Frommer's New Orleans 2007 (Frommer's Complete Guides) [Paperback]

Mary Herczog (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 5, 2007 | Series: Frommer's Complete Guides (Book 320)

Frommer's New Orleans 2007 is a fully updated and in-depth post-Katrina edition. Our author, a New Orleans resident, has chronicled the city's devastation and resurrection, with full information on what neighborhoods have rebounded and what establishments are open for business. With complete coverage of area hotels and transportation options, this book has everything you need to plan a trip to this slowly rebuilding city. Our author helps you find the best places now to hear jazz, blues, and zydeco, and detailed neighborhood maps help travelers find their way across town.

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.

• Complete coverage of post-Katrina New Orleans.
• 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.

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About the Author

Some of Mary Herczog’s work, many of her dearest friends, and all of her heart is in New Orleans. She is honored to be the long-time author of Frommer’s New Orleans. Her other titles include Frommer’s Las Vegas, Los Angeles For Dummies, Las Vegas For Dummies, and California For Dummies. When she’s not writing for Frommer’s she works in the film industry. She and her husband co-own a house with some friends in Bayou St. John, and now they know something about mold eradication and roof repair.

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Frommer's; Revised edition (February 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470050225
• ISBN-13: 978-0470050224
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,866,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #95 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Louisiana

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, Indispensable Guide of New Orleans, June 29, 2007

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R. Florence "BurnKdoe" (New Orleans) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's New Orleans 2007 (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

I live in New Orleans; I am in the tourism industry; and I have written about many aspects of this city in more than one genre for the past 15 years (including travel writing) and I need to make it clear that the review of this travel guide which takes issue with the fact that the writer lives part of the year in California is unfounded and unfair. To begin with, if residing in a place about which you write travel guides was a requirement, we would have very few travel guides (check the bios of most travel writers). But even if we could manage to have all travel writers living year-round in the destinations they cover, not only would they be able to cover only 1 location but moreover it would just be a bad idea. Anyone who lives somewhere 24/7 loses perspective on the place
(even the most unusual places start to feel normal if you live there long enough) and the job of a travel writer is to report on what makes a locale different, interesting, and worth visiting. As a writer, Mary Herczog offers the best of both worlds - someone with an outside perspective AND someone who is local.
Another important point is that Frommer's is the only travel guide who updates every year. The review also complained about the book warning that information may change between the time it was collected and the time it is published. That is actually a good thing. A reader should be grateful for the heads-up. Katrina or no Katrina, people come and go and businesses go out of business, etc. If the lag time between data collection and publication is a concern, then Frommer's is the best book to go with because it updates the most frequently.
Anyway, aside from these issues, this is an outstanding guide which speaks for itself - buy it, read it, plan your trip around it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frommer's New Orleans 2007 (Frommer's Complete), March 11, 2007

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Prcupay (chicago Il) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frommer's New Orleans 2007 (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

This guide has been very helpful to me. There are many tips and web sites listed. It appears to be up front about what is up and running since Katrina and what is not. It doesn't seem to play favorites, except maybe on the hotel choices. I have read on-line reviews of some of the recommended hotels, and they don't always agree. It has given me enough information that I won't feel like a total tourist when I get there. I also feel like I can make choices based on what I enjoy doing and not waste time on things I don't.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars They aren't very thorough when updating their data, May 9, 2007

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Mark R. Garner (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's New Orleans 2007 (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

Greetings from New Orleans. No, we aren't still under water. Come visit and see for yourself. Now, the folks at Frommer's may have tried but they have fallen short. As someone who has associations with New Orleans' truly wonderful 'Ogden Museum of Southern Art', I was curious to read their review. Well, the guide has two reviews for the museum - the first of which isn't very complimentary (and which makes Frommer's look like complete idiots). Their review is of the Julia Street facility which CLOSED IN 2003!! On August 22, 2003 the Ogden Museum moved into a brand new building designed by world-famous architect Errol Barron which is then besmirched in the second review which faults the building for being too spacious (the critique said the space could have been better used to display art) which also shows they were ignorant of the impending new wing of the museum which has recently opened. The building was designed to be spacious as it itself is a work of art. Maybe I'm being picky but including a review of a site that has been closed for almost three years in an edition supposedly updated after the apocalypse (Hurricane Katrina) is symptomatic of a generally poor job of proof reading and cross-checking. I wonder if their guide to Constantinople suffers this way. I say ditch the guide and just come to New Orleans. Don't make your decisions and travel plans using a flawed guide written by non-residents. Ask a New Orleanian - they'll tell you where to go for great food and good fun.