Frommer's Mexico 2008 (Frommer's Complete Guides) [Paperback]

David Baird (Author), Juan Cristiano (Author), Lynne Bairstow (Author), Emily Hughey Quinn (Author)

Book Description

Series: Frommer's Complete Guides | Publication Date: October 8, 2007

Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

* Insider tips on the best hotel values, beach hideaways, ruins sites, authentic restaurants, social scenes, and more.
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Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
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Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
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Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

Find great deals and book your trip at Frommers.com

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• Insider tips on the best hotel values, beach hideaways, ruins sites, authentic restaurants, social scenes, and more.

• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.

• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.

• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

Find great deals and book your trip at Frommers.com

About the Author

A writer, editor, and translator, David Baird has lived several years in different parts of Mexico. Now based in Austin, Texas, he spends as much time in Mexico as possible.

A resident of Mexico City, Juan Cristiano is a native of Los Angeles who has written extensively about destinations in Mexico and Latin America, the United States, and Western Europe.

Lynne Bairstow has lived in Puerto Vallarta for most of the past 16 years. Her travel articles on Mexico have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Private Air magazine, and Luxury Living magazine.

Fresh out of Kansas, Emily Hughey Quinn moved to Los Cabos, Mexico, in 2003 after launching Cabo Living magazine. Enchanted by the desert landscape, the Sea of Cortez, the people, and the tacos al pastor, Quinn now considers Baja’s brazen wilderness to be as much a part of her as the prairie.

Product Details

• Paperback: 816 pages
• Publisher: Frommers; 2 edition (October 8, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470145749
• ISBN-13: 978-0470145746
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.5 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,280,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pffft., September 15, 2008

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Lindsay Trostle "Dancing Gorditas" (Frewsburg, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Mexico 2008 (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

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.

15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars FRANKLY, FROMMER'S IS FLAWED, April 7, 2008

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Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Mexico 2008 (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

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

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vacationing in Mexico: Oaxaca for a week, June 1, 2007

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Jose R. Quinones - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Mexico 2007 (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

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.
Excellent