Tagged With "Pauline Frommer"
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
I'm really excited part of the focus of these guides is back to budget travel.And budget travel is more than about saving money. I think during the Wiley ownership days of Frommers, they tried to be all things to all people,and had too many destination guides. More focused, quality ,and passion, is just what the Guidebooks need.
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
That's a great review Paul, and I'm delighted to see Frommers guides back in the hands of the Frommers. I like their simple "Day By Day" series and this reboot of their guidebooks sounds very helpful and useful. I still like to travel with a guidebook in hand (though I research the trip beforehand). Thanks for the thoughtful review.
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
What great news to hear that a publisher recognizes the need for practical budget travel information. I can spend ages on the Internet trying to work out a basic trip scheme. When a location is new to me, I need that overview in hand. It does me no good to read that the Paris' Luxembourg gardens are wonderful when I am trying to work out how long I can afford to be in Paris. It does me no good to know that there are marvelous chambre d'hotes in the Ile de Cite when what I need is a couple of...
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
A much needed breath of fresh air. Thank you, Frommer's !
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
I told Pauline Frommer that I was disappointed with the Frommers' England Guide. She said I'd be Happy with the new Frommers' London (not England) so I wait with baited breath for a read of the new issue.
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
I think the series will improve, GarryRF. Unlike Wiley's and Google, who really are just business guys who weren't passionate about travel, Pauline and Arthur do care about the experience. The quality of a guidebook depends largely on the author/researcher, but good editorial direction is very important. Passion about something matters. Clearly you have it about your home and your travels. We hope our readers find this website has it, too. We love travel related stuff!
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
I did enquire if a proof read was possible - not just for me - but some of the contributors whose expertise was better than most "proffesionals writers". But no reply.
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
Garry...I don't have an order in for London (not going there soon, alas) but will you review it for Gumbo when it appears?
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
A review for London ? Haven't been there for 40 years Paul. Really don't like big Cities and the "too busy to care attitude of people who live there" It's just my personal opinion. On the Tube Train into London people don't make eye-contact or talk to strangers. Here in Liverpool you'll be in conversation with 3 or 4 strangers and share a few laughs on the journey ! Someone falls on the street here ( and most of Northern England ) and folks rush to help. London they step over you. Rant over...
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
Garry...I hope you'll give London a chance again sometime. Some of the things you're saying about London are a lot like the very popular (but totally untrue) things people say about us New Yorkers...
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
I know Paul - I'm just being a bad traveller ! It's like folks go to France and complain that Parisians don't smile! But they do when they know you! I just find big cities much the same. Like Havana is the same as any other overgrown City in the Caribbean! Crumbling Spanish Architecture. Dominican Republic is another good example. I must be getting Claustrophobic Paul ! Give me the wide open spaces of Delaware State Park and I'm in heaven. Some days I have the whole Park to myself. Solitude...
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
Over the years I've posted many Budget Travel ideas to the Fommers Site. But they were all ripped apart by people who've never tried them or would even consider them. So I'm pleased to see the focus has been brought back to Europe on $5 a day - and up !
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
Like GarryRF, I'd rather be in wide open places. But that said, I do love snippets of big cities. A week at a time is about enough to satisfy my need for hustle and bustle for awhile. I know others can't live without the constant adrenaline rush of a city. The beauty of a free world is that everyone can pick what they want.
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Re: Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
Beautiful Rideau Lakes In Ontario Canada - and me living in borrowed clothes to enjoy it ! ...and that's me on the balcony looking out ! I said I liked Cold but that Canadian Cold is so cruel !!
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Re: The Difference between Tourists and Travelers
I think it may not be all that easy to divide the world into 'tourists' and 'travelers;' the world is not really that binary, and there are many shades between them. And many of those we meet are on the path to deeper experiences as they experience more and travel more. I think of the many new travelers who used to post on the Frommer forums about their desire to 'see as much as possible' and 'do as many countries as possible' in impossibly short time allowances. Some of us who were regulars...
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Re: Why the Return of Frommers Guidebooks is a Big Deal
A thought about guidebooks: They started, really, as travel diaries of people who had happened to travel somewhere, for one reason or another—but not just for travel. De Toqueville comes to mind, and others after. Of course, these books all had a point of view! Many of the modern guidebook series don't really seem to have that, at least not a clear guiding philosophy. Rather, they tend to be comprehensive tomes—useful but not endearing. I always thought one of the best qualities of the...
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Re: Spain or Portugal?
Usually these days I put together a "trip book" with articles and information from a lot of sources, but I also usually take along one full-scale guidebook as well. I'd be hard-put to make a recommendation for Portugal, because for that one I decided to overcome my feelings and give Rick Steves a try...and it was nearly useless. No special information, a smug tone, and maps that were too sketchy to be useful. In general, I've liked the Frommer guides (and I'm excited that the new ones will...
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Re: More Life at the Edge: What’s in a Name?
I admit to a long fascination with the names people choose; clearly whether screen names on websites or as names chosen for daily living, they tell some story of self-reflection, just as PortMoresby's does. What, I always wondered, made someone choose to be J. Edgar rather than just Edgar (or even just John?) That sort is more puzzling to me than the screen names that shout aggression (Warrior, Conan) or whisper softly (Miss Maisie, Teatime) or are ironically self-referential (my favorite...
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Re: New Book Line coming from Frommers
Glad to see Frommers with all these new travel guides coming out! There is still a great need for travel guides and i hope travelers will step up and show their support by buying copies.
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Frommer's New EasyGuides: A Future for Print
Over the past past year, there’s been a lot of musing among travelers and in the travel industry about whether the day of the printed travel guide is over, in the face of vast stores of on-line information and smartphone...
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Air Cancellations Cost Cruisers; Arthur Frommer's hints on how to save yours
The recent multi-day weather-based flight cancellations may have cost hundreds or thousands their cruises...If you can't get to the port, you can't get on the ship. If you bought your airfare from an airline, you get a refund--but they won't pay the...
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Frommers' 60th serves up a nostalgia treat
Sixty years after Europe on 5 Dollars a Day started it all, Frommers' takes a loving look back.
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March Madness for travel sites
For sports fans who have run out of competition to obsess over, a British newspaper has provided a perhaps unintentionally hilarious competition.
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Ernest Hemingway Home, Key West (Where Gumbo Was #353)
Gumbo was visiting Ernest Hemingway's home in Old Key West. The home is nicely preserved including with original furniture, memorabilia displays and descendants of the author's six-toed cat.
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While we can't travel, here's why we should
Wise words from the founder of modern mass travel, at a time it's worth re-reading them.
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British Museum shows world's oldest guidebook
An exhibit on the influence of the Islamic world also includes the world's oldest guidebook, a 1486 work by German traveler and a Dutch artist
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Virtual reality takes off for simulated vacations
'Passengers' with virtual-reality masks fly Tokyo's First Airlines on a 'flight' to overseas destinations.
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Cruise of the Future: Stay on Board?
Royal Caribbean getting set to offer cruisers cabins with virtual environments and virtual shore excursions.
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New Book Line coming from Frommers
This spring marks the first anniversary of Arthur and Pauline Frommer taking back the Frommer guidebook lines from the Great Google disaster, and as this REPORT in Publishers' Weekly notes, they've used the year to launch a new series of over...
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Is There Life After Print? Budget Travel says "Yes!"
Budget Travel magazine, which hasn't been in print since late 2012, has survived online even though it's been in bankruptcy for some time. It will soon have new owners and is hopeful for the future. Originally started by Arthur Frommer, it's been...
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Why the Return of Frommers Guidebooks is a Big Deal
Besides my review of Frommer's "France Color Complete Guide." permit me to share my own opinionated view of how monumental it is for the Frommers to get these guidebooks out. After looking over the new France and Spain books, I had some...
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Printed Guides: Frommer Wants to Recapture the Market
The Frommer guidebook line is up to 30 new titles in two new, easy-to-pocket formats at lower prices: Can they gain back sales lost while Google owned the brand? NEWS here, and a TravelGumbo REVIEW here.
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Is bad PreCheck planning responsible for TSA delays?
A veteran travel editor argues that the 90-minute+ security lines growing at airports stem in part from TSA's mishandling of its PreCheck program.
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Now: A Swiss Army knife for vacation rental
VacationHomeRents is a new aggregator that aims to do for short-term rentals what sites like Kayak or Momondo do for airfare.
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Frommers offers 'spur to future travel'
Instead of a Top Ten list or a sales pitch, Frommer's offers a serious of thoughtful essays on key places in America for future safe travel.
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DOT slips in new anti-bumping rule
New rule bans removing seated passenger or bumping anyone with a boarding pass
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Remembering Travel Rob
Today we remember our dear travel companion and Gumbo Guru, Travel Rob.
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Frommer 'Best Places' broadens the view
A new list of worthwhile destinations for planning next year's travel