Frommer’s Best of Florida

＂Frommer’s books aren’t written by committee, by AI, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We employ the best local experts to author our guides, in this case, Tampa-based journalist Beth Luberecki, Miami-based newspaper reporter Leslie Abravanel, and award-winning theme park expert Jason Cochran. In this fully updated, highly detailed guide, they show readers how to see the best of Florida in the smartest, most cost-effective and time-efficient way. Destinations covered in the guide are: Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, the Florida Keys, the Dry Tortugas, the Florida Everglades, the Space Coast, St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, Amelia Island, the Tampa Bay area, Jacksonville, Palm Beach and Boca Raton.＂--

New York raised and Florida bronzed, Lesley Abravanel has covered the amusingly vapid celeb scene in South Florida for the Miami Herald and several illustrious supermarket mags since the Kardashians were fetuses. She has also chronicled the evolution of Florida’s culinary scene, nightlife, celebrity culture, suburbia, and travel for such outlets as Miami.com, Maxim, The Forward, TripAdvisor, and the Daily Mail for, gasp, nearly 3 decades. In addition to penning several Frommer’s books on Florida, she is also the author of the not-so-cheekily titled Florida for Dummies. On the sly, she is a ghostwriter for various organizations, personalities, and businesses. When she’s not writing, she collects hot sauces, raises twin teens, and attempts to learn Swedish from her Stockholm-born husband.
Jason Cochran is also the author of Frommer’s London, Frommer’s Disney World, Universal & Orlando, and Here Lies America. He was twice awarded Guide Book of the Year by the Lowell Thomas Awards (Society of American Travel Writers) and once by the North American Travel Journalists Association for his books on London and Orlando. His voice has reached millions of travelers, from the mid-’90s, when as a long-term backpacker he wrote one of the world’s first travel blogs, to his long-running WABC radio show co-hosted with Pauline Frommer, to appearances as a commentator on CBS and for AOL, and to his work at Frommers.com, which under his editorship won Silver for Travel Journalism Website in the 2021 Lowell Thomas Awards.
Beth Luberecki is a Florida-based freelance writer who writes about travel, business, and lifestyle topics for a variety of regional and national publications and websites. A resident of Florida’s Gulf Coast for 2 decades, she serves as a senior editor for FamilyVacationist.com, and her travel writing has appeared in publications and on websites including USA Today, Forbes Vetted, TourScoop.com, Times of the Islands, and SmarterTravel.com. Learn more about her at BethLuberecki.com or find her on Instagram at @bethlubereckiwrites.