Best Places San Diego: The Best Restaurants, Lodgings, and a Complete Guide to the City [Paperback]

Maribeth Mellin (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Best Places | Publication Date: September 18, 2002

From shopping for surf duds and exploring the zoo to dining on freshly grilled dorado and lounging at Ocean Beach, readers of this guide will find only honest recommendations from locals on where to stay, where to eat, and what to see throughout this warm, breezy city. Conveniently organized by areas of interest, Best Places San Diego also includes one- and three-day city tours; a handy four-color pull-out map of the city; entertaining essays on history and culture; information on special attractions; a section on visiting Baja California; and easy-to-use icons that point out the best places for romance, good value, families, and unique experiences. Best Places San Diego has something for every budget, and every place is independently researched and reviewed by local travel experts. "Eat, surf, and shop like a local with this insider's guide to San Diego." -- American Way

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books; Second Edition edition (September 18, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570613486
• ISBN-13: 978-1570613487
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,835,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly organized and contains incomplete information., September 10, 2004

By 

Grandpiper "grandpiper" (HOUSTON, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Places San Diego: The Best Restaurants, Lodgings, and a Complete Guide to the City (Paperback)

If you are used to the logical organization of the more prevalent guides such as Eyewitness, Frommer's, Routard, etc., you will be very frustrated by this guide. For instance, restaurant descriptions in Frommer's are first categorized by neighborhood and then by cost. This book contains a list of top restaurants by neighborhood and cuisine (only names); however, for descriptions/cost, you have to thumb through an alphabetical list to find the restaurants listed. It gets extremely frustrating and annoying. After spending money on this book, we left it at the hotel and decided to use websites and other travelers' recommendations rather than use this book - we travel about five or six times a year and this is a first.

Also, the practical information is incomplete. For instance, this book suggests using a shuttle to the Del Coronado from the ferry landing, but it doesn't say where the shuttle stop is or how frequently the shuttle operates. There is no information on ferry timings either. San Diego has a pretty good trolley system, but this guide does not even have a map of the trolley system.

The maps (if you could call them that) are also missing key information. Other guides show a map of a neighborhood and then have markers on the map showing hotels, restaurants, places of interest, etc. This book contains only half-complete map with some street names. Highly irritating.

This was the first and last Best Places book for us. We only bought it because it was city specific. We will stick to our usual suspects.