Pauline Frommer started traveling with her guidebook-writing parents at the age of four months and hasn't stopped since. She is the Editorial Director for the Frommer Guidebooks and Frommers.com, as well as author of what has been the bestselling guidebook to her hometown since its first edition. Her first job in travel was on the website Frommers.com, and eventually she worked her way up to Editor in Chief. Pauline also served as Travel Editor for MSNBC.com for several years, before working with John Wiley and Sons to create the award-winning Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, a 14-book series that won the coveted ""Best Guidebook of the Year"" title three years in a row from the North American Travel Journalists Association and once from the Society of American Travel Writers). For four years, Pauline created weekly travel segments for CNN's Headline News and CNN's Pipeline. She hosted a nationally syndicated radio show on travel for over 15 years. You may also have seen her talking travel on The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, The O'Reilly Factor, NBC Nightly News and ABC World News, Good Morning America, FOX News and every local news station you can name. Her writings have been widely published in everything from Budget Travel Magazine to the Dallas Morning News to Nick, Jr. magazine. She resides in New York City with her husband, Columbia University Professor Mahlon Stewart and two very well-traveled daughters.
"How to travel better, smarter and cheaper: For an affordable New York hotel, consult Pauline. That would be Pauline Frommer of Frommers.com, who lives in Manhattan and makes it her business to check out the city's cheap-ish hotels herself. It's a tough job-the average daily rate eclipsed $300 over the summer, and she's on the lookout for rates below that. But this is the bargain hunger whose dad, Arthur, wrote the original ""Europe on $5 a Day"" in 1957. in 1957. Her latest assessment is on Frommers.com. For a fuller treatment of New York City (researched after the lockdowns), there's Frommer's New York City."" - Los Angeles Times"