Prague (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides)

Paperback - 20 January, 2003 - DK ADULT
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By: Theodore Schwinke
ISBN: 0789491842

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Great Travel Guide, Beautiful Coffee Table Book!

Summary:
Every Dorling Kindersley Guide has been a great and interesting book... and delightful to have and use, even if you are not traveling to that location, but are only interested in learning more!

The Guides are well organized in a logical and easy to follow manner. They are beautifully illustrated, well developed with accurate information (it is unusual for hotel and restaurant information to be that accurate), have enough history to help the reader understand the people and cultural background, and have a lot of useful travel information and useable maps in the appendixes.

The really great attraction to this book is several fold; it is:
............Very complete
............Easy to read
............Beautifully and artistically completed
............Good shopping, safety and other tips
............Gorgeous photographs too numerous to list.

Specifics:
The guides are organized as follows:

How to use this guide
Introduction to Historical and Geographical information
Geographical Regions
............Introduction Prague
........................Intro to Prague
........................History
........................Portrait of Prague
........................Through the Year (events, holidays)
........................A River View of Prague

............Prague Area by Area, each section includes:
........................Introduction to street by street area
........................Detailed pictorials of area buildings

........................Architectural drawings, pictures, cut-aways of buildings
........................Specific stops, historical monuments, churches, buildings, etc.

Travelers Needs - includes full list with rankings and notes
............Hotels
............Restaurants, cafes, pubs
............Shops / Markets
............Entertainment

Survival Information
............Practical
........................Tourist info., Etiquete, Personal Security and Health

........................Currencies, Telephones, misc info.
............Getting to Prague (Travel Information)
............Getting Around Prague (Street Maps)

............General Index
............Phrase Book
............Transport Map

Discussion:
The book begins with "Introducing Prague", including a complete map, a review, the city's history, and Prague thought the Year - including events, etc.

Areas with an "At a glance" overview, then has subsections of specific blocks, or forums, then specific locations, churches, historical monuments, bridges, galleries, etc.

Architectural reviews include various views, and cutaways; given greater understanding and better perspective. They are all attractive, if not works of art - honestly.

The travelers' Info. offers good and valid info. on prices, currencies, customs, important words, etc. I have used the reviews on hotel's restaurants and nightclubs, in most European cities, and Dorling has yet to disappoint me. I have found they were useful and accurate, and helpful with my touring and site decisions.

The books are so well thought-out that it has multiple maps, with various lookup tables, and the book's flaps are designed to be used as bookmarks for map pages.

Conclusion:
Each book in this series is a great help, and beautiful collectible resource. As the President, CEO of an International Meeting Planning Corporation we have many resources and techniques to learn about places we have meetings / groups at as well as the cities and sights. But, as a traveler, this book really is top notch and I would recommend it to anyone going on a personal trip, or wanting to learn about a city, or location. We have used some of these books to augment our research to investigate cities for our groups.

This is the Only One You Need

I like the "Top 10" travel guides because they pack a wealth of useful information, with lots of photos and maps, into a very compact size. The "Top 10 Prague" travel guide is no exception. It is slim enough so that it can easily fit inside a small purse.

As with all the "Top 10" books, this volume provides information in the format of giving ten subsections for different subjects. For example, you have a listing of Prague's top ten "Highlights," followed by lists of the top ten things to see at each of the top ten highlights. Prague Castle, for example, is listed 1st under "Highlights," and then, when you turn the page, you have the "Top 10 Features" of the palace listed, along with a diagram of the palace showing where each feature is located.

This book has subjects like "Top 10 Places of Worship," "Top 10 Museums and Galleries," "Top 10 Parks and Gardens," "Top 10 Performing Arts Venues," "Top 10 Children's Attractions," etc. There are also, of course, top ten listings of restaurants, "bars and kavarnas", clubs, "shops and markets", and the like. This book also has listings of restaurants, cafes, pubs and retail shops for different sections of the city too, so that you can easily find one near your hotel.

At the back of the book is the "Streetsmart" section with its lists under headings such as "Getting to Prague," "Getting Around Prague," "Sources of Information," "Things to Avoid," "Prague on a Budget," etc. There are ten lists of Prague hotels and pensions.

Because of its compact size, great maps and diagrams, and the wealth of useful information on tourist sites, restaurants, shopping, etc., this is the one and only book that I carried around with me while walking through the streets of Prague on my last trip there.

Compact travel guide

I had used the top 10 for Amsterdam. I find it easy to carry, to the point, and the maps come in handy.

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