Fodor's Arizona & the Grand Canyon [With Pullout Map]

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

Book Overview

Fodor's. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor's helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you're at the helm, Fodor's offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It's like having a friend in Arizona -Your vacation never looked better. This Fodor's full-color guide paints an unforgettable picture of Arizona with vibrant maps, vividly illustrated features, and stunning color photos. -Updated annually, Fodor's Arizona provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook. - Fodor's Arizona features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime. -If it's not worth your time, it's not in this book. Fodor's discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor's Choice designations, ensure that you'll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Arizona. -Experience Arizona like a local Fodor's Arizona includes choices for every traveler, from shopping for Native American crafts or sipping a margarita by red-rock canyons to spa-going, river rafting, golfing, and hiking. Plus a unique photo-feature imparts the region's culture, covering the Colorado River. -Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include "Top Reasons to Go," "Word of Mouth" advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls. -Full-color pullout map Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400008565
• ISBN13: 9781400008568
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful & Informative

For several years I've been using the Fodor's published books when going on vacation and wouldn't consider another product. When planning my visit to Arizona (having never been there) it was very helpful and detailed. The book is organized very well and now contains comments that have been submitted by other travelers. The book also contains a LOT of information about the Grand Canyon.

excellent vacation planner

This book is easy to follow, wisely laid out and super for details in planning a vacation no matter for how long, a week or a weekend. It is a little scant on hiking trail information like the level of difficulty or actual lengths. It could provide a trail guide, but these are also available on other sites and this book does provide much more than just what a trail guide book would.

did not use after all

I ended up not using this guide, so I can't really review it

Solid Guidebook for Arizona, lacks grand canyon info though

I used this guidebook for a short road trip to Arizona from Los Angeles. The book is well written and organized as most Fodor's books are. It lists the usual thorough list of hotels/restaurants, mileage distances from cities, histories and summaries of each cities as well. My only complaint for the book would be the fact that for most travelers the highilght of a trip to Arizona will be the Grand canyon. This book seems to lack a lot of detailed information about the grand canyon. If you're just planning to go to the grand canyon for a half day or so to view the canyon then the grand canyon info in this book is enough. However if you are planning to stay there for a few days and hike, camp, take a mule ride, etc, then I suggest also purchasing a grand canyon book to supplment the info in this book. Overall a great book full of useful information to plan and guide you through a vacation to arizona. However if you're looking for a lot of detailed information about the grand canyon then you might want to purchase an additional book solely for the grand canyon; such as lonely planet's grand canyon to supplement this book about Arizona.

Dusty trails

Like a cheerful, well-mannered hotel concierege, this book provides sound, mostly accurate, but impersonal, information. And like all other Fodor guides, it's organized in a logical, formulaic, and generic fashion.It's really several guidebooks in one. The first is a splashy, saturated color, quasi-National Geographic booklet for the attention-deficit reader. The second, meatier section, has quiet prose, lots of lists, gray, incomprehensible maps. The final section--Background and Essentials--is the most thoughtful and complex. You can really sink your teeth into the first two essays in this chapter covering the geography, geology, climate, and anthropology of the region. The small Rand McNally map is ok, and will probably be perfectly adequate for a short trip.