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Summary: Good tour book for planning your first visit.
Review: We travelled Europe for the first time in the summer of 1998. Beside the Lonely Planet guide for information on cheap hotels and accurate maps, I also took this book for suggestions on planning for the cities we were visiting (London, Paris and Vienna). This book, like all other Rich Steves' books, is written in a very friendly manner which is especially helpful for the first time visitors. We followed the suggested itineraries and successfully avoided the crowd (we were in Paris at the time of the World Cup soccer games). And I love the hand drawn maps in the book.The reason I don't give this book 5 stars is because we only visited 3 of the 29 destinations the book includes, so it is a little too heavy to carry the whole book. I doubt if anyone would visit more than half of the destinations in one trip. Maybe it is better to get the individual tour books from which this book is assembled. If you plan to visit the museums, I strongly recommend Rick Steves' Mona Winks: Self-Guided Tours of Europe's Top Museums. Overall, Best of Europe is a good tour book and I will still take it with me next time I visit other cities in Europe in spite of the extra weight. That's all I have to say about this book.
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