New York City For Dummies by Myka Carroll (PDF)

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For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommer’s. Small trim size for use on-the-goFocused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price rangesTear-out “cheat sheet” with full-color maps or easy reference pointersFrom soaring skyscrapers to rumbling subways, power shopping to bargain-hunting, world-renowned restaurants to neighborhood delis and pizzerias, majestic cathedrals to Times Square—New York has it all. Chances are you can’t do it all, but this friendly guide helps you take a big bite out of the Big Apple with:Maps and tips for getting around by public transit, plus sights best seen on footA calendar of events for every seasonA shopper’s guide, including trendy areas like SoHo, NoHo, and NoLitaInformation about great free attractions, including the Staten Island FerrySample itineraries to help you make the most of your tripLike every For Dummies travel guide, New York City For Dummies, Fifth Edition includes:Down-to-earth trip-planning adviceWhat you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skipThe best hotels and restaurants for every budgetWith information on “must see” attractions like the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, places to take the kids, an insider’s look at the nightlife, tips on getting discount tickets to popular shows, and a Quick Concierge with all kinds of info, this guide will have you saying, “I love New York.”

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Take a bite out ofthe Big AppleFrom soaring skyscrapers to rumblingsubways, power shopping to bargain-hunting, world-renowned restaurants to neighborhood pizzerias, majestic cathedrals to Times Square —New York has it all. Packed with info on must-see attractions like the Statue of Liberty and the Empire StateBuilding, plus an insider’s look at nightlife, shopping and dining tips, and more, this guide will have you saying, “I love New York”!Open the book and find:Down-to-earth trip-planning adviceWhat you shouldn’t miss —and what you can skipThe best hotels and restaurants for every budgetLots of detailed maps

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐A+++++

⭐This book was very helpful while planning our trip to NYC.

⭐easy to read ………no bull at all………..perfect size to carry around and great for First time travelers to new york….needs to be updated more often

⭐Great!! Came in handy on our first trip to New York.

⭐This is a very informative book. I can’t wait to take my trip and check out all tips and hints.

⭐This is my first review of anything on Amazon, and I was looking to get this book for my friend for Christmas and noticed that this book only had 2 reviews…..One good and one not so good, so I decided that I should add a review. If you have never been to New York City before, then get this book!!! I bought this book before I made plans to go to the city. We spent 3 days there and by using this book we had an awesome time!!! I can’t believe the things we did and saw in just 3 days and I know we wouldn’t have if I didn’t get this book……..well worth it!! I also recommend the New York City Pocket Map, just like it says fits in your back pocket and has a great pop up map and very easy to understand subway map.

⭐Great book. Took awhile to get it in the mail, but AFTER I got it I realized it was worth the wait

⭐Traveling through the freezing cold on my way to Borders wasn’t the worst part of the research experience. Getting to the travel section only to find that there were very few “For Dummies” travel guides, and even fewer on places that interested me wasn’t the worst part either. The worst part came after selecting the guides and settling down on the second floor of the bookstore and opened the first guide to find that the entire book was in black and white. One would think that with at title like “For Dummies” everything would be laid out for you crystal clear with clever illustrations for humor. What I expected was a small, colorful very simple travel guide. Something with very clear maps and not a lot of text, after all if the target audience is dummies things should be very basic. However, the “For Dummies” travel guide isn’t really a guide, it’s a heavy-duty book. They were about an inch and a half thick and filled with black and white text; the only images besides the occasional map were small black and white cartoons in the beginning of each section. “For Dummies” does have some useful information; both “Germany for Dummies” and “Paris for Dummies” provide a glossary of terms in the back of the book as well as an index of the seasons so travelers can decide the best time to take their trip. Each guide has a list of icons to help make choices easier for travelers, the icons highlighted things like more cost efficiency or kid friendly. The “For Dummies” travel guide has potential, but the main problem is that it’s too boring to be so heavy, there needs to be more color and images instead of paragraph after paragraph about all the different hotels, land marks and restaurants there are. The lack of creative effort greatly distracts from the guides attributes; more color or more illustrations could be used to he most important aspects of the guide.There’s an entire section of the guide detected to the “bests” of New York. Everything from hotels to restaurants to clubs s listed and not only that, but it’s broken down even further into different types of bests. The best four- star hotel, best kid- friendly hotel, and the best cost- efficient hotel are just a few of the awards given. While this is a great thing to have in a travel guide because it makes decisions easier while planning a trip, it’s mind numbing to have to sit and read through pages of suggestions. It’s understandable that “For Dummies” wants to break everything down for travelers and suggested by the tagline “Making everything easier.” However, there’s a line between “Making everything easier” and overwhelming the reader. In the attempt to make things easier for travelers “For Dummies” has actually made things worse, with so many suggestions on where to go and what to do it’s almost impossible to make a decision.The audience of these travel guides seems to be tailored to the type of place it is reviewing. The Paris guide encourages independent traveling and is most likely intended for women; it emphasizes all the shopping there is to do in Paris and provides an extensive list of hotels, It even provides a clothing size conversion chart. The New York City guide on the other hand was jam packed with landmarks, tourist attractions and activities only families would be interested in. This guide directed travelers to the most irritating parts of NYC and left out some very crucial ones.Money seems to be a very important aspect of traveling to the “For Dummies” travel guide writers. Taking cost into consideration is a good thing, but when it becomes a main priority it takes away from the other aspects of the book. The “New York City for Dummies” is especially money conscious; it emphasizes the fact that New York City can be quite costly. Yes, the city can be very expensive, however most of the prices provided in the book off. Perhaps its because the edition of travel guides at Borders is outdated, but unless people plan shop only at gift shops and other outrageously priced venues, a bottle of water does not cost $2. There are thousands of delis and bodegas that understand how to reasonably price merchandise, not all the best places in New York have to violate your wallet, and while “For Dummies” claims to understand this it still contains outrageously priced items. Also, transit fares have increased, and the guide provides old metro card prices. “New York City for Dummies” directs people to experience the fake New York; it includes places that aren’t worth the traveler’s time. Standing online for hours to see the top of the empire state building for 20 minutes or crowding onto busses and boats for tours just does not seem worth it. There are so many places in the nooks and crannies of the city that people could explore. Instead travelers are pressured to see the mainstream New York City that most people end up hating because they encounter irritable civilians that are just as uncomfortable and cramped as they are. This type of information is very misleading for perspective travelers and while it may be an issue with the bookstore not having the most current edition in stock it doesn’t help the image of “For Dummies.” When exploring the online database of “For Dummies” one will find that what’s sold in stores not online. “New York City for Dummies 5th Edition” is provided online, and thank God it’s been updated because the prices provided in the edition in Borders are very off. Also, “Paris for Dummies 5th Edition” is online but not in stores and when searching “Germany for Dummies” every other German related “For Dummies” book shows up except this one. A traveler purchasing one of these guides on line is going to be better informed than a traveler picking one up off the shelves, unless they intend to go to Germany, in which case they’d be better off taking the trip to Borders.

⭐Not what I expected.Too much about hotel costs. And the various standards. You can only stay in 1 hotel… if you are on budget, dozens of deluxe hotel reviews are pointless and vice versa. All info out of date the minute it’s written.Wanted write up on sites, areas, history…other books much better.

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