Packed with travel information, including listings, deals, and insider tips: CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and feel like a local. RELIABLE MAPS to get you around with or without a car. STRAIGHT TALK on the best caving, kayaking, swimming, scuba, and snorkeling hot spots. The best FESTIVALS on the island, from Ponce?s Carnaval to Moca?s celebration of mundillo lace. SCENIC DRIVES through the island?s stunning karst and desert terrains. OPPORTUNITIES to get involved preserving diverse flora and fauna. INCREASED COVERAGE of the untrodden Northwest Corner?s beaches and surf spots.
Customer Reviews:
Buy Lonely Planet instead May 17, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I travel to PR frequently for my job. I like to always have a guidebook with me in case I have a new person with me or venture somewhere new. I bought the Let's Go because my most recent Lonely Planet guide was 4 years old (too old for a guidebook) and the new one wasn't coming out until mid-summer. The Let's Go book was a disappointment. The information is insufficient, poorly organized, etc. For example, in the sections about Culebra and Vieques (places I love to visit), it fails to mention how to get to the ferry dock in Fajardo from San Juan - you either need to drive there and park (and finding the dock is NOT easy in Fajardo as putting up helpful signs is not something PR does well), or you can take a publico (they do tell you where the station is in SJ) but this takes all day and maybe won't get you to the dock at all. They mention flying but with no instructions or map for finding the airport in Fajardo. Anyway, this is just an example of where just reading Let's Go could lead to a very frustrating experience for a traveller. Being an independent traveller is great and implies some tolerance for "adventure" but it is the guidebook's responsibility to help independent travellers be prepared for what they are going to have to deal with so they can have fun! Buy Lonely Planet. It's a better PR guide. I have also read Fodor's pocket guide to PR. Skip that one too. And when you get to PR if you rent a car, buy a real road map at a gas station or drugstore.
Excellent! March 30, 2008 Loved this guide! We used it during our whole trip. The Old San Juan part is really detailed, with great maps and other listings. The restaurant listing is not as good--asking the locals may help there. The other sections of the guide are solid as well, but one thing to note--the guide book doesn't say much about the bioluminescent bay at Fajardo (maybe a word or two) but that was the best part of our trip. Don't miss it!
Quite confusing March 12, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Written by undergrad students at Harvard (my alma mater), this travel guide lacks the clarity and ease-of-use of other more professionally written and edited guides. Information is laid out with a single purpose in mind: to confuse you, the reader. Maps are scattered all over the guide, making it necessary to dogear many different pages -- which then defeats the purpose of dogearing since you don't know which marks what. Also, the font is *tiny*, making the book very difficult to read for anyone over the age 30.
Plus, the lodging and dining recommendations in this guide are horrible. Too few are listed, and they don't tell you what the area code is -- they just give you the 7-digit phone number!
Fodor's PR guide seems better, plus if you are an AAA member, you should get their free Carribean tour guide.
Tons of information, great guidebook! March 12, 2008 This book has great information for visiting Puerto Rico. We had bought a map but it turned out to not always be reliable, so this book saved the day! It has great details on finding hotels and it's very informative regarding the different regions of the island.
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