Frommer's Paris 2007 (Frommer's Complete)

Frommer's Paris 2007 (Frommer's Complete)
Darwin Porter,Danforth Prince | 2006-09-05 00:00:00 | Frommer's | 340 | Paris
Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• Ways to explore the City of Light from the top of La Tour Eiffel to the infamous catacombs.
• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

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Compared to Rick Steves' book, this book is just useless. It had very few if any reasonable priced hotel and the rest, well, I will never get any of Frommer's books again, but you might find it useful-I didn't and didn't use it only to look through.
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With 352 pages dedicated to just one city, you'd think that there would be a well organized listing of contents with details about every aspect of Paris - but you'd be wrong. While this is a good book to read before traveling, I'd make a list of details specifically important to your trip and then take that info on your trip, along with a more organized guide suited to your personal needs and a (better) street and Metro map. By the way, the Metro offers a clear, colrful map online free, which can be printed and easily laminated for one or multiple copies. Ditto for street maps of Paris, also offered on a variety of web sites free online. There are plenty of book selections from Amazon suited to a traveler's personal needs, such as books about patisseries in Paris, Parisian flea markets, Paris with kids, Parisian restaurants, and many more. After buying several guides on France and Paris to compare, I'll search for guides more specifically suited to my needs and select from those to take with me on my trip next Summer, and will leave this one at home.
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My husband and I just returned from Paris and used this travel guide for our trip. Overall the book was great, the restaurant and hotel sections were extremely helpful and very accurate with the reviews and recommendations. The site seeing section was excellent and she really hit on all the sites that truly are must see. We loved the days that were laid out with a schedule, although we had a lot more time to spend in Paris the schedule was very efficient in being able to see multiple sites that were moderately close to one another. She also recommended an art fair on Sundays that was truly amazing and a great recommendation. The only section we had some trouble with was the shopping section, several of the stores had moved locations or closed since the publishing of the book, so we wasted a lot of time searching for something that no longer exists! The maps were only so-so for getting around as well, I recommend using the streetwise maps that have the city and metro stops all on one. Overall, this is a great book and I recommend using it for your trip!
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I actually know Paris quite well for a casual occasional visitor, but I purchased this book for my girlfriend when I scheduled a 22 hour layover in Paris while transiting back to the US from Spain. Due to Hurricane Ike, our 1 day trip turned into 6 nights.



The book was a valuable resource, even if only to validate my recoomendations of what to see and do. In addition, as our memory gets fuzzy, the guide provided an easy (and reasonably light) resource to look for metro stops for certain areas (Montmartre, Arc de Triumphe, Opera, Versailles, etc.).



Their recommendations for 1, 2, or 3 day tours are spot on.



I did not use the book for restaurants or hotels. I did notice that my nice hotel (Hilton Paris by Eiffel Tower) wasn't even listed. The Net is a better guide for hotels.



There are so many guides for Paris, but we wanted a decent guide that was not sized like a telephone book.



The pull out map was not useful. I would have recommended a metro map, in order to familiarize yourself with the main lines to and from the airport and around the city.
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Now that I'm old (well, 33), I felt it was time to graduate from the rough guide/lonely planet Paris guidebooks that I normally use and pick up one that covers more high-end suggestions than I could afford when I started visiting Paris 15 years ago. Flipped a coin between Frommers and Fodors, and got this one.



If this is your first trip to Paris and you want to make sure you know what the must-sees are, this is a great book to have. There are plenty of lists of "Best Restaurants", "Top Museums", 1-3 day walking itineraries, etc. There's a nice mix of hotel and restaurant recommendations for all budgets.



However, if you're a more adventurous soul, this isn't the book for you--it's geared towards the standard tourist experience. Their idea of offbeat is...the Institut du Monde Arabe. This is a famous building with incredible architecture by Jean Nouvel and fantastic rooftop views, not exactly off the beaten path.



Likewise, the foldout map covers central Paris, but doesn't even show the outer arondissements. (Nor does it have a lot of detail, so if you intend to walk a lot, then invest in a detailed arondissement guide, not a fold-out.) I was also irritated to see that while there's a map of the metro, the RER stops are not included.



Bottom line...great for the basics, but you'll have to look elsewhere for undiscovered or quirky Paris.



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