Michelin the Green Guide French Riviera (Michelin Green Guides) [Paperback]

Michelin Staff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2001

Provides a wealth of practical information on planning your visit - shopping, dining out, accommodation and seasonal events. Recommended sights and excursions for exploring destinations near and far, all graded to Michelin's renowned star system. Maps and town plans from Michelin's respected cartographers. Touring plans and itineraries to help make the most of your holiday.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

One Team: A Devotion to Quality There’s just one reason our team is dedicated to producing quality travel publications—you, our reader. We want you to get the maximum benefit from your trip—and from your money. In today’s multiple-choice world of travel, the options are many, perhaps overwhelming. In our guidebooks, we try to minimize the guesswork involved with travel. We scout out the attractions, prioritize them with star ratings, and describe what you’ll discover when you visit them. To help you orient yourself, we provide colorful and detailed, but easy-to-follow maps. Floor plans of some of the major museums help you plan your tour. Throughout the guides, we offer practical information, touring tips and suggestions for finding the best views of the city, a good place for a break or where to make that special purchase. Lodging and dining are always a big part of travel, so we compile a selection of hotels and restaurants that we think convey the feel of the city, and organize them by geographic area and price. We also highlight shopping, recreational and entertainment venues, especially the hot spots. If you’re short on time, two- and four-day itineraries are included so you can hit the highlights and quickly absorb the best of the destination. For those of you who love to experience a destination on foot, we add walking tours, complete with a map. And we list other companies who offer boat, bus or guided walking tours of the city, some with culinary, historical or other themes. In short, we test and retest, check and recheck to make sure that our guidebooks are truly just that: a personalized guide to help you make the most of your visit. After all, we want you to enjoy traveling as much as we do.

The Michelin Green Guide Team --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 374 pages
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications; 4th edition (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2060000920
• ISBN-13: 978-2060000923
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 4.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,036,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michelin created its first travel guide over 100 years ago to promote road travel and inspire driving confidence. Today, Michelin Travel & Lifestyle offers travelers an extensive range of travel guides, maps and online travel resources. These products deliver the same Michelin promise of quality and consistency consumers expect from one of the world's most trusted brands.

Publisher of travel guides, maps and atlases, Michelin Travel & Lifestyle offers a complete travel portfolio. Where to go, how to get there, where to eat & stay, and what to see & do ... all in one collection with extensive international & domestic coverage, especially for Europe. Our series includes Michelin (Red) Guides, Green Guides, Must Sees and Michelin maps and atlases.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for the serious tourist, May 10, 2000

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Nancy R. Woodington - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michelin Green Guide: French Riviera (Michelin Green Tourist Guides) (Paperback)

"Serious tourist" may sound like an oxymoron, but it's a good name for those of us who like to as much as possible about the places we travel to for pleasure. Without our Michelin guide, we would have very little sense of the context of the tiny hill towns we visit; with it we not only have that sense, but we have also transmitted more about the history of this region of France to our children than they know about the United States. But it's not just history and art history. Excellent directions to scores of wonderful sites, hiking trails, warnings about towns that have few (or in some cases no) places to eat, surprisingly accurate information about seasonal openings and closings, hours, and admissions, and cross-references to Michelin maps make this little book indispensable. Sites are starred very conservatively--a one-star site is definitely worth a detour--and the times given for looking around are realistic. Even the index is decent. Caution: the type is somewhat small.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars South of France guide, August 23, 2010

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N. Theisen "wide reader" (Nicosia, Cyprus) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Michelin Green Guide French Riviera, 7e (Green Guide/Michelin) (Paperback)

This is a very good guide book with the basics for touring the south of France.

My major complaints are the following:

1. the text doesn't refer to the maps printed in the pages when discussing sights (or, if it does, I haven't figured out how yet)

2. the cities appear to be organized alphabetically (by geographical area) though I'm not entirely clear on this yet.

3. the map keys don't seem to include all the symbols

Of the three guide books that we brought on our visit to the south of France, this one has proved to be the most useful in organising the trip.