No comments about Paris (Great Cities).

No comments about Paris City Map.

No comments about Hammond International Paris (Hammond International (Folded Maps)).

No comments about AA Essential Spiral Disneyland Resort Paris (AA Essential Spiral Guides).

2 comments about Fodor's Paris 2007 (Fodor's Gold Guides).

1. For starters, this book gives the wrong Metro to take from Orlly airport into the city. The information person at the Metro ticket counter kept repeating "Take Metro __"(I've now forgotten which) And I kept saying, but this book says to take the other Metro. She just shook her head in knowing disgust. The book is hard to follow and the index offers little help in a rush. Unless you're willing to study and learn it before leaving home, I can't encourage you to take along this book and expect it to be more than an exasperating weight to lug around the beautiful city of Paris. And by the way, Parisians are generally helpful especially if you throw in a few Mercis and Pardons.



2. Good book, very good information. It had been helpful when I was in Paris.

No comments about Secret Bars and Restaurants in Paris (Jonglez).

No comments about Paris (Michelin Green Guides).

2 comments about Fodor's See It Paris, 1st Edition (Fodor's See It).

1. Between this book and Rick Steve's Paris I was able to find my way around Paris. I found this book to be easy to find items quickly. Whereas, Rick Steve's Paris was good for pre trip information, this book was usually a good on the spot book with good maps.



2. I used this book for my month in Paris and it was extremely useful in planning outings and visiting sights.
   
   The first section of the book contains practical information on living in Paris and the cultural mindset of the French, as well as a brief revision of history.
   
   The next section, "On The Move," has maps and routes, as well as prices and useful facts for taking the metro, bus, suburban trains, and high-speed trains. It also includes information on taxis and driving in Paris.
   
   The third section, "The Sights," includes all of the well-known museums, monuments and sights, as well as the much lesser known. Churches, palaces, parks and gardens find themselves in this section and many are rated in terms of historic interest, cultural interest, value for money, good for kids, and photo stops. For the larger sights, there are "tips" and "facts and figures." These will tell the busiest/least busy days and times to visits, places to eat nearby, tips for seeing the sight, and facts about the archetecture or history. Very useful, and never led me astray. I took the "tip" to visit the Louvre on Wednesday when it is open late. I got there after 5pm and there were several times when I found myself entirely alone in rooms of beautiful works of art. Thank you, Foder's.
   
   The next section is "What to Do," which gives information on shopping, eating, theatre/cinema/dance, clubs, sports and children's paris.
   
   The "Out and About" section gives suggestions for 6 different walking tours (including the Latin Quarter, Le Marais, Montmartre), and 6 different daytrip excursions (Versailles, Fountainebleau, Disneyland Paris and others). I didn't follow most of these, but they seemed like a good way to make use of short amounts of time. Most of the walks seem to take 1 to 2 hours and cover around 7 noteworthy sights.
   
   The next sections is entirely devoted to "Eating" and "Staying." I didn't use the food suggestions, as I preferred to wander into cafes and restaurants, and none of which were the expensive suggestions provided by the book. I also had already found a place to stay, so the hotel and hostels were unnecessary as well, but this book does contain a fairly comprehensive list.
   
   Every entry (Sights, Eating, What to Do, etc) contains detailed information including hours, pricing, nearest metro and bus stops, telephone numbers, availability of audio guides or guide books (including prices of each) for all the major and minor sites.
   
   The "Planning" section comes at the end, which seems very odd to me, but it is useful. Information on banking, newspapers, weather, rainfall, health, telephones and communications, post office, clothing/shoe size charts, websites, useful french phrases, and more. For a more in-depth phrasebook, I highly recommend the Lonely Planet French Phrasebook.
   
   Finally, there are pages of maps, though not very good. I would suggest buying a separate, fold-out map. I suggest the Berndtson Paris city streets map, it served me very well.
   
   Overall, this was the best guide book I had from my trip. I had also used guides from Lonely Planet and Let's Go for other cities, and this one was by far the best.

No comments about Tapeguide-Fascinating Paris: Walking Tours (Tapeguide Walking Tours).

2 comments about The Best of Paris Gault Millau.

1. Gayot's Paris offers a French perspective on the City of Light. Most French people I know consider the Gualt-Millau guides the most accurate and up-to-date availabe - notwithstanding Michelin. GM says their guides "...distinguish the truly superlative from the merely overrated" - an extremely useful service in my experience. The restaurant and hotel listings are concise and dead accurate and the shopping notes are great too. Nightlife and sightseeing are very well covered and the critical appraisals of places and sights is particularly helpful. This is a very useful book for the selective traveler, and was especially helpful in sorting-through the mind-numbingly endless possibilities Paris offers.



2. Although the reviews of the restaurants are overall on the target, this guide has a MAJOR flaw -- it is not updated very frequently. This edition, for instance, was last modified back in 1997. Many of its recommendations have moved, closed down, or changed business hours. Another problem is that the book does not make it easy to find any of the restaurants. For some reason, the names of the (allegedly) nearest metro stop are given for the shops, but not for the restaurants. The bottom line is: I don't recommend using this book as your primary source.