Michelin Green Guide France (Michelin Green Guides) [Paperback]

Michelin Travel Publications (Author), Michelin Travel Publications (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

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.

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Language Notes

Text: French, German, English, Italian (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 475 pages
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Pubns; 4th edition (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2060000696
• ISBN-13: 978-2060000695
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #574,242 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Others offer opinions, the Michelin is fact!, September 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Michelin the Red Guide France 2001 (Hardcover)

The London reviewer is right. Michelin's guides have acquired such authority over the years that you might say that while others offer just opinions, the Michelin is fact. Those coming to Michelin for the first time will have to learn the symbols and codes: unlike most restaurant guides, written as a series of "restaurant reviews", Michelin has almost no descriptive text at all (the little there is was a novelty introduced only 100 years after the first edition) so its rating is all the more lapidary. No qualms here about being judgmental! As a result, you may want to carry other hotel and restaurant guides with you when visiting France, but you will always, always rely on the Michelin to tell you the truth about levels of comfort and the quality of cooking. And only the Michelin offers such comprehensive coverage. If there's somewhere decent to eat in the remotest corner of Brittany or the Correze, Michelin will know. Conversely, if a town has neither hotel nor restaurant in the guide, you just don't go there, it's a simple as that. By the way, when driving around France, use Michelin road maps. Any city, town or village with a place in the guide is underlined in red, so wherever you are, when you start to feel hungry, you know where to go!
One reservation as regards the London review: Michelin is not as reliable on restaurants in other countries, where you should always compare with a local guide; but you can still use it to double-check hotel standards before booking.
By the way, all the ratings are on Michelin's web site - but you'll still need the book of course when travelling around.

20 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best reference for hotels and restaurants in France, April 5, 2001

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Rosengarten (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michelin the Red Guide France 2001 (Hardcover)

The Red Michelin Guide for Hotels and Restaurants is without doubt the best reference guide book - not only for Parisian but also all for all other French Hotels and Restaurants. This is thanks to a qualified experience, which Michelin has accumulated in over 100 years. The original Michelin Guide for Hotels and Restaurants was originally produced in 1900 by the French tire company Michelin in order to give the chauffeur of a auto a good guide of where he could stop and relax in an an adequate way with his employer. In addition , the original Michelin guide also listed petrol stations, which were rare a the time. In fact, petrol was actually first sold in pharmacies in those very early days of the automobile. Today, the Red Michelin Guide is the reference for hotels and restaurants - not only in France, but for all other European countries. For restaurants, the most important verdict every year is, of course, the Michelin stars - it can make or break them.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars did not use it much, September 19, 2005

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Sonoko Kanai "snow cone" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Michelin Green Guide France (Michelin Green Guides) (Paperback)

I came back from 10-day trip to France. Let me first say it was a great trip, but it's was not because of this book. Actually, I don't remember opening this travel guide during my stay there. I eventually left it at the last hotel I stayed in Nice before I went to Venice. As other reviewers have mentioned, this guide book alphabetizes towns in France, not by region. It is very inconvenient compared with finding what to do in one region, say Provence or a town. Not much tips or details about where to go, where to stay, but states facts of towns and buildings like a boring social study books.