Customer Reviews

Garmin nüvi Travel Guide Fodor's North America Map microSD Card

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3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

So far this has been a disappointment. I assumed this would cover most of the U.S., but it's limited to very large cities and the most popular tourist destinations, about 100 areas in all. Many states have *no* coverage. And coverage is limited to (at most)50 items per category. So even for major cities it lists only 50 hotels, 50 restaurants, etc, and many times far less. The SD card is 128mb, but only 20mb is used for data! You can copy the data from the SD card to the GPS, and there is no activation code, so the data isn't locked to a single GPS.

Most expensive 20MB of data I ever bought.

Garmin needs to have a chip to up-grade changes in the NUVI 660 in the restaurant section each year.

This week I went to three places coded in for Italain,two had changed and one was out of business.

I installed this in my new Garmin Nuvi GPS prior to making a trip to Iowa City, Iowa. Thought that it would provide some information useful about the City and the surrounding area. Found that there is not a single location in the memory that covers anywhere in Iowa. This is advertised as a North American travel guide. Did they move Iowa?

Well, maybe I was expecting too much but for the $50+ price I was expecting much greater coverage of the entire country. Not being a prior Fodor's guide user I was expecting this guide to be much more like the Michelin guides I used when in Europe. Wrong! The level of detail and coverage outside of just a few of the major metro areas is minimal to nonexistant. This product should be called "An Overview Of Selected Sites In North America" Not worth the money!

Product has little information about even major metro areas, let alone less populated ones. Totally useless.

I agree with the other comments about the coverage only being for large metro areas or POI such as Grand Canyon or Wine Country. For intermittent information between large cities it nothing.

Really not worth $50. get an AAA book

I feel the coverage is very limmited. I tested it in the area I already knew and found it covered only about 1/4 of the establishments I love to eat and drink at.

Still good for a start in a strange city.

maybe useful for big cities or fancy hotels,resturants; no good for trip planning; better to get the Gamin CD map updae or update online

Garmin and Fodors should be ashamed of this product. The coverage is absurd. In Washington D.C. I looked for a restaurant near my current location. Nada, but I was surrounded by a wide variety of places to eat, some of them very highly rated by local media. This guide wanted me to go most of the way across town, an expensive cab ride, to a neighborhood that I was advised wasn't very safe. You're better off to Google the city before you visit and take along a few pages of printouts. Do not waste your money on this piece of garbage.

I live near San Francisco and wanted to use my Garmin when I entertained visitors. It does not have the comprehensive guide you would expect for the price. It lists some museums left off the DeYoung. One of the best museums in the city. Lists some attractions leaves out many others. it seems like only those items of interest that fodors got paid to advertise made the list. There are too many major points of interest for SanFrancisco left off. I can't imagine how bad it is for other areas. I am very disappointed. I wish there was a way to program my own points of interest in to my GPS. I would also like Garmin to add a narrated guide for the 49 mile scenic drive in San Francisco.