Avant-Guide Prague: Insiders' Guide to Progressive Culture (Avant Guides) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Dan Levine (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 2004 | Series: Avant Guides

Avant-Guide Prague is the first and only style-driven travel guidebook to Europe's hippest city. With a razor-sharp editorial focus, this book breaks fresh ground by way of new discoveries and authoritative reports on stylish hotels, the latest restaurants, unique shops, and the best nightspots. Exploring cultural delights in Old Town, the Jewish Quarter, Mala Strana, and New Town, Avant-Guide Prague offers almost a dozen original features that zero-in on people who are driving local scenes in art, television, music, film, fashion, and food. Edited and designed for fashion-aware travelers of all ages and pocketbooks, this book combines all the comprehensiveness of a traditional travel guide with the knowing intelligence and fast-forward design of a top-notch urban magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Empire Pr; Bk&Pamphle edition (November 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189160323X
• ISBN-13: 978-1891603235
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #753,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #48 in Books > Travel > Europe > Czech Republic > Prague

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a MUST BUY for Prague travel, August 21, 2006

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This review is from: Avant-Guide Prague: Insiders' Guide to Progressive Culture (Avant Guides) (Paperback)

This book is dead on. We were in Prague for four days, and this book was an indispensible tool. The bar/club descriptions were honest, straight-forward and written as if by a friend who had been living there for six years. Beyond merely naming a bar, giving an address and some surface description, they go in depth, including what nights to visit which place. The restaurant descriptions were fantastic, and lead us to some of the best (and best priced) meals we had on the trip. The mapping system makes navigation remarkably easy. Get this book, go to Prague, and rest assured you will have a good time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a GREAT Guide, April 28, 2006

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Amy Orton (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Avant-Guide Prague: Insiders' Guide to Progressive Culture (Avant Guides) (Paperback)

I must say that I'm VERY impressed with this guide for Prague. I've been a frequent visitor to the city for the past couple of years, and am FINALLY moving there this summer. This guidebook is great because it provides inside information for visitors like me-- people who don't want to look like tourists and want to take in the best of local culture and nightlife-- people who would rather try and speak even a little of the local language czech than flock to English speaking tourist traps.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely invaluable and the best by far of any guide we used, August 15, 2005

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Janet Peterson (San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Avant-Guide Prague: Insiders' Guide to Progressive Culture (Avant Guides) (Paperback)

We have just returned from a trip to Prague and Vienna. This guide to Prague was absolutely invaluable and the best by far of any guide we used. Visiting Vienna afterwards, we sorely wished that they had written one on that city, too; the other travel resources we used were not nearly as complete or informative as your guide had been for Prague. We look forward to the publication of additional Avant guides in the future!