Rick Steves' Best of Europe 2010


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Product Features

  • 1280 pages
  • Greatest hits from Rick's country guides
  • Perfect for a whirlwind Europe trip
  • In-depth Rick-tested information on trip planning, hotels, restaurants, tourist offices, transportation, easy-to-follow maps
  • Austria: Vienna, Salzburg, Hallstatt and the Salzkammergut
 

Editorial Reviews


Product Description

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when planning a Grand Tour of Europe. In this guide, Rick covers the best of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. You’ll find a healthy mix of big cities, small towns, and exciting regions, such as London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Prague, and Barcelona. Also included are Rothenberg, Siena, Toledo, Hallstatt, and Gimmelwald, as well as Provence, the French Riviera, the Romantic Road, the Berner Oberland, and the Cinque Terre. Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. You’ll learn how to find the right bus in Rome, an inexpensive crêpe in Paris, and which museums and sights are worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.


 

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Customer Reviews


D. A. Power Said: A must on your travels ( Sep. 2nd 2010 )

I took this with me on our 5 week backpacking trip to Europe and found it so immensely helpful. When you only have a few days in each city, you want to make the most of your time instead of spending time figuring out the details (like which bus to take). Rick Steve has provided all the essentials for the major cities and each city section is organized in a logical and tourist friendly manner. He lists the sights to see, how to get there, when they are open, how to save money, and even how to avoid the crowds. This book let us be our own tour guide and saved us quite a bit of money versus going on tours.

A. S. Montgomery Said: Lots of good information, some items not accurate, still good ( Aug. 2nd 2010 )

We bought this book for our trip to London and Paris. His description of London was excellent and I would say dead on. Top things to see were great.

Paris was very good with hotel recommendation and dining. He said we must see Champs de Laise or however you spell it and not to wear blue jeans. The Champs is a street that has shops and crowds, if you are there to shop great but I can shop here. I want to see Paris history and architecture so I wouldn't have spent much time there.

He said if you wear blue jeans you will look like a tourist. I wore khakis which is what he suggested. I was the only person in Paris wearing khaki pants. Everyone else had on blue or black jeans.

Those were the only two problems with the book that I saw. Well worth it.

Gustavo Cavallin Said: Great book for a traveler how does not know where to start ( Jun. 27th 2010 )

We have just returned from our trip to Europe (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and I must say that my wife and I really appreciated all the valuable info found in the book.

While we were traveling, we were surprised to find several other American travelers who also new about the book (or where using it :). Hotel owners where also familiar with the author.

While it is true that there are some very good venues that might not be mentioned in the book (as it was the case with the great hotel we stayed at in Rothenburg), the recommendations in the book are still great.
I am anxious to have another opportunity to visit Europe and keep using this book. :)

S. Russell Wilson Said: Overrated ( Jun. 7th 2010 )

Just got back from Europe, and I have to say Rick Steves "Best of Europe 2010" is adequate at best. There are better books out there IMHO -- our friend from London had a much better guidebook. The so-called maps in this book are inadequate, and there is so much missing in this guide. We also bought two other Steves' guidebooks on specific countries, and we were underwhelmed by them as well.

The worst restaurant we ate at in Rome was one of those mentioned in his book. We had better luck just stumbling into a restaurant and trusting our instincts. (We looked for restaurants where the menu was not written in English). The guide made me think he must be getting some sort of payola from the sites he mentions -- a free meal, or something. If that's not true, I apologize, but that was my impression. And if he is getting a freebee, he has a moral obligation to mention that to readers, I believe.

It's supposed to be the 2010 edition, but many of the prices are already higher than he says. Also, he tries to be amusing, but the humor usually falls flat. And as you might expect, he takes cheap shots at the so-called "ugly American" tourists and their cell phones. But the loudest, rudest cell-phone users we found on the train were, to our surprise, not Americans -- but Germans, and even Italians.

However, his advice on watching our for pickpockets and thieves is excellent, and may be worth the price of the book right there. Some really good information and reminders. I think he may have saved us a time or two. (I placed a "fake, empty" wallet in my back pocket, just to see what would happen. At the end of the day it was gone.)

The book is certainly okay, but if I had it to do all over again I would buy a different book.



starion Said: Great quick overviews of key European cities ( May. 9th 2010 )

The concise suggestions for each city are very helpful. The only thing (which has been mentioned in another view I read) which I would love is if Munich was also included in the book. The other cities we had planned to visit were all featured in the book (London, Paris, Bacharach, Rottenberg, and Vienna). We will continue to dream and plan for our future trip, when health and weather permit (currently deferred by the Icelandic volcano).