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Full-colour throughout
Free full-colour, foldout map
Completely updated every year
Our author, a longtime resident of Boston's North End, hits all the highlights, from Fenway Park to the Freedom Trail. She's checked out the city's best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, honest reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget.
Inside you'll find:
- Insider advice on experiencing the best of Boston without breaking the bank. Our author will point you to free or reduced-cost entry times at the top museums, the best spots for a picnic or a stroll, dirt-cheap college concerts and shows--and even free concerts by professional orchestras.
- Where to find the freshest seafood, the most elegant spots for afternoon tea, the tastiest dim sum in Chinatown, and the best cannoli in the North End.
- Up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife, from the artsy boutiques on Newbury Street to the lively and chaotic college bars & clubs in Allston.
- In-depth coverage of Cambridge
- Detailed walking tours; accurate neighborhood maps; and advice on planning a successful family vacation
- Side trips to Lexington, Concord, Plymouth, and the North Shore.
- Opinionated reviews. No bland descriptions and lukewarm recommendations. Our expert writers are passionate about their destinations--they tell it like it is in an engaging and helpful way.
- Exact prices listed for every establishment and activity--no other guides offer such detailed, candid reviews of hotels and restaurants. We include the very best, but also emphasize moderately priced choices for real people.
- User-friendly features including star ratings and special icons to point readers to great finds, excellent values, insider tips, best bets for kids, special moments, and overrated experiences.
著者について
MARIE MORRIS grew up in New York and graduated from Harvard, where she studied history. She has worked for Newser.com, 02138 magazine, the Boston Herald, Boston magazine, and the New York Times. She's the author of Frommer's Boston Day by Day and Boston For Dummies, and she covers Boston for Frommer's New England and Frommer's New England Day by Day. She lives in Boston, not far from Paul Revere.
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The Best Boston Guide
2012/4/20
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazon Vine™ レビュー
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I'm in Boston a lot these days for medical reasons, but often the whole family comes and we make a day of it - sightseeing, eating, etc. This is the best of the 4-5 guides I've tried. It's incredibly thorough and divided up nicely so that you can find what you need even if you're unfamiliar with the various neighborhoods and sections.
I'd like to especially note that the restaurant guides are dead on: I've eaten at roughly 30-50 places in various sections of Boston and if Frommer's says it's good, it is. They're pretty fair about the pricing descriptions as well.
I'm not sure how much help the huge, fold out map is, since most people are walking around with handheld GPS on their smartphone these days, but it's really handy to study beforehand because it helps you get a great feel for the layout of the city and proximity of the places you plan to visit (something that's clunky at best on Google Maps, etc.).
I've got trips planned for New York, Philly, and Providence soon and I plan to pick up a Frommer's Guide for a few of those, based on how good this one is.
I'd like to especially note that the restaurant guides are dead on: I've eaten at roughly 30-50 places in various sections of Boston and if Frommer's says it's good, it is. They're pretty fair about the pricing descriptions as well.
I'm not sure how much help the huge, fold out map is, since most people are walking around with handheld GPS on their smartphone these days, but it's really handy to study beforehand because it helps you get a great feel for the layout of the city and proximity of the places you plan to visit (something that's clunky at best on Google Maps, etc.).
I've got trips planned for New York, Philly, and Providence soon and I plan to pick up a Frommer's Guide for a few of those, based on how good this one is.
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Good But Not Great Guide to Boston
2012/3/29
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazon Vine™ レビュー
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First, this isn't an insider's guide. The things that you'll find here are the same things that you'll find in virtually any tourist guide to Boston. Take the Freedom Trail. Visit the Old North Church. Go on a Duck Tour. Yadda yadda yadda.
Realistically, there are great suggestions in here. But they tend to be buried in huge mounds of other information. For example, if I wanted a guide that was going to tell me where to go for Indian food, I wouldn't want to see something like, "Here's a list of sixteen restaurants that serve Indian." Unless you are LIVING in Boston, or going on a strange, Indian-food-only trip, that's just too many. Three, MAYBE four, and that's enough. In an effort to be comprehensive, the author went overboard.
In addition, there's a bit of a Downtown bias. Boston, more than many large cities, is a town of neighborhoods. Go to Back Bay and see the shops. Go to the South End or the North End to get good Irish and Italian communities. But, other than day trips to places like Lexington or the Cape (which are only about an hour's or so drive away), they basically suggest spending all of your time in Boston's downtown area, and highly limit their discussion of any of the near-burbs. Which is too bad, really. There's some great Chinese food in Lexington, for example, and some great Mexican food in Chelsea. Leaving them out for the overpriced locations near Park Street seems a shame.
There are a few things missing here. For example, there was no list of "Neighborhoods to Avoid", other than a reference here or there to avoid South Boston (i.e., "Don't confuse the South End with South Boston."). They never mentioned that you should probably avoid Dorchester, and if you find yourself in the place after dark, don't do yourself the additional disservice of carrying a pizza, lest you be the subject of an armed robbery.
In short, it's got all of the information that you probably would use for a week or so visit to the city. But it is missing a lot of the information that you would like to see as a resident of Boston, or a person who doesn't want to spend all of their time in the downtown area. With that caveat in mind, it's good, but it's not great.
Harkius
Realistically, there are great suggestions in here. But they tend to be buried in huge mounds of other information. For example, if I wanted a guide that was going to tell me where to go for Indian food, I wouldn't want to see something like, "Here's a list of sixteen restaurants that serve Indian." Unless you are LIVING in Boston, or going on a strange, Indian-food-only trip, that's just too many. Three, MAYBE four, and that's enough. In an effort to be comprehensive, the author went overboard.
In addition, there's a bit of a Downtown bias. Boston, more than many large cities, is a town of neighborhoods. Go to Back Bay and see the shops. Go to the South End or the North End to get good Irish and Italian communities. But, other than day trips to places like Lexington or the Cape (which are only about an hour's or so drive away), they basically suggest spending all of your time in Boston's downtown area, and highly limit their discussion of any of the near-burbs. Which is too bad, really. There's some great Chinese food in Lexington, for example, and some great Mexican food in Chelsea. Leaving them out for the overpriced locations near Park Street seems a shame.
There are a few things missing here. For example, there was no list of "Neighborhoods to Avoid", other than a reference here or there to avoid South Boston (i.e., "Don't confuse the South End with South Boston."). They never mentioned that you should probably avoid Dorchester, and if you find yourself in the place after dark, don't do yourself the additional disservice of carrying a pizza, lest you be the subject of an armed robbery.
In short, it's got all of the information that you probably would use for a week or so visit to the city. But it is missing a lot of the information that you would like to see as a resident of Boston, or a person who doesn't want to spend all of their time in the downtown area. With that caveat in mind, it's good, but it's not great.
Harkius
Very helful
2012/5/21
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazonが確認した購入
When planning trip one looks for a guide that will portray the area to be visited. This book does that.
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