Cheap Sleeps in Italy '99 Ed [Paperback]

Sandra Gustafson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1999

Spend your money well plus find a great deal with this guide that provides the tips for sleeping cheaply. 9 maps.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 3rd edition (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081181839X
• ISBN-13: 978-0811818391
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,185,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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132 of 134 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is indispensible for travellers to Italy, October 25, 1999

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S. Katsurinis (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cheap Sleeps in Italy '99 Ed (Paperback)

I have to confess to being a huge fan of Sandra Gustafson's entire line of Cheap Sleeps/Cheap Eats guides. I first started using them when I was a budget consious traveller in college and law school. The I stayed in only the cheapest of her "Cheap Sleeps" confident that she only recommended clean and safe hotels of distinction. Now that I am a more discerning (and less budget conscious) traveller, I find that I still rely on Ms. Gustafson's recommendations. That is because her watchword is really not CHEAP but VALUE. She has ferreted out the hotels where for $80 a night you live better than most places that serve up $150 a night rooms. I also find that by mentioning that I am relying on Sandra Gustafson's recommendation when booking or checking in, that these sm all hotel owners welcome me warmly. She must truly leave a good impression when she stays in these exceptional-value hotels and B&Bs. So let Sandra Gustafson pave the way for you. I have NEVER been disappointed.

I have used Cheap Sleeps/Cheap Eats LONDON, PARIS, ROME-FLORENCE-VENICE and HAWAII.

41 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guides, January 31, 2000

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marjess leighton (River Vale, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cheap Sleeps in Italy '99 Ed (Paperback)

I purchased this Cheap Sleeps for an as yet unbooked trip to Italy. I have used the Cheap Sleeps/Eats in London, so expected to get valuable information from this book. I was not disappointed. My biggest problem will be deciding on which of the dozens of places Gustafson recommends to stay when I go. I know from past experience that I won't be disappointed in any of them, because she gives any cautions required right up front. I would definitely buy any Cheap Sleeps/Eats book for a city I was visiting.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I would normally hesitaie to give 5 stars, but......, March 27, 2001

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niall o'gaiblain (england) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cheap Sleeps in Italy '99 Ed (Paperback)

The value of a really good book in other spheres of literature can mean hours spent in another time and place in a trance of pleasure, or perhaps the true satisfaction of gaining a comprehensive understanding of a concept or event that had formally intrigued or baffled you.

These are considerable and valuable pleasures of course, but when a book like this gets things absolutely right, it can mean a trip being enhanced to an immeasurable degree, resulting in memories that will stay with you until the day you die.

This was my experience with this book, and when I awoke on our first morning in our hotel, the sun was streaming in over a terrace bedecked with lemon trees and classical sculptures, I could hear the mass being sung by the nuns in the nearby convent, and I could look directly above my bed to see a deep relief sculpture of prancing angels, it was difficult not to be convinced, for a split second that I had not survived the flight over, slipped by the pearly gates due to some administrative error on the part of St Peter & Co, and awoken in paradise.

That I had this experience was entirely due to the quality of the research undertaken for this book, and the discretion of the author. The writing is of a quality that you will wish to revisit the book, and your destination.

A 5 star rating is probably overused on ... but it would be ungrateful and crass of me to give less here.

Priceless information, precious memories, a palpable hit.