Fodor's Maui and Lanai 99: The Complete Guide with Spectacular Drives, Beaches, and Adventures Off the Beat en Path [Paperback]

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Series: Fodor's Maui | Publication Date: October 27, 1998

Experienced and first-time travelers alike rely on Fodor's Gold Guides for rich, reliable coverage the world over. Updated each year and containing a full-color, foldout Rand McNally map, a Fodor's Gold Guide is an essential tool for any kind of traveler. Smart travel tips and important contact info make planning your trip a breeze, and detailed coverage of sights, accommodations, and restaurants give you the info you need to make your experience enriching and hassle-free. If you only have room for one guide, this is the one for you.
Beaches, waterfalls, rain forests, volcanoes, tropical gardens, and the spectacular drive along Hana Highway
Golf, snorkeling, diving, surfing, fishing, whale watching, biking, hiking in Haleakala National Park
Where to buy local art, crafts, aloha shirts, pineapples
Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Posh beach resorts, oceanside cottages, condos, and B&Bs
Surfside grills, cantinas and cafés, fish houses and steak joints, lu'au, plus best bets for Asian and Pacific Rim fare
Fresh, thorough, practical -- off and on the beaten path
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based onf visits by savvy writer-residents
27 pages of maps and more
Important contacts, smart travel tips
Fodor's Choice
What's Where
Pleasures and Pastimes
New & Noteworthy
Festivals
Background essays, further reading, videos to watch
Glossary and menu guide
Complete index
And more!

Excerpted from Fodor's Hawai'i '99

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Experienced and first-time travelers alike rely on Fodor's Gold Guides for rich, reliable coverage the world over. Updated each year and containing a full-color, foldout Rand McNally map, a Fodor's Gold Guide is an essential tool for any kind of traveler. Smart travel tips and important contact info make planning your trip a breeze, and detailed coverage of sights, accommodations, and restaurants give you the info you need to make your experience enriching and hassle-free. If you only have room for one guide, this is the one for you.
Beaches, waterfalls, rain forests, volcanoes, tropical gardens, and the spectacular drive along Hana Highway
Golf, snorkeling, diving, surfing, fishing, whale watching, biking, hiking in Haleakala National Park
Where to buy local art, crafts, aloha shirts, pineapples
Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Posh beach resorts, oceanside cottages, condos, and B&Bs
Surfside grills, cantinas and cafés, fish houses and steak joints, lu'au, plus best bets for Asian and Pacific Rim fare
Fresh, thorough, practical -- off and on the beaten path
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based onf visits by savvy writer-residents
27 pages of maps and more
Important contacts, smart travel tips
Fodor's Choice
What's Where
Pleasures and Pastimes
New & Noteworthy
Festivals
Background essays, further reading, videos to watch
Glossary and menu guide
Complete index
And more!

Excerpted from Fodor's Hawai'i '99

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This excerpt, from the Pleasures and Pastimes section, gives you a taste of what Maui & Lanai has to offer and the sights and scenes that make it a great place to visit.



Beaches

Enjoy the west coast's family-friendly playgrounds, watch daredevil surfers on the north shore, or contemplate the natural beauty of the sands around Hana. The choice is yours, but you can't go home and tell your friends you went to Maui and never visited a beach. For swimming, sunning, and people-watching, as well as convenient parking and amenities, the resort beaches of Wailea and Ka'anapali can't be beat.


Hawaiian Culture and History

It would be a shame to leave Maui without learning at least a little about the island's history. Take time to visit the Hana Cultural Center if you drive to the eastern shore town. Tour the Sugar Museum and the Bailey House near Wailuku. Chat with the well-informed guides at the Baldwin Home in Lahaina. You may even want to take one of the programs more and more hotels are offering that focus on Hawaiian culture, including lessons in lei-making, hula, Hawaiian language or music. They're fun, and they'll enrich your enjoyment of what you see and hear as you travel around Maui.


Hiking

Hiking on Maui can be an easy stroll through a botanical garden, a walk along paved and guard-railed paths in 'Iao Valley State Park, or a pack trip into Haleakala Crater. There's something to suit nearly every age and inclination, from the rugged outdoors-lover to the urbanite who hails cabs for exercise.


Water Sports

Surfing, snorkeling, scuba-diving, sailing, and fishing can be enjoyed year-round on Maui, and lessons are available for almost any water sport you'd like to try. Experienced divers will want to take one of the many snorkel or scuba cruises to the most exotic and challenging offshore dive sites, but Maui's shores offer plenty of colorful and unusual sea-life specimens to delight the underwater eye. If you've never surfed but have always wanted to try, the gentle waters of Lahaina Harbor are a great place to learn, and, yes, you can learn in a single half-day lesson.

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; 8 Pap/Map edition (October 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679000933
• ISBN-13: 978-0679000938
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,373,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Frommer's was much better!, September 21, 1999

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Steven Baker "Rock on!" (Folsom, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Maui and Lanai 99: The Complete Guide with Spectacular Drives, Beaches, and Adventures Off the Beat en Path (Paperback)

We took our family and went to Maui. Armed with 3 guide books, I was able to compare the content and accuracy of them while on the island.

I found Frommer's book to be a little outdated. More to the point, I found it to be lacking a lot of information that the other two books had. I do not recommend that anyone purchase this book. Maybe their tour books for other islands are better...