Customer Reviews

Frommer's Mexico 2007 (Frommer's Complete Guides)

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I would look at some other guidebooks before purchasing this one. This book is more of a very broad overview of places to stay, and isn't detailed at all. We were in the state of oaxaca, and also we went to mexico city, and for each the book only had a few specific hotels/restaurants to stay in. If you are going to travel all over mexico and are not making an 'in depth' sort of vacation of it, this book is alright. However, if you want some more details about hotels and restaurants and things, try to find something else. I was disappointed with this book.

For quite some time I've regarded Frommer's Travel Guides quite highly - no more! Recommendations in this book for the city in Mexico that we visited are so far off base that they're clearly out.

For instance, we stayed San Miguel de Allende early this year. Frommer's regards Azulejos Talavera Vazquez, a ceramics shop, as "exceptional." In what way I politely ask?

We shopped at Vazquez and plunked down a good bit for dishes that we have never received. Vazquez does not respond to emails or calls. The supposed shipper (Destinos) does respond to emails - with one excuse after another. His posts are not very well written but imaginative - last stating that our shipment is now out of their hands. Of course, whose hands it may be in remains a mystery.

We'll not mention the restaurant Frommer's recommended that we left popping Rolaids. This is a 2008 book - there's still a lot of the year to suffer indigestion and for Vazquez to rip off folks.

However, we did love the city and learned two lessons - don't rely on Frommer's and at Azulejos Talavera Vazquez manana means never.

- Gail Cooke

This is a wonderful book where it tells you history of the places, what to do, when to do it, entrance fees and the most important thing: how to go around the place.
I love how this book give you explicit ideas of what to do not just on the place that you want to do but also what is to do in places around the town that you are visiting.
I just love the Frommers book.
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We took this book on our July 2007 driving trip through Western Mexico and found it nearly useless. Carefully examine the Table of Contents to ensure the areas you plan to visit are adequately covered. Often only the big city is covered. We traveled to Nogales, San Carlos, Los Mochis, Mazatlan, Durango, Torreon, and Chihuahua. My love affair with Frommer's guides started back in 1968, this shoddy guide broke my heart.