Fodor's Puerto Rico, 5th Edition (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 Puerto Rico!

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

•Fodor’s Puerto Rico features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•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 Puerto Rico.

•Experience Puerto Rico like a local! Fodor’s Puerto Rico includes choices for every traveler, from exploring Spanish forts to kayaking in a bioluminescent bay to choosing just the right pearly-white beach to soak up some Caribbean sun, and much more!

•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.

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; 5 edition (September 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400007313
• ISBN-13: 978-1400007318
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > Travel > Caribbean > Puerto Rico

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, informative book!, May 1, 2009

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Delilah Lily "dellil" (Cleveland, Oh) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fodor's Puerto Rico, 5th Edition (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

Whenever I'm planning a trip I aways buy a number of travel guides--Moon, Rough Guide, Insight, Lonely Planet, etc. to read beforehand but this is the first time I've ever bought a Fodors. It's a great addition to my Puerto Rico collection. The book is as informative or even more so than some of the other guides. But what I really like about it is its organization-- with lots of easy to read listings. The book is small and compact (not a pocket size) and feels good in the hand also. In fact, I've decided that this will be the one guidebook that I will take with me to Puerto Rico.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Up to date. Well Organized. Wish it had more photos, May 23, 2009

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This review is from: Fodor's Puerto Rico, 5th Edition (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

Read it before going to PR. (Unfortunately, left it in the airplane while landing in PR!)
The book seemed to be up to date. It is well organized, things are easy to find. But it has almost no pictures of the attractions, that is something they can certainly improve upon.
It also has good coverage of Vieques and Culebra.
Lot more practical information compared to Insight's guide to PR. But that guide has a lot of good pictures and articles in discovery channel style about PR.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good compact book, February 22, 2010

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Sarah Karl (Brighton, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Puerto Rico, 5th Edition (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

All in all, I think this is a good resource. There are a few things that seemed a bit out-dated (comparing to my AAA travel guide for the Caribbean), but I understand that there is a 2010 edition soon to be released.

The city maps are extremely helpful, and are really great to use for walking tours. There is just enough background information to be interesting, but not too much to be boring.

Would definitely recommend.