California (Eyewitness Travel Guides) (Paperback)
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Product Description
From the Santa Rosa wine country to the tip of San Diego Eyewitness Travel to California has anything and everything you would want or need to see. Let this guide help you to savor the local flavors and classic dishes all down the coast. Take the scenic routes and thematic tours and trust Eyewitness Travel to California to show you through the land of breath-taking extremes.
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I picked up this book to see what California has to offer. Sometimes living in a place, you forget what different museums, restaurants and different things to do yet. So, this book was an excellent choice for me!
It also includes lots of information on San Francisco, where I have not been yet, but really want to visit. It also has a section on Las Vegas which is pretty good too. So, if you are looking to see and do everything California has to offer, this guide is for you.
It includes hotel information and restaurants according to location. This book is an excellent tool, showing you just what you’ll see when you visit different locations in California.
Enjoy!
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best guide to travel to California
I have been looking for a long time a good guide of California and I think this is the best one. Good quality, a lot of information and best price.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great travel book
Best, most sophisticated and yet detailed travel book on my own state, California, that I have ever seen.
This book was a great find! Now I only use the Eyewitness travel books. It is organized in sections based on region. Then each section is organized by area. So everything in the book is organizaed by area. This lets you plan your days extremely easily, if you want cultural, arts, or historical. And all the points of interest are great. Has things for the Adventrous and the Classic traveler.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Overview Guide Book
I always love books from DK because of their colorful pages and organized. They have listed as much places, events as possible into useful categories and give readers a brief idea…
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but was better in past
For every destination worldwide I plan (or dream) to go I buy a new DK guide, it`s a wonderfull search for research and recordation and California DK guide is not an exception to…
Being a pretty busy person, and usually hating to read travel guides, I find that the DK Eyewitness Guides are the only ones I can stand reading - in fact, I find them enjoyable.
Their main force is that you don’t have to imagine whether a destination would be something for you - the guide shows you what to expect, where others just tell you about it. That is the series’ main force: They are very easily digestible.
That said, an Eyewitness Guide can’t stand alone, so my wife usually acquires a Lonely Planet guide for the place, and I read the Eyewitness Guide, and the two complement each other nicely.
At 630 pages, this is the largest Eyewitness guide I have seen to date, but it also covers a very large subject: All of California, including large and comprehensive sections on both San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In addition the introduction, Survival Guide and Travellers’ Needs sections that are found in every Eyewitness guide, this book consists of four main sections, roughly equal in size: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Southern California and Northern California.
The section on Los Angeles is the largest, and at 129 pages is in itself as much as some of Dorling Kindersley’s city guides. The section on San Francisco isn’t much smaller, but lots of pages are still left for the rest of California. In essence, you get two complete city guides and a nice country guide in one reasonably priced package.
Although I’m satisfied with my purchase, some things could be better: Disneyland gets disappointingly dull treatment, considering that it is LA’s main attraction - although 4 pages are used we don’t even get an overview drawing of the park, although that’s something I’d really expected from the Eyewitness guide.
In more general terms, these guide are always very neutral in tone, so it’s often difficult to get a feel for an attraction - it might be interesting, but is it worth the money? Is it expensive? The guide doesn’t say…
As a conclusion, the book gives good value for money and is an excellent preparatory tool, although its shortcomings as a travel companion becomes too evident with use - for actual day-to-day planning, we had to turn to Lonely Planet for detailed information and subjective recommendations.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great background info on CA sites
I purchased this book and also the current Frommers CA guide. I appreciated this book, because as we drove around the cities- the book gave detailed information about the…
4.0 out of 5 stars
It’s nice for Traveler
I really like it.It has many pictures and tips for visitor.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Below average print quality with great content
As a member of the Eyewitness Travel Guides, this book’s presentation and organization are fabulous and updated.
4.0 out of 5 stars
nice complete book
This is a great book to own about California. I wish there had been more complete maps, but I purchased an atlas and that helped.
5.0 out of 5 stars
While I’ve been to LA a billion times (plus a few other Cali locations), there is still so much I’ve missed and so a book like this comes in real handy when I’m planning my next…
Really helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great place to start and finish your trip
This is a good book to use to begin researching a trip to California. The focus is primarily on LA and San Francisco but there is also quite a bit of information on the rest of…