From the Back Cover
Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer's, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. Frommer's. Your guide to a world of travel experience. Choose the Only Guide That Gives You: Everything you need for a successful trip, whether you're interested in exploring all the nature that surrounds Vancouver and Victoria or you prefer a much more metropolitan vacation. Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not. Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget. Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions. The best hotels and restaurants in every price range, with candid reviews.
About the Author
Each Frommer's guide is personally researched and thoroughly updated by a single author or a small team. Our guides have a fun, intensely personal voice and a real person's judgments you can trust. A native of California and resident by turns in Ottawa, Amsterdam, Moscow, and (for the past half-decade) Vancouver, Shawn Blore is a newspaper journalist, award winning magazine writer, and best-selling author of Vancouver: Secrets of the City. Alexandra de Vries lives in Vancouver and reports on West Coast culture and places for Frommer's readers.
