Travel to New York

Lonely Planet New York City

Format: Paperback
Author: Beth Greenfield
ReleaseDate: September, 2006
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Rating:

Really Useful
The Maps where just amazing, really useful, its true that you find a lot of maps overthere anyway, but getting familiar with your guide was really useful for me. It was the first time I was on NYC, I bought this guide couple of weeks before my trip. The tour that the guide suggest are really accurate. The only thing that I would change is the amount of pages, because of two reasons 1. - is kind of bulky so even when is really easy to carry with your hand, or even when you are walking with back pack, when you have been walking for 10 hours even a sheet of paper will be heavy, 2. - I did not had the time to read it from the begining to the end, it was just too much, before the trip I had to work and during the trip I refused to seat in the park to read the guide having this amazing things to see. Dont get me wrong, this is an amazing guide, and in my next trip I would definetly consider buying lonely planet again.

I recommend this guide only as a complement to the "Top 10 New York" guide, or other small guide like that...
I took only three books about that city with me: this guide, the "Top 10 New York" guide, and "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide". I recently visited NYC for the first time. I must say that the "Lonely planet NYC Guide" was not my favourite, though.

Truth to be told, this guide has a lot of useful information, and that proved helpful in some cases. What is more, it has some interesting planned walking tours that I liked, and good sections with data about the city and its history.

On the other hand, this guide doesn't have too many photos in color, and it includes some maps that are not specially good, particularly if you compare them with the spectacular maps of the "Top 10 New York" guide. Furthermore, it is big enough to be heavy, something that you will not appreciate if you have to carry it with you the whole day.

On the whole, I can say that I liked this guide, but I recommend it only as a complement to the "Top 10 New York" guide, or another small guide like that, the kind of guide that you can carry with you while you leave the "Lonely planet NYC Guide" in your hotel room to check at night if needed. Enjoy your trip :)

Belen Alcat.

Pretty Good
Interesting suggestions. I liked the combination of facts and opinions. Good walking tours. Good color maps.

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