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Summary: Same old, same old, same old
Review: this book seemed like it would at least have train schedules that would be useful in planning your trip, but while it has a few they are useless. use the swiss or german rail website and rick steves and the lonley planet book to plan your trip, skip this one!
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Summary: buy another book
Review: this book seemed like it would at least have train schedules that would be useful in planning your trip, but while it has a few they are useless. use the swiss or german rail website and rick steves and the lonley planet book to plan your trip, skip this one!
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Summary: Better to spend your money on tour books.
Review: This book tries to be a tour book and a rail schedule. Buy a good tour book for the countries or regions you want to visit and use the train schedule you get with your Eurail pass to plan your travel itinerary.The book gives tips on how to travel in Europe. It think that the tips are generally not useful. The author's base city philosophy is sound, but in several instances, I would stay in smaller villages outside the large cities. You can easily commute to the center of the large city, but you will have a more "native" experience in the smaller towns. Trains run so frequently in Western Europe that you will have no trouble getting around.
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Summary: A total disappointment.
Review: This book was a total disappointment for me; there are NO maps (0), no route reviews (just day excursions from a base city), mostly old pictures. If you are looking for a real train guide to Europe (as I was) this is not the one. Try "On the Rails around Europe" from Thomas Cook. It hits the spot.
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Summary: An excellent planning book for experiencing Europe
Review: Without pretending to be a universal guide, this book enables you to plan long and short trips to Europe using the Eurail system and making convenient stays in major cities to use as bases for traveling to sites around the cities. If you want an experience of European cities, and want to cover other places inexpensively, this book will help you plan the days. We found it precise and well thought out, and with a good sense of what is a worthwhile experience for the traveler, and excellent judgement about timing train connections and some bus and boat connections for maximum enjoyment. It provides a strong base on which to add your own adventures and additional attractions, once you have gotten to the cities and other sites. And it will take you step by step through some marvelous days if you just want to follow its lead.
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Summary: completely useless
Review: you probably just bought a Eurail pass and are looking for more info how to coordinate your european vacation as far as rail traveling goes. stick to your pass and a basic guide. you do not need this. the timetables are completely off. not one even matched. european train stations are so organized and easy to follow that you don't need a guide to tell you where to find an atm machine, an exchange office or a travel agency. as soon as you step out of the trains you'll clearly see signs directing you to the right places. i never thought it would be so useless, esp. if you are doing a backpacking trip. those day excursions that are sudgested from the "base" cities only direct you to tourist traps. i would avoid buying this book if i had the choice again. stick with a Lonely Planet guide. in my opinion the only publisher that tells like it is. Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring or Let's Go Europe give you most of the info that is provided in this book and way more on top of it. stick to your pass and the timetable that they give you with it. you don't need this book.
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