LUXE Istanbul (Luxe City Guides) [Pamphlet]

LUXE City Guides (Author)

Book Description

Series: Luxe City Guides | Publication Date: June 2, 2008

Nova Roma, Byzantium, Constantinople, it's had more names than Liz Taylor, but one thing is for sure, there's nowhere quite like Istanbul. We've schlepped, slept, sipped, supped and shopped all over so you can sit back like a Sultan and enjoy this Turkish delight. On your marks, jet set, go...

Editorial Reviews

Review

Delightful, de-lovely and de-luxe. Savagely witty city guides to the hip hotels, bars, restaurants and shops for the hedonist. Sleekly designed to fold out, accordion-style, they fit in a pocket and pop back in a whizzy box. --Vanity Fair On Travel - April 2008

About the Author

Famous for their ultra short, sharp and snappy reviews and highly personal and selective entries - LUXE City Guides have sold well over one million copies - no padding, no maps, no daft pictures and graphics, just super-curated, highly opinionated quickfire speed reads from resident editors and contributors who REALLY know their city, so you can spend time enjoying the city not head down in a book. Packed from concertina cover to cover with snazz, snark and snap, if it's in LUXE, it's IN - enough said. --This text refers to an alternate Pamphlet edition.

Product Details

• Pamphlet: 22 pages
• Publisher: LUXE Asia Limited; 3rd edition (June 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 962893581X
• ISBN-13: 978-9628935819
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,181,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nine years ago the founder of LUXE City Guides, Grant Thatcher, was at a party in Singapore. He was told that if he were ever to go to Bangkok, then he must be sure to take the several A4 pages that he was now being handed, as they contained the best insider knowledge on the city. Everybody, it seemed, loved this saucy list.

Grant looked at the list. It seemed familiar. It looked exactly like the list he had written for friends before he left Bangkok. Shut up, and get out of here! Dong! It's true. The rest, as they say, is history.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Trendy but Lacking, September 7, 2011

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Heather Noel Ludwig "Literary Lover" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LUXE Istanbul (5th Edition) (LUXE City Guides) (Pamphlet)

The guide was tounge and cheek which was cute and the size was great - but we found it hard to follow. The things listed were almost impossible to find on a map (inculding one would have made it much much better even with just general areas and dots) and the grand bazzar instrustions were insane. Maybe Luxe would be better for a different city but I don''t reccommend it for Istanbul.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good complement to another guidebook, June 25, 2009

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Shanthi Manian - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LUXE Istanbul (Luxe City Guides) (Pamphlet)

We were in Istanbul for seven days. We tried some of the recommended restaurants and spas and enjoyed everything. But Istanbul has an incredible history and no trip is complete without visits to sites like the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia. The Luxe guide provides only a cursory treatment of these subjects.