Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9781566913935
ISBN: 1566913934
Label: Avalon Travel Publishing
Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 690
Publication Date: 2004-04-08
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Studio: Avalon Travel Publishing

Whether you want to explore the Alamo or the nightclubs on Austin's bustling 6th Street, the fifth edition of Moon Handbooks Texas makes traveling in this larger-than-life state possible with up-to-date maps, photographs, accurate descriptions, and detailed directions. Savor the flavors of Terlingua's World Championship Chili Cook-off, tour the historic missions of San Antonio, or venture into the primitive depths of Big Thicket National Preserve. This guidebook provides the tools to create an unforgettable trip. Author Joe Cummings, a fifth generation Texan and world traveler, pours the flavor of his native state into informative, easy-to-read tips on everything from cowboy hat shopping in Austin to surfing and scuba diving off Galveston Island. Accessible and eminently useful, Moon Handbooks Texas is for travelers who want a completely unique and completely Texan experience.

Customer Rating:
Summary: extremely outdadted, never-updated info
Comment: I live in Houston and bought this for info on the Hill Country. I can live with most of the entries being uselessly brief. I can life with his hotel recommendations in the Hill Country that consist of standard chain motels that I probably am intelligent enough to find without buying a guidebook But even though this is a 2004 edition, I found lots of info for both Houston and the Hill Country that is ten and sometimes 15 years out of date. Much of the Houston restaurant section is unchanged from the earlier edition, and includes restaurants that have not existed for at least 10-15 years. This also applies to some of the hotel and 'sights' listings. In the San Marcos section the book talks about the amusement park/show/hotel on Spring Lake; this was taken over by the university in the late 1990s (ten years ago!) at which time all of that info (retained here in the 2004 edition) became useless. The restaurants listed for San Marcos mostly have been out of business for years, and even his listing of cheap chain motels -- the only lodgings included -- are out of date by a decade.

The information on Big Bend is excellent. It's useless, waste of money, for everything else.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Moon Handbooks Texas
Comment: We found this very useful on our trip, finding great spots to visit that we may not have otherwise found.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent guidebook
Comment: I used this book extensively during the three years I lived in Texas. I liked its mix of history and practical where, when, and how information.
Organized regionally around the major cities, the Texas Handbook also includes numerous towns and sights of interest in the surrounding vicinity and places between. It does a remarkably good job of covering such a large state.
Hopefully a new addition is in the works. Because it was published in 1998, most prices will be out-of-date, but it's so easy to now get hours & admission via web sites, that it's not that big of a problem once you've used the handbook to identify all the interesting places you want to visit.

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