Frommer's New Orleans

by Mary Herczog

Frommer's New Orleans 2007 is a fully updated and in-depth post-Katrina edition. Our author, a New Orleans resident, has chronicled the city's devastation and resurrection, with full information on what neighborhoods have rebounded and what establishments are open for business. With complete coverage of area hotels and transportation options, this book has everything you need to plan a trip to this slowly rebuilding city. Our author helps you find the best places now to hear jazz, blues, and zydeco, and detailed neighborhood maps help travelers find their way across town.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470050225
• ISBN13: 9780470050224
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Frommer's
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

New Orleans 2007

This was one of the most informative tour guides I've ever had. It not only gave tips on where to go in New Orleans post-Katrina but also gave a lot of interesting background on New Orleans and various establishments. I'd recommend it for anyone traveling to New Orleans.

Outstanding, Indispensable Guide of New Orleans

I live in New Orleans; I am in the tourism industry; and I have written about many aspects of this city in more than one genre for the past 15 years (including travel writing) and I need to make it clear that the review of this travel guide which takes issue with the fact that the writer lives part of the year in California is unfounded and unfair. To begin with, if residing in a place about which you write travel guides was a requirement, we would have very few travel guides (check the bios of most travel writers). But even if we could manage to have all travel writers living year-round in the destinations they cover, not only would they be able to cover only 1 location but moreover it would just be a bad idea. Anyone who lives somewhere 24/7 loses perspective on the place (even the most unusual places start to feel normal if you live there long enough) and the job of a travel writer is to report on what makes a locale different, interesting, and worth visiting. As a writer, Mary Herczog offers the best of both worlds - someone with an outside perspective AND someone who is local. Another important point is that Frommer's is the only travel guide who updates every year. The review also complained about the book warning that information may change between the time it was collected and the time it is published. That is actually a good thing. A reader should be grateful for the heads-up. Katrina or no Katrina, people come and go and businesses go out of business, etc. If the lag time between data collection and publication is a concern, then Frommer's is the best book to go with because it updates the most frequently. Anyway, aside from these issues, this is an outstanding guide which speaks for itself - buy it, read it, plan your trip around it.

Great post Katrina update

good assessment of NOLA, what's open, what's in transition, and what's been destroyed

Frommer's New Orleans 2007 (Frommer's Complete)

This guide has been very helpful to me. There are many tips and web sites listed. It appears to be up front about what is up and running since Katrina and what is not. It doesn't seem to play favorites, except maybe on the hotel choices. I have read on-line reviews of some of the recommended hotels, and they don't always agree. It has given me enough information that I won't feel like a total tourist when I get there. I also feel like I can make choices based on what I enjoy doing and not waste time on things I don't.