Fodor's Big Island of Hawaii

By Fodor's Travel Guides

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. 

Plan the perfect getaway with Fodor's Big Island of Hawaii--a fully updated Gold Guide featuring tips for all types of travelers, from families to honeymooners.

This travel guide includes:
· Dozens of full-color maps 
· Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations, with Fodor's Choice designating our top picks
· Multiple itineraries to explore the top attractions and what’s off the beaten path
· Major sights such as Green Sands Beach, The Lava Show, and Waipio Valley

Planning to visit more of Hawaii? Check out Fodor's travel guides to Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, and Oahu.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jun 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9780804142441

Fodor's Travel Guides

For over 80 years, Fodor's Travel has been a trusted resource offering expert travel advice for every stage of a traveler's trip. We hire local writers who know their destinations better than anyone else, allowing us to provide the best travel recommendations for all tastes and budgets in over 7,500 worldwide destinations. Our books make it possible for every trip to be a trip of a lifetime.

Reviews for Fodor's Big Island of Hawaii

[ladycato · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I'm glad that I bought this at Goodwill, as I found it to be a weak book in comparison to Wizard Publication's Hawaii Revealed series. It hops here and there over the island, and has some frustrating panels that list "best places to visit" and doesn't list the actual CITIES along with the places. Um, the Big Island is, uh, big. That info is important. In other places, it's redundant; it mentions restaurants along with shopping, so I was surprised to find a full restaurant section a bit later. I also wish it had more useful pictures (a close up of flowers is not helpful)--and most importantly--more maps. It does come with a large fold out map, but I would have liked more maps in the text.If you're looking for a good travel book, go for the Hawaii: Big Island Revealed book by Andrew Doughty. I think the comprehensive, chatty nature of that book has ruined all other travel books for me.

[nicole_a_davis · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The only thing useful about this guide was the pull-out map in the back. Otherwise, the strange organization of the book made it hard to use. Things were organized by category, like restaurants, beaches, hotels, attractions, etc., instead of by geographical region. So when you were in a certain place and wanted to find out what there was to do or where to eat, you had to keep flipping back and forth. You couldn't just look at a chapter on a place and figure out if you wanted to go there, and it was hard to figure out if different attractions and restaurants and hotels were in proximity to each other.