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The Unofficial Guide to New York City (Unofficial Guide to New York City, 2nd) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Eve Zibart, Bob Sehlinger, Jim Leff, Lea Lane
Publisher: Frommer's
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1855200
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0028637240
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.4710444
UPC: 021898637246
EAN: 9780028637242
ASIN: 0028637240
Publication Date: April 2000
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Book Description
Look no further for unbiased ratings of all the best hotels and restaurants in the Big Apple. With the Unofficial Guide in hand, readers can be sure they'll make the most of their time and money. Tourism to New York City has skyrocketed in recent years -- the city is now the #3 destination in the entire country!
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The Walt Disney World's guide is much superior May 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World is excellent, the best Disney guide, specially for it's details. I wanted a New York guide, so I guessed this would have the same quality. I was wrong. It doesn't comes close. Fodors is a better choice with more useful information. The Unofficial also needs a more careful update. It's written that I could find a Warner Bros store at Columbus Circle, but the Warner stores closed many years ago. Fortunately I was already well informed.
 Not very useful January 3, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you need a guidebook that will help you plan an itinerary, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE! This book, while chock-full of information, gives no practical tips whatsoever about how to arrange activities while touring. I read through it twice and came away with snippets of information but nothing that helped with actually planning how my family would spend each of our four days in the city. The index is incomplete and much of the information is sketchy at best. I would NOT recommend this as a resource, especially for first-time visitors.
Unofficially, it's inconsistent December 17, 2005
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Who wouldn't like to get the unofficial word on a big complex city? Who wouldn't like to feel that they were going to be able to find the places that make a city memorable, and that they weren't going to stick out as easy pickings while doing so?
These guide books promise, essentially, that you will know what you are doing before you've actually had the experience, removing some of the nasty anxiety of going horribly wrong as you set out to find urban magic. Some of their features are excellent. The hotel section, for instance, is comprehensive and gives several ways of looking for a hotel that might match your needs. Neighborhood overviews are also very fine.
HOWEVER! other aspects are both annoying and silly. Addresses are often wrong; hours of operation ditto; information about public transporation is (to be charitable) out-of-date. Nothing quite beats hopping confidently onto a bus with a pocket full of dollar bills, only to discover that busses only accept tokens or quarters.
They don't do badly at explaining what attitude you need to take to manage in New York, but neither do they do well. They hint, for example, at the importance of tipping, but do not convey the underlying fact that tipping in NYC is essentially small-time protection money. Not that that's a bad thing. Similarly, restaurant coverage was unimaginative, but maybe there is no way to predict whether a tourist would prefer a very very safe and bland experience, or is more adventurous and would prefer places where the locals eat. Even then, which locals?
This book helped us find a hotel that pleased us. Still, the other aspects annoyed us sufficiently that we left it behind in JFK before we took off.
 This book is like Consumer Report for the Big Apple. August 15, 2003
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
On a recent business trip, this guide offered everything I needed-- a cheap place to stay, some great places to eat, great rates on all the top attractions, and even Broadway shows without paying full price.
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