Outstanding Travel Guide and Beautiful to Look At -- a Keepsake!

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	• Driving and Discovering Oahu (Driving and Discovering Books) Richard Sullivan Island Heritage Publishing, 1997 - 111 pages average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Indispensable!!

If you want to see Oahu, don't go without this book! It's amazingly innovative, informative and useful!! It's the best guide book I've ever experienced! We paid $18.95 for it in January 2008 near Waikiki. It was worth way more than that to us.

Driving & Discovering Oahu

Great book. Preparing ahead of time for our trip at end of month and this book has come in handy prior to going.

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A Must Have Guide

Whether you're a visitor or a resident of Oahu, you absolutely must have this guide. All you need to know is at your fingertips if you want to really see the island beyond Waikiki. I cannot say enough about this book, it is truly the most informative and organized, easy to use.

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Outstanding Travel Guide and Beautiful to Look At -- a Keepsake!

We live in Hawaii and love Driving & Discovering Oahu by
Richard Sullivan, and his Maui-Molokai book as well. We have bought a number of copies for our visiting friends since 1993, and these books keep getting better with every new edition. We own an oceanfront vacation rental and in our literature to guests visiting Oahu and/or Maui, we highly recommend Mr. Sullivan's books not only for content but because they make excellent gifts even for people who are fascinated by but may never be able to travel to Hawaii. The pictures are incredible and give the reader a very realistic feel for these beautiful islands.

The only thing worse than misinformation in a guidebook is
misinformation in a customer review of a guidebook, as in the case of
TDPM. My husband and I love Amazon's review pages, but sometimes feel people are unfairly venting or have ulterior motives for their reviews.

TDPM, whose review was dated May 29, 2007, must have been using an old
edition. Our book, copyrighted and purchased in early 2006, states
that Sacred Falls Park is closed.

Mr. Sullivan also urges readers at least a dozen times throughout the book to consult hiking guides, obtain free hiking maps from the State
Division of Forestry or other listed agencies, or to join an organized
hike. For TDPM to take her aged parents on any hike though terrain
completely unknown to her, without any research or hiking map, is
unconscionable and inexplicable.

Every guidebook is outdated the moment it rolls off the presses, if not before. Phone numbers change, restaurants move, businesses close. However, we have found that 99.9% of Mr. Sullivan's information is absolutely right on and has been very useful and informative, as well as having kept us out of trouble a few times. And unlike any other guidebook we've ever bought for our travels, this one has earned a place on our coffee table.

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On the surface very good, but upon closer look...

This book seemed like a really good guide at the book store. It has lots of pictures to accompany travel recommendations. It also lists the best beaches, waterfalls, islands, and hikes on Oahu which I thought was a nice touch. However, trying to use the guidebook to visit these places left my husband and I confused and frustrated. The information is not organized well... important data that you'd like placed within one paragraph - for example about a particular hike - is strewed throughout a chapter. Information about length of trails is inconsistent and sometimes wrong! (Ended up taking my old parents on a six mile hike that was listed as 2.5 mi.) The names of places on maps do not match the way they are listed in their respective chapters. Parks that have been long closed (Sacred Falls) are listed as recommended places to go.

This book is a good concept and has the potential to be a superb guide book if the information was reorganized AND updated. My husband and I use it to get suggestions on places to go, and then use the Internet to back up our facts about directions, distances, and general information. Don't use this book alone!

Aloha!

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Called "the best guidebook on the market" by the Chicago Sun Times, this beautiful, full-color book is chock full of proactive tips on exploring Hawai'i's best beaches, hiking trails and scenic spots. An innovative "Photo Location Guide" feature makes this volume ideal for photgraphers and videographers.

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