The Hedonist: World Travel Guide

Hide this book from women, and if any of your friends are considering marriage, pick up a copy for him immediately.


Great Travel Guide for Sports Nuts   April 10, 2007
Daddy Mack (Winston Salem, NC)
75 out of 78 found this review helpful

Having just finished Tate's hilarious new book The Professional Bachelor Dating Guide - How to Exploit Her Inner Psycho, I picked up this one for the winter trip. Now here's a great travel guide for the guy who's cashed up, and looking for some prime vacation action and adventure, without any drama and hassles. My trips gotta have beaches, killer deep sea fishing, diving, and maybe golf. This books hits it right in the sweet spot. Most of the cities covered here are in the tropics, but are just enough of the beaten tourist path to offer that little extra. There's plenty of world class Trent Jones courses, and marlin fishing up from 200 on up to 1000 lbs. For ocean fishing, it details the type of ocean fish you'll catch, the seasons they are biting, and so forth. Some cool unknown pacific islands are thrown in, interesting local stuff, historical perspectives, and tourist crap if that's your bag. If you've never traveled abroad, it covers the passport/visas, currency, airports, cabs, hotels, and so forth.

The girls, of course, now there's the icing on the cake. All the full service strip clubs and local pay for play options are heavily researched and explained for each city, and that includes the local club websites (which you could never find), plus forums which are continually updated. This rocks. There's nothing worse than 4 guys wandering around in different directions night after night going "where's the girls" to some idiot who sends you on a wild goose chase. It's not like the concierge at the Marriott is going to reel off this stuff either. Fishing in the morning, diving in the day, new girls every night. Not bad. Not bad at all.


Funny, vulgar, and wildly entertaining   May 31, 2007
Marathon Man (Denver, CO)
72 out of 73 found this review helpful


Anyone who has traveled as much as I have doesn't feel any need for travel guides. They're famously generic and outdated at best, written by people who have never been there. This book captures the essence of each city. The sights, sounds and smells, their exciting to bizarre cultural oddities that make each such a fascinating experience. In other words, all the things that give each city its originality. Though I had already visited half the cities, I picked up this guide by referral from a former running buddy of mine. I can tell you that it is spot on accurate, extremely funny, and steers you to all things a single guy wants to do in a hurry.

If you love ocean fishing, exotic golf courses, casinos, and kicking back on a beach with a dozen toxic fruity drinks, the cities chosen have some of the most kicking spots available in the world. I've fished and golf at many of them; Cabo has a number of gorgeous oceanlined courses, with Cabo del Sol being ranked in the World's top 100, and the Costa Rica sail fishing is off the hook and equally world class. Want to know how to do all that, and know where to go to meet women ready to go with you each night? Buy this book.

Sure you could find out this information with hours of research and scouring message boards. With this book you don't need to bother, plus you'll have great fun comparing the cities and choosing your next adventure.

A great value, and I'd highly recommend this authors other book, The Professional Bachelor Dating Guide - How to Exploit Her Inner Psycho. I love the author's wicked dry sense of humor and riveting writing style.



Outrageous Bachelor Travel Guide   November 16, 2007
Easy Rider
72 out of 76 found this review helpful

This book was referred to me by a frequent overseas travel buddy of mine. What can I say, it's been a life changer. I now take vacations every 6 weeks out of the country. This is a point and click travel guide for sports, fun in the sun, and women by the dozens...it gives perfect advice for any bachelor looking to kick start his life on some spectacular vacations in paradises around the globe. Living in Miami, I can pop out Friday at noon and return on red-eye Sunday night flights and live an alternative life that no one knows anything about. I've had so much fun, and so many life-changing experiences with beautiful, fun loving women overseas, I've ceased dating in the US. American women used to offend me. Now they're comic relief. I suppose it's just the nature of the beast. For some men, after a couple dozen beers, a pig can be mildly appealing when the light hits their snout just right. They're just not for me.

This book really opened my eyes to a better life, better sports activities, beautiful scenery, and vivacious, sexy women without an entitlement complex and attitude problems. I could go on, and on, but if you're not happy with your sex life, and tired of being treated like a third class citizen by bitter, beefy women, pick up the Hedonist and you will never look back.


Excellent Vacation Guide   October 20, 2007
D. Coberly (La Jolla, CA)
67 out of 72 found this review helpful

I bought this on referral, and would recommend it to anyone. My friends and I were trying to decide between Costa Rica and Cabo, and the book was spot on accurate for both locations. (we couldn't decide, so we went to both!) If you have the money, Cabo is pricey, but the golf and fishing are fantastic. They have a million dollar marlin tournament in October, and the book even recommends the best boats to charter if you want to enter.

For a vacation, The Hedonist is very accurate, funny, and gets right to the point for what guys want; helps you find and choose the fishing, golf courses, nightclubs, girly clubs, hotels, local touristy stuff, you name it. Prices and locations for each.

You'll get a big kick reading about the wild, fascinating stuff that goes on in some of the lesser know cities. We haven't decided on the next spot, but it sounds like they are all worth visiting some day. Great book.