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Summary: Handy Travel Book
Review: A well-organized book that does a very good job of detailing what there is to see and do on the major islands of Hawaii. Especially useful are the cross-reference notes found within the margins, and various "favorite" lists found within each section. Greg never steered us wrong. Also, an excellent reference for those who wish to camp or hike.
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Summary: Handy Travel Book
Review: A well-organized book that does a very good job of detailing what there is to see and do on the major islands of Hawaii. Especially useful are the cross-reference notes found within the margins, and various "favorite" lists found within each section. Greg never steered us wrong. Also, an excellent reference for those who wish to camp or hike.
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Summary: best general Hawaii guidebook
Review: My wife and I spent a couple weeks driving around Hawaii, and kind of went crazy on the historical sites, museums, and hikes. We found this book the most helpful because it was fairly complete (it does try to cover an entire state in one book) and current. Additionally, it provided a lot of historic context, allowing you to understand why each site was intersting. This is especially important if you visit some out of the way sites on the big island (like south point, or the birthplace of Kamehmeha... hope I got the spelling right) that don't provide a lot of information at the sites.This was my favorite of the Hawaii guidebooks (and maybe my favorite travel guide ever) BECAUSE it was so opinionated. So many guidebooks just rattle off long lists of places to see, eat, and stay, and don't really tell you how interesting, authentic, or nice any of them are. I find that an unopinionated travel book is not too useful, and reads like a set of ads. This book provides enough information or context for you to decide for yourself whether or not you share the author's taste, so you can easily choose which recommendations to follow or ignore. On the whole, we found the restaurant and hotel recommendations pretty accurate.
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Summary: an ok guidebook.
Review: THe rough guide hawaii is an ok guidebook, it does leave out some sights and things, but what i don't particularly like about it, is how critical the author is. he is very opinionated, he seems not to like lu'aus or the bigger resorts, and alot of the more popular landmarks he thinks arent worth visiting. although the book does have alot of information, i don't really like the "criticalness" of the author. having been to hawaii 6 times, The best guides for hawaii i can reccomend, are wizard publication's "big island/maui/kauai revealed" guidebooks, as they are written by people whom actually live in hawaii.
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Summary: Very good overview, but not the best
Review: This is a comprehensive guidebook for all the Hawaiian islands. It covers a lot of history and a lot of the sites. It also provides some basic information about hotels and restaurants. The pictures are somewhat lacking, but the text provides excellent descriptions. If you need one guidebook, this may be it, but it leaves out some stuff that is worth seeing or doing.
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Summary: Very good overview, but not the best
Review: This is a comprehensive guidebook for all the Hawaiian islands. It covers a lot of history and a lot of the sites. It also provides some basic information about hotels and restaurants. The pictures are somewhat lacking, but the text provides excellent descriptions. If you need one guidebook, this may be it, but it leaves out some stuff that is worth seeing or doing.
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