Travel to Great Britain

London (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Format: Turtleback
Author: Michael Leapman
ReleaseDate: 31 January, 2003
Publisher: DK Travel
Rating:

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simple the best and not to miss for a visit in London,you don't have to take photo's they are already in the book .

Smart, User-Friendly Guidebook Has Legs After Your Trip to London
That's not to say they don't have valuable information when you need them, but there is no incentive to return to the book once the trip has ended. From Lonely Planet to the Rough Guides, location-specific guidebooks generally seem so transient since a purchase generally depends upon an upcoming trip and soon afterward ends up in a storage box collecting dust or on craigslist for sale. The one exception to the rule is the series of Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Travel Guides. The London guide is as good as any in the series as it presents a graphically pleasing, intuitively organized guidebook with detailed pictorials that show animated aerial shots of neighborhoods like Covent Garden or cut-away floor plans of heavily visited buildings like Westminster Abbey or the Tate. It also helps make geographic sense of neighborhoods that allow you to navigate easily through them by pointing out recommended sights.

The first part of the book presents a timeline history of London that is both interesting and useful, as events are cross-referenced to sights you would want to see there. There is a well-presented survival guide toward the end of the book that highlights important travel information as well as recommendations on where to stay, shop and eat. Moreover, there is a comprehensive street finder of central London which helps you navigate without the inconvenience of fold-out maps. All the information is contained within a user-friendly, laminated paperback format that slips easily into backpacks and holds up well against inclement weather (a particular plus in rainy London). For all its obvious benefits, the one that has the most resonance to me is the fact that the book makes a fine keepsake of the trip afterward given its colorfully glossy quality. Even though the price is on the higher end of such guides, it is well worth it for its lasting value after your trip.

A Must Have
It also has a great map of the tube which helped us, more than once, find our way around Central London. We only spent a few days in London but this book helped us to plan which sights we'd have time to see. A Must Have!.

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