Fodor's Belgium, 4th Edition (Travel Guide) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Travel Guide | Publication Date: January 20, 2009

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Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Belgium!

•Updated frequently, Fodor’s Belgium provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

•Fodor’s Belgium features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Belgium.

Experience Belgium like a local! Fodor’s Belgium includes choices for every traveler, from sipping beer with monks and exploring historic battlefields to dining on moules-frites and chocolate, and much more!

•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; 4 edition (January 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400008816
• ISBN-13: 978-1400008810
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #604,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #61 in Books > Travel > Europe > Belgium

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sligthly superficial book - not much details - very few places to visit, February 12, 2010

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M. Dulieu "Ines" (Belgique) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fodor's Belgium, 4th Edition (Travel Guide) (Paperback)

I am a little disappointed by this book.
I am from Belgium but I live in the US, and I wanted to get some ideas what to show in Belgium to my boyfriend.
I was quiet disappointed to see that the book list something like 4 or 5 main destinations (Brugges, Gand, Bruxelles, Anvers, and maybe one or two more) and that is it.
These are big attractions, but there are so many great hidden things everywhere that were not mentioned anywhere in the book, and there was almost nothing about the North-West part of the country, "Les Ardennes", which is a place where Belgian people like to go on vacation, with beautiful forest and very typical food and little villages.
I checked the restaurants for Brussels, and there too they list places known for a long time, some of them that became tourist traps (I wished they mentioned that in the guide book), but overall there was a reasonable selection.
I was hoping to see more recent places, where Belgian people go now, listed as well.

So this book is ok.
It will give you the main attractions in the main cities, and some restaurants that are known for age with a nice decoration.
If you never saw Belgium, and will spend there 4 or 5 days, that is ok.
If you want to spend more time, and really get into Belgian life, discover charming or fashionable places, nature, ..., buy another guide book.
The lonely planet or the "guide du routard" have probably more to offer.