More than 700 full-color photographs, precise street-by-street maps, and vivid 3-D illustrated aerial views guide you through Budapest's six main districts. View Mayas Church, the Gellert Hotel and Baths Complex, Parliament, St. Stephen's Basilica, the Hungarian National Museum, and the State Opera House. A special section showcases the major works housed in the Hungarian National Gallery. Beyond Budapest, visit the remains of the Roman town Aquincum, and day or night excursions to the charming villages beyond the city. The guide also includes two guided walks, one to Obuda and the other around Margaret Island, in the middle of the Danube River. Other informative features spotlight Hungarian cuisine, local spirits, traditional folk crafts, and much more. DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide: Budapest is an impressive gateway to the treasures of this fascinating eastern European city.
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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
great street finder index; lots of illustrations,
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This review is from: Eyewitness Travel Guide to Budapest (Paperback)
In preparing for a trip to Hungary, I examined thoroughly the choices for Budapest. The Eyewitness Travel Guide on Budapest by Tadeusz Olszanski is the most eye-catching and the least helpful. It contains lots of graphics and diagrams and maps, and not too much information. Still, the most helpful section was the street index--something I hadn't seen in other books. The multitude of pictures are helpful in describing architecture, geography and art. On the other hand, its information on accomodations is very limited. Don't get me wrong; it's a beautiful and interesting book; it just is not as helpful as the other three. And it is two years old. I'm not necessarily saying that this book is bad, merely that it may not help you very much on the excursion. The Frommer's Budapest book (3rd edition) gave the best information about finding and choosing accomodations, but the book has no pictures and aside from a nice subway cover on the inside cover, the maps are hard to find and not very easy to use. Frommer's gives excellent information about prices and shops and restaurants; it's almost a guide to buying things rather than a tour book. I didn't find it particularly thorough about travel information, customs, or those sorts of details. That is not entirely fair. They have a nice section in the front a kind of "best of" list for things in budapest. The nice thing about the book is that it recommends things to do if you have only one day, three days or a week. They also suggested some itineraries for walking tours. The Fodor's Budapest pocket reference is drab and not full of much information. Don't get it. My favorite guidebook series has been Lonely Planet, and the Budapest Lonely Planet is fairly helpful. Although it doesn't give as thorough a treatment on accomodations, the book gives a lot of hints and secret. I found its facts for the visitors to be the most helpful, and the maps (placed at the very back of the book) to be the easiest to use. The frommer book, on the other hand, put the maps close to the section of the book referring to it. The organization of LP makes it easiest to use in the field; they tend to have the best background, history and cultural information. It was particularly good about including rules, regulations and things like closing times. ON the other hand, there are not many photos, and they don't plan as many walking tours as the frommer book does.
The Budapest: A Critical Guide by Andras Torok, 4th edition is a less complete and more personal account of things to do in Budapest. The other books were like encyclopedias, but this book was just a few personal recommendations about things to do and places to stay. Also, the writing for this book seems to be better than the other books. If you already are a little familiar with Budapest, but just want to learn about new and undiscovered places, this might be an excellent book. It certainly covers most of the bases, but it just doesn't try to list a huge number of accomodations or restaurants. I ended up buying the Frommer's and a used copy of the Eyewitness travel guide.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A GREAT GUIDE!,
By gellio "gellio" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eyewitness Travel Guide to Budapest (Paperback)
After visiting Budapest with this guide, I can assure you- it's the best guide out there on this city. In response to the previous reviewer who said "Vaci Street" was listed incorrectly. Actually, you are incorrect. There are "TWO" Vaci Streets in Budapest- an upper (open to traffic) and a lower (pedestrians only)- which is the famous shopping strip. This guide has them on the correct pages- you just missed the correct street because it is much smaller than the huge traffic ridden street to the north. This all was mentioned in the guide. It is wise to understand something before attacking it.Furthermore- it is really highly unwise to rely soley on a travel guide when traveling...you completely lose the adventure.. For that reason- using a guide for resturants is perhaps foolish. I didn't even look at that section and I found several little "non tourist" resturants to eat. Budapest is packed to the hilt with eateries...they are not hard to find. Finding ones that aren't listed in travel guides- then you are getting real Hungarian food. Part of traveling is discovering and relying entirely on a travel guide takes that away. I recommend these guides for sites (because they have more than any other guides listed) and lodging (unless you want to stay in hostels). This is a great guide- the best out there for Budapest- when used properly.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Uneven, poorly edited guidebook with many factual errors,
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Architectural photos and text are useful, but otherwise information is riddled with errors (misspellings, misnamings of sites and other factual mistakes). For example the book mentions sites twice under two different wrong addresses. The book also states that visas are required for US citizens which has not been the case for many years. Also, almost all of the listed restaurants are tourist traps. I found this guidebook series very useful for other cities and countries (France, Vienna and Rome for example). I was very disappointed by this volume and I recommend that you choose another guidebook.
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