Vienna (Eyewitness Travel Guides) - European Travel Books

Turtleback - September, 2003 - DK ADULT
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By: DK Publishing
ISBN: 0789495759

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Excellent reference material to plan your Viennese vacation

There are two kinds of travel guides, and both are useful: those guides that help you to plan your trip, and those to carry in your shirt pocket when the shoes hit the pavement. This Eyewitness Travel Guide is one of the best, if not the best, guidebook to use for planning your Vienna trip before you go. There is a tremendous amount of material, so the book uses small fonts and thin glossy paper; still, it has quite a bit of heft and may not be convenient to carry in your shirt pocket (and if you think this is thick, you should see the China guidebook). But I read about a lot of attractions here that I couldn't find in other reputable publications, and found more details in DK.

If you want a quick guide to the sights while you are out and about the town, you may want to consider the compact DK Top Ten Guidebook. The two books have a great deal of overlap, but there's some information that was unique to the top ten guide.

As rich as a piece of Viennese cake

The Eyewitness DK guides are beautiful books in their own right--you would enjoy reading them even if you didn't make the trip. The text is well organized and extensively illustrated with artwork and 3-D pictures of the major tourist attractions. The directions are excellent and they direct you to the important things to see at each location.

A particularly helpful feature is a section with specific instructions on how to use Vienna's extensive public transportation system including a description of the various types of tickets and pictures of the ticket machines.

This guide blows the competition out of the water.

A visual delight

These books are beautiful and informative and perfect for a pre-trip virtual tour of any city. However, I find them overly complex for actual touring and rely more on Rick Steves for Europe and Lonely Planet or Frommers for everything else. I buy a DK guide to any large city I am headed for and spend many happy hours with them pre and post trip. I would highly recommend you do the same. And since travel guides are as varied as the travelers who use them, you might find these to be the perfect book to carry with you.

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