Customer Reviews

Frommer's Northern Italy: with Venice, Milan and the Lakes (Frommer's Complete Guides)

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I've always liked Frommer's, mainly because the books are well-organized and provide a great overview and starting point. The attractions are clearly explained, with hours, admission fees, restrictions, & considerations. The hotel suggestions are generally good, though usually a little on the more expensive end, and in lieu of internet I find them generally reliable.
It can be a little dry and a little mainstream, but their books are usually updated with good regularity & is good for planning your sightseeing and transportation. More detailed information on ferries & hydrofoils (not just from Frommers but guide books in general) would be nice!

We found this book very useful in our recent travels especially for sights and dining. Did not agree with some of the hotel reviews so consider comparing to another guide book.

I've slated Frommers France for not having a contents section and when you're reading a digital version of a travel book it's unforgiveable to not have one. It's not like you can flip through the pages as you would a physical book. Without a contents section you're reduced to methodically advancing each page until you find what you want (which may even be at the back of the book). Frommers have at least tried to provide a contents section for this digital travel book but it is woeful. I mean, how much investment is really necesary in creating a visually-appealing, easy-to-negotiate contents section. This one looks like it's been designed by a computer-programmer - all function, no finesse...not even spacings or type-size to differentiate between the splurb of clickable contents. It's like some-one backed a dumpster up and offloaded the entire contents section in a heap. It's hard to read, hard to negotiate...but, hey, it's there. Woeful. But the travel content is good. Wake up Frommers and spend more than an hour of some apprentice-in-the-back-room's wages on providing digitally readable content.

We are only traveling northern Italy and don't need books with all the rest. This book narrows down the info to what I need. I subscribe to daily Frommer's only site with travel tips, updates and readers inputs on topics and I do like their format.

Why would there be a cover of Arizona on this book? Bizarre. Great book, looking forward to putting this book to great use with upcoming trip to northern Italy.

This book was useful for finding hotels, but I was extremely frustrated with its maps. Perhaps I shouldn't have relied on them to find my way around Verona on a scorchingly hot day, but then again, I should have been advised to buy a detailed map once I hit the city. Too few streets were marked and the churches were not well identified. I was so angry that I swore never to buy a Frommer's guide again.

The book is very informative. A friend and I are going to Milan next March and we are doing research using the book.

Ordered and downloaded book through Amazon Kindle to my Ipad, book came over great but the cover is
Frommer's Arizona 2010 not Frommer's Northern Italy. Called Amazon support and reported problem weeks ago.

NEVER HEARD BACK FROM THEM, WON'T BE ORDERING ANY MORE BOOKS!