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(More customer reviews)The Insiders Guide to the historic triangle badly needed this updating, especially in the area of restaurants and shopping; so many have closed and new ones opened.
This is a very satisfactory guide, and unless you really want all the historical minutia that the individual Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown guides will give you this is all you need. The Williamsburg chronology goes up to 2007 and Queen Elizabeth's visit, but other listings are more recent.
This guide does not go into as much detail as its predecessor in describing day trips farther a field, but if you are going even into the Hampton Roads, Newport News area you really need a Virginia guide anyway. With that said it puzzles me that there are listings done for as far away as Virginia Beach, Smithfield and Tangier Island, but yet it leaves out Gloucester, (except for one mention of a daffodil festival), which is just across the river from Yorktown and played a key part in the battle and still has a charming colonial area and restaurants with river views.
A big improvement is the listing are price guides for restaurants and hotels, a change from the last edition. There are telephone numbers, addresses and web sites for the listings. Also appreciated is the honesty in evaluating one of Williamsburg's well known shopping destinations: Williamsburg Pottery Factory and Outlets which has gone downhill in recent years, but some tour operators still include it on their stops.
One thing I wish was made clearer is the distinction between the Yorktown Victory Center and the National Park Center and the same situation at Jamestown. I know many visitors have visited the Victory Center at Yorktown and the Jamestown Settlement instead of the National historic site centers and thought they were at the real setting, which they aren't. There really should be clearer guidance both at the locations and in the guidebooks.
Maps are clear and information on modern attractions such as amusement parks, the arts, military sites retirement, health care and media are given. It's a worthwhile guide for anyone visiting the area.
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