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| Fodor's U.S. and British Virgin Islands 2009 (Fodor's Gold Guides) |  | Author: Fodor's
Publisher: Fodor's
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Seller: Wendys Books
Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 453,393
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1400007054
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.297204
EAN: 9781400007059
ASIN: 1400007054
Publication Date: August 26, 2008
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Product Description
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.
Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in the U.S. & British Virgin Islands!
•Updated annually, Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.
•Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.
•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in the U.S. & British Virgin Islands.
•Experience the U.S. & British Virgin Islands like a local! Fodor’s U.S. & British Virgin Islands includes choices for every traveler, from scuba diving, kayaking, and horseback riding to the best beaches ideal for relaxing and family fun, and much more!
•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.
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 Great resource about a beautiful part of the world! March 19, 2010
Chitown Reader (Chicago, IL)
With the internet normally the type of information you would find in a travel guide can be found online. But with all the various nations and islands in the Caribbean, it is really great to have a repository of information in one very helpful guidebook. The information seems up to date and is very helpful in deciding, where in the Caribbean to go, and where to stay and what to do once you pick your island/destination.
I highly recommend this guide.
Great Guide! March 17, 2010
A. Bell (Cape Cod, Massachusetts)
I have been thinking of planning the sort of vacation where you don't actually have to DO much. I seem to spend all my vacation time running from site to site, schlepping through cities, and exhausting myself. This book is a great way to study up on the British and US Virgin Islands. Lots of well organized information, reviews of what to see, where to stay, what to eat. Definitely recommend to anyone planning a trip!
 Not as in depth as one would hope February 16, 2010
GW (United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The guide was very positive (a bit too positive) about every destination and didn't necessarily offer a constructive view. If you have a limited amount of time and budget and don't specifically know where you want to go in the Caribbean this guide won't help you narrow it down quickly. I offer the National Geographic website "Island Destinations Rated: Caribbean" as a much better introduction to the islands not written by the local tourism development head that can quickly give you some of the pro's and con's.
Besides this I used this book to try and plan a trip to the Virgin Islands, specifically St. John - however while many things were adequate I felt the book fell short. At a mere 35 pages on St. John (less if you take away full sized pictures) this guide was far too brief for my tastes and I found myself going to the internet to research more. I think if you printed all of this out on your own with 8X11 paper you would get about 10 sheets. If you plan on staying on St. John for a week (not an altogether unexpected plan) you would definitely want more than that right? More detailed driving maps, hiking maps, better beach reviews & pictures, more food recommendations including menu highlights and more detailed points of interest. Fodor's targets the upscale tourist and tends to highlight very touristy areas and businesses - the same things you would get from a tourist brochure for free.
Very pretty book but lacks local flavor January 31, 2010
Z. Freeman (Austin, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very nice looking little volume detailing the U.S. & British Virgin Islands. Since my wife and I were planning to visit there this year I thought I should read up on where we should go and what we should do.
The book is grouped into chapters by island, with recommendations for Beaches, Where to Eat, Where to Stay, Sports and the Outdoors, Shopping, and Nightlife for each island. There is also a separate section for diving and snorkeling as well as chartering a yacht. Each chapter is labeled with a quote from a Fodor's online user. These quotes may have seemed like a good idea, but they seem a little unhelpful to me. The opening section of each chapter is the most helpful, where the writers give a brief breakdown of the island - a little history, a little contemporary update and a little bit of what to expect as a tourist.
But while this book does provide plenty of strikingly beautiful "full color" pictures throughout, it's a little lighter on information than I would have liked, especially when it comes to "local" recommendations.
Though the book is written by two local travel writers, the biggest complaint I have with it is that most of the items marked as "Fodor's Choice" throughout the book (whether restaurants, hotels, or beaches) seem to be the most high-end tourist-centric places. Rarely do they recommend an out of the way local eatery or a small-but-homey villa for vacationing. Perhaps the writers are writing for a more upscale audience, but it seems to eliminate much of the local flavor of a vacation spot if the majority of the recommendations are labeled $$$$ (most expensive). I just don't think I need a travel book to tell me that the Ritz Carlton on St. Thomas is going to be a great place to stay.
Really informative and well written January 29, 2010
A. Swanson (NorCal)
I got this on sort of a lark. I'd been watching some House Hunters International episodes and saw one on the US Virgin Islands, and then this book popped up. I'd never read a travel book before and was very surprised how much I liked it.
First, I've traveled quite a bit for my job. I've been to twenty or so countries and never had advanced knowledge of what to expect in any of them. True, most of the time I went from airport (or train station) to hotel to server room and back, so I didn't really need too much info on the country I was visiting, but still, it would have been nice.
Containing great heaps of info on sites, costs, how-to's and other need-to-know items, this book could prove indispensable in planning and then taking your trip. Just the information on customs and passport needs and differences between the BVI and the USVI could save you a lot of worry and time. Even the info on where smoking is allowed (or not allowed) might make a non-smokers dinner plans easier.
Before I go to Europe next year, and I've been there a bunch, I'll be getting one of these for each country we plan to visit.
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