Fodor's Mexico 2009 (Travel Guide) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Travel Guide | Publication Date: September 16, 2008

Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Mexico!

•Updated annually, Fodor’s Mexico provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

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•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Mexico.

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•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

•Fodor’s Mexico features over 60 maps from dining and lodging options in cities and up-close looks inside temple complexes, to regional overviews.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 896 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; Revised edition (September 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140001946X
• ISBN-13: 978-1400019465
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,350,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT THE BEST GUIDE TO MEXICO, December 15, 2008

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Ronald Stockman "Mexico Resident" (Xalapa, Veracruz) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Mexico 2009 (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

This is not the best guide to Mexico, but it has some nice supplemental info. Some data is clearly wrong, which should not be true of this type of guide. I haven't researched it thoroughly, but one glaring example I found right off the bat. This guide refers to the bus terminal in Xalapa as TAXA. As anyone knows who is familiar with Mexico, this should be CAXA. These are initials that stand for "Centro de Autobuses de Xalapa"--thus, CAXA. This is simple for other locations, for example CAVE is Centro de Autobuses de Veracruz, for Veracruz City. Puebla is therefor CAPU, Centro de Autobuses de Puebla, thus, the first 2 initials for Centro de Autobuses, and the last 2 initials of the first 2 letters of the city. Lonely Planet is the first choice if only one guide book to Mexico is what one wants. It has more detail, and although contains errors, not so obvious as this guide book.

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst guidebook!, July 21, 2009

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Yana Friedman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Mexico 2009 (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

I normally do not write reviews nor do I give such bad ratings, but this book is a total waste of money.
It omits entire regions (!), has a very poor choice of places to stay/eat/go out, doesn't elaborate on the important things and is generally very unproffesionally written.
Some of the listings weren't up to date at all (like a hostel I was looking for in Cozumel or a restaurant in Merida).
I simply gave it away (unused) as I saw that it doesn't supply any useful information on the places I wanted to go to.
This is after travelling with Footprint, Roughguide and Lonely Planet - again, I've never encountered such a bad travelbook!

5.0 out of 5 stars Fodor's Mexico 2009, April 5, 2009

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Charlene Olson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Mexico 2009 (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

We recently took a trip to Veracruz and found this book very helpful. It was accurate about places to eat and stay. The only thing I would add is that very few people speak English so brush up onyour Spanish!