Fodor's San Diego 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)

By Fodor's Travel Publications Inc. and Fodor's

No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this guide, updated every year, our experts who live in San Diego give you the inside track showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Start with the color planning section to help you decide where to go, use your personal supply of Post-it? flags to mark your favorite listings, and consult the foldout map to stay on course. Fodor's San Diego 2002 shows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges -- from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special. The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice -- from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Plus, web links, maps, costs, and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap. "The king of guidebooks." - Newsweek

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679008691
• ISBN13: 9780679008699
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Used the 2008 version

This helped us a lot on our visit to San Diego in the Spring of 2010. We will purchase the 2010 version.

Really helpful to the newcomer

As a Marine just stationed in San Diego, this book has proved invaluable. For starters, it showed me exactly where MCAS Miramar (my base) was in the San Diego area. So I bought this book before coming here determined to see the sights and to know the city itself. Whenever I leave base, I like to make the most of my time and know where I are going. For that matter, even to know WHERE to go. Now, I just read about a part of town and off I go. At my earlier duty stations, I would go out looking for things to do in the city and often find nothing. Worse, sometimes I would try one thing only to learn later there was something better I could have done instead. And that is with me living in the area! I have no idea how someone could fully appreciate a city during a vacation without these travel guides.Without this book, I would never have known I arrived during Whale Watching season until it had ended and the public transportation system would have taken me much longer to learn. Also, I would still be clueless about Balboa Park, which is now my favorite place in San Diego! As it was, I could have done all of this in a weekend, but I took two because I was in no hurry.I plan on using this book on many outings during my stay in San Diego. It gives me something to do other than go to the Mall and spend money (but it can help do that as well). Something for the first time traveler: Restaurants come and go, with some changing names and the admission prices to events and theme parks change as well. In the course of the year, nothing is too drastic but nothing is written in stone either. Nonetheless, the information in this book was always relevant.