Moon Handbooks: Cabo - La Paz to Cabo San Lucas [Paperback]

Joe Cummings (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1998 | Series: Moon Cabo

Cabo Handbook contains detailed descriptions of virtually every hotel, motel, campground and resort betw een La Paz and Cabo San Lucas, along with opinionated views on dining choices. There are also ample details on activitie s such as hiking and fishing. '

Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Pub; 2 edition (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566911192
• ISBN-13: 978-1566911191
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,932,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joe Cummings was born in New Orleans, and raised in California, France and Washington DC. In high school he developed a taste for rock guitar and subversive politics, playing in a succession of garage bands while publishing an underground newspaper. After he graduated from college, the Peace Corps granted his request to be posted to Thailand, where he served as an English lecturer at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology in Bang Mot, Thonburi. He later earned a master's degree in South Asian Civilization from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a scholar in residence at the East-West Center in Hawaii. His Thailand guide for Lonely Planet was the first guidebook to that country written in English since 1928. An instant success, it remains one of the bestselling guidebook ever published. He has authored over 35 other books, including coffeetable books, phrasebooks and travelogues. Joe has twice been honoured with the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award and is also a recipient of Mexico's Pluma de Plata (Silver Quill) for outstanding foreign journalism on Mexico. He never gave up the guitar, and continues to jam regularly at clubs in Thailand, where he makes his home.

Customer Reviews

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An INVALUABLE guide for any visitor to Cabo!, July 11, 2000

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Jeffry Ehlers (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moon Handbooks: Cabo - La Paz to Cabo San Lucas (Paperback)

Back in 1996 I was looking to travel to Cabo for the first time. I was totally unfamiliar with the area and looking to read up on it. In searching the book stores I couldn't seem to find anything with more than a page or two talking about Cabo. Then I found it... the PERFECT guidebook-- "Cabo - La Paz to Cabo San Lucas". I can't even begin to tell you how helpful this book has been to me. It helped me choose a hotel on my first visit, a condo for my second visit, beaches to dive at, places to pick up groceries, etc. If it's in Cabo, it's in the book! The funny thing is that book has made many more trips to Cabo than I have! It travelled down there with my dad & his wife, it visited with my friend's parents, and it even went on a honeymoon down there with a couple from my church! Everyone raves about the book when they return. If you're going to Cabo, this is the only book you'll need for everything you'll want to know!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moon Cabo Book - 3 rd Edition, January 2, 2003

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Bill Thomson (Pullman, Wa. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cabo: La Paz to Cabo San Lucas (Moon Handbooks Cabo) (Paperback)

My family just returned from 2 weeks in Cabo. During this time we used the Moon guide (3rd ed.) extensively. We visited San Jose, Cabo SL, Todos Santos, and east cape as well as various remote points in between and found the book accurate every step of the way. This book is very well researched and complete - although pricing was a couple of years out of date. I assume the 4 th edition corrects that. This book is a "must have" for travelers to Cabo who want to do more than just stay in a pre-packaged all inclusive resort.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars an attractive, helpful guidebook, January 15, 2003

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David Stanley (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cabo: La Paz to Cabo San Lucas (Moon Handbooks Cabo) (Paperback)

This concise guide covers the bottom quarter of the Baja California peninsula from La Paz to Cabo San Lucas. It's chock full of useful data and advice cultivated over four editions. The sports and recreation sections are admirable, and there's good information on the local food and drink. The hotel listings are useful too, although exact room prices are not quoted for some reason. Instead there are price ranges with "under US$25" the lower end category. Restaurant meal prices are also missing - "moderately priced" can mean anything - but opening hours and menu descriptions are provided. None of this will be a real problem for the vast majority of visitors, but low-budget backpackers will be left guessing at times. I found the coverage of city bus services skimpy, although inter-city buses are adequately described. I sought and didn't find tips on getting too/from the airports on the cheap (US$14 per person for a colectivo to cover the 12 km to/from La Paz Airport doesn't sound like the cheapest option to me). Maybe Cabo just isn't a shoestring destination the way Thailand is - and I know Joe Cummings is very familiar with Thailand. Joe has plenty of helpful hints for motorists, but I couldn't find anything about parking. Is free, secure parking so universally available around Cabo that's it's not even worth a mention? Travelers who have used the Moon Handbooks series in past will be impressed by the resigned format exemplified in this volume. Cummings himself took most of the black and white photos, and I like the way sites are clearly labeled on the maps and not listed in cumbersome keys the way they are in Lonely Planet. However, 18 maps in a 288-page guidebook seems too few to me. These minor caveats aside, Moon Handbooks Cabo is value for money and it will serve the independent, adventuresome traveler well.