Lonely Planet San Francisco: City Guides

By John McQuiston II

Book Overview

This guide provides extensive information on a range of places to stay and eat for both business and leisure travellers. It covers the whole San Francisco Bay area, and has suggestions for excursions beyond the Bay area including Napa Valley wineries. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1741041546
• ISBN13: 9781741041545
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

The only guidebook you need (just add a detailed Muni bus route map and you are set for weeks of fun

I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to guidebooks. I don't believe that there is one-size-fits all guidebook, and when I travel, I get an arsenal of books and select the top three to use on the road. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that I needed no other guidebook to San Francisco! As a general rule, Lonely Planet guides are the most compact and info-packed books on the market, and this guide is unparalleled...

Excellent guide to San Francisco

This is the first Lonely Planet guidebook that I have used extensively. I live in Northern California, and was looking for a book with decent maps, phone numbers, and descriptions of restaurants, hotels, and other attrations in San Francisco. This guidebook provides all of this and more. It includes walking tours, features on unique aspects of San Francisco history and culture, and great maps. Having been to San Francisco...

another excellent Lonely Planet Guide

Yet again Lonely Planet has produced a very readable and useful guidebook. I bought this for a 5-day trip to the Bay area and was never at a loss for information. The 16 color maps at the back were extremely helpful: one of the biggest problems I have with guidebooks like Fodor's is that they often have confusing maps which can really get you confused and lost, whereas here any idiot like myself can find his way around easily...

San Francisco native highly endorses this book

After using many Lonely Planet guides abroad, I felt there must be some valuable information about my own city. I bought this book to have as a reference when I had friends visiting from out of town (especially if I needed to send them out on their own!) but have used it for so much more. The restaurant recommendations and even suggestions for sightseeing have surprised me and I have even learned a few things I didn't know...

Great book

Being very disapointed about the Lonely Planet guide to my own city (Amsterdam) I was quite sceptical about this guide, but it's great. It has helped me find nice places, good food and has helped have a great week in San Francisco. I never use the hotel-information supplied by Lonely Planet, but the rest of the information was correct, and the hunderd of sidelines the writer takes make the book a joy, even now I am back...