NYC guide book recommendations?

[sun starved Gayle]

Going to New York in April, want to buy my husband a good a good travel/guide book for Christmas to read before we go. Suggestions?

TIA,
Gayle

 

[wackymother]

The DK Travel Guides are good. Lots of pictures, helpful info. Good luck!

 

[Avery]

If you are foodies, pick up a Zagat Restaurant Guide.

 

[MULTIZ321]

Gayle,

When you open the Tug Eastern-US forum - at the top of the list is a Sticky
titled "Eastern BBS City & Area Travel Website" - open that hyperlink
and scroll down to the link for Frommer's Snap Guide to NYC (it's in a snipurl.com format) - open that hyperlink for links to other Frommer's Snap Guides to different neighborhoods in NYC.

If you haven't already looked at it, the Sticky is a great resource to other NYC websites too.

Richard

 

[Luanne]

If you are foodies, pick up a Zagat Restaurant Guide.

Yep, that's the one I'd recommend.

 

[debraxh]

I like the DK guide too, and the maps are really good. It's great for reading before the trip, and for planning while at the hotel, but I didn't like carrying it around all of the time because it's heavy (good quality paper, I assume). If I go back I would get the "Not for Tourist Guide" as well, since it's small and easier to carry around (but not many nice pics either).

 

[Jestjoan]

It's not a book but what about the live NYC hosts/guides?

 

[Avery]

It's not a book but what about the live NYC hosts/guides?

You mean the Big Apple Greeters; they are supposed to be great, get in line early.

 

[Jestjoan]

YES, exactly. http://www.bigapplegreeter.org/

I was searching guides/hosts and then the word greeter finally came to me. Avery would have saved me a lot of time!

If you do a TUG search you'll find the original thread.