Lonely Planet New York City Guide 0.98

The intrepid travelers bible - LA Times

Whether you’re taking your first bite of the Big Apple, or coming back to savour it to the core, Lonely Planet’s New York Cityguide is essential. The world’s leading guidebook publisher has retooled one of its best-selling guides to take full advantage of your iPhone, offering interactive maps with GPS plotting, nearly 700 filterable, text-searchable places to eat, sleep, shop and socialise and the kind of independent, in-depth local knowledge that money (usually) can’t buy.

Our dedicated resident authors have scoured this town inside out: whatever your pleasure, whatever your palate, whatever your penchant, we’ll lead you straight there (and let you chart your progress across our dynamic maps, in real time.) All the features you’ve come to expect from Lonely Planet guidebooks are there at your fingertips: essential cultural, historical and practical information helps set the scene; straight-up venue reviews let you plot your itinerary with confidence; detailed walking tours bring the city to your feet and full-colour imagery gets your wanderlust up. Oh, and there’s no need to worry about being bitten by roaming internet costs: our apps are stand-alone, and give you plenty of warning before making a connection. It’s mad yo!

LONELY PLANET iPHONE CITY GUIDES

Imagine taking the worlds favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the worlds favourite guidebook has just arrived on the worlds favourite phone.

• EASY TO USE - swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger

• OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom

• TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call

• TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable

• LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way

• WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS ... – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers

• PERSONALISATION – tailor your cityguide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’

• MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod

• MORE THAN 30 CITYGUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, Miami, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Madrid, Prague, Seoul, Dubai, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City with more coming soon

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