Product Description

Frommer's New Orleans 2007 is a fully updated and in-depth post-Katrina edition. Our author, a New Orleans resident, has chronicled the city's devastation and resurrection, with full information on what neighborhoods have rebounded and what establishments are open for business. With complete coverage of area hotels and transportation options, this book has everything you need to plan a trip to this slowly rebuilding city. Our author helps you find the best places now to hear jazz, blues, and zydeco, and detailed neighborhood maps help travelers find their way across town.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #397225 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-05
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 340 pages

From the Back Cover
Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• Complete coverage of post-Katrina New Orleans.
• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

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About the Author
Some of Mary Herczog’s work, many of her dearest friends, and all of her heart is in New Orleans. She is honored to be the long-time author of Frommer’s New Orleans. Her other titles include Frommer’s Las Vegas, Los Angeles For Dummies, Las Vegas For Dummies, and California For Dummies. When she’s not writing for Frommer’s she works in the film industry. She and her husband co-own a house with some friends in Bayou St. John, and now they know something about mold eradication and roof repair.

Customer Reviews

New Orleans 2007
This was one of the most informative tour guides I've ever had. It not only gave tips on where to go in New Orleans post-Katrina but also gave a lot of interesting background on New Orleans and various establishments. I'd recommend it for anyone traveling to New Orleans.

Outstanding, Indispensable Guide of New Orleans
I live in New Orleans; I am in the tourism industry; and I have written about many aspects of this city in more than one genre for the past 15 years (including travel writing) and I need to make it clear that the review of this travel guide which takes issue with the fact that the writer lives part of the year in California is unfounded and unfair. To begin with, if residing in a place about which you write travel guides was a requirement, we would have very few travel guides (check the bios of most travel writers). But even if we could manage to have all travel writers living year-round in the destinations they cover, not only would they be able to cover only 1 location but moreover it would just be a bad idea. Anyone who lives somewhere 24/7 loses perspective on the place
(even the most unusual places start to feel normal if you live there long enough) and the job of a travel writer is to report on what makes a locale different, interesting, and worth visiting. As a writer, Mary Herczog offers the best of both worlds - someone with an outside perspective AND someone who is local.
Another important point is that Frommer's is the only travel guide who updates every year. The review also complained about the book warning that information may change between the time it was collected and the time it is published. That is actually a good thing. A reader should be grateful for the heads-up. Katrina or no Katrina, people come and go and businesses go out of business, etc. If the lag time between data collection and publication is a concern, then Frommer's is the best book to go with because it updates the most frequently.
Anyway, aside from these issues, this is an outstanding guide which speaks for itself - buy it, read it, plan your trip around it.

Not Quite Up to Date
This book definitely bills itself as a POST-Katrina guidebook, which puts it a step ahead of many other New Orleans books out there. You most certainly want a book that was written and updated after that horrific hurricane hit, since so much has changed in the city because of that.

Now, that being said, the primary author on this work appears to live in California and writes the books on California and Vegas. I think in this situation it really is critical to have a person who lives IN the city write about the city, especially with the rapid rate of change going on in New Orleans. It would be pretty much impossible for someone who pops in for a few weeks to really have a good sense of what is happening there.

One issue is that, even though the book says it's a 2007 book, you find quotes about "is scheduled to reopen by early 2007" or "with intentions of opening in January 2007". Anyone going IN 2007 is going to find this material to be fairly out of date. Again, perhaps not an issue in a slowly changing location - but in New Orleans, you really need to have information more up to date than this.

The book is very nicely laid out - it's very easy to track down the hotels, restaurants and attractions in the areas you'll be in. That being said, there are pretty much no pictures! As they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words - and that's definitely true when you're considering sightseeing. I suppose you could go online to find pictures, but if you're going to do that, you could find up-to-date attraction information while you're at it.

Recommended as a way to get the general lay of the land, and start your list of ideas, but I'd go with a website with photos and updated information before you actually head out on your trip.

As a final note, I went to New Orleans with a group of writers in mid-2007 and we had an INCREDIBLE time. The French Quarter is fully open for business, and was fantastically fun. Definitely go and visit, and bring in your tourist dollars to help them recover!