Let's Go London 15th Edition

• Paperback - 29 November, 2005 - Let's Go Publications
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• By: Inc Let's Go
• ISBN: 0312348967

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Reviews by readers

Good Book with Format Problems

This is the book you want if you're a student, working-class type, or arty bohemian who wants to see London. It's a good guide to the affordable residences, night life, fine art venues, and everything else that makes you want to visit London on a budget. It gives frank appraisals of West End shows, steers you toward the best galleries in the best museums, and tells you where you can get a high-class meal on a tight budget. Everything is broken down by neighborhood, so you can plan your itinerary so everything you take in on a certain day is reasonably close together. And it even gives you pointers on how to find work, volunteer opportunities, and academic programs if you're dissatisfied with just doing the same old tourist baloney.

The twin problems this book suffers are physical: it's too big and the type is too small. The dimensions of the book are too large to fit in a pocket, so you'll have to carry it in your attache case or backpack. Copy addresses and directions into a pocket-sized notebook if you need to check on them on the tube or out on the street, because being seen with a tour book is an invitation to pigeon pluckers. And even as the book itself is too large to conveniently conceal, the type is so small that you have to squint to read details and descriptions. Note to the Let's Go people: not everybody who buys your books is a kid anymore.

On balance, though, this is probably the book you want if you're not blowing your nose on pound notes. It's clear, individual descriptions are concise, and it's all very helpful. If you want to see London, if you want to let it into your pores in a way most tourists never get to do, and if you want to do all that on the kind of money real people tend to have, this is your book.

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