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Title: Frommer's London 2004 by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince ISBN: 0-7645-3742-3 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: London On $500 A Day
Comment: Very disappointed with this book. I don't purchase a Frommer guide for reviews and recommendations of $450 a day hotel rooms and $100 meals. Those places are adequately served by Fielding, Fodor and other luxury travel oriented writers. I know London is expensive, but please. This is certainly NOT a budget guide, which has made Frommer famous and very wealthy! There are some excellent features, sightseeing suggestions, day trip information, maps and some off-beat sites reviewed. But a money saver's bible it isn't.
Rating: 2
Summary: Bad maps
Comment: I just returned from London and, having tried to use Frommer's London with mixed results, want to share with your readers several of my problems with this, otherwise, excellent book.
One of the reasons I took Frommers was for the clearly drawn maps, but, clearly drawn and accurate are not the same. Our first problem happened when we took the bus to Hampstead Heath and set out from there with Frommers in hand to walk to Kenwood House to see the paintings of Rembrandt and Vermeer hung there. But after wandering around,thoroughly confused, found that Frommers had Kenwood House mismarked on the map. In fact it was off the map well over a mile away!
Several days later, we had our concierge get us tickets to the Lion King and set off for the theater with Frommers opened to the London Central Theater District map only to find that the Lyceum Theatre wasn't on it, though theaters on either side were.
We won't be using Frommers again until someone assures us that maps have been thoroughly proofed and fact-checked.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you are going to London, and only London, get this Guide.
Comment: Porter & Prince are the authors of the recommended 'Frommer's England 2003'. "London" has many more maps and more information than their country guide and it will be all you need for this vibrant city.
The 35 page section, "Planning Your Trip to London", is a quick, important read.
Their "Exploring London" section (67 pages) is superb.
Frommer's publications tend to be for the more affluent travelers and this guide is no exception. In London words like "inexpensive lodging" are a oxymoron. The authors do offer more help for those hoping to find accommodations less than $100 a night but in London it is a quest. For example, in the South Kensington section titled "inexpensive" you will find the 'Swiss House Hotel' (really a B&B) at $165 double. Their South Kensington titled "Very Expensive" quotes prices at or around $400-$500 per night, sometimes more.
That said, all of their recommendations are reliable. The descriptions of accommodation, restaurant, pubs, sights, etc. are all very good. Frommer's makes life a bit easier for their readers by giving the cost of accommodations and restaurant in both British pounds and dollars. YEA.
Almost all of the hotels have website listing. Seeing your accommodations in color via the web is a major help. However, for the restaurants there are no web page listings; even though many of the top restaurants now have their own websites with vivid photos and descriptive menus. Maybe they will add this in their next edition.
If you want one guide to take with you to see London, and if you, like me, like lots of maps that match the "where" with the "what" that the guide is talking about, then Frommer's London 2003 is the guide to get: reliable, informative and very well laid out. Strongly Recommended.
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Title: Frommer's England 2003 by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince ISBN: 0764566261 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Streetwise London by Michael Brown, Streetwise Maps ISBN: 0935039279 Publisher: Streetwise Maps Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Frommer's Paris 2004 by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince ISBN: 076453744X Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: London (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Michael Leapman ISBN: 0789493837 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Rick Steves' London 2004 by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw ISBN: 1566915309 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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