Frommer's Barcelona Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket) [Paperback]

Neil Edward Schlecht (Author)

Book Description

Series: Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket | Publication Date: November 19, 2007

These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip.

• Full-color package at an affordable price
• Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions
• Foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information
• Tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet
• Handy pocket-sized trim

Features: Modernista Barcelona, Barcelona for Art Lovers, Ancient Barcelona, Gourmet Barcelona, Barcelona with kids, and more!

At last, a travel guide that tells you how to see the best of everything-in the smartest, most time-efficient way.

• The best of Barcelona in one, two, or three days
• Thematic tours for every interest, schedule, and taste
• Walking tours of the city's best-loved neighborhoods
• Hundreds of evocative color photos
• Bulleted maps that show you how to go from place to place
• Hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife for all budgets
• A tear-resistant foldout map-enclosed in a handy plastic wallet you can also use for tickets and souvenirs

Editorial Reviews

Review

"[This book offers] time-saving suggestions for getting the most out of your city break and include full size pull-out maps"  (virginmedia.com, January 2008)

From the Back Cover

19 Self-guided Tours. 39 Maps. One Great Trip.

At last, a travel guide that tells you how to see the best of everything—in the smartest, most time-efficient way.

• The best of Barcelona in one, two, or three days

• Thematic tours for every interest, schedule, and taste

• Hundreds of evocative photos

• Bulleted maps that show you how to go from place to place

• Hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife for all budgets

• A tear-resistant foldout map—enclosed in a handy plastic wallet you can also use for tickets and souvenirs

Frommer's. The best trips start here.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Frommers; 1 edition (November 19, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470165405
• ISBN-13: 978-0470165409
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.6 x 7.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #598,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #53 in Books > Travel > Europe > Spain > Barcelona

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best of the bunch but not perfect, August 18, 2009

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M. Lustig (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Barcelona Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket) (Paperback)

I just returned fm Barcelona and brought 5 guidebooks (Fodors See It Barcelona, Frommers 24 Great Walks in Barcelona, Frommers Barcelona day by day, and Time Out Barcelona, and EasyMap Barcelona) because none of them really filled the one-stop-shop I was looking for.

This book was the best of the bunch. It was compact and concise, albeit a bit out of date. The maps were ok, but they lacked the detail that you need for the twisted streets of the gothic quarter. The major plus of the book was its breakdown of what to do by day/priority and interest categories. It has a What To Do on Day 1, then Day 2, then Day 3, plus walks by area and interest areas including architecture, culinary and history walks. Unfortunately, there wasnt a lot of detail about what we were seeing once we got there, so we had to supplement the info with the seemingly lead-bound Fodors tome (doubles as a weapon, apparently).

The front cover has a pretty good small map plus a metro map, and it also includes a big map that was useless since it didnt have any info whatsoever on it. We ended up leaving it in the room.

My recommendation is that if you have only 3 or fewer days in BCN, just get this book. If more, then also get the Frommers 24 walks, which we used quite a bit, but only as a supplement.

Here is my summary reviews

Frommers Barcelona day by day - 4*
See It Barcelona - 3*
Frommers 24 great walks in Barcelona - 5*
Time Out Barcelona - 2*
EasyMap Barcelona - 1*

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for the Traveler, January 28, 2008

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Andrew P. Haw (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Barcelona Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket) (Paperback)

This was a great guide - if I was to do it again for the first trip to barcelona I would recommend this book. For your second trip there invest in one a little larger so it can go into more detail on everything you see, but that's all. This book is great.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for a short trip!, July 17, 2008

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Gadget Girl (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Barcelona Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket) (Paperback)

This book is absolutely fantastic! It's small and concise while still being detailed enough for a short trip to Barcelona. It offers several suggestions for how to spend 1, 2 or 3 days. The guide book was perfect for our port stop in Barcelona on a recent cruise. I hesitated to buy a book for just one city, but it provided much more information than our general Spain book did. It was not too big or too small - great for walking around for the day - and included a fold out map. I highly recommend any book in this series. The guided Modernista walk provided structure to our wandering in Barcelona. It also features a guided walk of Las Ramblas and tons of other helpful information that we used on our short trip in Barcelona. If you were staying more than a week, I might go for something a little more detailed, but this book hits all the highlights.