San Francisco Encounter Travel Guide

by Alison Bing

Book Overview

This travel guide to San Francisco enables travellers to travel the way they want to. Information is provided on where to eat, sleep and shop and an itineraries chapter allows the traveller to plan... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1741049962
• ISBN13: 9781741049961
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

If You Only Take One Book With You

This book fits in a jacket pocket or a purse. Spot-on restaurant recommendations, useful maps, good itinerary ideas. Much more useful than my brother's Frommers. Very helpful overall. Every restaurant I ate at out of here was a palate pleaser. Only wish the maps could show where the hills are, have the BART routes, etc.

You really will discover more of the city, with less space used in your knapsack

The Lonely Planet Encounter guide to San Francisco follows the snappy, concise format of the other books in the series--a highlight chapter, followed by sections (by neighborhood) on where to Shop, Eat, See, and Play, and a conclusion with page-long snapshot essays and details on transportation, history, and practicalities. The opening chapter is a list of 11 top excursions in the city, with parenthetical references to the page number where specific restaurants and sights are discussed. Even the back cover is a useful to six exciting adventures--vintage shopping, club-hopping in SoMa, writing Beat poetry, visiting the Mission, strolling bayside, and visiting foggy Alcatraz. As a Southern California resident, I visit San Francisco annually. I've used dozens of different guidebooks, and I thought I had a good handle on the city, but author Alison Bing has written about a treasure trove of smaller museums, shops, and entertainment options. This guide is especially useful for the traveler who has the lay of the land and wants to uncover more gems in the city. The closing chapter also has some great suggested reading titles for anyone looking to explore San Francisco a little deeper.