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The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you!
From the Champs-Elysees to Montmartre explore the wonders of the City of Light with this gloriously invaluable companion. With color-coded pages for quick access, each French Quarter is seen street-by-street, and guides travelers to the district’s galleries museums, churches, cultural institutions, and parks – captured in stunning full-color photographs and 3-D illustrations, with brief descriptive highlights of the treasures to be found. Explore the art and architecture of Notre Dame Cathedral, amble along the Canal St-Martin on one of the many walking tours, and learn how to master the Metro. From finding accommodations to the best French cuisine, the Traveler’s Needs section lists hotels, restaurants, cafes, markets, entertainment, and a special section showcasing Paris for children. DK’s Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris also includes a Street Finder and a handy phrasebook that no tourist or business traveler should be without.
Publisher : DK Publishing (January 1, 1996)
Language : English
Paperback : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 1564581853
ISBN-13 : 978-1564581853
Item Weight : 1.4 pounds
Dimensions : 5.24 x 0.91 x 8.74 inches
Paris Attractions
Comfort Meets Style,Whether you’re feeling adventurous or seeking serenity, there’s a shade to match your unique vibe Travel Guide
Reviewer: Theresa J. Angell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Quality product.
Review: This product was delivered as advertised and on time.
Reviewer: Bill Staley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Could not get it out my neice’s hands
Review: When we ordered our airline tickets, I sent this book to my 12-year-old neice and the “10-best” version to her 14-year-old bro. She brought the book on our trip and they both read it every day. They both had lists of things they wanted to see (but “No museums!”). Neice: Eiffel Tower and Jardin du Luxembourg. Nephew: Notre Dame, Pantheon, Catacombes. It was the second most gratifying thing about the trip (No. 1: neice writing her journal entries on the plane going home. Which she later read to her class). But next time I will order three copies: for neice, nephew and uncle.
Reviewer: Ann
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Paris
Review: This book was in good condition and arrived on time It has great photos and maps and ideas of what to see in Paris
Reviewer: talkcinq
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Over 10 years old printing
Review: Travel
Reviewer: Jeff Beardsley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great guide to Paris
Review: I recommend traveling with a DK guide and a Fodors’ guide to all destinations. The combination of these two will serve you quite well.
Reviewer: J. Mullin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A wonderful format for a guide book
Review: I recently got back from my third trip to Paris, and of all the guidebooks I have brought with me over these past 10 years, this was the one I used, and enjoyed, the most. Let’s face it, every good guide book out there has helpful hotel and restaurant recommendations, and since individuals ofter have very subjective and different perceptions of the same places, you can never please everyone with those picks. In advance of the vacation, I not only used these guide books but also browsed the web … for info, and didn’t always use picks from the Eyewitness book. I also purchased metro and museum passes online before the trip, which I highly recommend.So why did I like it so much? While most books will suggest places to go and give you helpful information such as opening hours, price, etc., no other book can match these books for illustrations, descriptions, and unique three dimenional “cut-out” sketches to give you an idea of the scope or architectural design of places like the Pantheon, Basilica Sacre Couer, Saint Chappelle, etc. The night before you visit an attraction such as those listed above, you can read a multi-page description, learning about the historical significance of the site, or of efforts to preserve it during WW II, etc. I would consistently get stoked to visit ancient churches, plazas, parks, museums and other attractions after spending ten minutes reading about them in the Eyewitness guide. Then, when standing in the splendor of St. Chappelle for example, you might understand the stained glass scheme a little better.I should also point out that these books are everywhere in Paris. It is the one guide book my wife and I consistently saw on other restaurant tables, or being held discreetly by other tourists at the Musee de Orsay, for example. There are helpful maps, not only of the city in general, but of individual neighborhoods making small walking tours easy. There are also very detailed guides to getting home from the airport, which made it easy to take the RER train into the city and avoid an expensive cab ride.Some have snubbed their noses at the book as being for people with no knowledge of Paris who need pictures – I think that’s unfair. The 3-D cutouts and pictures are there if you want them, if you care to skip them you can, but the text is as informative and detailed as I have seen in others like Frommers, Fodors, Dummies Guide, etc. The book is also slim enough to stick in a camera bag, or in a handbag of your wife, for discreetly plucking it out during your metro trips. Buy it as far in advance of your trip as possible, and thumb through it at night to get psyched for your trip. Highly recommended.P.S. And if you buy it and like the format, there is also an excellent Eyewitness Guide to the Loire Valley, with unparalleled information about Loire Valley chateaus, lodging and dining, that I used and really liked.
Reviewer: Catheryn English
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Old Book
Review: The publication date is 1997; the book is 25 years old. It still references French francs and visits to Notre Dame. Not happy about spending so much money on a book that could be considered obsolete. If I hadnât already thrown away all the packaging I would return it. Buyer beware.
Reviewer: David K. Bell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best one-volume travel series
Review: The Eyewitness Travel Guide series is my favorite series in the if-you-could-only-take-one-book-what-would-it-be category. Others may be more comprehensive (Lonely Planet, for example) or better suited to particular topics or interests. But if you’re going to, in this case, Paris, for a week or two, and you know you want to see the major sites and some out-of-the way places too, this is your book.What is unique about these books? This book has beautiful photos, but so do the Insight Guides. It lists lots of things and places to see, do, eat and stay, but don’t they all? Two things set this series apart: organization and maps.The guide organizes itself according to areas of the city. This does not necessarily break down according to “arrondisement,” but in a way that is more useful to the tourist. Its sections organize things to see and do by location and neighborhood, which makes planning schedules yourself much easier, as opposed to following suggested schedules (which invariably contain stops you aren’t interested in) or having to flip from the museum section to the parks section to the monuments section to the churches section and trying to figure out which ones to see on the same day. This is made even easier by the maps.In addition to excellent conventional maps of the city, this guide has drawings that show axonometric, aerial views of neighborhoods, with building-by-building, house-by-house depictions of what the neighborhoods look like and how they are laid out. You can see how the things you want to see in that neighborhood are situated in relation to each other. It’s like getting a helicopter tour of that neighborhood before you arrive on the ground. No other guidebooks have this feature. I think the combination of the neighborhood organization layout and these unique maps (which are right in the relevant sections) make day planning a breeze and even fun.On the negative side for some, the restaurants and lodgings are in separate sections. I don’t find this is a problem. I’m not going to be looking for a place to stay every night while I’m sightseeing anyway–I figure out the one place I’m staying in advance and use that as my base. And we often plan dinner locations separately from rest of the day’s activities and wing it for lunch. So I consider the separation of the lodging and restaurant sections to be an advantage. But if you like to plan all your meals in advance in the same neighborhood you’ll be sightseeing in, or plan to wander up and down the streets looking for a new hotel every day, or a recommended restaurant in the ‘hood, you’ll have to do a bit of flipping back and forth between sections.This is a great trip planning tool, and with its beautiful photos and smashing map/aerial drawings, it will get you excited about your upcoming trip, too.
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