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Summary: The best single series of guides
Review: Richard Saul Wurman transformed the world of guidebooks, beginning more that 20 years ago with Access Los Angeles. An architect and graphic artist, Wurman breaks cities into neighborhoods. Maps, the intelligent use of color and good information combine to make this series the best single set of guidebooks on the market.The London guide is typical; and excellent. Another plus of the Access guides is the excellent insider reviews of hotels and restaurants. Also, best bets by locals often take you off the beaten path to places the locals frequent. I have yet to be disappointed. This is the one you will tuck in your pocket or stash in your shoulderpack as you explore London.
Rating:
Summary: The best single series of guides
Review: Richard Saul Wurman transformed the world of guidebooks, beginning more that 20 years ago with Access Los Angeles. An architect and graphic artist, Wurman breaks cities into neighborhoods. Maps, the intelligent use of color and good information combine to make this series the best single set of guidebooks on the market. The London guide is typical; and excellent. Another plus of the Access guides is the excellent insider reviews of hotels and restaurants. Also, best bets by locals often take you off the beaten path to places the locals frequent. I have yet to be disappointed. This is the one you will tuck in your pocket or stash in your shoulderpack as you explore London.
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Summary: A well organized travel guide
Review: This guide is the most user-friendly London guide I found. It's small enough to be carried around, has great tips on restaurants & shopping, floor plans of major museums, and makes sight seeing a breeze. Not the book to find low-cost hotels, though.
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Summary: Inaccurate and Out of Date
Review: Though this series embodies a clever concept, both the current edition (the 7th) and the previous one contain many inaccuracies, especially the inclusion of places that have changed dramatically or that are simply no longer there. While the format is convenient for having at hand while walking around the city, I cannot recommend using this book for planning. Moreover, the concept and presentation around which this series is based has been significantly improved upon by the DK-Publishing Eyewitness Travel Guides series. If you intend to walk around London and want an accurate guide that orients you and points out the essential and interesting sites, the Eyewitness Travel Guides series is a much better bet. If you are really looking for a street-by-street, house-by-house listing of everything there is, the Access series is useful--but be sure to check everything that matters to you with another source before departing to make sure it really is there!
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Summary: Definitely a useful guide book
Review: We used Access London on our Honeymoon in 2000, and it was invaluable. It helped us find everything we wanted to visit, especially since we studied it beforehand, and marked all the places that were interesting. The maps seemed fine, and we liked the way we could look at the numbered list and find the items on the maps. The color coding was very helpful, and we always had our copy with us wherever we went.
We recommend this book, and the Paris one as well.
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