Let's Go 2000: Rome: The World's Bestselling Budget Travel Series (Let's Go. Rome, 2000) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000 | Series: Let's Go. Rome, 2000

Your guide to ancient wonders and modern thrills in the City of the Millennium. Includes daytrips and special coverage of the Jubilee.

SHIVER among the bones of 4,000 dead Capuchin monks for $1.

ASSURE your return to Rome at the Trevi Fountain for 3 cents.

GET BLESSED by the pope at his weekly Angelus speech for free.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Let's Go Publications (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312244800
• ISBN-13: 978-0312244804
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,428,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Overall a good guide, March 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Let's Go 2000: Rome: The World's Bestselling Budget Travel Series (Let's Go. Rome, 2000) (Paperback)

Let's Go Rome 2000 is overall a good guide of Rome, with decent coverage of the sights that most visitors would want to see in the Eternal City. The guide's inclusion of daytrip destinations from Rome was useful, and the informative 1st section of the guide was indispensible for planning my trip. Particularly helpful were the "scam alerts" that Lets Go points out for you to avoid, as I was able to spot a couple of scams before they came to me. I don't give this guide a higher rating for two reasons. First of all, the maps in it are horribly inadequate. If you plan to buy this guide, be sure to buy a separate, comprehensive map of Rome. A friend who was traveling with me had the Let's Go Rome MapGuide, which was very good, so they are capable of making a decent map; they just fail to include the decent maps in the Guidebook. Second, the recommended places to eat and stay were pretty seedy. I know that the focus of the guide is for the budget traveller, but as a budget traveller, I can vouch that not far from some of the restaurants they recommend (in Florence, for instance), there are classier, better restaurants for about the same price as those in the guide. This wasn't much of a problem, as Rome is teeming with good places to eat and stay, but I found the recommendations in this guidebook useless. Other than those two complaints, LetsGo Rome 2000 was a good guidebook and I would use LetsGo again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor Writing and Humor--Better Guide Books Than This, June 24, 2000

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Jeff Stedman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Go 2000: Rome: The World's Bestselling Budget Travel Series (Let's Go. Rome, 2000) (Paperback)

I am not sure what the authors of this book were trying to do, but they definitely did not succeed in writing a historically accurate guide of Rome. The authors make unsuccessful attempts at humor, and fill the pages of this book with several glaring grammatical errors: Ex: "As the spiritual leader of millions of Catholics around the world, the pope's influence..." The dependent clause in the first part of the sentence is modified by "the pope's influence." How can the pope's influence be a spiritual leader? I don't even want to go into the "humor," because that is even worse. Usually, Let's Go guides are very witty. This guide was NOT funny, and Let's Go should find new authors. The guide had SOME useful info, and enabled me to get around the city okay, but the guide lacked the kind of historical information about Rome that one finds in the Eyewitness Guides for example. As a matter of fact, it appears that much of Let's Go Rome was derived from better-written, more historically accurate guides. There are definitely better guidebooks on the Eternal City than this one.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Guidebook to the Eternal City, July 31, 2000

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Paul Bobbitt "Pobbit" (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Go 2000: Rome: The World's Bestselling Budget Travel Series (Let's Go. Rome, 2000) (Paperback)

I had the opportunity to visit Rome in October 1999, and I took the 1999 Let's Go Rome guide along with me. I've also had a chance to review this one. I was quite happy with the recommendations of restaurants and sights. Except for a single case, all the restaurants were enjoyable and reasonably priced. Make sure you go to Margutta Vegetariano RistorArte (sic), close to the Spanish Steps. This vegetarian restaurant has the most stunning foor imaginable. I'm not a vegetarian, but I could be after that experience. (And I'm not even being paid to say this!) Just one of the treasures the guidebook pointed out. Also, if you're going for a week or two, I'd stay in the city. I spent four days in the Vatican Museum alone, and saw about half of it. There's more than enough to do and see without spending your time on a train going somewhere else in Italy. You might want to save Florence, Venice and other cities for another trip! I highly recommend this book as a thorough guide to the city, rather than the 10 pages you'll find in some "Visit Europe" compendium.