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Top 10 San Diego (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides)

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I love DK books and this one is no exeption! It was everything I expected from DK and more. I bought this book for a trip to San Diego that my husband and I recently took. This book was a lifesaver! The maps in the book were clear and easy to follow, the information on different sites was great; we carried this book with us in the camera bag and refered to it often. The maps were clear enough that we used them to successfully navigate through the city (I also had seperately purchased a very expensive laminated map of the city which proved to be useless and a waste of money). If you want the basics (top 10 everything) and a really good set of maps, this is definately the book for you! The book refers to the sunsets at Point Loma - don't miss this! They were absolutely breathtaking! By talking to the locals, we found several great restaurants that were not "touristy" and therefore not listed in the book. We were pleased with all recommendations, but Fish Tacos at South Beach Bar in Ocean Beach is a must! Inexpensive ($3 & $4), fresh and delicious!

DK Eyewittness always produce great travel guides especially there 10 ten sites. Its easy to read, small enough to carry around and has little gems of advice in there.

I've had this book for almost two years now. I originally started out visiting San Diego frequently, and now have lived here in SD for 2 months.

At first I used this book for the map, to learn where things are, and also to compile a list of things I wanted to do. My boyfriend and I usually set out to do one of those things on each trip that I would come to San Diego. This book was so helpful with that - for example on our visit to the zoo reading the top 10 was helpful because it gave me a sense of what the park had to offer, and what was in my own top things to see.

Now that I live here, I still use this book! I brought it with me just last week to Balboa Park, and I also use before I have friends to visit - I'll flip through and think of them and what might interest them. I even still open it up to look at the restaurants, bars, ect. And just as the other people have mentioned, I use the map all the time (And love that they have a flap so you can mark a page with them).

I highly recommend this book! It is my only San Diego guidebook!

This was a great easy, quick read. if you follow this guide, you should be able to maximize you visit in San Diego. i liked it so much, that I bought everyone on our trip one.

This is a great guide. Like all other TOP 10 series, this helps a lot when you have many choices and not much time to see all of them.

It's a pity that it is not as easy to find a good guide for San Diego that it is for San Francisco, Los Angeles or NYC.
However this one guide tells you what to see, museum, sights, etc, but don't use it in order to find restaurants and bars, the selection in this book in quite poor from this point of view.

Bought it, used it, loved it. Recommendation: If you are new to San Diego, don't go there without one of these guides! We used it everyday on our family vacation-took it everywhere with us ...very useful and very handy. I'm glad that we purchase this guide ahead of time-lots of informative info and a few good maps as well.

This book is perfect for my vacation. Great maps, easy to understand info, I can make travel plans from it, & then take the book with me.

I loved the first section where this book detailed the different sites to visit. We found a couple of museums and things to check out while in San Diego that we wouldn't have known about otherwise. Especially nice is the feature where certain attractions have the address, phone number, hours of operation, and admission cost listed. Less research that we have to do before our trip!

However, we were disappointed with the restaurant and bar suggestions. I checked out several of the suggestions on Yelp and they had very negative reviews. I realize this could just be the author's perception vs the reviewers on Yelp, but it was discouraging.

A big negative about the book is that the restaurant and bars are priced with the usual $$, $$$, $$$$ way of pricing, but how they came about this pricing scheme isn't all that helpful. The book states the following: "Price Categories include a three-course meal for one, half a bottle of wine, and all unavoidable extra charges including tax." It is hard to judge what they consider $$ or $$$ as we don't drink wine nor do we both order an individual appetizer and dessert when we go out. If this is how you eat, this probably won't bother you, but it was hard for us to figure out if a restaurant/bar was actually in our desired price range or not.

Missing was a list of breweries in SD. Seriously, SD is a HUGE brewery hotspot and there wasn't a Top 10 list for that.

Loved the pullout map (even though it didn't include Escondido which we needed).

Anyway, overall it was an okay book.

Again, I bought this for a friend that is moving to that area and she was so ecxited to get something she could use for a place she knows nothing about.