Fodor's Citypack Paris' 25 Best, 6th Edition

Paperback - 05 July, 2005 - Fodor's
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By: Fodor's
ISBN: 1400015847

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About this book

This guide is superbly organized for quick reference so you can "get an immediate handle on everything you need to know and everywhere you want to go in Paris." All sections have color-coded tabs, so you can flip to the list of Paris's top 25 sights--or to the time line to figure out how the monument in front of you fits into history--in seconds flat. The "Where to Eat" section is subdivided into the following: expensive restaurants, regional French restaurants, Asian & Italian restaurants, Arab restaurants, and brasseries & bistros. These make the search for the perfect meal much easier than trying to wade through the unsorted listings in one of the bigger guides on an empty belly. Citypack Paris is filled with great information and is meant to be carried with you and used around town. This ultrathin guide comes with a large, detailed map of the city, and both will fit nicely in a purse or jacket pocket. First-time pilgrims may want to bone up with one of the meatier guides to learn more about the city before leaving home. --Jhana Bach

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Reviews by readers

Great tour book!

Fodor's has really done an excellent job producing this guide book. The map was informative and up to date. The book is great for carrying around in your purse or knapsack. You can just whip it out anywhere and find the appropriate Metro stop for each point of interest. Buy it!

Straight to the Point

The Fodor City Guides are perfect for cramming into a camera case and setting off to explore a new city. When I scan the travel section of my local bookstore, I am overwhelmed by the increasing spine width and decreasing print font of travel guides. I want a fun vacation -- and I don't want to study too hard for it! (Let's save those brain cells for learning the language!) The City Guides give me just the "big picture" overview that I need to help me make the most of my limited vacation time. Also, the City Guides have wonderful, big, detailed, full-size maps. It is no fun to try to piece together a cohesive map which is divided across several pages inside of a book, but the Fodor's guides include a full-size folded map which is tucked inside the book jacket.

I particularly like the plastic book jacket because of three reasons: 1) It protects the book from splashes from fountains or spilled bottled water; 2) It contains Fodor's wonderful full size map; and 3) The front pocket is a handy place to store those souvenir ticket stubs to remind me of my adventure when I look back at the City Guide in the future.

Last -- but certainly not least -- the Fodor's guides have the most accurate information that I have seen regarding ticket prices, times and dates of sites that are open for tourists, and metro/bus routes. Such information is always changing, and therefore it is reasonable to expect some discrepancies. However, I have found that if, for instance, three different travel guides have three different sets of information, the Fodor's guides are usually the most accurate.

Fodor's - Always a Winner

We have used the Fodor's pocket-size guide for travel to Rome, London, and now Paris. They are always our favorites for hitting the highlights of what we want to see and do. I don't know why we keep buying the other ones, because all of the relavant stuff from those is usually in the Fodor's guide. And the maps are great (if a bit travel-worn by the end of the trip).

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