Customer Reviews

New York for the Independent Traveler: Fun Self-Guided Tours with Special Maps, Step-by-Step Itineraries and Floor Plans (Independent Traveler series)

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Usefulness is the key when it comes to travel books, and I have yet to find a more useful travel guide to any city. When my family and I planned our trip to New York City, we knew we only had a few days to see everything we wanted (not to mention the Broadway shows we had tickets for) but were at a loss as to how to plan our sightseeing. I mean, how many sights can you see in New York? How long can ne spend at the Metropolitan Museum and still have time to see other sights? What other sights are available in the same general area? Too many times on other trips, I'd see one thing and find, to my horror, that the other thing I wanted to see was on the other side of town and would close before I could get there! This book lays out for you in detail several different three-day tours you can take. It includes recommendations for lunch stops and evening activities. The section on the Metropolitan Museum was invaluable, as the museum is so large that, without this book, I never would have been able to see everything I wanted to see, and I would have missed some exhibits with which I fell in love...

I highly recommend this book to everyone who's going to New York City. In fact, I recommended it to a friend of mine who lives in New York. She not only found it useful herself, but she bought the book so she could loan it out to friends who visit and stay with her.

This book was a last-minute buy right before my trip, and I have to thank the travel-guide gods for my good fortune in finding it. The trip wouldn't have been the same without it! Now I'm planning a trip to London and Paris and have been lucky enough to find a book by the same author on London. Unfortunately, I'll have to wing it in Paris, as she doesn't have a book out about that city (too bad).

I can't blame anyone but myself. I read the first few pages of the book via the link provided here. I read the glowing review. Unfortunately, I failed to notice the publish date on the book OR the date of the review. This book was written in 1997. I've never been to New York, but I can only imagine that much of what is in the book is no longer valid. Example: The book is sending me to have lunch in Tower I of the WTC, and then take the escalator to the mezzanine of WTC Tower II to the TKTS booth for Broadway tickets.

I MAY be able to use a couple of the maps, etc. but this was pretty much $20 (with shipping, etc.) wasted.