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The Unofficial Guide to New York City (Unofficial Guides) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Eve Zibart, Lea Lane
Creator: Rachel F. Freeman
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 780300
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 465
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0471763969
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.4710444
EAN: 9780471763963
ASIN: 0471763969
Publication Date: April 3, 2006
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World
"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
--Chicago Sun-Times
"Indispensable"
--The New York Times
Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide:
* Honest, streetwise advice that allows you to feel safe, comfortable, and at home in the Big Apple
* Hotels at every price level, ranked and rated for value and quality of rooms--plus proven strategies for getting the best rates
* The best restaurants for every taste and budget
* How to get tickets to the hottest Broadway shows--and not pay full price for them
* The straight truth on all the attractions, from Central Park to the Statue of Liberty
Sample Rating
Metropolitan Museum of Art Appeal by Age Preschool Grade school Teens Young adults Over 30 Seniors
Fifth Avenue between 80th and 84th streets (entrance at 82nd), Upper East Side; # 212-535-7710; www.metmuseum.org
Type of attractionreatest museum collections in the world. Nearest subway station Admission"Suggested" $15 adults, $10 seniors; $7 students; children ages 11 and under free. HoursSunday and Tuesday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-8:45 p.m.; closed Monday. When to goaturday evenings for dining and music; call # 212-570-3949 for special events schedule. Special commentsNo strollers allowed on Sundays. Author's ratingit this every time we were in New York and never feel as if we had seen it all. How much time to allow1H-5 hours.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Official Disappointment November 24, 2008
Unlike other titles in the series, the Unofficial Guide to New York City doesn't have suggested touring plans or "must see" lists. The restaurant desciptions are lacking (for example, there are NO restaurants listed on 9th Avenue Midtown and there are NO restaurants on the Chinatown map!). There is a brief introductory chapter on the history of the City and that is worth reading.
 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
13 out of 14 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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