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 : Insiders' Guide to the Twin Cities, 5th (Insiders' Guide Series)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.765790454
EAN: 9780762734092
Edition: 5th
ISBN: 0762734094
Label: Insiders' Guide
Manufacturer: Insiders' Guide
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 424
Publication Date: June 01, 2006
Publisher: Insiders' Guide
Studio: Insiders' Guide




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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Very Interesting Book
THE INSIDERS' GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES, 5TH EDITION is a wonderful book that describes not only the urban neighborhoods in Minneapolis and St. Paul, but many of the suburbs as well (although it does manage to miss close-in ones such as Golden Valley and Edina), as well as the many shopping and dining experiences available in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, including the humongous Mall Of America and some of the smaller record stores and book stores. Overall, this book shows the Twin Cities to be an ... Read More



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Not a useful guidebook
(These comments are on the 4th edition: I hope the 5th is better!) This is everything a guide book should NOT be: not very usable (no useful info to orient you to the city and its neighborhoods); not entirely accurate ("it's next to impossible to find a place to park downtown"... hunh??); and provides very little about the intangibles that give visitors a preview or feel for a new place and help them make decisions. Also some confusingly overlapping maps of downtown.

Just one example ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Full of information
This book is full of useful inoformation. As with any book of this nature some of it is going to be out of date before printing but most everything that remains is useful and helpful.







 






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