The Insiders' Guide to Tucson

by Chris Howell, Rita Connelly, D.A. Barber

This informative guide gives you the inside scoop on Tucson -- where you can sunbathe end swim in the morning, ski in the afternoon (part of the year), watch a heart-stopping sunset over desert sands... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573801267
• ISBN13: 9781573801263
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Insiders' Guide (NC)
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

It's worth it

We were new to Tucson and have found this book invaluable. It covers most everything a new resident needs to know. With this book and a good map (you'll need one) you will have a good start in this city. Most information you will need is here. The rest filters in through the newspaper, Tucson websites, and the radio. I highly recommend this book if you plan to relocate to Tucson.

Tucson for the visitor

I was looking for a book that would tell me inside information about restaurants, shopping, art galleries, bicycle trails and side trips for our month long visit next winter. This book dealt with all of those subjects and some extraneous subjects I was not interested in. The chapters were well defined, so finding a particular subject was easy. I would recommend this book to visitors as well as those moving to Tucson.

moving to Tucson

I searched all over for a book on Tucson, and this was the best one my bookstore had to offer. I am excited to see all that the city has to offer, but I wish that this book or any book on Tucson at all, had more about people who are moving to the area and have no idea what to make of the different neighborhoods. They offer brief descriptions, but I would have liked to know more.

Just what it says: Insider's Guide to Tucson

I was moving to Tucson and I had never even been there. I looked through the book to get a feel for the city. After visiting and making the decision to move, I tried many of the activities and resturants in the book. I found all the reviews were accurate. When I asked 'locals' about different things about Tucson, they quite often said just what the book said. I even carry this book in my vehicle as I refer to it quite a bit. If you planning to move to Tucson, this is a must have. The small price of the book goes a long way in learning about all that Tucson has to offer.

Very informative, it's good to get a view from the inside

I enjoyed The Insiders Guide to Tucson since I will be moving with my family very soon to the area. I've been in Tucson a number of times so can be a little objective about the reporting and I must admit that it is a bit partisan, but then it wouldn't be an insiders guide if it wasn't. It demonstrates the wide variety of services available in Tucson and even without fancy colour photos makes the city sound attractive. I must admit that the comparisons on the restaurants are fairly exaggerated and it would be difficult to name any as remotely world class, but apart from that I thought the book was a super reference.