Each of the "Frommer" guides are packed with reliable, money-saving advice that travellers will find invaluable - whether they're travelling on a shoestring or staying at the Ritz. The detailed pre-trip planning information includes transportation advice, suggested itineraries and a calendar of special events. Exact prices, not vague price ranges, let readers carefully plan their daily budgets. This book on Thailand contains advice on getting there - by plane, train, bus or car - as well as information on British customs allowances, UK embassy locations and a currency chart that compares the British pound to the local currency is included.
Kyle McCarthy is the co-founder of Family Travel Forum and editor of www.MyFamilyTravels.com, a community for those who "Have Kids, Still Travel" and want to make their family vacations easier, more fun and better value. As a traveling mom, she makes frequent radio, TV and trade show appearances, consults to travel industry clients on marketing to families, and has served as a Family Travel Expert for Discovery Channel Online, Netscape's Open Directory Project and National Geographic Traveler's Parks Survey Team. In addition to 12 guidebooks for Frommer's, she's written for Conde Nast Traveler, Cosmopolitan, Departures, Wired and others; and in 2004 was awarded the North American Travel Journalists Association's "Top Internet Journalist of the Year." Ms. McCarthy is based in New York City and loves any opportunity to travel with her husband and teen son.
