London '99: The Complete Guide with Great Walking Tours, the Best Dining, Shopping and Count ry Day Trips (Fodor's London) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Fodor's London | Publication Date: September 1, 1998

Experienced and first-time travelers alike rely on Fodor's Gold Guides for rich, reliable coverage the world over.  Updated each year and containing a full-color, foldout Rand McNally map, a Fodor's Gold Guide is an essential tool for any kind of traveler.  Smart travel tips and important contact info make planning your trip a breeze and detailed coverage of sights, accommodations, and restaurants give you the info you need to make your experience enriching and hassle-free.  If you only have room for one guide, this is the one for you.

The best guide to London, updated every year
All the legendary sights--from the Bloody Tower to majestic St. Paul's, from Big Ben to Buckingham Palace
Great neighborhood walks--explore heraldic Westminster, ritzy Belgravia, charming Chelsea, and beyond
Where to shop--from bowlers and biscuits to tweeds and ties
Discover royal haunts, Shakespeare's Globe, and the Beatles' London
Day trips to Oxford, Stratford, Windsor, Bath, and Cambridge

Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Grand hotels, charming Victorian gems, and Bloomsbury bargains
The latest restaurants, coziest pubs, and most lavish teas--savor the best of the new British fare

Fresh, thorough, practical--off and on the beaten path
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based on visits by savvy Londoner Kate Sekules

37 pages of maps--and dozens of great features
Smart travel tips
Fodor's Choice
What's Where
Festivals
Complete index
And more!

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

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Fodor's upCLOSE London: For independent travelers who want to travel well and spend less.

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Exploring London (3rd Edition): An information-rich cultural guide in full color; the perfect companion to a Gold Guide.

Pocket London '99: Compact guide to the best of the city -- perfect for short visits.

Fodor's upCLOSE Great Britain: For independent travelers who want to travel well and spend less.

Exploring Britain (3rd Edition): An information-rich cultural guide in full color; the perfect companion to a Gold Guide.

Fodor's Great Britain '99: The Complete Guide to England with the Best of Wales and Scotland.

Short Escapes in Britain (2nd Edition): 25 Country Getaways for People Who Love to Walk, With Romantic Inns, Best Restaurants, Scenic Picnic Sports, Historic Sites and Detailed Directions and Maps.

From the Inside Flap

Experienced and first-time travelers alike rely on Fodor's Gold Guides for rich, reliable coverage the world over.  Updated each year and containing a full-color, foldout Rand McNally map, a Fodor's Gold Guide is an essential tool for any kind of traveler.  Smart travel tips and important contact info make planning your trip a breeze and detailed coverage of sights, accommodations, and restaurants give you the info you need to make your experience enriching and hassle-free.  If you only have room for one guide, this is the one for you.

The best guide to London, updated every year
All the legendary sights--from the Bloody Tower to majestic St. Paul's, from Big Ben to Buckingham Palace
Great neighborhood walks--explore heraldic Westminster, ritzy Belgravia, charming Chelsea, and beyond
Where to shop--from bowlers and biscuits to tweeds and ties
Discover royal haunts, Shakespeare's Globe, and the Beatles' London
Day trips to Oxford, Stratford, Windsor, Bath, and Cambridge

Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Grand hotels, charming Victorian gems, and Bloomsbury bargains
The latest restaurants, coziest pubs, and most lavish teas--savor the best of the new British fare

Fresh, thorough, practical--off and on the beaten path
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based on visits by savvy Londoner Kate Sekules

37 pages of maps--and dozens of great features
Smart travel tips
Fodor's Choice
What's Where
Festivals
Complete index
And more!

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; Pap/Map edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679001271
• ISBN-13: 978-0679001270
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,080,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for the first time traveller!, July 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: London '99: The Complete Guide with Great Walking Tours, the Best Dining, Shopping and Count ry Day Trips (Fodor's London) (Paperback)

The book is brilliant and as someone who lives in London I want to say that it is good to have whether you are a traveller or whether you need ideas on where to take visitors that are staying with you! Included in the book I bought was a map of London and my only criticism is that the tube map is completely wrong and it would confuse anyone unfamiliar with the underground in London. Ignore the map and follow the ones on the station platforms and you will be fine! Overall an excellent guide but where did you find the colours for the tube map as not one single line is in the correct colour!?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You're going to LOVE BRITAIN!, September 23, 2004

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Richard R. Carlton (Ada, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: London '99: The Complete Guide with Great Walking Tours, the Best Dining, Shopping and Count ry Day Trips (Fodor's London) (Paperback)

I've spent a year in England and have made >30 visits all together.

Here are my reviews of the best guides....to meet you r exact needs.....I hope these are helpful and that you have a great visit! I always gauge the quality of my visit by how much I remember a year later......this review is designed to help you get the guide that will be sure YOU remember your trip many years into the future. Travel Safe and enjoy yourself to the max!

Fodor's
Fodor's is the best selling guide among Americans. They have a bewildering array of different guides. Here's which is what:
The Gold Guide is the main book with good reviews of everything and lots of tours, walks, and just about everything else you could think of. It's not called the Gold guide for nothing though....it assumes you have money and are willing to spend it.
PocketGuide is designed for a quick first visit
UpCLOSE for independent travel that is cheap and well thought out
CityPack is a plastic pocket map with some guide information
Exploring is for cultural interests, lots of photos and designed to supplement the Gold guide

MapGuide
MapGuide is very easy to use and has the best location information for pubs, hotels, tourist attractions, museums, churches etc. that they manage to keep fairly up to date. It's great for teaching you how to use the underground and the double decker buses. The text sections are quick overviews, not reviews, but the strong suite here is brevity, not depth. I strongly recommend this for your first few times learning your way around the classic tourist sites and experiences. MapGuide is excellent as long as you are staying pretty much in the city centre. When you get to be an old London hand, remember that the classic Londoners guide will always be an A to Z (zed) map and guide. If you want to go a bit beyond the central core of the city (perhaps to Windsor, Hampton, or further away) you really need the proper AtoZ to be able to find exact routes and streets.

Time Out
The Time Out guides are very good. Easy reading, short reviews of restaurants, hotels, and other sites, with good public transport maps that go beyond the city centre. Many people who buy more than one guidebook end up liking this one best!

Blue Guides
Without doubt, the best of the walks guides.... the Blue Guide has been around since 1918 and has extremely well designed walks with lots of unique little side stops to hit on just about any interest you have. If you want to pick up the feel of the city, this is the best book to do that for you. This is one that you end up packing on your 10th trip, by which time it is well worn.

Michelin
Famous for their quality reviews, the Red Michelin Guides are for hotels & Restaurants, the Green Michelin Guides are for main tourist destinations. However, the English language Green guide is the one most people use and it has now been supplemented with hotel and restaurant information. These are the serious review guides as the famous Michelin ratings are issued via these books.

Let's Go
Let's Go is a great guide series that specializes in the niche interest details that turn a trip into a great and memorable experience. Started by and for college students, these guides are famous for the details provided by people who used the book the previous year. They continue to focus on providing a great experience inexpensively. If you want to know about the top restaurants, this is not for you (use Fodor's or Michelin). Let's Go does have a bewildering array of different guides though. Here's which is what:
Budget Guide is the main guide with incredibly detailed information and reviews on everything you can think of.
City Guide is just as intense but restricted to the single city.
PocketGuide is even smaller and features condensed information
MapGuide's are very good maps with public transportation and some other information (like museum hours, etc.)

Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet has City and Out To Eat Guides. They are all about the experience so they focus on doing, being, getting there, and this means they have the best detailed information, including both inexpensive and really spectacular restaurants and hotels, out-of-the-way places, weird things to see and do, the list is endless.

4.0 out of 5 stars A must have!, February 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: London '99: The Complete Guide with Great Walking Tours, the Best Dining, Shopping and Count ry Day Trips (Fodor's London) (Paperback)

Never having been to Europe I was unsure what to expect. I knew all about the famous landmarks, but what about places to stay and eat? This book does an excellent job of dividing London up into little pieces with reviews and pricing information for areas in and around London. It is making our itinerary much easier to plan.