Customer Reviews

Best of Kuala Lumpur (Globetrotter Best of Series)

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The size made it easy to carry around, and it had enough details and information to prove useful for a 2 or 3 day trip through KL, which is a real gem and interesting city, with its relative prosperity and modernity, mix of cultures and religions, and some interesting sites.

The maps are adequate but not stellar and provide little detail out of the key neighborhoods, so it will take a bit to navigate the city, which is not laid out in anything as convenient as a grid. Although the monorail and taxi make it relatively easy to get around the main areas, this guide and its maps will prove less effective for exploring off the beaten path.

I haven't seen any great guides for KL, so this "good enough" will have to do, and hook up with a local for dining / eating / shopping / exploring more than the standard downtown / Petronas Towers / key tourist sites.

On a trip (back) to Malaysia in Feb 06, this guide came in very handy for a lot of locations in the big city. A very good reference that I carried around.

Accurate too - which was a plus.

This inexpensive book is packed with information, photographs, and ideas and is well organized. I won't be able to really test it for several months until my trip to KL but at this point I don't regret buying it.