Customer Reviews

Lonely Planet Paris (Lonely Planet City Maps)

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Very handy map of Paris. It has a overview of the city to the peripherique, then it has a large detailed section on the central districts and another section on monmartre and a metro map. The central district map shows the metro stations, museums,parks, one-way streets, pedestrian streets, churches etc. This is a laminated map so it folds out and folds back in a snap and you can write and erase on it with one of those erasable marker pens. It measures about 27" wide by 10" tall and is printed on both sides *Note: It shows pretty much every tiny street but not all the small streets are named. You'd need a separate street atlas if you needed to be able to look up any address in the city.

The fact that over the years I have used Lonely Planet publications with entire satisfaction and sometimes delight, merely increases my disappointment with this piece of cartographic mediocrity. From every conceivable point of view, it is awful. Any Paris department store gives out better tourist maps ... free.

Overall, this is an excellent map for getting around the city. It's a quick guide to all major points of interest. It is especially usefull in navigating the Metro, RER and bus system. We had absolutely no problems in finding every place we wanted to go and am very thankful we had this little gem!

Overall, this map is decent, but not up to what I've expected form Lonely Planet. We found book maps at the end of the Lonely Planet Guide to Paris to be far more usefull and detailed.
Metropolitan map and street index are almost unusable, LP would be better in putting two finer scale maps (eg. of east and west central Paris) on two sides of the map, and giving only small metro map.
Best thing about this map is that it's rainproof, which helps a lot when you happend to be in Paris in November.

I agree with the other posters - you do need a secondary map or guideline if you want something in more detail. It helped me get around Paris just fine, but I think another map might show more detail. The RER/Metro map is very handy, but it's a tradeoff for more detail on the map. If it's your first trip to Paris, take this map and pick up the Lonely Planet Paris book. This should meet the needs of about 98% of tourists.

and my mom said it was invaluable on her trip!