'the intrepid traveler's bible...' – Los Angeles Times

For a limited time we're offering our San Francisco City Guide for free so Apple WWDC attendees can plan their week in SF. This app is normally priced at USD $15.99.

It doesn’t get more ‘Left Coast’ than freewheeling, liberal, San Francisco, and with Lonely Planet’s Cityguide on your iPhone, you’re heading straight to the heart of the action. Whether it’s bar-hopping in The Mission, a hippy pilgrimage through Haight-Ashbury, on the trail of the Beats through North Beach, or getting your fill of queer culture in The Castro, this comprehensive, independent guide to Fog City has got you covered. Our dedicated community of authors and contributors keeps the content fresh, making sure you’ve always got the latest intelligence on the best places to eat, sleep, shop, socialise and sightsee.

Your iPhone was just made for our fully-retooled Cityguide: the GPS and scrolling touch-screen lets us provide you with dynamic, interactive maps to plot your itinerary and current location; hundreds of personally-vetted venues, always just a fingertip away, can be filtered, marked as favourites and keyword located; detailed chapters on SF’s culture, history, food and art give you the best introduction to the local scene; excursions and walking tours take you through nearby wine country or Hispanic San Francisco; and images from our award-winning photographers bring the city to life. And don’t worry about roaming internet costs: our Cityguides are designed as fully stand-alone apps. Frisco’s a gas!


LONELY PLANET CITYGUIDES

Imagine taking the world's 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 world's favourite guidebook has just arrived on the world's 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

• 20 CITYGUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, New York, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Paris, Prague, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Madrid, Miami, Seoul, Dubai, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City with more coming soon

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