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Summary

Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer2s California features detailed reviews and insider info on the state2s spectacular beaches, national parks, vineyards, and more. Quite simply, this is the most reliable and comprehensive California guide you can buy. Whether you2re looking for a romantic B&B in the Wine Country, the hippest new restaurant in San Francisco, or the best beaches in L.A. and San Diego, Frommer2s California will show you the way. The guide is personally researched by longtime residents, and it2s full of their candid opinions about the best their state has to offer. They2ve selected the very best places to stay throughout the state: lavish golf resorts, spas, stunning B&Bs, beachfront motels, and Yosemite2s best campgrounds. With Frommer2s in hand, you2ll see it all -- from the desert to the towering redwoods, from Hollywood to Hearst Castle, from Sea World to Big Sur. You2ll even get a color fold-out map!

Author Biography

Harry Basch, and his wife Shirley Slater, have been a husband-and-wife travel-writing team whose books, articles, and photographs have been published internationally over the past 25 years. He and Shirley are the authors of Frommer's Exploring America by RV, RV Vacations For Dummies, and have contributed to Frommer's USA. A native San Franciscan, Erika Lenkert spends her time traipsing through San Francisco and across the globe in search of adventure and great food. She has written for Travel + Leisure, Food and Wine, Bride's, Wine Country Living, San Francisco Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and Time Out. Her latest work is an entertaining and cooking guide called The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining (www.lastminutepartygirl.com), which mixes fun, humor, and recipes into a tasty, useful guide to living large, Bay Area-style. Matthew Richard Poole, a native Californian, has authored more than two dozen travel guides to California, Hawaii, and abroad, and is a regular contributor to radio and television travel programs, including numerous guest appearances on the award-winning Bay Area Backroads television show. Before becoming a full-time travel writer and photographer, he worked as an English tutor in Prague, ski instructor in the Swiss Alps, and scuba instructor in Maui. Highly allergic to office buildings and mortgage payments, he spends most of his time traveling the globe searching for new adventures. His other Frommer's titles include California from $70 a Day, San Francisco from $70 a Day, Los Angeles, Portable Los Angeles, the Irreverent Guide to San Francisco, and Portable DisneylandR. San Diego native David Swanson's first travels were in the back of a Volkswagen bus with his parents through Yosemite and the Sierras, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara. His stories and photography have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, and The Globe and Mail among many others. His work also appears in National Geographic Traveler, Bride's, TravelAge West, and he is a contributing editor at Caribbean Travel and Life.

List of Maps.

What’s New in California.

1. The Best of California (Harry Basch, Erika Lenkert, Matthew Richard Poole & David Swanson).

2. Planning Your Trip to California (Matthew Richard Poole).

3. For International Visitors.

4. San Francisco (Erika Lenkert).

5. The San Francisco Bay Area (Erika Lenkert).

6. The Wine Country (Erika Lenkert).

7. The Northern Coast (Matthew Richard Poole).

8. The Far North: Lake Tahoe, the Shasta Cascades & Lassen Volcanic National Park (Matthew Richard Poole).

9. The High Sierra: Yosemite, Mammoth Lakes & Sequoia/Kings Canyon (Matthew Richard Poole).

10. Sacramento, the Gold Country & the Central Valley (Matthew Richard Poole).

11. The Monterey Peninsula & the Big Sur Coast (Matthew Richard Poole).

12. The Central Coast (Matthew Richard Poole).

13. Los Angeles (Matthew Richard Poole).

14. Side Trips from Los Angeles (Matthew Richard Poole).

15. The Southern California Desert (Harry Basch).

16. San Diego & Environs (David Swanson).

Index.

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