Eyewitness Travel Guide: Provence & Cote D'Azur

Advantages: Geographic scope
Disadvantages: Pretentious and irrelevant

...I was personally very disappointed by this guide. I was looking for a book that covered both the Cote d'Azur and the area around Montpelier. On the face of it this guide fitted the bill perfectly, but unfortunately in most respects other than its geographic scope I found it to be entirely inadequate, patronising, stuck-up and uninformative. Why people who obviously dislike most of the area, especially the touristy bits, should write a book like this is beyond me. It tries and largely fails to be amusing. It tries and fails to be intellectual, rarely getting under the skin of individual resorts, dismissing them, in the case, for example, of La Grande Motte, purely on the grounds of its architectural absurdity, or Cannes on the grounds of its superficial phoneyness.... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent structure and state-of-the-art 3D illustrations, high recognition effect
Disadvantages: Standard tourist routes, no insider information

...The 3D Eyewitness published by Dorling Kindersley (DK) is clearly one of the best city guide books on the market. When going through your travel preparations, you may be overwhelmed by the huge variety of travel guide books on offer. With this article, I am trying to give you some advice on how to find the best travel guide book for yourself. In many cases, this will ultimately direct you to the 3D Eyewitness series. The content of travel guide books is generally structured in one of three different ways: 1. Alphabetical listing of places: this may be quite helpful for a quick reference, but it makes it hard to connect this one place to other places nearby, or to the big picture of your journey. There isn't much sense in a guide for Italy to list Parma right after Palermo when the two places are more than 500 miles apart. 2. Sorted... Read review

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Advantages: a good read before a trip
Disadvantages: to bulky to take on holiday

.... When I have to travel to another country I always try to obtain An Eyewitness travel Guide.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful