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Summary: Walking tours are great...
Review: Get this book if only for the walking tours. The tours are humorous and fun, the directions and anecdotal info are great. Totally unlike walking tours in other guide books, which I generally find full of facts lifted from dusty encyclopedias. Besides the tours, I found the restaurant recommends right on target. And then there are the graphics, which, although a little too hip at times, are a welcome change from other colorless guidebooks. My only criticism is not with the book, but the website which purports to update the book. I checked out the website before I visited Prague and it didn't say that the ex-pat cafe on the outskirts of town had shut down. I ended up making my way there hoping to meet other Americans only to find that it was closed -- and looked like it had been closed for a while.
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Summary: A cool guidebook that's right on the money
Review: I buy guidebooks all the time and they always say the same visitors' bureau line. This one seems to change the paradigm of travel entirely. It's funny and fun, but is also full of exactly the kind of hotel, restaurant, and other info that is necessary for a great trip. I highly recommend it. Are there others in the series?
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Summary: Great book. cool Travel not for the timid.
Review: I learned about this book in ELLE magazine. It's great. Finally someone was bright enough to create a cool guidebook that's not full of tourist-board surperlatives. Great book, and veryj helpful.
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Summary: The next generation of travel books
Review: I spent ten days in Prague in May 1998 doing research for a novel I was writing and found this book to be the perfect companion to a more general travel guide to the city (specifically, Lonely Planet's -- also recommended highly). I needed to see and learn a lot about both the more popular tourist parts of town, as well as the not-in-Frommer's-guide parts. Avant Guide served me well. I'm awaiting the London edition anxiously.
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Summary: A guide book with attitude and the information to back it up
Review: I split my time between Los Angeles and Prague and picked this book up mostly to use as a handy reference when I wanted to find a restaurant's telephone number or a museum's opening hours. From the first few pages it's clear this guy knows Prague better than any of the other travel guide writers, I find myself nodding so often in agreement with his descriptions of places I frequent that I'm getting whiplash. As someone who pays the rent with the written word, I also rock with his use of the language. The book is sometimes downright funny. Definitely not your father's guidebook.
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Summary: Why I created Avant-Guide:
Review: I started writing guidebooks for Frommer's right out of collage. It began with the London chapter of their Europe guide and snowballed into almost a dozen guidebooks to some of the world's most-visited places, including San Francisco, California, Miami, Prague, Florida, Los Angeles and lots of cities in Europe. I sometimes felt like Simon and Schuster's one-man Book-of-the-Month Club. It was a great experience, but I got tired of writing the kind of guidebooks that would appeal to "two nuns on a budget." Every guidebook series, it seems, thinks that travelers are either piss-poor backpackers, or old folks on tour busses. I wanted to write the series for my generation: Avant-Guide--created for people who have outgrown student-poor "EurailPass" books but are too young to use the same buttoned-up guides their parents and grandparents use. These are great guidebooks. I guarantee it.
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Summary: A guide book with attitude and the information to back it up
Review: This book includes everything you need to thrive in Prague. I met the author in the internet cafe he recommends. Great guy, great book. Covers the standard stuff and the off-beat, cool stuff, too. One of the best travel books I've ever seen.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This book includes everything you need to thrive in Prague. I met the author in the internet cafe he recommends. Great guy, great book. Covers the standard stuff and the off-beat, cool stuff, too. One of the best travel books I've ever seen.
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Summary: Walking tours are great...
Review: This book is fabulous. As a 'single' traveler, I especially enjoyed the section on restaurants to feel comfortable in alone! I used this book to find interesting sights, great restaurants (not the tourist traps), and the best nightlife in the city. I was also impressed with the explanation of the hotels. I arrived in prague without a hotel reservation, and I looked at several of the hotels on the list, looking for a room. I found Avant Guide to be right on the money regarding price, atmosphere, and room quality. I would recommend this book to anyone who prefers not to follow the stream of tourists from one trap to another. Bravo!!!
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Summary: the cool side of prague
Review: This book is fabulous. As a 'single' traveler, I especially enjoyed the section on restaurants to feel comfortable in alone! I used this book to find interesting sights, great restaurants (not the tourist traps), and the best nightlife in the city. I was also impressed with the explanation of the hotels. I arrived in prague without a hotel reservation, and I looked at several of the hotels on the list, looking for a room. I found Avant Guide to be right on the money regarding price, atmosphere, and room quality. I would recommend this book to anyone who prefers not to follow the stream of tourists from one trap to another. Bravo!!!
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