviewer: J. Gunia, Blue Ridge, GA |
| Just used this book for a two-week road trip through California. I also had a few other Cal guidebooks with me and this one was the best. It was well organized, in depth and consistently gave good recommendations. |
Love It!
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| Review Date: October 6, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Kreuzn, Australia |
This is a fantastic book. I read it from cover to cover, even though I didn't go to every place in California. The information was relevant, and it was handy to have the book with me as I travelled about.
Having an idea of food places in a country you are not familiar with is great.
Lots of advice was useful, and I know that if I return to Califorinia, I can use this book again. |
Essential travel companion
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| Review Date: January 9, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Benjamin Watts, |
| This book is full of gems that I would never have found otherwise. Descriptions and prices listed are spot-on. |
great travel guide
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| Review Date: January 9, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Ajungilak, Irvine, CA, USA. |
everything perfekt, understandable for me as an german.
Like everytime when I use a lonley planet. |
Helps you see the whole state
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| Review Date: January 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: N. Madsen, New York, NY |
| Most people can say they know San Francisco/Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, or San Diego. These are the places people typically hit up when they plan a trip to CA. Having lived several years in SoCal, I found this book opened my eyes to all the state has to offer. It balances the sections on the large cities with other destinations and activities. You can easily stay with friends in LA or SFO and get a better tour of the town than the book can offer, but what about Death Valley or the Redwoods or PCH? This is where the book has been of great help to me. |
A great guide, also for abroad tourists
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| Review Date: October 29, 2005 |
| Reviewer: J. E. Karlskov, Smorum, Denmark |
This guide is a very well-written and inspiring guide to California - also for non-US tourists. It maintains a fine balance between background infomation and suggestions for sights, locations and places to stay and eat worth visisting.
I also fancy the small embedded maps including city maps. One obstacle, however, is that the maps, due to the thickness of the book, are somewhat difficult to use while driving. I would welcome more expandable maps. |
Really great book, the only problem, the pictures are all in black & white, its an overview of the Californian State, but if you
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| Review Date: April 21, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Tzivanaki, Germany |
Really great book, the only problem, the pictures are all in black & white, its an overview of the Californian State, but if you want a more detailed focus on each city you may need additional guides.
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From a Californian: don't buy it
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| Review Date: January 12, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Stockstradr, Bay Area |
I'm a Californian, and know several cities reviewed by this guide very well. While I love Lonely Planet guides, I cannot recommend this book after spending an hour looking through it one day at a Borders. (We were headed so San Francisco and I needed a good CA guidebook.)
I live in San Diego and so - as a test case - I graded the book on its coverage of San Diego. I gave it a "D" because every time I checked what it had to say about a location/restaurant I knew, this book got it wrong or missed the fine points. An example? One of the finest restaurants in La Jolla (or all of San Diego, for that matter) is George's at the Cove, but dinner entrees start at $30. Restaurant-savvy Sandiegans know this pricey restaurant has an upstairs open-air sister restaurant, Ocean Terrace Café, with a fabulous view of the bay - and offers a chance to sample a limited selection of George's entrees, at - relatively reasonable - prices ($14 to $20 for dinner entrée). LP Californian seemed to always miss helpful little tips like that, and Frommer's seemed to include many of them. Now maybe Lonely Planet California book has great coverage of all the other cities besides San Diego, who knows? If that's the case then my review is inaccurate. However, if their San Diego coverage is representative of the rest of the book, then I suggest don't buy it! We ended up buying Frommer's California 2006, which I'll give a lukewarm endorsement to because at least its coverage of CA cities I know was better than LP California. Of course, Frommer's guides are so dry and boring, lacking the character that LP guides sometimes have.
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Los Angeles native - not happy with purchase
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| Review Date: April 1, 2010 |
| Reviewer: D. Schwartz, LA, CA |
I am a Los Angeles native and I found this book to be very difficult to use and with very little useful information. If there is too much information in California to include enough information about a site, perhaps LP shouldn't publish the title. Listing every potential site without adequate information is not helpful.
I have used the LP Turkey, Bali, and Greece books, and while I think most of the problem with this book stems from LP's confusing and cluttered format (which was a problem for those books as well), this book was less useful for my California traveling than those other books were, although I cannot put my finger on why that is.
I am thinking of getting the Fodor's guide instead. From what I have seen on Amazon's preview, Fodor's format looks like it is more user friendly. If only Rick Steve's published a California guide. |
Too much politics, not enough substance
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| Review Date: June 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Harry M. Shin, Livermore, CA USA |
1. I live in California and thus I'm familiar (at least) with the surrounding region I live in etc...
2. This book physically looks good, has a nice layout, but is relatively devoid of concrete data (ie places to eat, stay etc...). Furthermore, it reads as if it were written by some college political science major at USF...
3. It's tough to find a good travel book; Perhaps the Moon publication might be better. However one thing is sure--> if you want a book with actual good information--> forget this one. If you just want a book with very cursory info--> this might be ok in that it's fairly compact, it covers the entire state etc... |
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