1 comments about Barcelona Popout Maps: Double Map Special Edition.

1. This series of maps is so very convenient. They will show a city in several scales -- showing an overall area or details of the center of town. The map pops open and everything is easy to read. It fits nicely in your pocket.

3 comments about Fodor's See It Barcelona, 2nd Edition (Fodor's See It).

1. I traveled throughout Spain and France over the fall and took the Barcelona, Spain and Paris guides with me everywhere I went. None of them are too big to carry in a purse or a backpack. The history is so well-written and informative, but it's not overwhelming like other travel guides can be. There are tons of pictures and I loved that they give "city walks" for you to do. Perfect little three mile walks around the city that loop you past tons of landmarks and interesting shops and restaurants. As a student, I was on a bit of a budget and it was super helpful to have the exact prices AND hours listed with each activity.
   
   I bought the See It: Italy guide for a couple friends and they loved it. This series is seriously the best.



2. "Who's going to go to a restaurant that's 5km away from them?"
   
   A typical exclamation from a user of this guide. Unfortunately, bars, restaurants and other places are organized alphabetically, rather than by area, so if you're doing a search for a restaurant near where you are, good luck. This guide does not make such a typical query easy. Thumbs down.



3. I bought this guide to Barcelona because the Fodor's Guide to France was so wonderful. Unfortunately, Fodor's got it wrong with this particular format of city guide. The guide is organized by activity (one section for "shopping" one for "hotels" one for "things to see" one for restaurants, etc.) and the corresponding maps are not intuitively placed throughout the book, either. This translates into a lot of furious page-flipping as you try to discern which sites, restaurants, etc., are where. Luckily Barcelona is so jam-packed with fabulous things to see, we eventually stopped using the guide in favor of just wandering and seeing whatever we happened to cross paths with. Two things I did like about this book, however, were that each of the major sites has its own mini-chapter, and that the book provides helpful walking tours of a couple of the major tourist areas. But unless you're willing to put in a significant amount of time learning how to use this book before you hit the pavement, and memorizing which map corresponds to which page, I suggest using a different guide.

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