Product Description

The Resource for the Independent Traveler

For over forty years Let's Go Travel Guides have brought budget-savvy travelers closer to the world and its diverse cultures by providing the most up-to-date information.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #353922 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
"The granddaddy of budget guides"
--The New York Times

"Guides that penetrate the veneer of holiday brochures and mine the grit of real life"
--The Economist

Customer Reviews

Great maps and recommendations, a couple of small mistakes
This book was very helpful in helping us get around San Fran and eat at places that weren't total tourist traps. We liked the frankness of the guide (the "tourist trap walking tour" along fisherman's wharf) and some of the suggestions to see things we would have overlooked (the pet cemetery in the Presidio was worth seeing). The maps were very helpful and I felt quite comfortable with the layout of the city and its neighborhoods after reading this book. It did, however, contain a couple of errors that makes me give this a 4-star review. The directions to get to the Manson Family Mansion in the Haight were wrong in their instructions (it said to turn right at one point when it should have said left) and it recommended a place in Chinatown for Dim Sum that is cheap ($.50 to $2.00). The restaurant was on the wrong side of the street and it was not a sit-down joint, which would have been fine except we were in desperate need of a sit after walking around the city's very hilly neighborhoods for the better part of a day. It was, though, cheap and fantastic dim sum - we ate it while strolling through Chinatown.

Having said that, this is a fantastic guide and I would recommend it highly. Especially notable: House of Nan King in Chinatown. It's recommended in Let's Go and we liked it so much we ate there twice! The freshest and tastiest calamari - ever. Also have a cocktail at Vesuivio's, a haunt formerly frequented by Ginsberg, Kerouac and the like. Not necessarily cheap, but they do have a nightly happy hour and it's just a cool place.

I'd be happy to give anyone more info about this guide or places we thought were worthwhile - ruthcrozier@yahoo.com. San Francisco is fabulous and this guide really enhanced our trip.