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Access Paris 8e by: Richard Saul Wurman List Price: CDN$ 24.26 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 17.71 You Save: CDN$6.55 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914 EAN: 9780060938352 ISBN: 0060938358 Label: HarperCollins Canada / Reference Manufacturer: HarperCollins Canada / Reference Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: 2002-06 Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Reference Studio: HarperCollins Canada / Reference Sales Rank: 1326424 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - excellent guide to enjoying ParisWe recently took this and two other guide books to Paris, and as another reviewer said, we did not even bother to carry the others with us after the first day. The guide is excellent for seeing the city on foot and attempting to experience the essence of the many different quarters. If you're looking for "the best of Paris in 2-3 days" you might look elsewhere. This book leaves it to you to decide what you feel is important to see (because there is just that much) and gives information according to location. A map is at the beginning of each section with numbers corresponding to all the things listed to see, do, eat and buy in that area. While restaurants are not listed by ethnicity, it never took us long to locate the kind of ... Read More: Rating:  - QuirkyBetter for pre-trip planning, you can sit in bed at night reading the insightful, almost personal descriptions of the restaurants, shops, galleries, hotels, parks, and markets that make up Paris. Seperated in the book by geographic areas, reading along is like walking along the streets, giving you an opportuinty to think ahead of time of some of the places you might want to explore or experience. Good information on hotels, descriptions that give you a feel for the places. Quirky because, although you can find a great jazz club with hours open from 10pm to 3am in this guide, it won't tell you what time the Louvre or the Effiel Tower closes. The guide will give an acceptable descripton of a tourist attraction, then segue into a description ... Read More: Rating:  - Errors and omissions cost us time, money, enjoyment.It is hard to believe a seventh edition would be so flawed. Another reviewer mentioned missing or wrong museum hours--the only hours mentioned for either d'Orsay or the Louvre are 10AM to 9:30 PM, but we had been at the d'Orsay for only a half hour on a Friday when we were told the museum closes at 5:30. Another reviwer mentioned the difficulty of finding restaurants in the book--it is indexed not by cuisine or by location, but by star rating! So, to find a restaurantin the index, one must wade through four separate lists--one for each of the ratings. Normally I love Access guides. Their strength is complete and accurate maps of each section of a city with restaurants and shops and points of interest shown on each local map, but that is a weakness ... Read More: Rating: - Use this Guide in Paris!You will not be disappointed if this is the only guidebook you take to Paris. My husband and I, neither of whom speak French, took Michelin, Frommers, and this Access guide with us on our honeymoon in Paris. After the first day, we put all the other books back in the suitcase and relied on this book. The restaurant ratings are accurate both for price and quality. The color codings (red for restaurants, blue for hotels, black for history) make it easy to use on the fly. The maps are great as well. Rating: - Good recommendations and descriptions; bad for metro travelExcellent restaurant reviews and fascinating tidbits about sites (Ex. if Napoleon hadn't changed his mind in the nick of time, Parisians would be staring at a 160 ft elephant squirting water from its trunk instead of the L'Arc de Triompe). But if you are planning to use the Metro (subway) for getting around, you'll need another book. The Metro map on the back cover is so small that even a person with 20/20 vision will need a magnifying glass. Also, the street maps do not show the metro stops. I'd recommend Eyewitness Paris for metro info. |
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