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Title: Frommer's South Florida including Miami and the Keys by Lesley Abravanel ISBN: 0-7645-6664-4 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 19 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than Gremlins and better than E.T.!!!
Comment: Well, not really, but i've lived in south florida for 13 years and this book is a must have for anyone who lives down here or is thinking about visiting. Everyone thinks they have a true grasp of the miami scene, but this author actually does.
Rating: 4
Summary: Clear and Enjoyable writing style sets this guide apart.
Comment: Tourism generates over {$$$$} billion annually for the Florida economy, which is more than twice the entire GNP for Cuba. That is why there is a fierce fight for the Florida travel guide market. Frommer's is one of the best guides available.
This South Florida guide is somewhat more expanded than "Frommer's Florida" Guide (see my review). If you are going to visit just MIAMI, the EVERGLADES, PALM BEACH, FT. LAUDERDALE or the KEYS, then you will find this guide more compact, lighter and a bit cheaper.
The same great writing style that is in the Frommer's state guide is found in this more compact companion. The accommodation and dining recommendations are reliable and on the money. This guide lists the best restaurants that South Florida has to offer. A lodging and restaurant index would be a definite plus for this guide. As it stands now, if you have a restaurant you want to look up, you have to go through all the listings in the city you are in until you stumble across the name you seek or miss seeing it completely.
The rating system is labored and difficult to understand. The explanation of the "new star rating system" is buried in the book and not indexed. It was by quirk that I found it. Strange.
The Internet web site addresses provided for hotels could be more comprehensive considering that this is a 2003 guide. In today's world of "connectivity" you can visit the hotel sites and see the accommodations and rates prior to making reservations. And, website/email addresses are restricted to the lodging listings even though many of the restaurants now have their own websites with photos and menus and email to makes reservations.
However, there are two significant areas in this guide that could use improvement: maps and hotels/restaurants.
Regarding the maps: the maps in the guide are lackluster. More and better maps would greatly help the user.
What put this guide on top of the competing guides is the clear and enjoyable writing style of the review. The introductions of the regional areas are the best of the guides I reviewed. You will do well if you have to chose just one South Florida guide and you select Frommer's.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Guidebook Ever!
Comment: This is probably the best guidebook I ever read. The author has a really good writing style and it is genuinely interesting and fun to read (not that I'm suggesting you pick it over Fitzgerald or anything, just that it's a really well-written book). Her restaurant reviews are really excellent--just reading some of them made me start to drool. And while many of the restaurant listings are for priceyish places, she does list some great, fun, authentic, and in some cases, way off the beaten track yummy places to try. I trust her opinion completely!
This is a really thorough guidebook, with good and honest hotel listings (one of the only people to vocalize what we all know--the Delano IS overrated!) and a great chapter on what to do and see if you want to do and see more than just the beaches of South Florida. The Miami coverage is awesome-- good tips on shopping, a really knowledgeable chapter on nighlife, and more.
The Everglades chapter has a hilarious essay about how the author was reluctant to go the first time, and the coverage of the Keys, Palm Beaches, Boca, etc. are just as good. I usually expect a Frommer's guidebook to be a bit stuffier than this, but as soon as I read the intro, I knew I had to try this book, and I'm so happy I did. You will be too. It rocks!
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Title: June Keith's Key West & The Florida Keys: A Guide to the Coral Islands by June Keith ISBN: 0964343436 Publisher: Palm Island Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Rand McNally Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach City Map (Folded-Map Series) ISBN: 0528974807 Publisher: Rand McNally & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West, 8th (Insiders' Guide Series) by Victoria Shearer ISBN: 0762728426 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Streetwise Miami by Michael Brown ISBN: 0935039511 Publisher: Streetwise Maps Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Zagatsurvey 2003 Miami/So. Florida Restaurants (Zagatsurvey : Miami/South Florida Restaurants, 2003) by Zagat Survey, Jan Norris, Donna Marino, Betsy Andrews ISBN: 1570064210 Publisher: Zagat Survey Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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