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Title: Rick Steves' Paris 2003 by Rick Steves, Steve Smith, Gene Openshaw ISBN: 1-56691-456-6 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (42 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Guide Book
Comment: I was in Paris for 13 days and Paris 2003 was the best thing I could have ever purchased for my vacation!!!
If you are going to Paris, don't leave without this book.
Thanks!
Rating: 5
Summary: You must have this book!
Comment: I am not an experienced world traveler but this book made it almost easy! This is a must have for anyone traveling to Paris this year. I used Rick's French, Italian, and German Phrase Book along with this and had no problems communicating and getting what I needed and wanted in Paris. I will always travel abroad with one of Rick Steves' books in the future...I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good book for some
Comment: This guidebook does not provide a good general overview of Paris but instead focuses on several key points of interest( museums, the Marais, rue cler, etc). If those points are what you will be going to Paris for, then this book will be all that you need. If you are looking for a good in depth overview of Paris, then this book will disappoint. Mr. Steeves clearly has his favorites in Paris and he focuses on these areas in the book. He generally steers the reader toward visiting his favorite areas like rue Cler (it is very nice) and the Marais but isn't there more to Paris than this? While Mr. Steeves occaisionally gets you off the tourist track, when using his suggestions I found myself feeling more like a tourist than a person living in Paris. Paris is not enjoyable until you make it your own and by this I mean that it helps to find your own points of interest, perhaps using Mr. Steeves book as a starting point. I stopped using this book on the second day of my trip because I found that I wanted to see areas not covered in this book. The walking tours that are in the book ARE extremely good and perhaps worth the price of the book. But was it really necessary to devote over one hundred pages of the book to give us a detailed examination of several museums? And even after this in depth examination of the contents of several museums, isn't it still much better to get one of the museums guides if you true interest is exploring museums? You'll definitely need another guide book to find interesting restaurants, but may I suggest that you take a chance and just look at where the locals eat. You will not go wrong in just about any Paris neighborhood. Two suggestions to feel less like a tourist. 1) Rent and apartment instead of staying in a hotel. You may think that this is extravagant but the price of a basic apartment (nothing fancy) is less per day that many 2 or 3 star hotels and many apartments can sleep a family of four much more comofortably than a hotel. 2) Walk and take the metro. Taking taxis or renting a car (traffic is a nightmare) take you away from the action. Get out and walk or mingle with the natives below ground.
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Title: Rick Steves' French Phrase Book and Dictionary by Rick Steves ISBN: 1566915171 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Rick Steves' France 2003 by Rick Steves ISBN: 1566914639 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Rick Steves' London 2003 by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw ISBN: 1566914558 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Streetwise Paris by Michael Brown, Streetwise Maps ISBN: 0935039252 Publisher: Streetwise Maps Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Paris Mapguide by Michael Middleditch ISBN: 0140469621 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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