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Pro
Great weather! Pleasant city to discover if you know where to go. Cheap real estate.
Con
No common transportation; pollution; hurricanes
In a nutshell
not well known as a tourist destination - too bad for those who never come
51 Reviews I concur - if you have a car, it is a much better option to drive to Space Center Houston instead of taking the bus there. After your tour of NASA, I recommend heading down NASA Rd 1 towards the bay (a left turn out of Space Center Houston) and then taking a right at Cty. 146 to head over the...
12 Reviews Normally, we park at the Galleria, but on weekends the free parking lot is just so crowded that it takes 20-30 mins to spot a parking place....add wastage of gas to it! If you dont mind walking a few blocks, park at the shopping lot near Galleria....this is where Wallgreens is located. The time you...
1 Review and 1650 Opinions The Magnolia Hotel opened in 2002 in the old downtown Post-Dispatch building, which was built in...
1 Review and 274 Opinions Corporate rates are the least expensive. Beautifully decorated rooms in a park like setting. Three...
8 Reviews There are lots of excellent restaurants in Houston. Area where there is a lot of choice are: Rice Village (West of Rice University campus) Montrose and Westheimer streets area Westheimer and PostOak Blvd area (expensive restaurants there, Western Houston, Galleria area) The website...
5 Reviews Seafood! Good fresh seafood, all kinds of seafood. If you like seafood and New Orleans style cooking you will love this restaurant. Start with a dozen fresh oysters and move on to crawfish étouffée and dirty rice. Excellent!
16 Reviews This 2 story midtown lounge has lasted quite a bit longer than most of it's trendy counterparts typically do. Located on Brazos St., about 5 minutes south of downtown, if you drove by the building during the day, you would never think that this place was more than a storage warehouse. But come...
14 Reviews This bar is the oldest in the city, in a building over 130 year old. Over the decades it has been an Indian trading post, a steam bakery and a Pony Express stop The walls there have not been festooned with art as much as they have simply accreted tangible history. The jukebox is one of the best in...
17 Reviews Metro Solutions is much more than simply a rail transit plan. The bus system component of the plan provides for a massive expansion and upgrade of Metro's bus services. With about 44 new bus routes to provide transit access to currently underserved portions of Metro's service area additional park &...
29 Reviews At Houston's George Bush International Airport (IAH), I was impressed about how organized the rental car agencies are. Unlike in other airports, these agencies are all huddled in just one general area. After arrival, just board a bus that brings you directly to the building dedicated for car...
16 Reviews The Galleria is an upscale mixed-use urban development centrally located in the up town district of Houston, Texas, one of the largest business districts in the country, just outside the city's I-610 inner beltway. It is sited at one of the busiest road intersections in the country, Post Oak...
5 Reviews This is the biggest sports store I've ever seen. It has any and everything for the person who LOVES the outdoors! If and when I ever go camping I will be stocking up here! While you shop send the kids to the center of the store for the aquarium and fake rock climbing. All the store clerks are very...
9 Reviews Having lived in houston most of my life, you are not going to be shot if you cut someone off or honk. I honk at people all the time, no one has ever waved a gun at me. this is apparently a common misconception I have been reading on these pages. At most you will get the middle finger and see the...
19 Reviews I am a missionary from London UK and on a Saturday evening my friend invited me to go jogging as I did not know the area I thought it was ok but we ended up on a park at Desoto st called Highland Park in Acres Homes I only found out later where I was as I don't know the area and we live in some...
12 Reviews Driving during the early morning in Houston, you might encounter heavy fog. I uploaded a video here on how foggy it was and at times, I could not even see the markings on the freeway signs. In California, I have also driven in very bad foggy situations where you can't even see the car in front of...
6 Reviews it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be.......it is a monster of a mall though.....and it does have an ice rink but not a good one......the ice rink in the memorial city mall is much bigger and nicer.....and I like the memorial city mall much more......
4 Reviews It's hot. It rains. That's just Houston. There are two seasons: Summer and Spring. Spring is about January-April. After April, until December, it's hot. Make sure you bring plenty of sun screen. Let me repeat: It rains. Sometimes all day. Sometimes 5 minutes a day for 3 months. When it rains all...
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12 Reviews Just southwest of Houston is the George Ranch in Richmond, TX. I've never been but am including this tip because many travelers want to see an "old west" or "cowboy" side of Houston -- which nowadays, is hard to come by unless it's Rodeo time. According to the web site, the ranch offers vistors: -...
10 Reviews A beautiful piece of Texan land preserved with typical bayous (river or wet land in Southern US english) and forests, nested in a bend of the river Brazos. Ideal location to observe alligators (best season is spring) and birds. This is a birder's paradise as this area attracts birds all-year long,...
5 Reviews Minute Maid Park is a state-of-the-art ballpark, formerly known as Enron Field, which opened in 2000. It changed its name for obvious reasons - Enron went bust - and is now sponsored by the Minute Maid orange juice company. I come from England and we have no stadium for any sport in the same class...
8 Reviews Before Europeans came to what is now the Houston area (the first explorator of the region being the spaniard Cabeza de la Vaca in 1528), indians called Karankawas roamed the Gulf Coast area. The last Karankawas were killed in 1858. Karankawas were nomadic hunter-gatherers, living mainly on...
7 Reviews Not just in Houston either. If you have to get anywhere during the rushhour time and have to get on the tollway and travel, allow for extra time. I went through 3 tolls on the way to the airport and probably added a good 25-30 minutes onto my drive just sitting in line waiting at the toll booths.
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Welcome to Houston, my birthplace and hometown. I have lived in and around Houston my whole life, and although I have dreamed of living in other places around the world at various times, I don't...
Houston, Texas; Beyond Oil, Heat and Space
Houston is the 4th largest city in the USA. It was built mainly around the oil industry, but is also famous as the location of NASA-Johnson Space Center, which is among other things the training...
I moved here because my parents both live here. The school district I currently work with offered me a job the first time I walked into a job fair. And I went to high school here. Although I do feel...
I've been in Houston for almost 6 months now. Since arriving I've had a good introduction to Houston and the different parts of the city. So far I'm pretty familiar with the Uptown area around the...
Houston: Home to the Rodeo and Oil Business
I have spent alot of time in Houston over the years, but I never did take the time to enjoy the sights and sounds of the city as much as when I started thinking about writing tips for Virtual Tourist....
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