Best Places Southern California: The Best Restaurants, Lodgings and Touring

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Updated with 30 percent new material, this second edition of Best Places Southern California continues to offer the in-depth recommendations that sophisticated travelers have come to expect from the Best Places series. For tourists looking to discover why California is the second-highest-rated destination after Florida (Travel Industry Association of America), this guidebook provides the distinctive taste, insider sensibility, and honest advice of a native Angeleno and her top-notch team of writers. It's also the ultimate locals guide, useful for the millions of Californians turning to closer-to-home travel. Best Places Southern California uncovers the region's finest and most interesting places to go, see, eat, and stay -- whether it's a must-be-tried bistro in Los Angeles, San Diego's Balboa Park, an intimate inn overlooking the Pacific, or a luxurious desert resort. It covers urban adventures in L.A. and San Diego, the beaches of the Orange County Coast, wineries of the Central Coast, mountain and desert regions, the Sierra Nevada National Parks, and Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm. Three-Day Tour sections will appeal to the many Americans who are now choosing weekend getaways over longer vacations. Brand-new material includes an improved and reorganized chapter on Los Angeles and expanded coverage of Disneyland.


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From San Diego all the way up to San Simeon and all points East, editor and native Southern Californian Stephanie Avnet Yates has sought out all the very best places to eat, drink, shop, sleep, and explore in the one and only Southern California.


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