Paris (Lonely Planet Paris)
by Lonely Planet Publications
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Book Reviews of Paris (Lonely Planet Paris)
Book 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
Book Review: Of very limited use - not your typical LP guide!
Summary: 1 Stars
Surprisingly superficial guidebook from a publisher that usually sets the standard. The book might be useful for those who have never visited Paris and don't intend to spend more than a couple of days. For most visitors, simple web searches will result in more substantive information. I was really disappointed by page after page of cliches. Weight is a consideration when choosing a guidebook, and we could easily have been spared introductory chapters - why lug around pages of simplistic analysis of the French? This updated edition has all the faddish content of a Travel channel guide (page 274's "Queer Eye for the Metrosexual" section is a typical example). Nothing seems improved over previous editions, and some content is quite baffling: why not just save paper and overall weight, rather than including a "Thanks" section (p.361) that concludes, "As always, I'd like to dedicate my efforts to my partner, Michael Rothschild, whose knowledge of menu French grows in proportion to...well, never mind."?Book Review: A very disappointing LP
Summary: 1 Stars
I always buy Lonely Planet guides, but I am returning this one. I tried to use it to plan my next trip to Paris in two weeks. It's very frustrating. The map is difficult to follow, and there is very few hotel information. It also keeps referring to a map PP396-9 which doesn't exist (Try look up Museum Louve).
It does however has a lot of other cute-but-useless info .. for example .. where a straight guy can get his facial done. Well, if you are into such things, get this guide. I am returning mine.