Customer Reviews

Fodor's Hawaii 2004 (Fodor's Gold Guides)

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This travel book is excellent. The best thing about the Fodor's series is that they give you great ideas of what to do with your days traveling around places. Obviously this one deals with Hawaii, and it deals with it quite well.

Places to eat, places to sleep, places to surf, this book has it all and the information is easily accessible to the layman who does not know Hawaii very well.

I am very impressed with Fodor's and this version in particular.

Joseph Dworak

This book was very disappointing; I expected more from Fodor's. The paper is that pulpy newspaper stuff, the type is too small, and the font isn't easy to read either.

It's actually got too much information, I think, in that it's difficult to wade through everything they stuff in there. They should have split it up into island-specific guides.

There are only a scant few items with a "Fodor's Choice" star by it. But they never say WHY it's a good choice. What does a star rating entail? What qualifies them for selection? They just say their staff found it to be "the very best." No further detail as to what amenities or features earned them that designation.

There are no photos. Their maps are all in black and orange, and everything looks dingy that way.

Their sample itineraries are not appealing. They're too busy and spread out.

It's important to understand that different people have different needs and expectations from a guidebook; this one just didn't suit mine. It has lots of info, so if you really want to pore over every little thing, and you can concentrate on those big chunks of text in that little type on those dingy pages, then you might like it. Me, I'm going to keep looking.