Can you Recommend Travel Book for USA?

smiler289

Hi!

Planning a trip to Las Vegas next year and a road trip, can anybody recommend any good travel books and maps?

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fifitrix123

The best ones I have found are the Dorling Kindersley as they include loads of photos so you can actually see what you are looking for!
Their descriptions are good as well.
They do a Las Vegas one and also a 10 best things in Las Vegas which is not as good.
Best places to go from Vegas are Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon.
Maverick Helicopters do some great trips over vegas at night for around $60 and also over the Canyon. You can also white water raft down the Colarado River which is awsom!!
In vegas buy a daily hop on hop off ticket $5 for the Deuce double decker bus which runs the length of the strip right down to Freemont Street and also out to the outlet shopping malls (change at the bus station but ticket still valid) which have some great bargains. If you can get a front seat at the front of the bus its like having a guided tour of the strip which is especially good at night!

Hope this helps..................

Alikay

I really like the Frommer's guides for the USA - lots of nice tips for those little special extra sights, which aren't necessarily covered in the usual attractions listings...they call them "moments" I think.

Lonely Planet and Rough Guides are good, but can be a little bit earnest and factual for me...particularly in the USA where language and culture isn't such an issue as, say, Asia. The DK guides are also good and the photo's are lovely - I always get a DK "top 10" guide as an extra to pop in my pocket when out and about as they're small and slim and have really good city maps.

debs66_2

i have a Road Trip USA book and Frommers guide to Vegas. Both good, and the former very chunky, but to be honest the best resource i have found is the internet.

we did Vegas and a road trip 2 years ago. all planned using www.tripadvisor.com, www.maps.live.com, and www.roadtripamerica.com.

the road trip book i got is good, but it covers the whole of the USA, and we only wanted to touch on what is a small part of it (although that small part is massive). The roadtripamerica site is great for just searching. you should never need to post as the moderators seem to know every road, shortcut, scenic route, best view route going, and it's all been covered. if you do post, they are super quick at replying.

we planned the route using the maps.live site, as you can plot distances from place to place, as well as tripadvisor, as there is plenty of info about whether a place is good to stop at, and where to stay once there.

if you do want a book though, Frommers is a good range to start.