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Lonely Planet Best of Budapest (Lonely Planet Best Of Series)

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Great Pocket Guide
Excellent Literate Guide
A real disappointment
Vaguely useful
lacking

Lonely Planet Best of Budapest (Lonely Planet Best Of Series)
Steve Fallon
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1741791219

Book Description

More cosmopolitan than Prague, more exciting than Warsaw and more beautiful than both, Budapest is one of Europe's most romantic cities.

From Turkish-era therman baths to pumping late-night clubs, from enchanting fin-de-siecle streetscapes to chic wine bars and restaurants - Best of Budapest will you to the finest the city has to offer.

--FULL COLOR FOLD-OUT MAPS make navigation easy. <BR>--DON'T MISS A THING with our recommended highlights and coverage of all your sightseeing options. <BR>--GO BEYOND GOULASH - insider tips for exploring Budapest's modern and varied cuisine scene. <BR>--DETAILED WALKING TOURS take you off the beaten track to the city's hidden corners. <BR>--STAY IN STYLE - only the best-value hostels, the most charming guesthouses and deluxe hotels worth every point of their five stars.

Customer Reviews:

Great Pocket Guide.......2007-05-12

This slim volume contains pretty much all you need for a short trip to Budapest. There are plenty of maps, albeit very small. The highlights section is nice as well as the photographs and suggestions for walking tours. A great little carry along.

Excellent Literate Guide.......2006-07-20

I travel extensively and, after long experience, I find the Lonely Planet guides the best, so I now buy them automatically and am never disappointed. Still, they do vary in quality. The Budapest guide, however, is among the best.

I appreciate how well this guide is written. The introduction, which sets the tone for the book, is literate and is good writing, as writing. The history chapter, not too long, but also not too superficial for this type of book, gave me an insight into Hungary that I found invaluable in enjoying my five-day visit to Budapest. Although the edition is several years old (I think a new one is about to come out), it was amazingly up-to-date and accurate. I followed several of the walking tours in the guide, and they were all well thought out and enjoyable, with a great deal of relevant information about the sights I saw.

In short, this is about as good as a general travel guide gets.

A real disappointment.......2005-03-27

It seems like the Lonely Planet travel books are really hit and miss. Some are really great while others, like this Budapest guide, seem like little work was put into them. The sections titled Facts About Budapest, Places to Stay, Places to Eat, and Entertainment are pretty good (though still not as detailed as they might be), but I was disappointed with what I consider the most important section, Things to See and Do. For a city as big as Budapest it seemed like scant few pages were devoted to this subject. I also wish more photos were included, because it's hard to know whether something is worth going to see if you have no idea what it looks like beforehand.

Vaguely useful.......2004-08-10

We did a thorough comparison of the Budapest Guide and the Budapest section of Lonely Planet's Hungary Guide. The extra information provided in the Budapest book was (for the most part) simply more detail about the material already reported in the nationwide guide. It was more conversational, more spread out, yet with no genuine added content. Reviews of eateries and lodgings were no more in-depth and only slightly greater in number. Take a pass on this one. Lonely Planet's Hungary Guide is roughly just as useful in Budapest, and has the added advantage of telling you about so much in this fascinating country that's outside the standard tourist line.

lacking.......2004-03-19

The restaurant descriptions seemed very vague and generally unhelpful. I think that the maps could be organized better, so that they would be easier to use.

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Greater Budapestt</li>

Castle Hill & Watertownt</li>

Budapest Metro & Rail Mapt</li>

Unique Lonely Planet Walking Tourt</li>

Index of all Streets & Sightst</li>

Essential Information & Glossaryt</li></ol>

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