Travel Guides for San Francisco

Access San Francisco (8th Ed)
Pack lightly and carry the best travel guides going: ACCESS. Arranged by neighborhood and featuring color-coded entries keyed to easy-to-read maps, ACCESS guides.

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Eyewitness Travel Guide: San Francisco and Northern California
Each book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place.

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Fodor's 2000 San Francisco (Fodor's San Francisco, 2000)
"Fodor's guides are always a pleasure." -- The Chicago Tribune
"Teeming with maps and loaded with addresses, phone numbers, and directions." -- Newsday
Experienced and first-time travelers alike rely on Fodor's Gold Guides for rich, reliable coverage the world over. Updated each year.

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Lonely Planet San Francisco (Lonely Planet San Francisco)
Travel through the hidden pockets and idiosyncratic history of San Francisco with this guide, written with an affection for the city that enlivens every page. San Francisco's restaurants, shops and cutlural offerings enjoy detailed coverage, as do tempting destinations outside the city.

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Photosecrets San Francisco and Northern California: The Best Sights and How to Photograph Them (Photosecrets (Series).)
All-color guide for people who enjoy photography. Packed with over 400 color pictures that YOU can take. Includes photo tips and 70 color maps

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The Best of San Francisco : The Top 10 Seafood, Restaurants, Neighborhood Pubs, Views, Bike Trips, Art Galleries, Victorians, Cheap Meals, and Much, Much More.
A city of 4,000 restaurants can be a bit overwhelming when it comes to choosing a place to eat, for locals and tourists alike. And the same goes for enjoying Victorians, shopping, and bars. So Don and Betty Martin have done a great service to mankind by narrowing the choices to manageable, listing what are, in their opinion, the 10 best: seafood restaurants, takeouts, places to dance your socks off, handsome Victorians, architectural uglies, places to snuggle, the 10 best reasons to get out of town--plus 47 other categories that encourage you to partake of the finest San Francisco has to offer.

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Complete Idiot's Guide to San Francisco and The Wine Country
Quick & Easy Guidance so your customers will have more time to enjoy their trips and less time to rummage through pages of useless information. Heavy use of dynamic icons, maps, and indexes expertly developed by our Frommers travel staff. Idiot-Proof Instructions so your customer will know when to go where and why, all without the stress of wondering, Will I get burned? Down-to-Earth Advice detailing the location by sights, hotels, restaurants, dos and donts, tourist traps, and time- and money-wasters to be avoided! Our new Complete Idiots Travel Guides have the advice and opinions that matter for the perfect idiot-proof trip.

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The Unofficial Guide to San Francisco (1st Ed)
The renowned Unofficial Guides are trusted by millions of readers. No other series offers such candid evaluations; every hotel and attraction is rated and ranked by a team of unbiased inspectors, so readers can be sure they're spending their time and money wisely.
Each guide features detailed descriptions of a wide range of hotels and restaurants in all price categories, with all the details pulled out so they're extremely easy to scan. Readers love the rating system used to objectively evaluate attractions, hotels, and restaurants. Handy charts demonstrate how each place stacks up against the competition. There's a wealth of information -- enough to satisfy even the most compulsive planner.

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San Francisco As You Like It : 20 Tailor-Made Tours for Culture Vultures, Shopaholics, Non-Bohemians, Fitness Freaks, Savvy Natives, and Everyone else
This is not your father's guidebook. It's not your standard-issue travelogue, filled with page after page of glossy photos and a laundry list of the usual sightseeing suspects. But it is the perfect book for anyone who's ever been expecting company and said to themselves, "Where the heck am I going to take them? From a "Great Benches" tour of San Francisco for grandparents, to a coffeehouse where your avant-garde aunt can get her tarot cards read, to a tour for residents who need to rekindle their love affair with the city, San Francisco As You Like It offers something to suit every personality type. It's frank, firm, and occasionally ornery advice for natives and visitors alike. Take it along with you on your excursions, or use it for vicarious armchair entertainment.

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Michelin Green Guide: San Francisco (Michelin Green Guide: San Francisco, 2nd Ed)
The world standard for travel - Michelin Green Guide - San Francisco. It organizes the City and the Bay area into neighborhood and regional chapters, provides good historical background on them and list more sites than most travel guides. Michelin give extensive coverage to museums, even providing collection floor plans.

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The Best of San Francisco & Northern California (4th Edition)
From the renowned Gault Millau series, an entertaining, opinionated, and comprehensive guidebook to Northern California. Whether it's an over-recognized, under-achieving hotelier or an out-of-the way imported linen specialty shop, the editorial opinion is unswayed by populist thinking. Includes a new shopping section that highlights good bargains and a listing of restaurants with special features.

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Frommer's 2000 San Francisco (Frommer's San Francisco 2000)

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Frommer's Irreverent Guide: San Francisco
Was that RuPaul in the elevator? How about some attractions that won't bore the kids? For readers who are tired of the promotional fluff and brochure-speak that characterize most travel guides, here's a fresh voice. "Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco" offers a balance of good and bad, leaving the final decision on what to see, where to eat, and where to stay up to the reader. Maps.

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Get Lost! The Cool Guide to San Francisco
"...new and noteworthy." -High Times

"...an essential pocket bible for low-budget travelers." - Algemeen Dagblad

The ultimate listing of the coolest, cheapest, most interesting and delicious places in San Francisco.

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Avant-Guide San Francisco : Insiders' Guide for Cosmopolitan Travelers (Avant-Guide)
From the entertainment spaces of South of Market to the recreational possibilities of Golden Gate Park, travelers can't lose with "Avant-Guide San Francisco". "No other guide captures so completely and viscerally what it feels like to be inside the city".--"San Francisco Bay Guardian". 100 photos. Maps and charts.

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Romantic Days and Nights in San Francisco (2nd Edition)
I've used several of the books in this series but SF is by far the best. You can pick a weekend and just follow it, you won't be disappointed. Or you can easily combine things from multiple weekends. Little insights like telling you the best room in a hotel helps!

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Fodor's Pocket San Francisco 2000 : The Best of the City
"An excellent choice for people who want everything under one cover." -- Washington Post

"Splendidly compact yet infinitely helpful...admirably concise without losing one ounce of relevant coverage..." -- Booklist

Pocket Guides are designed for travelers who want the highlights of a destination. They contain full, rich descriptions of the best a destination has to offer -- the most worthy sights, the best restaurants and lodgings in all price ranges, plus shopping, nightlife, and outdoors highlights.

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Time Out San Francisco (Time Out San Francisco Guide, 3rd Ed)
The Third Edition of Time Out's guide details all the hills, islands and squares, buildings, bridges, and beaches of San Francisco and the Bay area. With critical information on what to see and what to avoid, shops, museums, and restaurants--from the best dim sum in Chinatown to cybercafes in SoMa and Cal-Ital cuisine in Berkeley--Time Out gives the skinny on all of the off-beat hot spots, unveils the ins and outs of the gay capital of the world, and even provides the ambitious traveler with tips on how to head out of town for surfing, sunbathing, or visiting the wine country.

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San Francisco Guide: Be a Traveler-Not a Tourist!
San Francisco Guide by Stephanie Gold is one of the most comprehensive looks at the Bay City on the market today. A great resource for visitors, it's also thorough enough for any local who wants to hunt down the inside scoop. Clearly, Gold has a handle on her town, and readers will appreciate her breezy, conversational style.

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Compass San Francisco (San Francisco (Compass American Guides))
"An unbeatable combination of literate writing and superb color photography make this a very special reference." -- Travel and Leisure

Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture, and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of the region they're visiting.

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City-Smart Guidebook: San Francisco (City Smart Guidebook. San Francisco, 1st Ed)
This is the perfect-sized take-along guide to the best of San Francisco. Written by an area local, it's chock-full of maps and honest reviews about what's really worth seeing. And it includes not only the author's recommendations, but also other San Francisco residents' suggestions. Insider tips and fun city trivia let everyone, even diehard San Franciscans, learn something. It's got everything from information on where to stay, eat, and visit - including sights and attractions, museums and art galleries, kids' stuff, and parks and recreation - to advice on shopping, sports, performing arts, nightlife, and day trips. There's lots of practical information, too, such as lists of post offices, hospitals, and newspapers, plus sections on schools, the economy, and dressing for the weather, and a calendar of events.

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Top 10 Guide to San Francisco
The Top 10 Guide to San Francisco highlights the very best attractions of San Francisco, California, so that you may fully enjoy your trip. With this guide you will see and experience the very best of the city. Included are the Top 10 Things to See and Do in the City, the Top 10 Romantic Places, and a complete guide to the Top 10 Restaurants by type of restaurant and by location.

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