Moon Metro San Francisco: Unfold the City

By Avalon Travel

Travelers will behold all that the city by the bay contains with the hip Moon Metro San Francisco. This sleek guide profiles the best of the city, combining selective listings of the hottest sights, shops, restaurants, amusements, and hotels with vivid color photos, graphics, and discreet, laminated, fold-out maps detailing all the must-see neighborhoods. Vacationers can bask in the luxury of the Mark Hopkins hotel and stroll through Golden Gate Park, dine on cuisine in North Beach, or catch a view of Alcatraz from Nob Hill. Moon Metro San Francisco leads the visitor to the city's top sights as well as the places only the locals know about. Clean, concise, and compact, Moon Metro San Francisco is the definitive guide to the most-visited city in the U.S.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566916615
• ISBN13: 9781566916615
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Moon Travel
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.1" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Loved it

I have to say that this book is just cool. I just got back from my first visit to San Francisco, and I am so glad I had this guide with me. The fold out maps are very clear and helpful. Even though the book is small, it hits all the highlights. I visited several shops and restaurants listed in the back, and I was never disappointed.

Easiest Guidebook I've Ever Used!

I've lived in San Francisco for five years, but I still get lost when exploring a new neighborhood. The comprehensive pull-out maps found in Moon Metro are so detailed, that they even include those hard-to-find alleyways and cul-de-sacs. I had friends in from out of town last weekend, and I let them use my copy. They loved it! I definitely recommend this series.

Great book! Nothing comparable (from a Bay Area Native)

I agree that what makes them cool is the foldout maps. The book is also pretty small. I've lived in the Bay Area all my life but still manage sometimes to get lost while hanging out in the city. I can put this in my coat pocket before I step out and not worry about looking clueless in front of my out-of-town friends. For people who are just visiting, I liked their selection of shops and places to eat. They didn't just list the usual tourist traps. And the color photos inside were pretty nifty, they could be postcards!

Better late than never

If only this book had been around when I moved to San Francisco two years ago! It's awesome. I got it as a gift and figured I knew my way around well enough that I would never use it, but I took it out one night and it's been in my purse ever since. I had out of town guests recently and they took it with them one day while I was at work. They came back raving about how easy it was to get around the city with the guide and how many great shops they found with it. Now every time I go out, I check the book first to pick a restaurant or bar.

Superior fold-out maps

This book has 8 or 9 fold-out neighborhood maps, all in color, all with a facing page map directory. They are the most legible city maps I've ever used and because they fold in and out of the book, it's so much easier to use than a standard map. The guidebook section of the book is color-coded to the maps and there's a street index. I'm a Bay Area resident impressed with this book and my visitors said it was all they used for their day trips to the City. I'd try other guides in this series for sure.