Lonely Planet Miami & the Keys: City Guides

by Adam Karlin

Discover Miami & The Keys

Dare to bare in the people-watching paradise that is South Beach
Consult a vodou doctor in matters of the heart in a Little Haiti botanica
Sip mojitos alongside celebs and wannabes in the hottest clubs in the city
Skim through the otherwordly beauty of the Everglades by canoe

In This

58 clubs, lounges and bars, 40 days and nights of going out and getting in past 3am, one very tired author
Dedicated full-color chapter on Art Deco Miami, the signature, sleek face of the American Riviera
Interviews with a Miami foodie blogger, a vodou (voodoo) priest from Little Haiti and the CIA officer who captured Che Guevara in 1967
Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler insights

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

271 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

Reviews

[SN the Viking]

A pretty good book, nice layout.
4 stars

[Jill]

I felt like I really learned quite a bit about the region in addition to getting some recommendations on stuff to do while there.

[Jill]

Great way to narrow down the magnitude of options for dining and lodging that the internet presents. Also a good way to get a lay of the land and discern the type of experiences that best suit our family.

[Paul Devall]

Useful tool to have available.

[laura graham]

Great for planning a trip and really interesting history section

[April]

I can’t claim to have read this one cover-to-cover but it deserves credit for a successfully enjoyable adventure in South Beach and the Keys.

[Jim Bowen]

To my mind, there are two types of travel guide. One is very directy, inasmuch as it says this is good, visit here, this isn't, you can skip that. The other is more gossipy.... it tries to give you a flavour of a place, without trying to overly tell you what to do, leaving it to you to decide what to do.

Lonely Planet guide fall, I feel, more into the first category. They are thoroughly researched, extremely complete in their coverage, and provide many good ideas. they can be a bit clinical, but if you want to get a good understanding of a place before, and after, you arrive, coupled with a wide range of suggested activities, this is the book for you.

[Steve]

I bought the Kindle version of this, in an effort to minimize contents of our luggage. Unfortunately, it is all by unnavigable, and I found the battle to find my bookmarks irritating. We saw almost everything we set out to see during our holiday excursion of South Florida, but I never consulted this e-book after the first couple of days. Instead, I went straight to the web, which proved quicker, and more illuminating. Conclusion: next time we require a travel book, I will purchase a paper, which does has the merits of instant accessibility to random pages.

[Ernie]

Tons of info here and it stands up well to a little aging. This has played a key role in making two year-apart Miami trips amazingly fun.

[Michelle Bizzell]

Interesting information about Miami and the Keys, a good way to fuel my excitement.