The guides that show you what the others only tell you. DK's Eyewitness Travel Guides have increasingly become the most sought after guides by seasoned and novice travels alike. Featuring up-to-date information and spectacular 3-D aerial views -- all photographed in full-color -- each location is shown at its best. Recognized as the most unique and comprehensive travel guides on the market, Eyewitness Travel Guides create the new standard for travels. Every guide in the series is updated annually. 3-D aerial maps help you make the quickest journey from one place to the next. Red star sights help you get the most out of the shortest visit. Full-color photographs are taken specifically for each travel guide, and cut-away & floor plans present unique drawings of historic buildings and museums to show exactly where you are and what you see. All the sights in each area are described in depth with special keyed icons, and there's no need to buy an A-Z guide with our fully indexed street maps. Eat and shop with confidence with our reliable listings of hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops in all areas and at all prices. When it comes to entertainment, Eyewitness Travel Guides contains complete listings of theaters, music venues, cinemas, clubs, sports facilities, and activities for children. A special survival guide shows you how to use local currency, public transportation and telephones through pictures. Before your next trip, pick up one of our best-selling Eyewitness Travel Guides today!
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Encyclopedic in scope, it's meant to be used before, during, and after your stay. (Travel & Leisure) Both novice and experienced travelers will be captivated. (U.S. News & World Report) Each book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place. (The New York Times) The best travel guides ever. (Sky Magazine) For comprehensive advice that is attractively presented, publisher Dorling Kindersley's guides for serious travelers are tough to beat. (US News & World Report) Hats off to DK for the Eyewitness Travel Guides...[they] raise the bar for all others. (Dallas Morning News) The most graphically exciting and visually pleasing series on the market. (Chicago Tribune) Eyewitness Travel Guides are marvels of writing, color photography and illustration. What makes these so special is their thoroughness. (New York Times Syndicate) This is a guidebook series that always seems to inspire smiles...You feel, looking at them, as if you could close the book and step into the street. (Contra Costa Times ) Want to know where to get a great espresso on your way to the Uffizi? Or how much to tip a hotel maid in New York City? Try these travel guides, each an intricate trove of 3-D aerial views, landmark floor plans, color photos and essential eating, shopping and entertainment info. With titles covering Paris, Prague, and London, these pocket-sized guides are like a Michelangelo fresco: deliriously rich in detail. (People Magazine) Eyewitness Travel Guides, considered to be the world's best travel resource to over 30 destinations around the world, make it easier to plan a splendid vacation. (North American Press Syndication) Each new Eyewitness Guide adds more of the world to this wonderfully visual series.... What sets these guides apart from others is their striking, three-dimensional cutaways of key sites. (New York Daily News)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Written Pre-Katrina,
This review is from: Eyewitness Travel Guide to New Orleans (Eyewitness Travel Guides) (Paperback)
On one hand, I love this New Orleans travel guide. It is full of great, large pictures that give you a real sense of what the locations are like. You see what a mint julep looks like, what the various buildings are like, what types of works of art hang in the museum, and much more. It's a visual, virtual tour that is enjoyable just to read in your arm chair at home.
The maps are superb and well done. You can lay out how your walking tour will go, being sure to visit the sights you find most interesting. They cover not only the French Quarter and New Orleans itself, but also attractions that lay just beyond the borders that are fascinating and worth making the time to see. The history provided is fascinating, and the details of the famous people in New Orleans, the styles of wrought iron, and other many tips really add another layer of meaning to a trip there. When you're walking down the street and see the variety of architectual styles - and understand why they all exist - it makes the visit even more rich. However, the HUGE problem is that this book was last updated in 2004! In August 2005, a life-changing event in the form of Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and completely destroyed many parts of the city. Many things praised in this book simply do not exist any more. Restaurants are closed. Others have opened up. The entire city has been changed. In some ways, this book is fascinating as a glimpse into "New Orleans Before Katrina". It is a snapshot in time of what New Orleans was like up until that moment - the restaurants, way of life, locations, worries and concerns they had then. It is interesting to compare that snapshot with what New Orleans is today. But as a travel book, it means this book is in many situations flat-out incorrect. If you're looking to build a historical library of New Orleans, with great photos, this is definitely the book to get. I love the photos and descriptions. If you want something actually helpful for modern day New Orleans, check the copyright date and make sure you get one written after 2005.
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This review is from: Eyewitness Travel Guide to New Orleans (Eyewitness Travel Guides) (Paperback)
My boyfriend and I live in New Orleans and we bought this book to get a "tourists" feel for our hometown. Best $20 we ever spent in this city. Not only did it give an comprehensive and accurate overview to the major parts of the city but it also managed to teach us some history we didn't know and point out some places we managed to overlook. The book covers all the sites in the major areas of the city (Vieux Carre/Marigny, CBD/Warehouse, Garden District/Uptown, Mid-City, and various outliers) and if you see them all, you miss nothing except maybe a drive along the lakefront on Lakeshore Dr. and a nighttime drive from Mandeville to New Orleans on the Causeway to see the city at night. Not bad for guide that is only 240 pp. The gripes: 1) The "Where to Stay" section in the "Traveler's Needs" isn't great for people on a budget since the only the places listed are the more expensive places to stay 2) While the "Where to eat" section does a great job of covering the major local restaurants, both we feel that these are mostly tourist-y places and that the New Orleans Zagat's is a better bet for those local out-of-the-way places. Otherwise, the rest of the book is right on target. We both love this book and highly recommend (and lend out) our copy to visiting company.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
kickin' back in the Big Easy was never better....,
By Colleen M. Schneider (San Lorenzo, CA USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Eyewitness Travel Guide to New Orleans (Eyewitness Travel Guides) (Paperback)
Thanks to another wonderful DK Eyewitness Travel Guide, we had a fantastic trip to New Orleans. The guides are wonderful. Pictures are plentiful, the practical information is very useful and really lays out everything for you. We looked up places on line to stay, that we saw noted in the guide and stayed at a charming B&B in the Garden District, 2 blocks away from the historic St. Charles Streetcar line, and a mere 15 minutes to the quarter. We saw both historical sites, like the Cabildo, where the Louisiana Purchase was signed, ate Muffalettas at Central Grocery, went for a jazz brunch at Commander's Palace (highly recommended), visited Preservation Hall for a little jazz, toured the D-Day Museum, which was facinating and took in Bourbon Street, cemetery and voodoo tours and a tour of the Garden District, including a jaunt past Anne Rice's house and a tour of Lafayette Cemetery, used for the movies Double Jeopardy and Interview with a Vampire, and had the famous Hurricane cocktail at Pat O'Briens and a Pimms Cup at Napoleon House, which is now a bar, but was a home built for Napoleon that he never lived to use. The city is fascinating from the mix of cultures, to the architecture and the sure delight of just people watching and listening to the many fine street musicians. Go in the spring or fall for the best weather, and remember to buy this guide well in advance and read up well before you go and during your stay. Once you get there there are so many things to do besides just hang out in the quarter and you will want to experience this city as much as you can. If the Big Easy is in your future, do yourself a favor and buy this very comprehensive guide and let the good times roll....
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