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Title: Rick Steves' Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 2004 by Rick Steves ISBN: 1-56691-526-0 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Travel guide for the intellectually challenged
Comment: I bought this book before going to Austria and Switzerland and was shocked by how primitive and incomplete it was. On Geneva, he offers 2 lines - 'The most boring city, not worth a visit.' Hello? Guidebook? Same deal on Zurich. The author packs certain sophomoric smugness, a know-it-all frat brother who tells you how to sneak for free into the second half of a show, that sort of clever little corner-cutting. If you have any serious curiosity about a country and want to get a bit off his beer-drinking trail, his book becomes useless. I bought it here, returned it for a refund (thanks, amazon!) and bought a very smart Lonely Planet guide in Vienna for twice the price of this website. Get the Lonely Planet and get it here!
Rating: 5
Summary: DON'T GO WITHOUT THIS GREAT GUIDE
Comment: My teen-aged daughter and I used this book extensively on our recent trip to Germany and Austria. (My sixth visit to Germany.) No one has the time to poke around in every corner of a country during a vacation and Rick helps minimize wasted days by offering great tips and suggestions. His sightseeing recommendations all proved to be 'right-on', and we never regretted staying in one of his recommended lodgings, or following his suggestions for meals. We appreciated Rick's recommendations for rooms in Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Salzburg and Hallstatt. The hotels were centrally located, clean, quiet, offered great breakfasts, and were staffed by friendly and helpful personnel. All at attractive prices. I have five guidebooks for each country that I used during planning, took my favorite two about each country to Europe with us, but it was Rick's book that we carried as we left the hotel each morning.
Rating: 1
Summary: Steves abandons the east
Comment: It's clear that Steves does not want to put out exhaustive, encyclopaedic guidebooks. They wouldn't be Rick Steves' guides if they were. But, this book is completely west-centric. Berlin seems still divided in Rick Steves' chapter on the capital, given that he hardly covers the east. I question some of the tacky sites he recommends within western Berlin: were they pulled out of a guidebook from the Cold War era? Information on other cities and sites in the former east is practically non-existent. Maybe Steves wants to keep his information about the friendlier, more affordable regions of Germany to himself.
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Title: Rick Steves' German Phrase Book and Dictionary by Rick Steves ISBN: 1566915198 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Rick Steves' Italy 2004 by Rick Steves ISBN: 1566915333 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2004: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves, Avalon Travel Publishing ISBN: 1566915317 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Rick Steves' France 2003 by Rick Steves ISBN: 1566914639 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2003: The Travel Skills Handbook for Independent Travelers (Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door, 2003) by Rick Steves ISBN: 1566914655 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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