Travel to Mexico

Moon Handbooks Mexico City (Moon Handbooks : Mexico City)

Format: Paperback
Author: Chris Humphrey
ReleaseDate: 09 November, 2005
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, Moon Handbooks
Rating:

Very Complete, but poorly organized
Even better, the book covers almost every conceivable place near Mexico City that you could go for a day/weekend trip. This book has the most complete information on Mexico City and the surrounding area that I've seen! The information on hotels, attractions, and transportation well-written and informative.

If you intend to go to Mexico and visit places in and around Mexico City, this is the only book you will need. Lugging around a 1,100-page Lonely Planet guidebook is not necessary.

The biggest flaw of this book is the organization -- the neighborhoods are covered in a piecemeal way, and it's nearly impossible to figure out where things are in relation to each other. To deal with the immense size of Mexico City, the author decided to break the city up into non-overlapping neighborhoods and treat them almost like separate cities. The result leaves you knowing what you want to see but not knowing exactly how to get there. (The other cities covered in the book do not have this problem. )

Other Mexico City guidebooks will probably have this problem, because the city is just too huge.

On an extended visit to Mexico City, this book should be supplemented with a good street map or a knowledgeable hotel employee.

Very happy with this guide book
The text information on sites, restaurants, hotels, etc. Although this book is now almost 4 years old, it is still the best Mexico City-only guide I could find. is generally excellent, and held up well during my recent trip to Mexico City. Some of the maps and graphics could be updated, but generally I found this to be a reliable, entertaining and useful book. I'd recommend it to anyone planning a trip to Mexico City unless and until something better comes along.

There has to be a better guide out there
Sadly, it fell far short of my expectations. After seeing the five-star review for a previous edition of this book I was eager to buy it for my recent trip to Mexico City. For starters, the maps are woefully inadequate. There aren't enough of them, they lack sufficient detail, and there is no number and letter grid system. That last problem is inexcusable and made it nearly impossible to find many of the sights mentioned in the book. The overall organization of the book is also not done well and does not seem very logical. Making matters worse, the book is not bound well and actually started to lose pages before my relatively short trip even ended. I have had far better books than this when I have visited other parts of the world. I have to think someone makes a better Mexico City guide too.

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