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Cracow (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

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Krakow is a very beatiful, historic City and this guide greatly enhanced our enjoyment of it. EXCELLENT ORGANIZATION AND CONTENT.

Eyewitess Travel Guides are very good because they cover so many areas (history, architecture, planning, maps where to stay & eat, etc.) with excellent pictures and other graphics. The organization of the Eyewitness guides gives a quick overview of the city or country and helps to view a city or country by making it very easy to identify sites and buildings. The Eyewitness Guides facilitate touring by superb organization of maps, drawings, pictures and descriptions so that sigificant points of interest and sites are easily idenfied. They give alot of info, but are not too long. And I keep them as good references in contrast to many touring guides that I immediately discard after I have seen the area they cover. In other words, the content does not justify carrying the additional weight.
The Krakow guide is one of the best in the series. My biggest negative of the book is that it spells Krakow with the letter "c," not "k."

We got this a month before leaving. It is a typical Eyewitness product...beautifully illustrated, has a time line, walking tours and great maps of the city. It is logically put together. These guides are one of our constant traveling companions., where ever and when ever we travel.

Pretty much everything you want to see is in easy walking distance in the Old Town. Information in this book was out of date or inaccurate (the Da Vinci painting has been moved to Warsaw, some museums close at 3pm in the summer). Many people speak English and the Pols understand the value of the tourist to their local economy, so are very helpful. Just have your hotel arrange your airport pick up - cheaper than the taxi stand. The main train station is convenient to the Old Town area and has one of the few grocery stores in the area, so budget travelers stock up on your way out of the station.

This guide was very helpful,for planing before travel, and also on site you can rely on it that you under the right address, recognizing places visually, sometimes for some distance, instead of gluing your eyes to the letter and numbers of the address.

Cracow is a wonderful, strange old city with a huge market place and wide streets, for the standards of medieval urban planing.The largest medieval market square in Europe, largest Gothic altarpiece, coblerstones streets, well wide as said, but all cozy, yet majestic. Such spaciousness you don't see in the other medieval cities. .In addition there is Jewish Quarter, (Kazimierz), architecture is Italienite,as there were artists and architects from various parts of Europe, not only Poland living and working there. So, the city has medieval cosmopolitan flair. Also many restaurants, clubs, cafes, cheerful atmosphere. I you loved Prague, you will love Cracow. My friend said that Prague is more fairy-tale-like, Cracow is more majestic, regal, if this can help you to get the feel.

Just have another guide in addition to this one, with more detailed descriptions. This is not a complain, of course the pictures take some space, just two guides I would recommend. And in Cracow it is easy to find English speaking tourists' guides. Or speaking in other languages.

Good and useful guide. Helps by telling you what bus and trolley lines to take to certain sites. Also gives useful information about the sites you are seeing and helpful hints about what to do to enjoy a shorter or longer trip. I found it useful to supplement this guide with another guide to get perspective on the importance of certain places to visit.

I found this to be a well laid out directory of Cracow. There are not as many books/guides available about Poland as I would like but I found this one to be quite beautiful, helpful and would recommend it.

Great guidebooks especially if you are a do-it-yourselfer. Especially valuable for sightseeing. We did Krakow last year and this book helped us maximize are time there. Combine this with Frommers and Rick Steves and you can plan a trip far better and less expensive than any tour. I know, I've been travelling to Europe this way for 35 years now.