Customer Reviews

Frommer's Northern Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours

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If you want to take a drive, and soak in some of Earth's most breathtaking sites while making interesting and fun stops along the way, this book is a fantastic resource.

I used to live in this region, and my favorite routes and lakes are Lake Maggiore, Lake Como, and Lake Lugano.

In this book you are given great suggestions as to where to stay, eat, which castles you can visit, as well as useful info if you are traveling with children. This is a most breathtaking place, and the summer months (July and August) are the best times to travel in this region.
Highly recommended if you really want to see the area, and experience a peaceful, exciting, and wondrous adventure.

We wanted to spend 2 weeks in Northern Italy, seeing and doing as much as possible without feeling like it was a forced march - and this book is a great place to start IF you want to do and discover things on your own. This is NOT a Rick Steves' "what to see, where to stay and where to eat" book. From a starting point (moving West to East across N. Italy), it gives a series of drives and lists towns and "sights" on those routes. For us this was great - we drove many of the routes, adding to and leaving out based on the weather and what we wanted to do and see - and we had a great time. For us, this book was a super helpful starting point.

So why not 5 stars?! - well, even with a GPS (and you will want a GPS in Italy - and it is cheaper to purchase one or buy a chip for Italy rather than rent one if you are there for 2 weeks!) let's just say that it is a fairly thin book and you have to have a bit of a sense of adventure as some of the descriptions/directions are also a bit "thin". But for us, it just added to the adventure!