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Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges, and Brussels 2006 (Rick Steves)

Format: Paperback
Author: Rick Steves
ReleaseDate: 21 February, 2006
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Rating:

Travel Time
This was my second trip to Amsterdam and the second time staying in the same hotel that Rick had recommended. An excellent travel guide that is easy to read and filled with low cost alternatives from hotels and pensions to wonderful restaurants and tour options. One year while in Paris, standing in line at the Eiffel Tower I had noticed that there were several people reading Rick Steves Paris Guide. It was a great conversation starter. My last trip this past October, while touring Germany, the guide said to mention Rick's name while checking into a very comfortable pension and the owner would give a discount. It worked! Thanks Rick!.

Thanks Rick
I didn't get to experience Amsterdam (which claims about half the pages in the book), but the information on Belgium and Brugge was great. Rick led us to some of the nicest places in Brugge. He has some really excellent B&B recommendations. If you end up in Brugge, definitely go see Scottish Maggie :).

September Trip
We used Rick's book to select the hotels and the areas to visit versus the bigger name publisher review books (like Let's Go and Formers, etc. We recetnly traveled to Amsterdam, Bruges, Brussels and Antwerp. ). We picked three hotels from his book. Two of the three hotels were great, while one was a bit noisy. Even the hotel that was a bit noisy was a clean, smart hotel in the St. Caterhine neighboorhod section of Brussels. We found his book and recommmedations to be well written, clear and true to form. We also used Fromers guidelbook, in campanion to Rick's, but did not find it to be local enought to our needs. We ate almost exclusively at the restaurants is his book, traveled to the sights, used the train systems and used the maps in his book for our trip. Sometimes when you use a book like this you get one or two great places to stay or to eat, but, with his, it was truely a satisfying experience to go to his book's places and come away satisfied.

We saw other travelers in the regions we visited using his book as well.

We will definitely recommmend this book to novice travelers as well as repeat travelers, and defintely buy one of his books again. .

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