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Hawaii Eyewitness Travel Guide (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
written by Bonnie Friedman
Studio : Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
by Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
Released : 2007-04-05
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 9781405319751
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 14 reviews)
Our Price : $19.42
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This book is easy to read, concise and to the point. Seems to contain all of the sites a first time visitor would want to see. I purchased two other books on Hawaii but this will be our main guide. The others will serve if we want more details about the sites. I know others who have used this book in Hawaii and they highly recommend it. |
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Nice travel book with photos. |
It is a great book, has a lot of color pictures, but dont have great maps and is difficult for travelers.
I recommend only for first time visitors to Hawaii.
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Too short, too high level |
We own about 15 of the DK Eyewitness Travel guides, and have dogeared the pages over several trips. They are amazingly useful.
But this one is not their best effort. Hawaii is a very diverse place, and to try and "hit the highlights" in a travel guide is a mistake. This book is right at 200 pages, but almost 80 are about Honolulu, Wakiki and Oahu, leaving only 120 pages for all of the other islands. Even the pieces about Oahu (with little info about the west coast/Makaha and just a mattering on the North Shore) and Honolulu (with a few measly paragraphs on Pearl Harbor) is scant.
As I said, I love the DK Eyewitness series, it is the first travel book we get when going someplace new. But for Hawaii, there are several other books more in-depth. If you are going to Maui or The Big Island, I suggest getting Maui:Revealed or Hawaii The Big Island: Revealed (each 300 pages, pictures, maps, etc.)
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Beautiful pics |
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I like the Eyewitness Travel Guides mainly because, when planning a trip, I get more excited about it just looking at the pictures I will be seeing in person. These guides have beautiful photography. There was great information in the Hawaii Guide, although I was surprised to find no mention of Nawiliwili, Kauai, where our cruise ship docked. I know others who have stayed there as well, but didn't find mention of it. However, the information was helpful and it was great to find places in Hawaii that were not gouging the tourists for all their money! The book helps with that. |
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Disappointing |
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I give this book 3 stars because the pictures are beautiful and they made me go and visit the places pictured in the book. But, as another reviewer wrote, you can't cover all the Hawaiian islands in 150-200 pages. Way to little info about the islands and the sights. Ok if you want a quick overview, but not ok if you want details. I usually like the DK guide books, but this one was disappointing. The Ultimate Guide and the Rough Guide are much better. |
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