DK Eyewitness Pacific Northwest

As with the other DK series travel books, this edition allows one to easily plan a self-designed auto trip to the Pacific Northwest. You really do not need the Fodors/Frommers if you use this. It has focused two-page itineraries for the most popular sites complete with map and a photo and description for each site - a feature other tour books should adopt.

This is a wonderful guide to the Pacific Northwest. If you're traveling beyond any one city (i.e. Portland, Seattle, Vancouver) this is the guide for you. Done in the traditional Eyewitness format with glossy pages, wonderful photos and diagrams, it provides a great overview of the cities mentioned and the region. The only drawback as a travel guide is its weight. Very heavy to be tagging along on a visit, yet due to its quality, I put up with the weight. If visiting only a few areas, photocopy the pages for your own use to lighten your load!

PACIFIC NORTHWEST (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) is a great book, as it puts the cities of Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver together in one place. I really enjoyed the part about the cuisine of the general area, as well as the Lloyd Center Mall. However, even though the book deserves five stars, there are a couple of flaws, such as there not being any maps of the bus and light-rail systems in these cities, and a lack of discussion of major shopping areas such as Capitol Hill in Seattle; in fact, the only major shopping areas really described in any kind of detail are the aforementioned Lloyd Center Mall, Pacific Place, University Village, Westlake Center, and Pike Place Market, with no mention of the other malls near Portland and Seattle, or the various independent CD/tape/record stores in either city. However, there ARE plenty of illustrations and photographs, so you DO get a visual feel for what the different areas are like. However, if a young man wants ideas on what he can do in this area to please the girl he loves, he might want to try a book that doesn't take shortcuts, as one reviewer says. Overall, this is a five-star book whose only flaw is glossing over certain things that might be important to some people in order to cover other aspects of the Pacific Northwest.

I have used a number of Eyewitness books in my travels and have found them all excellent. They are a great help in trip planning and very usefull while traveling.

DK/Eyewitness Travel Guides are GREAT! I wish DK published more areas. Lots of pictures, great descriptions, well put-together graphics, quality printing. The books are entertaining even if you just dream of traveling to far-off lands. These books really give you a feel of what the areas are like, the culture, sightseeing locations, even the food! I have bought Fodor's and Frommer's and they just don't compare, even Fodor's information was wrong and outdated though the date of the book was the same year I traveled. DK blows the others out of the water!