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Frommer's NYC Free & Dirt Cheap (Frommer's Free & Dirt Cheap)

Description

"In the land of $49 burgers and $1,000-a-night hotel rooms, author Ethan Wolff shows that the adventurous budget traveler can still do the Big Apple in style. Written for residents as well as visitors, this guide has plenty of good clear maps and a chapter of free and cheap itineraries."
--San Francisco Chronicle

In New York City, the rich are very rich. How can people have a good time in this high-cost city without going broke? This new edition of Frommer's NYC Free & Dirt Cheap delivers the answers, offering the latest information on everything from free museum admissions to the cheapest places to stay, eat, and shop.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-28
Summary: "Fantastic for students (of all ages) new to NYC!"

Our Admissions Department has bought this tour guide for two years for Fall Orientation. It's helpful to people of all ages who are new to NYC, and also to those who are new to our particular neighborhood or different finances now that they are in grad school. Not only restaurants and places to stay, there's also info about inexpensive yoga, theatre, venues, markets, etc. It has a conversational tone that I really appreciate.

There's information for singles, families, couples. Students, people working. Visitors.

It's my favorite guide book to New York, which is how we got started.

Love it!

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-24
Summary: "Don't visit NYC without it!"

Great guide to NYC for poor people, used it when I went on my unemployment vacation!

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-08-11
Summary: "Lots of info"

Although I haven't moved to NYC yet (so I haven't actually used the book), I'm excited to find the cheap and free things my new city has to offer. The book is packed full of information on everything from cheap entertainment to inexpensive haircuts or health care. I can't give it a full 5 stars because I haven't seen if any of their suggestions actually exist yet (I'm sure they do!) but I'll let you know if it's as helpful as it seems now.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-05-08
Summary: "Nice surprise"

I bought this book for each of our daughters in NYC - who already live there - - what a nice surprise that they are getting even more new ideas and ways to save $$$ and enjoy the city life.......

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2008-09-01
Summary: "Poorly organized but solid and current information"

I've lived in NYC for more than 10 years now, and am very good at navigating the city. I tried to use this book to help me select any random inexpensive restaurant one afternoon, (in any random neighborhood) and found it maddeningly frustrating.

In general it's a good reference book for say..."picking one thing out, and then executing a plan on visiting that spot". Maybe that's the problem, I was expecting more of a guide book, and this book is definitely not a guide book.

To look at the maps with their legends and keys, and then to try to refer back to the detailed description page is VERY FRUSTRATING.
The legend is organized alphabetically, but not the reference material.

Ok, I thought, cross check the Index! Wrong.

One example, on map page 98, the key for the "Knitting factory" is number 38. Since I can't quickly find it within the material, I check the Index pages under K. Nothing.

It's a great concept with some excellent material, but it is poorly organized with a poor layout and index reference.

While in a major bookstore chain the other day I noticed an end display of many of these books, and it didn't look like it was flying off the shelves. I think the natives might be on to something.