California Marco Polo Pocket Guide (Marco Polo Travel Guides) - Softcover

Marco Polo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3829706839 ISBN 13: 9783829706834

Publisher: MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG, 2016

Synopsis

Fully revised and updated for 2016. Now with new Discovery Tours chapter.

Marco Polo California: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips

Experience all of California's attractions with this up-to date and authoritative guide, complete with Insider Tips. Most holidaymakers want to have fun and feel relaxed from the moment they arrive at their holiday destination that's what Marco Polo Guides are all about. You'll discover hotels and restaurants, trendy places to go and the best nightlife spots, as well as tips for shopping and what to do with kids. Further sections include: Festivals & Events, Travel Tips, Links, Blogs, Apps & more, and a comprehensive index.

The Streets of San Francisco, Mickey Mouse, Hollywood, Napa Valley, Yosemite, giant redwoods and golden beaches, the list of California's attractions is endless. You might think you know it all ready from movies and TV, but the reality is much more colourful, flashy, quirky and above all beautiful.

With MARCO POLO California experience a holiday that mixes hip urban culture with the glamour of celebrity and a real-life road movie with awesome scenery, and the Insider Tips reveal where you can still find Love & Peace and where trees grow like cathedrals. Panels in each chapter suggest things to do if you're on a tight budget and where you might pick up some real bargains.

The Best Of pages highlight what's currently in vogue in California, recommend things to do for free, and have tips for rainy days and where you can relax and unwind. The Trips & Tours section takes you from the wild coast and mountains of the north to the surfing paradise of the south, whilst the Dos and Don'ts explain why you should avoid certain city neighbourhoods, amongst other precautions.

MARCO POLO California provides comprehensive coverage of all parts of the state. To help you find your way around there's the detailed Road Atlas, a useful map of San Francisco in the cover, plus the pull-out map. A must-have for all travellers, including those who haven't bought a travel guide in the past.

About this title

Review:

You've got to applaud Marco Polo's chutzpah to launch 30 new city/island guidebooks into an already pretty crowded market. Aiming to occupy the middle ground between the context-heavy luggage fillers and the context-free thinner volumes, the main USPs of these user-friendly guides are the plentiful Insider tips dotted around each edition, the maps they're packaged with, and the pocket cheering price (£6.99 each). Complete with near-magazine style features, they're certainly a less intimidating proposition than some of the big wedges on offer. --Wanderlust Magazine

About the Author:

Marco Polo Travel Publishing offers a wide range of high quality cartographic products and travel guides. Marco Polo Pocket Guides are known for their handy, compact format and Insider Tips. Our Travel Handbooks are the first to include infographics and our Spiral Guides feature unique lay-flat spiral binding. Marco Polo Maps are famous for the high quality of cartography in their Country, City and Holiday Maps.

About this edition

• Publisher: MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3829706839
• ISBN 13: 9783829706834
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140