Avant-Guide New Orleans: Insiders Guide for Cosmopolitan Travellers

by Dan Levine

Whip smart, stylish and bang up-to-date, the Avant-Guide series is the vanguard of a new generation of guidebooks for travelers who have outgrown backpacks and shoestring budgets, but are too young... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891603108
• ISBN13: 9781891603105
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Empire Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

It's the perfect guidebook

I love Avant Guide. There is so much to say about it. First of all, I live in San Francisco, and originally bought the San Francisco book to get to know my own city better. I see it in book stores all over the city and the look and format stands out head and shoulders above the competition. This New Orleans book is amazing. It's the perfect guidebook. I love everything about it: The pocket informer at the end of the book, the tidbits at the end of each chapter like the right wine to pick with food and the clothing size converters. And the slang section is one of my favorites. I also found many surprises listed in timelines that were new to me. Next time I travel, there is no doubt which book I will be taking along!

Informative, entertaining

When I was walking through the French quarter I was stopped by Anne Rice and she asked me for directions. I was happy to have my Avantguide with me. Just kidding. But the guide is great! Well structured with thoughtful layout and exact information. It gives you all you need.

Simply Great

This guide gave me a proper upperside knowledge about New Orleans, but also about the underside (about which I am not going to tell my wife). I had the greatest time in my life!

Fun, Fresh Attitude

Yearning for a travel guide that doesn't make you drop off to sleep? If you're younger and hipper than most, but still appreciate the finer things that a little money can bring, this guide should be just for you. So many travel guides take on an academic, droning tone, that it was refreshing to find a book that made travelling sound like the adventure we yearn for. The writing has a conversational note to it, that sounds as though your friend (albeit highly literate) is writing to tell you of their trip. The reader may find themselves reading it cover to cover as opposed to just jumping to a desired chapter as you might do in other travel guides. The chapters on shopping, restaurants, hotels and museums give thoughtful reviews and suggestions while the other sections on history and culture help give spice and flavor to the city.

Thank You!!!!!

I took Avant Guide to New Orleans and I couldnt be happier. This book showed me a side of the city that no other guide did -- I had three. The book is especially good for restaurants, nightlife, and shopping. But it had terrific hotel recommendations too. Its not for old people, though. Bravo!