No comments about Passport Spain: Your Pocket Guide to Spanish Business, Customs & Etiquette (Passport to the World) (Passport to the World).

No comments about The Trailrider Guide - Spain (Trailrider Guide).

No comments about Road Atlas Spain and Portugal (AA Atlases).

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3 comments about Insight Pocket Guide Costa Blanca (Insight Pocket Guides Costa Blanca).

1. For the compact size it has good info...mostly on attractions, but no advice on resturants and hotels...



2. Living in Alicante now, I bought this guide before we moved here. It is really great. Compact and with lots of useful information. I recommend it even on my alicante-spain web site.



3. I got this little book a few weeks ago and it seems pretty helpful. There's a lot of information about the each specific area in costa blanca (especially the main ones, of course), which is good because in general Spain travel books, it's hard to find a lot. I think it will be useful, but I haven't taken the trip yet!

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1 comments about Lonely Planet Best Of Barcelona (Lonely Planet Encounter Barcelona).

1. I got this book to go with me to while I studied abroad in Barcelona. It was a lifesaver. It has great condensed information with this highlights thing at the beginning with some incredible maps in the front/back cover. While it doesn't have every last activity for the traveler it has a solid list to start with and for the price you could buy a streetwise or other map for like $10 or you can invest a little more and get a map and a book. It also makes it nice that this book is pocket sized I mean not jeans pocket but any reasonable coat or purse it will fit easily. No more of the 20 pound travel book occupying an entire backpack. It really is great.

2 comments about Michelin the Green Guide Spain, Balearic and Canary Islands.

1. I bought this book but didn't have time to read it until I was on the plane -- my mistake in buying it in the first place -- there are so many other great guides that do such a better job than this ridiculous guide -- the maps are horrible, the entire book is superficial in it's descriptions and the restaurants it recommends were all recommended by other guides -- as if they had plagarized the lists of places to go. Save your money!



2. If you use this guide for what it was intended (a sightseeing guide for people with relatively limited time in Spain), it is excellent. On my last trip to Spain I used it as my main tool for deciding what to see (the star ratings really help you to prioritize), but I didn't even consult it when deciding where to sleep or eat. My recommendation is to use this guide along with another one that is loaded with painfully detailed hotel, restaurant, and price information, but doesn't really help you decide what to see with your limited time (e.g. Lonely Planet).

   My only real complaint was that I thought that, generally speaking, the guide's star system for rating sights/attractions underrates Spanish attractions relative to those in other countries. For example, cities like Caceres, Ronda, and Cuenca would surely get 3-star ratings if they were located in France or especially the United States, instead of Spain. Overall, I guess I felt that the raters were relatively "harsh" when assigning stars to attractions in Spain, when I compare this guide to some of Michelin's other guides for other countries I have visited. The nice thing is that when you visit "two-star" sights in Spain, expecting to see what you would normally see in a Green Guide two-star sight elsewhere, you'll be pleasantly surprised!

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