The Best-ever Guide to the Monterey Peninsula and Carmel Area (4th Edition) [Paperback]

Thom Akeman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 17, 1999

This is a guidebook written by a veteran newspaper reporter in the famous resort area. It provides honest reviews of 120 local restaurants, recommends things to see and places to go, contains community profiles and some maps and, at the back, includes some incisive, humorous columns about living in the area.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A honest guide that directs you to bargain restaurants in the area and the posh ones worth the prices, and tells you where to find the views that are on the post cards, unique experiences in a seaside paradise and memories that songs are made from. -- Publisher Comments

About the Author

Thom Akeman has been a newspaper reporter in Illinois, New Jersey, New York and California for the past 32 years. A previous book, "Moving to Monterey," was published in 1988. The 1st edition of "The Best-ever Guide to the Monterey Peninsula and Carmel Area" was published in 1994, a 2nd edition in 1995, a 3rd in 1997 and now a 4th in 1999.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Kaskaskia Pr; 4 edition (May 17, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962320943
• ISBN-13: 978-0962320941
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,373,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It improved our trip, December 1, 1999

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Larry Staley (Springfield, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best-ever Guide to the Monterey Peninsula and Carmel Area (4th Edition) (Paperback)

We want to recommend this book as a no-nonsense guide to Monterey. It directed our last trip and enhanced our visit more than any other guide book ever has. We felt we saw it all this time. And we found ourselves generally agreeing with the restaurant reviews. We intend to check more of them on our next trip.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great, opinionated guide to eating in Monterey, June 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best-ever Guide to the Monterey Peninsula and Carmel Area (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This is an honest book by an author who obviously likes to eat good food and likes the Monterey area. It is an insider's look at what the locals are doing and where they are eating. The style is chatty and informative and is free of the chamber of commerce attitude that everything-is-great and every restaurant is fine. There is reliable information in this book from an old hand in Monterey. It is a good book for a visitor to the Monterey Peninsula or for a local resident.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More like: Best-ever Restaurant Recommendations of Monterey, October 6, 2000

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"chrislizak" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best-ever Guide to the Monterey Peninsula and Carmel Area (4th Edition) (Paperback)

I thought the book was a mixed bag. The restaurant reviews were great and very helpful. We followed a couple of his recommendations and were very pleased with our meals. There are also some good descriptions of some of the activities to do in the area, but I thought he could have gone into more depth here.

The biggest gap in the book was accomodations. For a COMPLETE guide to the area, I would like to know where I should stay while I am in the area. With the author being a resident of the area, I guess he has not had a need to stay at any of the hotels/inns/etc. Before this book can be considered a complete guide, this info needs to be included.

Lastly, the second half of the book has very little helpful info about the area, but is just a reprint of articles that he had written when he first moved into the area. Fun reading, but the second half of the book is not very informative.