Book is a great resource as we prepare for a 2 week trip ...
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Book is a great resource as we prepare for a 2 week trip to Europe.  Concise but thorough.  Shipped on time with no hassles.
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This book has lots of good information. An earlier version for 2011 "Exit Now" was spiral bound with a nice weight of paper, was easier to use because of the spiral.  The Next Exit book has much of the same information and of course is updated. The binding and the newspaper weight paper  make this book a little harder to use. We love this book when traveling the interstate it tells us what is at each exit, helps find RV resorts and dump stations as well as gas, food and lodging and rest stops.  Great book for travel especially in an RV
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My parents are taking a cruise in the Spring which will take them through Spain, Italy, and Greece.  We have purchased several of Rick Steves' books in preparation for the cruise and they have been terrific.  The maps, hints and tours have provided a wealth of information.  The useful phrases section is also terrific.  All of Rick Steves' resource information has been excellent.  We have also moved over to his website and downloaded onto an MP3 several of his tours.  I don't know what more we could ask for other than a personally guided tour and the books are certainly the next best thing!
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Lots of information, perfect for planning a trip
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I am planning a trip to Italy this summer without using a tour company. This resource has helped tremendously with my preparation.
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We just came back from a 10-day trip to Germany, 1st time, focused on Bavaria & Rhineland. We stayed 7 days in Munich and 3 in Frankfurt. No matter how much advanced planning, there always is the possibility to make changes once you get there. For example, at Frankfurt we made a change to take the Rhine Cruise. The chapters on Rhine Cruise, Rudesheim, Koblenz, and Mainz all helped.

I had bought 4 other books for the trip. This book proved to be the best resource that helped us in pre-trip planning, as well as in-trip tour guide.
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Lots of illustrations, very detailed descriptions, and very useful as a resource. I'll be using this very often for the next two weeks!
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As my wife and I make plans for travel in our retirement, we have found this book to be an excellent resource.
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Great book to have in my bag for when we are on the go.
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What a great book - so easy to read and overflowing with information!  These are the things travelers really need to know, from getting through customs to eating street food.  I love that they have gone through all the information out there and add their extensive travel experience to provide us with concise suggestions. The fact that they provide specific websites for everything makes this an invaluable resource. Whether you are an experienced traveler or a first-time adventurer, this book is a must have.  I bought the physical book because I love to unplug and read.  That said, I don't want to go on my trip without this resource, so I am getting the ebook as well.
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This is an excellent, well organized resource that helped us plan our 5 week trip to New Zealand.  The color photographs in the book just wet your appetite.
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This books provides fun facts and is a great resource when planning a vacation to an unknown place. And for us, although we currently live in Columbia, we've only been here for 3 years so there are lots of undiscovered treasures as well as unknown facts about this city that we learned. For example, although I work just over a block away from the South Carolina State House, I had no idea that the dome has over 44k pounds of copper as part of its makeup. I bet there are long-time residents who didn't know that.

When we received the book and I started flipping through it my 7-year old was leaning over my shoulder and started reading as well. So the facts and information are relevant to people of all ages.

It's a quick read, if you're interested in browsing it from cover to cover, or you can pull it out periodically, and re-learn some state facts.

Reviewed for Arms of a Sister blog
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We have been on 2 Amtrak trips in the last 4 years.  We are planning our next one in March.  We decided for the fun of it to order this book in prep for our trip and were happy to see the newest edition was just printed this year.

If you are traveling on Amtrak for the 1st time or are a more seasoned Amtrak traveler, this book is a great resource.  There is so much information in this book in regards to their trains, the tracks, the roles of all the various members of the Amtrak team.  There is also a lot of helpful tips, train etiquette, and other great useful information to make your trip as painfree and fun as possible.

I would highly recommend this book.  Even after already taking 2 trips, this book gave us so much information that we are looking forward to our trip next month even more.
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We not only used the book as a guide for our 15 month trip to four continents, we also booked many of our tickets through Hasbrouck. Of course, the book had great value without the author's direct involvement. It isn't the type of book that you need to bring on an extended trip--it is more like the Bible for the 3 months that you spend preparing for that trip. It helps focus your thoughts on what kind of trip you'd like and how to go about achieving it. It is probably most useful for those who feel that experiencing other cultures, as opposed to serial sightseeing, is the most important element of an extended journey. Also, Hasbrouck' extensive experience as a travel agent shines through the extraordinarily useful section on how airfares work and how to find the best one (not necessarily the lowest one) for your needs. Highly recommended.
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I am excited to take my daughter to visit several of the zoos listed in this book.  Since we will be traveling a lot this summer, it wil be nice to use this book to narrow down where to spend our time. Excellent advice about not trying to see everything in one day.  This makes this book even MORE useful since the highlights of each zoo are pointed out, so we can be sure to get those parts first, and anything else will be a bonus.  Loved the "souvenirs" section.  Suggestions are a great and inexpensive way to remember our trips.

Okay I must admit I am very intrigued by the Sonoran Desert exhibit at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and the Insectarium at the St. Louis Zoo, the "Not Home Alone" section is calling me for a road trip!
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This book is a phenomenal resource for anyone considering a family cruise, with great travel tips that even apply outside the world of cruising.  Those planning for future cruises should consult this source early and often!  Very well organized and extremely thorough -- highly recommend!
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If you like to travel and are challenged physically, this book is well worth adding to your library.  Each of the 101 vacation chapters is full of information that is otherwise hard to find.  Any one such item is worth the price of the book.  That said, only about 3 pages are devoted to each vacation, so don't expect it to be complete.  It's a great start to begin further research or a great resource to add knowledge about a place (or a place nearby) that you're already planning to go to.  The book is organized by activity rather than geographically and the table of contents uses chapter titles that often don't tell you the geographic location of the vacation.  I found it helpful to write the locations in the table of contents for later reference.