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Frommer's Switzerland: The Most Complete Guide to the Cities and Countryside by: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914.940473 EAN: 9780028606378 ISBN: 002860637X Label: Macmillan Manufacturer: Macmillan Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: October 03, 1995 Publisher: Macmillan Studio: Macmillan Related Items:
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 Rating: - We Review Six Guides to SwitzerlandI have been to Switzerland at least six times. Recently I sat down with my daughter who has worked at a hotel at Interlaken in Switzerland during her years in Business Administration at McGill - up to last summer - and we went over the Switzerland guides to see how they ranked, and what was currently the best guide in our humble opinions. We are not experts but have certain requirements and preferences. It helps if one can get a feel for the area in advance of a trip, and generally that is helped by good maps and color photos. So those guides do better in our review. We like to make reservations by internet and telephone and just use the Guide as a "guide". Generally it costs more to publish a book with color photos so ... Read More: Rating: - Good, but lacking some detailJust visited Switzerland this past April 2003 and used this guide to get around from Fribourg to Geneva, Zurich, Bern, Montreaux and Gruyeres. This guide provides a lot of useful travel details like AMEX offices in Switzerland and directions by car, train and plane to cities in Switzerland. In general the guide is good and the walking tours reccommended are well done. I personally followed some of them and they are up to date. The only part lacking in the guide is the fact that the maps require more detail. I had to use the visitor's maps available at the tourist office to get around with more detail. The restaurant options may be outdated in some cases as my Fribourg friend pointed out, but this ... Read More: |
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