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| Mobil Travel Guide 2008 South (Mobil Travel Guide South (Al, Ar, Ky, La, Ms, Tn)) | 
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Sales Rank: 409000
Category: Book
Author: Mobil Travel Guides
Publisher: AMC
Studio: AMC
Manufacturer: AMC
Label: AMC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0841603170
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9780841603172
ASIN: 0841603170
Publication Date: March 7, 2008
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Book Description
Mobil Travel Guide offers 15 Regional Travel Planners for 2008, featuring extensive reviews of destinations to visit in the United States and Canada. Updated annually, each book features in depth profiles of the best lodgings, restaurants, sights and attractions that each easily drivable region has to offer. Comprehensive and easy to use, each Regional Travel Guide is full of exciting new tours and loaded with maps.
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| Customer Reviews:
The Older Mobile Travel Guides were so much better August 22, 2008
I had purchased four of the Mobil Travel Guides from Amazon before my daughter and I took a trip in June to Chicago. I was very disappointed! No wonder the local bookstores are not carrying the Guides.I have used these Guides since the 1960's and you even purchased the bigger ones for under $10 at the Mobil Stations and the Guides were much bigger in size and had so much information in them. It is best now to just go on the internet and request the State Travel Guides of the States you need and also info from towns you want to visit. I will not spend money again for the costly Mobil Travel Guides that do not have the info I need. Thanks for letting me spout off!
A Former customer from Texas
You Could Write a Better Guide Yourself July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have used the larger format (about 8.5"x11") Mobil Travel Guides for decades. I used them to find an inexpensive motel that's a couple of hours down the road so I can get 6 hours sleep and a shower. I also used them to locate a good restaurant if dining out was an option.
This smaller format is absolutely useless. I doubt that the writers of this guide ever set foot in any of the places reviewed. I could have written this guide without ever leaving my home, simply by going on the web and doing some half-a**ed research. The previous reviewer has it exactly right, you could do this better yourself by surfing the web.
As for my finding a cheap place to flop to recharge my battery during a long drive, this guide lists a couple of motels in towns that have a dozen or more. These listings tend to be chains (ah, yes, let's compile this guide by going to the chainmotel.com web site). How much? Well, the price is listed as "$". Looks inexpensive enough, but wait, "$" means the price is somewhere below $150. Is it $39 or $139? This guide won't tell you, even though the old Mobil guides would. Is it close to the interstate? The old Mobil guide might tell you it's a quarter mile east of exit 103, I-55. This one gives you the address, which more often than not is something like "100 Holiday Inn Road". Is it a real dump or a clean, low priced value? The rating system seems to be based on what amenities are offered (yes, the internet again); a dirty pool probably counts more than having no pool. To top it off, the number of towns and cities listed seems to be greatly reduced. Tourist towns that I know of aren't listed anymore. Want lunch during your visit to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky? One restaurant is listed. Is it because Bowling Green is that small? Don't know, as population figures aren't listed. How difficult would that have been? The chamber of commerce website is often listed. Just go there before you leave on your trip to find out about the population and restaurants. But, if you do all the research, why would you need this guide?
I did get one chuckle from this book. It seems that a restaurant with the words "Steak House" in the name specializes in steak. I don't even need the internet to know that. And, again, the old Mobil guide would give more specialized menu information; this one is very generic, as if the reviewer had never been there (that's right, the reviewer never left the computer).
Perhaps the suits at Mobil think that the internet is making their guide obsolete. It's not; I don't travel with internet access, and even if I did, I could find the information I want faster with a travel guide, IF it were as comprehensive as the old Mobil guides. Instead of just pulling the plug, evidently they thought they'd just have some college interns write up some skimpy information, reduce the size (but not the price) and sucker the loyal buyers of their previous guides into one last purchase, knowing that once one of these Mobil Lite Guides was purchased, it would never sell another one to that consumer. Got to hand it to them, it worked on me. Of course, I had to buy sight unseen on Amazon, as the Borders that used to sell them to me will only special order it. They must have seen what a complete fraud this guide has become.
The only reason this book was not tossed into the recycling bin immediately was to remind me to write this scathing review. There, I feel better already.
2008 Mobil Guide South April 19, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
My opinion of this Guide is that it is totally worthless. The Mobil Guides have evolved downwards, internet sources of travel information have supplanted them.
I purchased this in the hopes that it would help in the selection of accommodations for a recent trip and found it essentially useless. As far as sources of places to eat or interesting sites it was worse.
While these guides may have had value a few years back they are now of no value. Our public library had as a matter of policy purchased these Guides for use by its members. I intend to donate this current copy to them with the suggestion that they never purchase them in the future.
This was a complete waste of money.
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