Customer Reviews

Frommer's Philadelphia & the Amish Country (Frommer's Complete Guides)

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My family and I used this guide to plan and have a great trip to Philly. We used restaurant, hotel, and sight portions of the guide, but focused mostly around Liberty Square. I wish it had pointed out a couple tips: go to the visitors center when it first opens in the morning, no matter how hard, and get tickets to liberty hall. Then, walking down to the Bell, you will avoid the 1 hour lines you have most of the day, and get right into the Liberty Hall tour. Then you've got time for a stroll before lunch, and the rest of the day to relax. I can't believe how many people were standing in long lines, or missed out on tickets because they showed up at 10am. Anway, good guide, and I'd buy another again from them.

Let's face it, when people travel or are new to a town one of the first things they want to know is where the good eats are at. This book lists only a handful of decent restaurants in Philly.
It is one of the smaller Frommer travel books that I've come across. I guess that is because there's not much to do in Philly. It is somewhat helpful.

We stayed a long weekend, and this guide was useful. Note, its several years old. They have lists of recommended things to do and where to stay. I didn't really follow all of that, but it was still helpful. We found the Holiday Inn Historic on AAA web site at a great price, and knew more information about it because of this guide.

We used this a lot while planning and touring in Philadelphia. This edition is out of date. Nearly all prices were wrong, sometimes buy more then $15. I also would quibble with some of the restaurant price catagorys. It's a convenient size and weight for carrying.