Lonely Planet Miami & the Keys (City Travel Guide) [Paperback]

Adam Karlin (Author)

Book Description

Series: City Travel Guide | Publication Date: September 1, 2008

Discover Miami & The Keys

Dare to bare in the people-watching paradise that is South Beach
Consult a vodou doctor in matters of the heart in a Little Haiti botanica
Sip mojitos alongside celebs and wannabes in the hottest clubs in the city
Skim through the otherwordly beauty of the Everglades by canoe

In This Guide:

58 clubs, lounges and bars, 40 days and nights of going out and getting in past 3am, one very tired author
Dedicated full-color chapter on Art Deco Miami, the signature, sleek face of the American Riviera
Interviews with a Miami foodie blogger, a vodou (voodoo) priest from Little Haiti and the CIA officer who captured Che Guevara in 1967
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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet; 5 Pap/Map edition (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 174104698X
• ISBN-13: 978-1741046984
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #829,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Juvenile, January 12, 2010

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This review is from: Lonely Planet Miami & the Keys (City Travel Guide) (Paperback)

Unless you are a completely immature seventeen-year-old, this guide is absolutely useless. Badly written and badly organized, imprecise and hard to navigate. What a disappointment from Lonely Planet!

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid offering with all the necessary info, November 13, 2011

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This review is from: Lonely Planet Miami & the Keys (City Travel Guide) (Paperback)

Got this guide for a week-long vacation in South Beach and have to disagree with other reviewers here. It's a solid Lonely Planet offering with all the usual info you'll need and it has a pullout map that I found quite practical.

The book tries for an entertaining style which may or may be not to your liking but complaining about snarky comments on South Beach? Come on! The place satirizes itself,basically. I liked my week there but at no time was I under the impression that I was spending my time at the Louvre or the Prado. I found the guide quite apt in its descriptions.

So to sum up: Solid, can't really go wrong with this one.

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless Guide Book Filled with Snark, October 31, 2011

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This review is from: Lonely Planet Miami & the Keys (City Travel Guide) (Paperback)

I bought this book in the hopes of receiving restaurant and bar recommendations for a long weekend spent in South Beach. I had great success with Lonely Planet Montreal and Seattle so I had high hopes for this book. The guide included hardly any restaurants for Miami Beach or South Beach and the author could barely conceal his contempt for the South Beach club/bar Scene. Reviews of clubs and bars consisted entirely of snarky comments making it impossible to use as a guide. Wound up relying exclusively on yelp! which was less expensive. This was a waste of money.