Series: Moon Handbooks
Paperback: 367 pages
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing (2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1631210297
ISBN-13: 978-1631210297
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #37,900 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #29 in Books > Travel > Food, Lodging & Transportation > Road Travel #64 in Books > Travel > Reference > General #77 in Books > Travel > United States > West > Pacific
I have read a lot of travel books, but this one is the best I have ever read. I want to plan a trip to drive the PCH, and the beginning of the book has a sample 21 day trip already planned out. It includes where to stop, what to see and where to stay. The following sections of the book elaborate on each of the trip segments, plus adds many more things to see and do. The maps, pictures, descriptions and layout are excellent.I bought other PCH travel books as well, but this is the only one I really needed. This is the book to buy.
I ordered this for my son who is taking a trip from Seattle down to San Francisco. It appeared to cover the entire west coast unlike other books that only listed specific routes. Seems to have all the info needed - sites of interest, places to eat/sleep in an easy to use, easy to read format.
We drove the Pacufic Coast Highway in July 2016 and bought this as a guide. It was quite useful, but also misleading regarding some of the recommended towns to stay and places to visit along the way. Towns, filled with transients and not safe highly recommended and beautiful, safe and clean towns not mentioned at all. Also crowded, tatty and grubby attractions highly recommended and others much more beautiful, excluded in the guide. It was puzzling and as a result we stopped using the guide halfway through our road trip. It has good maps, but you can get better, bigger ones on-line anyway. Use it as a starting point of you must, but not as a definitive guide.
Good book. We plan to travel the coast highway and hope to follow along in the book as we travel. Like the restaurant recommendations and price averages in it. I also like the help phone numbers listed for reference in the back.
This Pacific Northwest Road Trip Guide is excellent. The organizational plan, maps, and recommendations arre easy to study and base travel decisions on. As a result, I have ordered another such guide to help me plan the coastal highway trip from north to south.
We are going to take this road trip in 3 months. It is VERY easy to follow and you can skip around, but reading the beginning of each section is helpful. At first, being a map lover, I thought there were not enough maps! But there are a lot there, with blow ups of each area discussed. Still, I got AAA maps to supplement, being a map person by nature.
Could be a good book if you're planning to travel from Washington to San Diego. But for a trip up he California coast, it doesn't provide near enough detail to be useful. Very general in terms of hotels, restaurants and events. I do not recommend this book if you're looking to drive PCH from San Diego to L.A. Not much useful info.
Informative, easy to follow, well written. Great photos!
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