Customer Reviews

Denmark (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

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Eyewitness Guides make learning about foreign countries a fun and dynamic experience due to their outstanding use of a generous amount of detailed, full-color visuals. This guide is especially welcome as Denmark, a small-sized yet complex nation, has relatively few guidebooks compared to some of the more popular and well-travelled countries to its south. I would have happily given this guidebook 5 stars but numerous times a privately-run amusement park was plugged in a way to make that park's PR director more happy than the reader. Other than this editorial lapse in judgement, a very fine guidebook I highly recommend.

I have travelled to Denmark for many years and this is by far the best guidebook that has come out on this fascinating and beautiful country. The text and visuals are well done as are the explanatory notes on the culture, language and food of Denmark. Highly recommened.

We will take a 3-week trip to Europe, including long stays in Denmark and Sweden, so I am not counting on just one travel guide to be the definitive travel guide for my family. Denmark (Eyewitness) is a beautiful guide, with incredible full-color pictures on high-quality paper.

Functionally, I appreciate the calendar of major events throughout the year at the front of the book, and then the rest of the guide laid out by geographic area. Overall, this is a great buy as one of several travel guides.

My wish list would include a section on traveling with children -- highlights in the country that have kid appeal, restaurants that have very general (even American) fare for young eaters, hotels in every area that are kid-friendly, etc.

I am planning a family vacation to Denmark and I wanted to get some information on places other than Legoland. I found the information in this guide very useful.
It is well organized and easy to look up places in the book. For example, the publishers have divided Denmark into a number of regions and these are colour coded. Southern Jutland and Legoland? Look in the yellow section.
It is informative: I learned about Danish history, customs and culture. There is a good overview of Danish design and this is followed up in more detail in the respective entries. The section on Danish history is illustrated with pictures of paintings, sculptures and photos again in full colour.
My only reservation about this book concerns the scrupulous fairness of all the entries. Visitors are looking for information and insight, both good and bad. Is Tivoli really worth the time or is it an overrated tourist trap?
Overall, however, I am happy that I purchased this book over the others.
I did some time consuming searches on the internet for information about Denmark but I should have saved myself the trouble and bought this book first.

Best visual guide on Denmark (aka DK).

This is the first time I had to buy a Eyewitness Travel Guide.

Considering that Denmark is such a small country, I was gladly surprised to see that this volume packs a lot of information and images on almost every page.

This guide is well organized. It starts with a great introductory chapter: putting Denmark on the map, a portrait of Denmark, Denmark through the year, and the History of Denmark (as the sub-chapters). Then the next chapter covers over 60 pages on Copenhagen alone (not surprising considering that 25% of Denmark population is located in this metropolitan area). The next sections are on different regions of Denmark (including sections on island of Bornholm, Greenland, and the Faroe islands).

The sections that surprised me the most were the ending chapters: Travelers Needs and Survival Guide, giving one such great visual and written ideas on what to shop for, entertainment ideas, outdoors activities, and practical traveling information.

From my personal use this spring, I realize that the section on the island of Funnen (Fyn in Danish) is rather meager. As complements I would recommend Frommers 2007 edition of Denmark, and the Tourist Information office on the street corner across from the Tivoli entrance in Copenhagen (one block away from the main train station). Happy Travels!!

Despite my past enjoyment of Eyewitness Travel Guides for other countries and cities I originally purchased a competitor's travel guide for Copenhagen. I am planning a trip to Copenhagen and bought one specific to the city since DK Eyewitness only publishes one for all of Dennmark - big mistake. I opened the book only to find page after page of text with few maps or pictures. Needless to say I waited a few days and then came to my senses and ordered the book I knew I should have purchased all along. Of course there was ample information on Copenhagen itself and my original fears that it would not be adequate just weren't realized. I am never disappointed with the Eyewitness books and usually end up sharing them with others on trips. As the other reviews confirm, this is THE book to buy for a trip to Denmark or simply Copenhagen. Don't waste your time and money on any other book.

The graphics are great. It is a very beautiful guide. But the information in it is rather incomplete.
For example: If you want to go to any place (i.e. a museum), the guide tells you which bus/train/metro take, but doesn't tell you where to stop and what to do in order to get to the place from the bus stop. And the guide also lacks of "real" travelers information: which are the museums that haf discouns with the "copenhagen card", etc.
The guide doesn't seem to transmit if the author has a "hands on" experience. It is a rather "cold" book. You feel a profesional writer in the book, not a real traveler.

I have many Eyewitness Guides, and this one shares their strengths and weaknesses. Their strong points are their photos and street-by-street maps and approach to organizing attractions - great for itinerary planning, especially in a completely unfamiliar region. Downside - little info of a practical nature; I always need Frommer's, Fodor's etc. for more in-depth reviews of hotels and restaurants and points like where to catch a ferry and its schedule. This guide is especially weak on Funen - a very short section that doesn't include all the attractions I've seen online and in other guides (pity, because we're going to Funen!). But I value having photos for my planning process, so I see this book as a valuable element of my research.

DK,s Denmark, aside from Copenhagen this is a complete and colourful guide that helps bring Denmark to life...Not that the Danish are short of Life but it allows the outsider to creep in and enjoy. A companion guide that simultaneously allows one to find those cosy spots. Don't leave without it, essential travelling assistant.

Had the perfect blend of pictures and history. Could have had a wider shopping section (like something other than clothes, you know), but that's no different from all other guide books.