This book helped make our trip to Oahu the most enjoyable vacation my family and I have taken recently. Great tips on what beaches to visit, the best time to get to the more popular spots. It was very easy to follow and just a wonderful book to have while traveling. It was worth every penny.

I will never vacation anywhere else without first purchasing a Fodor's Travel Book.

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This is an excellent guide to the city, especially for a first-time visitor. A lot of helpful information. I went to several of the recommended restaurants and enjoyed all of them. This book directs the traveler to many out-of-the-way places you'd never find on your own.

As a Marine just stationed in San Diego, this book has proved invaluable. For starters, it showed me exactly where MCAS Miramar (my base) was in the San Diego area. So I bought this book before coming here determined to see the sights and to know the city itself. Whenever I leave base, I like to make the most of my time and know where I are going. For that matter, even to know WHERE to go. Now, I just read about a part of town and off I go.

At my earlier duty stations, I would go out looking for things to do in the city and often find nothing. Worse, sometimes I would try one thing only to learn later there was something better I could have done instead. And that is with me living in the area! I have no idea how someone could fully appreciate a city during a vacation without these travel guides.

Without this book, I would never have known I arrived during Whale Watching season until it had ended and the public transportation system would have taken me much longer to learn. Also, I would still be clueless about Balboa Park, which is now my favorite place in San Diego! As it was, I could have done all of this in a weekend, but I took two because I was in no hurry.

I plan on using this book on many outings during my stay in San Diego. It gives me something to do other than go to the Mall and spend money (but it can help do that as well).

Something for the first time traveler: Restaurants come and go, with some changing names and the admission prices to events and theme parks change as well. In the course of the year, nothing is too drastic but nothing is written in stone either. Nonetheless, the information in this book was always relevant.

This book contains a great list of places to stay and eat with prices. Some of my favorite sections of book include the following: Listing of Best Unspoiled Small Towns, which include Kodiak, Petersburg, and Cordova; Listing of Strange Comunity Events which include Cordova's Ice Worm Festival, Fairbanks' Midnight Sun Baseball Game nad Nomes Polar Bear Swim/Bathtub Race. If you are going to Alaska's number one destination, Denali National Park, make sure you pick up a copy of Discovering Denali.

I have just returned from a two week holiday in California, and without this book, it would have been a struggle to find my way around, let alone find anything to see. Fodor guides are well researched, well written, and presented in such a way as to make the place you are visiting come alive on the page. If you are going soon, do yourself a favour and buy it. You'll regret it otherwise....

A good guide for those who need a reference to plan the perfect romantic weekend get away. All you romantic gentleman could use it as a handy guide to woo that special someone and take her to a place which she will definitely enjoy.

Escape To The Hawaiian Islands is a breathtaking compendium of Bob Holmes outstanding photography, enhanced with Paul Wood's informative text and the combination makes for an ideal guide for what to do and see when visiting the Hawaiian Islands on pleasure or business. From hiking through a bamboo forest to stargazing on a mountain top to the excitement of a hula festival, Escape To The Hawaiian Islands is as entertaining as it is informative. If you are planning a trip to the islands of Hawaii, begin with browsing the pages of Wood and Holmes' Escape To The Hawaiian Islands!

i bought this book along with fodor's guide to b and b's in the pacific northwest. this guide is a good one, both for residents who haven't had time to really see the area and for tourists. its the only one of the guidebooks that i browsed that has accurate information on doing a circle tour of the olympic peninsula. and it has a section that recommends itineraries for one, three, and seven days.

I have lots of travel books. I prefer Fodor's. But, this one is a standout! I truly felt that it was written by people who are familiar with the city. The descriptions and information highlighted the best of the city. Buy it without trepidation.

Steve Crouch is that rarest of photographers: a true artist in the medium of photography whose writing skills are equally gifted. You may need a dictionary at times to keep up with his lyrical flow of English, but, after all, isn't reading supposed to be a learning experience? Don't be intimidated. Crouch's precise English adds much to his description of one of the most beautiful places on the planet: the Monterey Coast and Big Sur of California.

Crouch became a resident of Carmel years ago, and begins his tale of the region with how that decision took place. This delightful anecdote is followed by others equally evocative. Mr. Crouch reviews the place itself, the human communities and their history, and closes with a fine, thoughtful epilogue.

The photography is in color, and absolutely outstanding. In addition to the usual brilliant seascapes, forest and mountain vistas, etc, the author also offers a beautiful panoply of microphotography about local plants, houses, and the way of life in this Eden. Here is an artist with a purpose.

I bought this book a while back. I have since vacationed in the area four times. One of the delights is to attempt to catch things in the same photographic light as Mr. Crouch did. Not an easy task, but, surely, the enjoyment lies in the attempt.

You will love this book from the moment you first see it. Do yourself a favor and get it now.