No comments about Short Breaks Northern France, 2nd (Country & Regional Guides - Cadogan).

1 comments about Karen Brown's France: Bed & Breakfasts and Itineraries 2006 (Karen Brown's France Charming Bed and Breakfast).

1. This book is more for entertainment than practical use. On a trip to France in December 2006, I stayed at several bed & breakfasts.
   
   I had much better luck going directly on the internet to find information and descriptions of available properties.
   
   This book is not worth the money!

5 comments about Let's Go 2001: France: The World's Bestselling Budget Travel Series.

1. I must say that as a student about to explore France I was a bit worried about going unprepared for the marvels I would find. After purchasing this book, I was impressed with the simple structure. Like the book was designed with me in mind. I was able to find out about all the do's and dont's in France though this great guide. Let this be your guide if you too are planning to live and learn all about France!



2. When I decided to go for a little trip to France not too long ago, I bought 2 guides. The Let's Go France 2000 and an other more expensive guide with pictures. For a young traveller that I am, the Let's Go proved to be much more useful than the other guide, by far a better buy.

   I went all over France in 2 weeks and my schedule was extremely tight. Let's Go France 2000 gave me all the information on hostels and hotels to call in advance, how to book train tickets in every city, how to get around and what to see. There are also maps of every major city, which is very useful when the streets are as crooked as in France. It is simply a gold mine of information. It told me what were the coolest places to stay, what to do and what not to do in every city. I was especially happy with their ratings of suggested restaurants - one cannot visit France without trying French cuisine. The guide told me where to go to get good food at the best prices. Let me recommend you Les Fontaines du Soleil in Carcassone, that the guide ranked as one of the top restaurants.

   The only thing I can see is that it could use more pictures. I did use my other guide from time to time, (especially in the Jardins de Versailles), to know exactly what I was looking at. But for the price, I think this is understandable.

   I believe that Let's Go France 2000 made my trip to France easier and a better experience. Everywhere I went, I knew what I had to see before I got there, and this way I could schedule an optimal trip for a minimal price. It was a wonderful experience for me and I am planning on going back as soon as next month.




3. I travelled to many places in Europe and Asia, and used many different kinds of guide books.

   For this summer when I worked and travelled in France, Let's Go France absolutely made my journey fruitful and well-guided. I wish I read this book before I landed on Paris, especially after I got pickpocketed on Metro line #1 on my first day (Read p.41 Safety and Security chapter- it predicted my bad experience in great detail!)

   It also has many maps and enough historic and cultural backgrounds for even small towns, which is great for those who seek everywhere.

   If I visit somewhere else in Europe in near future, I will choose Let's Go series without hesitation.




4. Let's Go France: 2001 has all of Let's Go's series-wide virtues in spades. First, it focuses on budget hotels and food, meaning you get an exceptionally careful, detailed survey of the budget scene in the city you're headed for. Second, it gives you more detailed practical information than any other guidebook on the market; Let's Go assumes its readers will end up drenched, tired, and without a car in the middle of Lyons at 3 AM, so it gives them a support system of nitty-gritty facts that other guides don't provide. No other book tells you how often each train leaves the station, what temperature it will be when you arrive, how precisely to walk to your hotel, and what to do if you get rabies. Third, it's funny. Having a Let's Go guide feels like traveling with an exceptionally witty and knowledgeable friend who never gets on your nerves.

   What's more, Let's Go: France: 2001 is an exceptionally good Let's Go guide. I should know; I was in charge of editing it. We've strengthened, lengthened, and deepened our coverage to help you get a feel for the place as you walk around it, and we've added one-sentence breakdowns (new this year) of all the towns in each region, keyed to a regional map, to help you decide if you want to go there in the first place. City and town introductions have been lengthened and revised across the board with an eye to helping readers plan their travel, and accommodations have been added in each town. Sights coverage is breathakingly expanded. As always, every listing has been rechecked and reconsidered for 2001. All in all, this guide makes budget travel in France significantly easier and more fun than it would otherwise be.




5. I always find the Let's Go guides very easy to use and loaded with information, and this was no exception. They are very thorough; you'd be hard put to have a place in mind that is not touched on in some fashion. (Compared to Rick Steves, for example, whose books are limited generally to his favorite places in a country) My only complaint is their slant toward partying college types, so there is overabundant information on those particular activities and places.

1 comments about Let's Go Map Guide Sydney (2nd Ed) (Let's Go Map Guide Sydney).

1. I bought just about every guide I could find before my recent trip to Sydney. This is the one I ended up carrying with me at all times. It has the maps you need, and enough basic info on the locations and attractions that you'll always have some idea what to see and do next. While not a substitute for a detailed guidebook that'll tell you more background, this combination map and mini-guide is extremely useful.

No comments about Michelin Nord-Pas-De-Calais, Picardie, France (Michelin Maps).

No comments about French Holiday Homes: Villas, Gites and Apartments (Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay).

1 comments about Michelin Bretagne, France (Michelin Maps).

1. I returned it, I've found that Michelin maps in spite of their great reputation are well...
   not that easy to use, a major flaw is that the road numbers are in very small hard to read writing. I purchased a Hammond International France for only a bit extra, it's easy to use and and it covers the whole country
   as well as major city maps etc.

4 comments about The Rough Guide to French Hotels & Restaurants 8 (Rough Guide Travel Guides).

1. I'm slightly shocked to be the first reviewer of this guidebook, which is the best of it's kind I have ever seen. It is strictly a resource for locating restaurants and hotels in France, with little or no guidance about the sites that the towns offer.

   That said, I cannot recommend this book too highly. What it is is a guide to small hotels and restaurants offer special value, ambiance, food, or comfort in virtually every city, town, and village in all of France. This guide will allow you to find that 13th century hotel in Dinan or that old restaurant in Troyes. Most of the offerings here are exceptional value in some way, usually offering exceptional comfort at moderate prices. As such it fits below the Michelen Red guides but often offers much better value than the Red Guide. France offers much in culture and cuisine, and staying and eating in historic places can add much to one's experience.




2. I have found the Rough Guide (in English) or Routard (French) the second most useful hotel and food guidebook for France, after the Michelin Red Guide. I take both along because The Rough Guide offers less expensive suggestions, its range sometimes bridging from Michelin to Let's Go (the specialists for cheap). The Rough Guide includes more remarks than Michelin, so it's the sort of guide that is worth checking out before arriving, to find places you'll like. I agree with another reviewer that it offers listings for more towns than many popular U.S. issued books for France, so it's especially useful for those of us loving the countryside and finding the byways.



3. Do you dream of renting a car and roaming France wherever a tree-lined road takes you? Of being able to be captivated by the flowers and stones of a quiet town and wish you could stay one night? This book is the English translation of the Guide Routard, relied upon by the French for their vacations with dead-on descriptions of hotels and restaurants most of us can afford. With this book you can confidently soujourn so far off the beaten path that you may well be the only American that hotel will see this year -- or at least maybe this week.

   The hotels listed are the best of the two stars, meaning that you'll find character if not always the firmest of mattresses. The restaurants are truly the best that France has to offer for the local night out and the family Sunday lunch. I wouldn't hesitate to stop at any of their suggestions and I know I won't break the vacation budget.




4. The Rough Guide is an English language edition of the Rotard one published in France. As stated in the introduction, it specializes in presenting medium to small, independent, appealing, and affordable restaurants and hotels. It is comprehensive in that it covers all of France. However, it is less than comprehensive in its coverage of individual locales. For some towns that are well known destinations, barely one or more listings are sometimes given. These places must certainly have more choices that meet the criteria of the Rough Guide, and, in fact, by consulting other guidebooks I have found other choices that by their description ought to be in the Rough Guide.

No comments about Time Out Paris Walks 1 (Time Out Book Of...).

1 comments about Time Out Turin (Time Out Guides).

1. My husband and I nearly wore out this book during our two-week trip to Torino for the 2006 Winter Olympics. The writing and photos are hipper and more sophistocated than the typical travel book. And it's all contained in a thin, well-organized package that practically fits in your pocket. It offers concise suggestions for hip clubs, out-of-the-way restaurants and bars and other attractions that made us feel like virtual-locals.