Moon Metro Rome [Paperback]

Avalon Travel (Author)

Book Description

Series: Moon Metro | Publication Date: March 14, 2006

Travelers will behold the best of the Eternal City with the innovative Moon Metro Rome. This sleek guide profiles the best of the city, combining selective listings of the hottest sights, shops, restaurants, amusements, and hotels with discreet, laminated, fold-out maps detailing all the must-see neighborhoods. Moon's uncluttered layout is a must for the winding and chaotic streets of Roma. Vacationers can bask in the sun at the marketplace in Campo dei Fiori, dine in Trastevere, saunter the shops of Piazza di Spagna, or check out the Colloseo, San Pietro, the Sistine Chapel, or the Pantheon. With both local and tourist hotspots, Moon Metro Rome is the definitive guide to the most-famous city in the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 2nd edition (March 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156691941X
• ISBN-13: 978-1566919418
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 3.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,243,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christopher P. Baker (1955-) was born and educated in Yorkshire, England, studied at universities in London and Liverpool, and has lived in California since 1980. He has since established himself as one of the world's leading travel writers & photographers and is considered the world's foremost authority on travel and tourism to Cuba and Costa Rica. He has authored and illustrated more than 30 books for such publishers as Dorling Kindersly, Frommers, Lonely Planet, Moon, and National Geographic, etc., including guidebooks, literary books, and his acclaimed coffee-table book, "Cuba Classics: A Celebration of Vintage American Automobiles." His writing & photography have appeared in more than 200 international publications, from National Geographic to Newsweek. His literary travelog "Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba," won both the Lowell Thomas Award as 'Travel Book of the Year,' and the North American Travel Journalist Association Grand Prize. In 2006, he won the prestigious Lowell Thomas Award 'Travel Journalist of the Year,' and has also been named 'Travel Journalist of the Year' by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (2005) and Jamaica Tourist Board (1998). He posts twice-weekly blogs at www.moon.com/blogs/cuba-costa-rica and promotes himself through his website: www.christopherbaker.com

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is the book that we used every day in Rome, February 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Moon Metro Rome (Paperback)

This book does a great job of breaking the city into smaller maps that make it extremely easy to get around.

The maps are very clear and easy to read. Rome is a maze of little streets and other maps that we saw had street names overlapping each other and were very hard to read. This book breaks up the city into smaller large scale maps, you do not need a microscope to read them! Also you can just focus on one page at a time instead of having a huge map that you need to refold over and over.

Rome is so confusing that even city residents need a map. You WILL need a good map to get around the city. This book does the job wonderfully.

The maps are also laminated which makes them tough enough to handle the lots of opening and closing, the rain or even a spilled cappucino, very nice touch!

We will use this series next time we travel to a city that they make a guide for.

The only reason for the 4 stars is the book is light on info about 'sights' and focuses too much on shopping, restaurants and hotels. We needed a different book to get details on some of the things that we wanted to see.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great products, August 23, 2008

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This review is from: Moon Metro Rome (Paperback)

this handy guide is also great (see streetwise maps for maps). Be sure to review them before you leave to be sure they cover the area you will be in because they are mostly "on the beaten path" items. I suggest also doing research on Frommers.com to be sure you dont miss something not covered in these books. These books are compact and easy to carry while traveling in city. Did not use for the resturaunts that is something that you need to find by exploring or research blogs but these hit the major sites in easy to read categories with simple maps. I would buy these for all my city travels.