Travel to Europe

Paris Made Easy: The Best Walks and Sights of Paris (Open Road Travel Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: Andy Herbach
ReleaseDate: 23 May, 2006
Publisher: Open Road
Rating:

Truth in Labeling
The details by Arrondissement(district/neighborhoods)are very useful. This pocket size guide really does make a trip tp Paris easy. The restaurant/Bistro tips were uniformly solid. The walks were easy to navigate and enriched strolling through Paris. The most useful guide to Paris I have seen.
A minor gripe: a sugested list of French phrases for the non-French speaker could use a phonetic guide.

THE guide to pack


Do yourself a favor and leave the heavy guidebooks with the glossy pictures at home. I picked up Paris Made Easy just before a return trip to the City of Light, and I wish I'd had it the first time around! The title says it all: the content of this book, the way it's organized, and even its size made it the one guide I used day in and day out. (You're going to be seeing all those sights in person, anyway, right?) Paris Made Easy has great info on restaurants, museums, shopping, walks -- and not only the famous sights, but also some obscure yet really fun destinations that you might never discover otherwise. Good maps, too. Because it's all organized by neighborhood (arrondissement) in a compact format, I could just drop the guide in my purse, start wandering, and pull it out to find a place to eat or an interesting sight to see wherever I happened to end up. That freedom to explore made me feel much more like an insider and much less like a tourist.

The author's writing style is another plus: conversational, down-to-earth, and funny, but also very clear. (For example, I decided on the spur of the moment to venture outside Paris to visit Versailles, and a quick look at Paris Made Easy gave me such good instructions that I didn't even need to ask questions at the train station. In fact, I must have looked pretty confident, because people were asking me for directions!)

Check out the price of this book, too. With all the information you get, it's a real bargain. I can't recommend it enough!

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The best sights and walks of Paris!
This handy pocket guide to the best sights and walks of Paris is all you need to make your visit fun, memorable, and easy. I am the author of Paris Made Easy. Inside, you'll find short opinionated descriptions of both well-known and off-the-beaten-path sights; detailed walking tours with street-by-street directions, nearby day trips - even a travel-planning section to help arrange your trip to the most fabulous city in the world!

*Walking tours of the most interesting neighborhoods,
including culinary and other themed walks
*Restaurant recommendations, including where the locals eat
*Outspoken advice on what to avoid
*Excursions outside Paris
*Helpful French phrases
*Great entertainment tips
*Hints on how to save money
*Insider shopping tips
*Color maps.

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