Travel to Greece

Top 10 Athens (DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: DK Publishing
ReleaseDate: 16 February, 2004
Publisher: DK Travel
Rating:

Handy reference guide
Even though the "Top 10" are highlighted for each area and overall, more opinion or comments to help choose among entries would be helpful as there is not enough time or energy to see everything listed. Organized by area of the city made it easy to find items of interest when traveling to that section of town. We also used the Lonely Planet "Best of Athens" which was also helpful, although organized differently.

Just enough information
The maps are very good, and as a seasoned traveller visiting Athens almost annually, I found most of the restaurant and site recommendations accurate. This guidebook is easy to follow with a good mix of photographs and texts. The information on areas that are a day trip from Athens, such as the Peloponnese and Delphi, was also very helpful.

outdated and just published
We were just in Athens. . . the new Athens Acropolis museum which was listed as a top 10 attraction is not open and will not be open for perhaps a couple of more years - this we found out while trying to find it - it's a huge construction site! A number of places listed in the book that we tried to find were out-of-business. . . we felt that the listings reflected the author's personal preferences rather than a good overall review of what there is to offer in Athens. . . the book is a great concept but was greatly lacking .

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