It seemed to happen all too frequently - restaurants listed were no longer in business or had moved to a different location. In one evening, four of the five restaurants I tried were closed, and in some cases, had been closed quite a while.

this was a big disappointment as most other Access guides have been great

This book is a bit of a cop-out. The authors, instead of doing hard work exploring New England, simply went on lots of paid (or probably un-paid) organized tours averaging about $500-700 per three-day trip. They give you the name of a tour group and tell you about the tour that they went on. Well, that's not real useful. These are not authors who know this area intimately, extensively and over a long period of time. They haven't scouted out great bicycle trips or wonderful hikes. They left it to others to do that. These two published a book of organized trips that someone else developed. Save your money.

Thank you for adding "PA" to the title. I bought this book for my mother thinking it was about her hometown of Union City, NJ. As this publisher also puts out books about Jersey City and other NY area locales, I assumed that this was the New Jersey Union City. So, one star if you're from Union City, NJ, Union city, CA or Union City, IN.

A number of the facts cited here are simply wrong, thereby throwing into question all those things I don't know about the city. Given the resources here, it seems odd that the author didn't have the book read/edited for accuracy.

I bought this book because I though while paging through it that it listed lots of interesting sites. But here's a warning for anyone who happens upon this book - just a quick read-through of the areas I'm more familiar with showed me these authors cared nothing for correct directions or facts.

Most obvious was in regards to a covered bridge in Pennsylvania I used to live next to. Armed only with this book, no one will ever find it. That's because it's about two miles west of it's listed location on a completely different road. Not to mention there are no signs to aide lost tourists.

Then there's the mention that the Appalachian trail runs through the Catskills in New York "from Pennsylvania to Vermont". While anyone with an atlas can see it goes nowhere near the Catskills on its way from New Jersey to Connecticut. Did these people even visit these sites in person?

I wish I had read more of this book before I bought it and wasted my money.

We have been using Marilyn Wood's Wonderful Weekends Copyright 1984, 1987 and enjoyed it very, very much. Right from the first trip, we knew we had a winner. The paperback is dog earred, paperclipped, underlined in red and there are pencil and ink notes in all the margins. It is a truly wonderful book but needed updating.

We purchased the "All New Fourth Edition!" of Wonderful Weekends thinking it would have the best of the previous edition, plus new places to explore minus the places that are no longer there.

Not so! Several of the areas that we looked up included restaurants that have not been there in 2 or 3 years. One of the B&B's has had new owners for years and the listing shows the old owners' story and names.

We will stick with our original 1984-l987 version and use the new one for backup with each trip. Hopefully, there will be some New information in this Fourth Edition.

This was a lesson to me that when I look for updates for books of this type, it would be a good idea to find out the date of the update before making a purchase.

I did not find this guide very helpful. The binding was of poor quality and the book fell apart after only a few days of use - travel guides should be durable to last at least a week long vacation. The information was not all that useful either.

The author like most "Western" writers just endlessly criticizes Islam throughout the book. What human-rights do the West have to criticize the practices and lifestyles of the East?. How about Jewish women in New York city who are so overly conservative and traditional that they have to shave off their heads after getting married? Why is there so much bigotry against the practices of Islam only? Very offensive book, the only purpose of it is to belittle Islam.

The book is very good, but there are a few Historical corrections that need serious addressing. I do beleive the author is not at fault but somehow advisors lead him in the wrong directions.

I expect this sold a few copies in Levittown but if you want a pictorial history of this fascinating suburb, as I did, forget this book. Unfortunately nearly every one of the two hundred photos is either blurred, soft focused or not even relevant. It is as if the originals were all photocopied and these copies sent to the printer. The inflexible layout means all the photos are either one or two columns wide and printed with a 133 screen on soft paper does not help either. I can only guess that the authors wanted to produce the book as cheaply as possible, nearly all the photos are copyright free (I assume) and credited to the Levittown Public Library Collection.

The most interesting chapter to me was the one dealing with the construction of Levittown, even with the awful photos you can see the wood frame construction of the houses, the cement block floors with the heating pipes and there are several pictures of the Cape Cod and Ranch type units which make up the 17,500 houses in the suburb. In the back of the book are several photos (and these, taken by co-author Tova Navarra, are probably the best in the book) of the remodelling that most of the houses have gone through depending on the owners needs.

Plenty of photos show life in Levittown but as they are no better than snap-shots they don't do justice to the people shown, the place or the reader. All very disappointing because having just read Barbara Kelly's excellent book 'Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown', I think there is an opportunity for some publisher to do a well designed coffee table pictorial history with good photos of the houses, their interiors, construction, community life, house blueprints, maps and more. 'Levittown: The First 50 Years' makes me want to know more and done properly.