Paris (Lonely Planet Paris)
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Book Summary Author: Lonely Planet Publications Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2004-10 ISBN: 1740597605 Number of pages: 402 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications |
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Book Reviews of the Paris (Lonely Planet Paris)
Customer Review: Lost in Paris.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an excellent guide for those travelers who don't mind getting lost in Paris. I took two travel guides with me on my recent Christmas-to-New-Year's trip to Paris, and for several reasons this Lonely Planet guide did not measure up to the other guide (Rick Steves' Paris 2005). Although the Lonely Planet guide enabled me to find last minute, affordable hotel accomodations in the otherwise expensive Latin Quarter, while in Paris, it continually frustrated me in my attempts to locate attractions such as the Louvre, Orsay, Picasso, and Rodin museums and the Pere Lachaise Cemetery (where Proust, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, and Colette, among others, are buried). Although the Musee Rodin is described on page 111 of the guide, for instance, to actually locate that museum in Paris, one must refer not only to the map on pages 389-91, but also to the accompanying indexes as well. This is not an easy way to locate an attraction in a labyrinth of Parisian streets and neighborhoods.
Despite its shortcomings, LP's guide provides an excellent orientation of the city's culture, architecture, and history, and features several worthwhile walking tours through the Marais, Left and Right Bank, and central districts of Paris. Paris is the ultimate European travel destination, and first-time visitors will need more than this guide to explore the city's bohemian cafés, its fascinating streets and neighborhoods, and its many, great art museums.
G. Merritt