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A Comprehensive Guide To Vegas

Advantages: Tells you all about the casinos, museums and what to see and how to do it
Disadvantages: Doesn't list prices despite updates

the town itself and the desert that surrounds it, all of which makes for interesting reading on that 9 hour flight out there. It is made by a company called Insight Guides who specialise in creating travel guides to various places around the world. The company was founded in 1970 with the first guide created by German Hans Hoefer as he travelled from Europe into Asia. He then went on to produce a number of other guides to the Asian cotenant before moving onto the rest of the world. He then sold his shares in the guides to a German company, who formed the Insight Guides concept, producing 400 different guides in association with The Discovery Channel. The book itself is a pretty comprehensive guide to Vegas. It lists each of the hotels as a paragraph section and where necessary also tells you what there is to see in each hotel. I found ...

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A visual guide to a visual city

Advantages: Beautifully presented, wonderful photographs give a brilliant introduction to all that Venice has to offer, lots of informartion
Disadvantages: Large, heavy, difficult to carry, layout means it is sometimes difficult to extract information

The Insight / Discovery Channel guide to Venice is an extremely comprehensive guide to the city: it includes a section detailing Venice's history, notes about the Venetian people themselves, 13 features covering aspects of the city's life and culture, ranging from Venetian cuisine to La Fenice Opera house to the Venice of Giacomo Casanova. The main body of the book is a visitor's guide to the sights and the guide finishes with a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. The book also includes 14 maps and hundreds of photographs. I bought this guide in preparation for spending three months in Venice last autumn and found it very useful for getting an idea of Venetian culture and life. The guide is extremely readable and I read much of it before actually setting off for Venice. One ...

Leni_84 28.06.2005 (01.07.2005) · Read full review
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New York City

Advantages: A lot to see & do, has something to offer for everyone
Disadvantages: Too much to see and do, can be exhausting, expensive hotels

through the sub by a guide that told us a little bit about the different rooms. It is always fascinating to walk through submarines and see how much stuff they can squeeze into them. It must have been pretty challenging to serve onboard a tiny ship like this for weeks and weeks at sea. The museum was fun at least if you are into history, planes etc. Check out their website on intrepidmuseum.org. It is pretty good and has lots of information. The general admission to the museum is 14.5 $ but once again we used the New York CityPass that we bought at the Empire State building. Times Square We walked over to this famous intersection already the first night. It doesn't take much to understand when you are there: large billboards where lights are flashing, people every where etc. The place is also on TV and movies quite a lot and every year ...

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