Product Description

Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Vegas!

•Updated annually, Fodor’s Las Vegas provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

•Fodor’s Las Vegas features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Vegas.

•Experience the city like a local! Fodor’s Las Vegas includes unique photo-features that impart the city’s culture, covering the best spas, buffets, pool scenes, and much more!

•Full color pullout map!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156785 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-18
• Released on: 2008-11-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781400007028
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"In terms of comprehensiveness of coverage, the very accessible format, and the enthusiastic tone, this series remains one of the best on the market." –Booklist
 
"Fodor's super-informative guidebooks are known for accuracy and attention to detail…" –The Sacramento Bee
 
"The Fodor's guides are notable for their ratings of sights, restaurants, shops, accommodations and attractions." –Chicago Tribune
 
"The great detail, infectious spirit, and attractive format are distinguishing traits of these guides, which are entries in one of the top series in the business." –Booklist
 
"Fodor's can help you plan the perfect adventure" –The Arizona Republic
 
"Always thoughtfully written and easily readable, Fodor's travel guides have become a must-have when traveling to unfamiliar destinations" –Mid South Magazine
 
"Widely recognized as the gold standard of mainstream travel" –Honolulu Advertiser

Customer Reviews

Lousy; much better LV guides available
As an annual Las Vegas visitor, I know the city. And because I know the city, I can tell you that this guide does not.
The real title of this book should be, "Fodor's Las Vegas, 2009: The Guide for Those Who Can Afford to Stay at The Best Places on The Strip and Plan to Never Leave It".
There is an appalling lack of depth or completeness in this book, and an equal lack of witty writing, guidance to places off the Strip.
To wit: I usually stay in old Downtown Las Vegas, the Fremont Street Experience for several good reasons: it's cheaper, the gambling is much better, everything is closer, and it's an altogether better experience. I can name at least eight very good hotels in Downtown; Fodor's names two, and calls Downtown "really sketchy." Come ON! You are in Las Vegas! If more middle class people is your idea of sketchy, then I guess it is.
Nor is there any real reviews of places off the Strip and off Downtown. For instance, Texas Station consistently has one of the highest-rated steakhouses in the city, and has won multiple awards. And it's not even mentioned. In addition, the magnificent South Pointe Hotel and Casino a couple miles south of the Strip on Las Vegas Blvd. isn't even mentioned, even though it's a stellar spot and a bargain to boot.
For the layperson, here's how bad this book is: The Stratosphere Hotel and Casino - you know the big needle, space tower-looking thing that is ubiquitous to the LV skyline? Not any kind of review of this hotel and casino.
There is a trend emerging here: this guide book is for people who can afford to stay at The Venetian, THEHotel, and other outrageously expensive Strip hotels. The rest of us, apparently, have to eat cake.
Other guide books are much better. I highly recommend the OUTSTANDING Frommer's book on Vegas, which is everything this book is not: witty and complete, and not geared only for people making six-figure salaries. The Time Out guide - written by British journalists - is also much better.
Skip this guide.