Time Out Guide New York

Now the Time Out City Guides are my favourite travel guides in the world. I purchased a Time Out Guide to New York for £8.99 from WH Smiths but its available from most good book retailers. It really is a great guide to a city based on the contributions of Time Out New York journalists it provides a brilliant accompaniment for any traveller. The book starts giving an in-depth history of the City, explaining how the City was used for Settlers from Europe and the history of Staten Island, the Statue of Liberty, the Rockafellar Centre and anything else you'd associate with the city. It then describes areas of interest in each region of the city, ...  Read the complete review

There are many travel guides to choose from when planning a trip to New York. A good one that I used was the AA Spiral Guide to New York. It is a handy guide that is split into colour-coded sections making it easy to find the information you are looking for quickly. On the inside cover is a map of Manhattan splitting it up into Midtown, Uptown and Central Park, the Empire State to Greenwich Village and Lower Manhattan. It is a good guide for helping you visualise where you are and there is a subway map and a street plan at the back. It is easy to find your way around the guide and it goes into a lot of detail about the city making it ...  Read the complete review

I definitely found this to be the most useful of the guidebooks which I used when I was in New York. It was very user-friendly and filled with additional information and remarks, also, interestingly enough, it seemed to be a failsafe way of spotting other Brits when travelling alone in New York.. they were carrying the 'Time Out' guide too! I met lots of interesting people through simply carrying this book round, before I even talk about what was in it! I think it is good in that it isn't aimed particularly at the student/youth market, but nor is it aimed at the 'older'/more moneyed group. I've used lots of other Time Out city guides since, on the ...  Read the complete review