Lonely Planet Best of Paris (Lonely Planet Encounter Series) [Paperback]

Terry Carter (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lonely Planet Encounter Series | Publication Date: August 2005

New itineraries and walking tours are featured in this bestselling guide to the world's most popular city. Includes recommendations on the best bars, bistros, and brasseries. Full color. 11 maps.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...a complete city guide boiled down to its essences, a sort of text-messaged guidebook with photos and quotes from locals geared to a savvy weekend visitor." --Chicago Tribune, August 5, 2007 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 3 edition (August 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1740594797
• ISBN-13: 978-1740594790
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 3.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,232,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you LOVE tourist traps..., October 18, 2009

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Mare (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet Paris Encounter (Paperback)

...then this book is a must-buy. Much information is wrong and/or outdated. I'm convinced that the author(s) didn't actually spend any time visiting the places in this book; rather, they either copied verbatim every press release they got, or took payment for placement in this book.

When I travel, I want insider information, and accuracy. This book provides neither. Example: The once-famous Le Caveau jazz club (recommended as one of "the best," per this book) is an overpriced tourist trap, that claims to present jazz, but its music is anything but. Prepare to spend $20 euros on lousy beer and corked wine. Or, better yet, just avoid anything this book recommends. The "Amelie Cafe"? (les deux moulins) -- bad coffee, lousy service. skip it. Yes, I know Europe is different, but every other place we visited had better wine, coffee, etc.

Avoid lonely planet. And while you're at it, skip the "let's go" series, too. We did far better with Frommer's, and Access is always on the ball, but Access tends to recommend the higher-ticket items/places.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to LP standards, August 28, 2005

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J. adams (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Best of Paris (Lonely Planet Encounter Series) (Paperback)

This book had a number of problems, including wrong address information for several sites, mislabeled maps, etc. The suggestions made were as per usual with LP guides, excellent, but when the map and direction goofs adding so much time in looking for things in the book or on the wrong streets, the advantages of having a pocket guideare quickly lost.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid the e-Book! ( If you are using an iPad), May 14, 2011

By 

hael (Passau) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet Paris Encounter 2 (Kindle Edition)

The content is the typical LP-fare, well enough if you don't have that much time in Paris. But the maps (which you need to make this book useful) are of a so lousy resolution that they get all fuzzy and illegible on an iPad. There is always a link to the google map, fine - but mobile internet abroad is horribly expensive and therefore not a legitimate alternative for a decent offline-map in the book itself. The navigation inside the book could be better as well, in an e-book it is plain annoying to have to follow two or three links for a detailed description, and the bookmarks can't be named but show only the first few lines on the bookmarked page (so if you have bookmarked it because of a recommendation further down the page you will not recognize your own bookmark). Therefore: hands off the e-book version!