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Summary: Great travel book for "beginners"
Review: Peter Greenberg gives some great inside stuff. With regards to the airlines and how they book and how you can ensure the most for your dollar (and spend less of them). Some rather ingenious ways to save across the whole travel spectrum, really - air, water(cruise), hospitality...Of course, anyone who has done much travleing (or even just a couple trips per year) may not find too many new ideas that they have not already learned. Finally, the book is more about how to get the best "deals" rather than how to get the best experience (actually, I prefer the latter). But, then, that is why you've discovered this book - to save money. And this book has some good points in that regard.
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Summary: Pedantic and unorganized
Review: Why a writer would chose to insult his readers is a mystery. Perhaps that is why he is the "Detective." His attitude towards not only the travel industry, but the READER as well, is so negative as to make this book almost unreadable. Actual travel tips are few and far between. Don't bother buying this one.
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Summary: An OK book
Review: If you don't know much about traveling ins and outs this book will be very useful to you, if however you are a seasoned traveler to even a slight degree - you will not learn anything new from this book!
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK UNLESS....
Review: If you know absolutely nothing about ways to get good travel deals, this book is an excellent place to start learning about them.If you know ANYTHING about travel deals, do not buy this book. It is patronizing and useless.
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Summary: Do not bother.
Review: Most of the "tips" in Mr. Greenberg's "book" can be obtained by talking to any frequent traveler yourself. Simply, the "book" does not deliver what it says it will. He talks more about the history of cruise ships than how to get a great deal on a cruise. He does not discuss how to get great service, he tells you how to make yourself a nusance with the people in the hospitality industry. Mr. Greenberg's negativity toward travel in general is also apparent. If you want to read a book on all the bad things about the travel industry, this book is for you. If you want to read a book about how to circumvent the ups and downs of the travel indsutry, you need to read another book.
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Summary: This book is great!
Review: This book is great! Clearly the people who have given this book a low rating work for the travel industry and are trying to deter sales. That's how much they don't want you to have the imformation...and that's how valuable it is.
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Summary: Best travel book I've read to date!
Review: I'm amazed at all of the tips and tricks that Peter Greenberg puts into this book. It is literally the book that the travel agents, airlines and car rental companies DON'T want you to see!!! It runs the gamut from how to decode those "stinkin' airline codes", to getting the best airline deals, and what NOT to do, like the rest of the sheep on your flight! This book keeps your sheep out of the reach of the airline wolves! Read it, buy it, do whatever you can to find the information contained in this book. It's the most useful tool since the food processor!!! Literally everyone will go away with AT LEAST ONE more tool they can use to LEGITIMATELY beat the airlines at their own games! Peter, if I ever meet you flying anywhere, drinks at the Admiral's club are on me! Woohoo! d:)
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Summary: Don't believe everything you hear from travel "experts"
Review: Mr Greenburg talks of airlines trying to scam everyone and making sure customers cannot use their mileage, but by advising flyers to request to speak to 'supervisors' everytime they don't get what they want he's not only giving them false hope (a supervisor is just a customer care rep and they cannot and will not give a seat that isn't available) but he's putting negative ideas in people's heads before they even call. i work for an airline and talk to hundreds of passengers everyday. Yes, sometimes it can be frustrating to use mileage, but there are also instances where someone needs to fly last minute and a tkt would cost thousands, but they can use their mileage and pay nothing. Many people are very happy with their mileage awards. Those who complain they can't use their mileage, are usually the ones who call in March to go to FL in April-the busiest time of the year. So airlines aren't the only ones out to make a buck, Mr. greenburg is feeding off consumer frustration to make his own buck.
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Summary: Just Horrendous
Review: Apparently some books sneak through the editorial process untouched and eventually emerge as literary abominations, as is the case here. "The Travel Detective" is greatly in need of major revision or just plain euthanasia. Presented in a whimsical and "organizational structure be damned" style, this book buries whatever useful information it has in a maze of humorless humor (often in the form of pointless stories) and illogical logic. It basically boils down to an unending stream of adjacent thoughts, facts and rhetorical questions. Greenberg, along with his editor, should be embarrassed by this attempt at bookwriting and should stick to writing articles for magazines. I HIGHLY recommend leaving this book alone.
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Summary: Did this book have an editor?
Review: Like a few of the other reviewers, I too read this book with a highlighter. However, I didn't find many useful tips to highlight. Instead I marked hundreds (literally!) of grammar mistakes, typos, etc. I don't believe that the manuscript made any stops between typewriter and printing press. The author and publisher should be embarrassed. I plan to send in my marked-up copy to them (the text is useless, anyhow). However, I don't expect that a second edition will ever be printed. Aside from the poor writing and editing, the book had few useful hints for anyone with any travel experience. I fly over 100,000 miles a year, and I know better tips than those suggested, and I also know that some of his tips are obsolete.
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