Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Los Angeles (Irreverent Guides)

Looking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. You'll get the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even find out what the locals think of you. Like being taken around by a savvy local," said the New York Times. "Hipper and savvier than other guides," concurred Diversion magazine. Never shy about confronting the issues, the Irreverents are guides to real travel in the real world.

The big, sprawling Technicolor dreamscape that is Los Angeles is riotously X-rayed in Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Los Angeles, a fresh, funny insider's guide to savvy travel in the City of Angels. You'll discover how to order a Jayburger like a native (hold the chili and put an egg on top), get tipped to swinging spots for the new rat pack, and learn where to stay if you're determined to score on the Hip-O-Meter. Learn which movie tours are overrated, who to know to get into Spago, and where to get that special someone a beach towel with a chalk outline of a body (the L.A. County morgue gift shop). Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Los Angeles is the kind of hip, discriminating guidebook Los Angeles deserves."