Fodor's Puerto Rico (Full-color Travel Guide) Paperback – October 14, 2014

While the travel guide is somewhat helpful, it has a major error. It states that all major continental U.S. cell services are available in Puerto Rico. I don't know about most folks, but I consider Verizon to be a "major" cell service provider. It is NOT available in Puerto Rico, absent a prearranged, expensive "roaming" fee. Should I have checked with Verizon directly? Probably. BUT in the past Fodor's has been a good source of info. Not this time. Also, although the guide notes one needs to take a "público" to get from Old San Juan to Ponce, it doesn't say how to do this. First one must take an express bus from the Old San Juan to Sagrado Corazón (O.K., you don't have to take the express, but I am assuming you want to accomplish this journey in your lifetime.) From Sagrado Corazón, take the train or another express bus to Rio Piedras. From THERE you get on a "público" and wait for it to fill up or convince fellow passengers to chip in to buy the empty seats so it will go. LOVE Puerto Rico...BUT Greyhound or Trailways are missing a major expansion opportunity. I do not recall before ever being anywhere in the developed or developing world without regularly scheduled intercity transport. Either rent a car or hire a driver, the latter being the better option in my opinion!

Used this on a recent trip and was very disappointed, particularly in the restaurant recommendations & reviews. In addition, some of the travel information was flat out wrong -- the ferry information between Fajardo and Vieques had the schedule backwards. Luckily we caught the error before missing the ferry and throwing off our entire day/night. The whole ferry description was like an afterthought -- instead they focused on flying there ($150-300 pp) vs taking the $2 ferry. The book made it sound like it was travel in a 3rd world country but for us it was quite painless to rent a car, leave it overnight at the ferry, and catch the boat. The entire section on Vieques (where the best bio bay is) was pretty sparse, and missing some real gems for places to stay and restaurants. By day 3 of our week we ditched this book and relied on TripAdvisor and Yelp for local attractions and restaurants with MUCH greater success.

I used this in conjunction with tripadvisor, if you are planning to go to PR this is a great book of knowledge. I however used the tips and never really looked into it past that. USE AT&T! Just as a big plus if you can use an at&t phone with a good data plan you can use the GPS function on about 95% of the island with little issue. Google maps and apple maps each work very well. I zipped around in my rental without the "needed" gps. Our next trip will be more along the lines of the book. PR 2017 cant come soon enough.

We just got back from a week in Puerto Rico and this book was invaluable. We took two books, this one and Moon's guide to San Juan and Puerto Rico's East Coast. I liked the Moon book because it was quite compact, but we found that the Fodor's guide ended up being our go-to book. It helped us find some fun surprises, including our favorite Old San Juan dinner experience (St. Germain Bistro & Cafe) and the fun seafood shacks in Pinones. The index in the back helped us go right to the page we needed and not waste time searching. We're already planning our next trip to Puerto Rico and this book will be the one to help us. We were very happy with it.

An excellent and functional overview. Very useful for our 2 week trip to P.R. I do want to say that the relative youth of the authors is apparent in some ratings. Trendier restaurants and clubs were often rated based as much on the scene as on the actual quality of the food. These are important factors for many travelers, and kitchens vary from night to night. That said, many dining recommendations were timely and right on. DO NOT MISS Salt Gastropub in Isla Verde!!! The most consistently perfect and astonishing meal that I have had in several years.

Very interesting literature! About Porto Ricans Í'm only heard about the mass immigration into the USA with the famous musical West Side Story would let believe me that these people are in very poor circumstances and would be discriminated in the New York slums.But about their Island into the Caraïben they come from it's very unknown. Therefore this book is full of what I like to better informed. Thank You!

Since this is pre-Hurricane Maria, it is woefully out of date. Also, isn't it about time guidebooks like this included advice about Air BnB? On the plus side, this was a decent guide book pre-Maria, but will be of much less help now.

I purchase a Fodor's Guide for all of my travels because they give great tips and hints on things to do, places to see, maps, as well as safety tips - very useful if you are traveling to a place for the first time. I don't pull it out while traveling because I don't want to look like a tourist but I do keep it in my purse/carry on to re-read on the plane or in the hotel room. I recommend this one as well as all of the others.

Guida molto aggiornata....peccato non ci sia anche in italiano, sarebbe stata praticamente PERFETTA!! Ho trovato solo qualche locale che nel frattempo aveva chiuso ma è ovvio che non potessero prevedere il futuro!! Consigliato.

Es gibt wenig aktuelle Travelguides für PR, Fodor's ist von 2012 und noch sehr aktuell. Die Tipps und Routen waren gut - insbesondere die Restauranttipps waren top.