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Title: The Penguin London Mapguide : The Essential Guide by Michael Middleditch ISBN: 0-14-046954-0 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 06 May, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Available
Comment: This is the best map of London, even better than the Michelin. It is easy to read and very useful for using the Underground. Not very good for surface bus routes. Good size for carrying in coat pocket.

Rating: 4
Summary: An Attractive Map Guide With One Major Flaw
Comment: We were returning from Greenwich tired and footsore. The LONDON MAPGUIDE indicated we could transfer to another bus to Paddington right on Russell Square. When we alighted, there were no layover stops for the elusive Bus #7. After tromping for ages around Bloomsbury, we gave up and hiked back past the British Museum to Oxford Street, where we knew we could get a bus.

The flaw of this and all other map guides to London are the bus routes. The Underground is fun, but sometimes a bus is more convenient, and, as G. K. Chesterton wrote, the best way to see London is from the top of a double-decker bus.

Even London Transport's "Travelling in London" folder doesn't do justice to the bus system. Granted, it is diabolically difficult to keep up with route changes, but if someone were to undertake it and do a more thorough job, the result would be a truly useful map guide.

But don't let one complaint detract from the value of this otherwise outstanding guide. Because of the lack of bus information, most travellers take to the Underground and are quite satisfied with it. I still recommend THE LONDON MAPGUIDE and still would use it myself, if only for lack of anything better.

Rating: 5
Summary: Essential For Conquering London
Comment: Print is large enough to easily read, but overall size of book is small enough to fold and place in most jacket pockets, purses and shoulder bags. Informative enough to be the only reference material you need when leaving your hotel room for your daily excursions through the city.