Customer Reviews

Fodor's Spain 2000

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Fodor's Spain 2000 travel guide excels in many facets: it offers travelers both cultural information and vital travel hints such as excellent hotels, restaurants and can't miss sights. We used Rick Steve's book and found it helpful but Fodor's was indispensable. One of the nice features is that is offers choices of hotels and restaurants for many different price ranges. It also provides excellent maps. The phone numbers and prices are accurate. On the downside, information on regional travel was sparse and not helpful. All in all, an excellent travel guide.

The book provides fine lists of places to stay and visit, but fails to caution against the muggers. I was violently mugged, drug through the street and choked by my purse strap until my partner smashed a full beer can into the guy's head. This happended less than one block from our hotel off La Rambla in Barcelona. Stories like this were common from others in our hotel and from those we have told about it since. Beware in Barcelona! day or night!

I am a student and Fodors is definitely not the guide book to use if you are a student. Let's Go is better for the truly budgeted person. Let's Go also has more detailed maps.

Looking at the accreditations of the writers impressed me in that they had the inside scoops on hotels and restaurants, however they also all speak Spanish. For the non-native speaker, you can be treated less friendly in places where the local Spanish are favored over tourists.

There were some bright spots in the book, like the coverage on Cordoba and the little blurbs on the history of certain well-known sights.

I go to Spain every summer and you dont have to go to Spain to see the beautiful buildings and scenaries. This book has it all! If your doing a report on Spain or just want to know about or look at the wonderful places their this BOOK has IT ALL!