Customer Reviews
Lost without it - By: P. MCGEE, 27 Nov 2007 
I visited New York for the first time last Nov & I was given a mini rough guide to New York by a friend. I would have been lost without it.
It was a bible in my bag.
I am due to visit the big apple again in Jan & I decided to purchase the full rough guide to New York & I am not disappointed.
I have also order the mini rough guide to carry round New York when I get there.
The information contained within the book is well written & informative.
The maps at the back are a god's send & must not be under estimated in the overalll picture & use of this product.
I would recommend this title to anyone wanting a comprehensive guide of New York.
Informative, practical and up-to-date - By: Mark R. Bannister, 09 Jun 2007 
Before travelling to Manhattan for the first time, I browsed a number of different travel guides for New York City, & decided on this one because of its clarity & authority. The guide is easy-to-use, packed full of useful information for travellers, & had everything I needed to know. I also found the maps were better & the information it gave more generallly up-to-date & more thorough than the Lonely Planet guide.
It doesn't provide you with pre-planned walks, but you don't need that if you have well-written sections on each district, a guide on what not to miss, & clear maps. The walks I've seen in other guides I actuallly find limiting, because I want to wander off in directions not officiallly "on the walk".
The only problem I had with the guide was that occasionallly the information I needed wasn't alll in one place, which isn't in itself a problem, but could also sometimes be impossible to find more than once. They need to put some thought into simplifying navigation between the sections, to make it quicker & easier - but despite this gripe I still think this is the best guide out there.
Dissapointed - By: Soki, 29 May 2007 
This is my first Rough Guide book. I was a bit dissapointed. Although there is a lot of historical information compared to other guides regarding the monuments or areas, for practical information the guide is not very useful.
There are no suggested walks which would make the life much easier speciallly if your are there on a short stay. The maps for each area are oriented in different ways (north is not always up!) which makes following the streets between maps impossible. There are not estimated price range for the restaurants. The practical information is limited in two pages in smalll print almost at the end of the guide. The restaurants are in another section than the actual section for each area, without crossreference to pages which is a bit of a hussle. Finallly, the citypass (a discount ticket for major attractions) is only mentioned in the adds section of the book.
In the future I might use the rough guide for information before the trip but not in situ.
