1,000 Places to See Before You Die

Rating:
Summary: Kudos - A Job Remarkably Done
Review: I have been professionally traveling for 35 years and for personal reasons twice that. Yes this 900-page travel bible features a lot of (historical, must-see and unusual) hotels, but there are so very many more museums (the world's biggest and best and the small gems too), festivals (a betrothal festival in in Morocco's Atlas Mountains and the Spoleto Festivals in both Spoleto, Italy and Charleston USA), food experiences (the Maine Lobster Festival and George Blanc in France) and sites of natural beauty (the Grand Tetons, Patagonia, Cappodocia in Turkey, Italy's Dolomite Mountains, Connemara in Ireland) - oh and I could go on and on....as Patricia Schultz does. You can never please everyone all the time, but no one has ever come as close as this intrepid author, and with a lovely and easy to read prose that should awaken the adventurer and explorer in all of us. I gave 20 of these books away as Christmas gifts and now have 20 best friends who are still talking about the best gift they ever received.

Rating:
Summary: The World Is Our Playground
Review: Where to go next? Why? When to go? How to get there? The passion and patience the author sustained for the many years it took to compile this travel bible is mind boggling. They are her thousand top picks - not mine and maybe not yours. But no one has ever tried to put it all between two covers and so successfully (in my opinion). Man is a list-making animal - Top Museums, Top Adventures, Top Golf Resorts. But this personal life list tries to be a little bit of everything - everywhere - for all traveling types, and the close-to-thousand pages mix the humble with the magnificent, the fast food with the gastonomic temples, the just plain fun with those magical and spiritual places of the world to be revered. I've been to a great number of these places and the author is right on the mark - and I can only imagine I can expect the same success with those she writes about so beautifully.

Rating:
Summary: Title offends me
Review: I've seen this book in a number of bookstores. I have terminal cancer and everytime I see this title it makes me wince.

Rating:
Summary: An Incredible Guide for Travelers. 10 Stars!
Review: Patricia Schultz did one outstanding job in painstakingly putting together a travel guide for just about any type of traveler. From the not-so-well-known destinations, to the phenomenal sacred sites, where to dine, incredible beaches, contact information, phone numbers, museums, you name it, this book has it.
Whether you are planning a honeymoon, want to organize a trip or retreat to sacred sites, take your family on an incredible vacation, or see just one place you have always wanted to visit, you will find everything you need in this magnificently organized book.
As an avid international traveler, I can tell you Schultz brings you the best destinations, no matter what your budget, along with everything you need to know once you get there.
An OUTSTANDING Book! Barbara Rose, author of, 'Individual Power' and 'If God Was Like Man'

Rating:
Summary: 800 Hotels to See Before You Die
Review: This book is an advertisement for a lot of fancy hotels with a few notable places thrown in as an excuse. It is very disappointing.

Rating:
Summary: This book gave us a great family reminiscing day!
Review: My family has traveled often in the past, both as a group and individually, so we had a terrific time during a family gathering initialling the many destinations we've all visted and talking for hours about our favorite family trip memories. We also found our relatives' stories about their own lifetime travels so intriguing. It was a bigtime bonding day. We've handed this book along to my sister and her kids so that THEY can see where their Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts and Uncles have been -- and the kids are already writing down where THEY want to visit in their very exciting and dream-filled futures. If you want a fun family activity -- perhaps during a long car ride or at a family reunion -- grab this book. Beyond the wealth in its pages, you'll enjoy the wealth of talking about your best family memories. Wish I could give it 6 stars for how special a day it gave us.

Rating:
Summary: Browsing
Review: This is a good book to leaf through. You don't have to read it from cover to cover. It is enjoyable for people who have visited many of the places it mentions and are looking for new ideas, and also good for people who only dream of this kind of travel.

Rating:
Summary: A Gift Extraordinaire
Review: I've found it. For the last dozen gifts or so - and for countless occasions to come - I have found the fool-proof gift. The gift of magic and romance and adventure and fun that world travel promises - no, guarantees. Here's the beauty of this book: it is for everyone. Old, young, well-traveled, neophyte adventurers, the wealthy, the shoe-string budgeters, the daring, the daunted. The author has done what I consider to be an unprecedented job of research, and has put it all between two covers for us to utilize on a rainy day, or when those two precious weeks of vacation close in. Oh, the possibilities are endless!!! Thank you Ms Schultz. I want your job.

Rating:
Summary: A Stand-Out Travel Book In My Collection
Review: Expensive hotels? Well, yeah, sure. But detractors should be kept more than busy with the other 900+++ entries that make up a remarkable roster of museums, festivals, sites of natural beauty, gorgeous beaches, far-flung islands and, well you get my drift. But in the cornucopia of must-experience places and events, who wouldn't want a glimpse of the world's most historic, romantic and wonderful hotels to hang your hat and escape from the world in perfect isolation? Who's unrealistic enought to think that a 16th-century castle with an award-winning restaurant, champion golf-courses and countless amenities isn't going to cost more than the average Holiday Inn? For the author to have avoided a few dozen of the world's best and most pampering hostelries would have been a blatant and ignorant disservice. In my book she has covered everything. She also happens to be human, or maybe she's holding back a few for a sequel - one can only hope. Some of these reveiws that follow floor me. I say, let them draw up their own list.

Rating:
Summary: A Happy Gift Giver
Review: I have finally found the perfect Father's Day Gift for less than $100 guaranteed to please all the men in my life - my father (who has been dreaming of an RV and life-is-a-journey road trips), my husband (who always wants to travel but doesn't know where to begin), my 28-yr-old son (who has just become a father but intends to brings his kids everywhere with him, just as we did) and my step-son (who is doing a Jr-Yr-Abroad Program next year in Europe and is beside himself with excitement). Tired of hearing that men wont bother opening a gift unless they suspect it's power tools, a plasma screen or a Home Depot gift certificate? Entice them with this remarkable gift of the earth's wonder's, big and small, cheap (many free) and not - and maybe they'll take you along.