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Summary: The Best Travel Book for Rome
Review: A friend bought me this book for my trip to Rome last spring. This was by far the handiest travel book I have ever used. There were hundreds of color pictures so you could see exactly what a building/statue/monument looked like. Plus it had great architectual pictures to show you how a building was constructed (this is particularly interesting for the Coliseum and the Pantheon). The text was clear and concise, provided a lot of information. The maps were accurate and easy to use.I skimmed this book on the plane trip over, and thanks to the numerouse pictures I was able to identify a lot of the lesser known sights in Rome when I accidently stumbled across them. My husband and I didn't have a planned itinerary, so we just looked through this book the night before and would decide where to go the next day. Then we would use the maps in the book to navigate the city. It was so easy. I highly recommend this book to anyone travelling to Rome. I plan to use the Eyewitness Travel Guide series from now on when I travel.
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Summary: The only book you need!
Review: This book was great! This book will give you a bunch of tips on how to get around Rome, the people's customs, places to see, where to eat, and much more. I went to Rome in March-01 (it was my first time to Europe). There are a lot of great historical buildings and sites that we encountered. This book was a great reference manual. When you are in Rome, if you could find out the name of what you are looking at, this book will most likely have something on it (within reason of course). For major attractions, this book is a must. For example: If you plan to see the Forum, you will need this book, otherwise you will just be looking at a bunch of ruins and not understanding what you are looking at. In many instances this book will act as your tour guide (although I recommend paying the extra $5 or $10 for a guided tour whenever you can). In any case, you will get your money's worth out of this book!
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Summary: About The Best Guide Book on Rome from Dorling Kindersley
Review: DK Eyewitness Travel Guides books are synonymous with Quality. Their quality reminds me of the quality that Whitman put into their Story Hour Series books that my dad has from when he was a kid. I have seen other DK books and they really do make a quality product. The high-quality paper they print on makes the photographs and text appear brilliant. This tour book on Rome contains just about everything you can think of and then more. Places to visit, places to dine, maps, hotels, history, currency, transportation and much more are all attractively detailed. This is a great book if you are thinking about or are planning a trip to Rome. Even if you are not taking a trip this is a good book about the city and culture. I highly recommend Dorling Kindersley (DK) books.
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Summary: Here's The Key to A Successful Trip to Rome.
Review: We have quite a collection of these Eyewitness tour guide books. We've never traveled without one. If you're planning on going to Rome sometime, get this book. You'll be glad you did. Besides the walking tours, and the 3D mpas, there is the handiest section in the back that discusses in detail the various aspects of Roman/Italian life. Check out the section about Italian money, with great pictures of the coinage. The hotel listings are not complete, but they provide a good offering of whats available. Use them, or explore on your own. There is also a very descriptive section of using the phone, gettting from the Airport to the Termini station, complete with photos of the terminals. To make this short, the Eyewitness books, Rome in particular, are great tools prior to and during your trip. We have 8 different cities/regions and they get used, even for reading after the trip when we look and the maps/photos and say "Rememeber that" or "we were there"... Get one now, and be well prepared.
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Summary: Strong contender for best guide to Rome
Review: This is an excellent book in an excellent series. I used it in my first trip to Rome in 30 years and found it well organized and with excellent directions, addresses, etc. The drawbacks - it focuses tightly on central Rome. It lists a modest number of "further afield" attractions, but the maps don't give adequate coverage to the areas outside central Rome. The street, bus, subway and tram maps are not up to date after many changes for the 2000 Jubilee, and the area shown doesn't include maps for areas not in the heart of the city. As an example, the subway stop for the Vatican Museum is off the edge of the maps! In particular, there is no map of the entire subway, bus and tram network, so there is no clear sense of how to use the system to get to locations away from the center. Still, if you saw everything in the guide, you'd know a lot about Rome!
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Summary: Wonderful for a first-time visitor
Review: I bought the Millennium Deluxe edition which came with a big fold-out map and a handsome leather cover, which kept me from looking too much like a tourist. Even so, my boyfriend joked that I was spending more time with the guide than I was with him! Both of us were first-time travelers and the DK guide answered nearly every question we had during our ten-day stay in Rome. We explored quite a bit on our own, but the guide never gave us a bad recommendation. Particularly useful were the guides to main attractions, especially opening and closing times, which can vary quite a bit according to season. The only thing I found lacking was the information on trains and buses, so if Rome is just one stop on a multi-city tour, you may want to pick up supplementary information on that topic. But if you are staying in Rome for a week or so, keep in mind that it is very easy to get places by walking...we never took a taxi or bus during our stay.
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Summary: stolen by a Roman
Review: An Italian friend of mine who had laughed at me during previous trips for my devoted attention to the Michelin guide handled the Eyewitness guide to Rome for a few minutes and then said "You are making me a present of this when you leave."
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Summary: Buy This Book More for the Pretty Pictures...
Review: han what you need to know when you go to Rome. Although this guide is better than the Eyewitness Venice/Veneto guide, which I also used, I still find it wanting. For instance, although the guide tells you about the "star" attractions at each site, it can leave you up in the air about the lesser lures. For example, in the section on St. Peter's it mentions that the Vatican treasury and the grottoes are there along with the usual suspects such as the "star" Pieta, but if there is a word in this guide as to what a visitor could expect to come across should they choose to visit the treasury or the grottoes, I couldn't find it, and thus couldn't make any judgment as to whether these might or might not be worthwhile seeing. I also found the descriptions of attractions lacking in the detail that I would have liked and which would have lent another layer of richness to my visit. I did use a recommended hotel and it was an outstanding value, but I had better luck with eateries by trusting my own nose. The subway map would have been more helpful had it also have had all the stops on it, although with some perseverance and some street map flipping you could find the stop to where you needed to go. For the most part, I did not rely on the maps in this book to find my way about the city, so I have no strong feelings for them one way or the other. However, as in the Venice/Veneto guide, the map section could be vastly improved by overlapping the various templates and by having an overall map showing the location of the individual maps in the grand scheme of things.
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Summary: You can find everything with this book
Review: With this book you wo`n't get lost in Rome, buy it and go to Rome. In my last trip this was my guide...
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Summary: Fantastico!!!
Review: I found this book to be very interesting, user-friendly, and very descriptive in learning what to do and see while in Rome. I loved it!!! The summaries were short and to the point but very informative. Dorling Kindersly focuses on the highlights of each historical place. I embraced this book as one of the best travel-guide books. I will definitely want to add others to my travel collection.
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