Paris Insideout City Guide

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Summary: The ULTIMATE, pocket guide.....
Review: My husband and I have just come back from our first trip to Paris, and used this guide in conjunction with the DK Eyewitness travel guides to plan our trip. This little book is a JEM! It is small enough to fit in an inside coat pocket and keeps you from looking like a total tourist dragging around a large travel book everywhere you go. This book has it all-two fold out maps that detail the city center that we used extensively. The maps are small, and pop out and then neatly fold back. Inside the spine of the book is a small pen that slides out, so you can take notes as you go along-the note section could have had a few more pages, but this is such a small thing, it almost isn't worth mentioning. The book itself includes sections on what to see, that includes short descriptions and the location on the accompanying map as well as opening and closing times on many of the sites; where to eat, including prices and short descriptions; places to shop, a directory of hotel listings with prices and short descriptions; entertainment, and where to buy tickets for events; a practical information section, which include numbers for transit, car rentals, embassy numbers, medical care information, tour and cruise numbers, a listing of annual events, and at the back a small metro map, which is extremely important and a one page section on useful phrases, including the numbers, days of the week, words that you would use or hear daily and words that you will see in restaurants. Talk about a comprehensive little guide. Oh, and it has pictures to boot!!!! The guide is approximately 3x5", about half an inch thick, and also includes a pop out compass. You couldn't ask for a better guide to take on the streets with you.

I most definitely will seek this guide out the next time I travel in Europe or in the states. I understand that these guides are available for many major US and European cities.

My recommendation is buy the DK Guide to read in your hotel and plan your basic trip and then buy this little guide which gives you a very good value for the amount of information and guidance you will receive, and you will have everything you need to create your own adventure.