Open Road's Paris Guide [Paperback]

Robert F. Howe (Author), Diane Huntley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1997 | Series: Open Road's Best of Paris

"Paris Guide", written by two former residents, goes far beyond the standard tourist landmarks. Howe and Huntley bring the readers to their Paris, their hidden haunts, their beloved bistros and favorite croissant shops. Travelers can wander with them from old Paris to new to discover the marvels of the city.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Open Road Publishing; 2 Revised edition (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883323665
• ISBN-13: 978-1883323660
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,565,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnifique!, October 30, 1999

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This review is from: Open Road's Paris Guide (Paperback)

This guide is the second Open Road Guide I have used as a foundation for an important overseas vacation. Their motto ' Be a traveler, not a tourist' could not be more appropriate. Every restaurant, hotel and suggestion culled from this guide proved to be 'perfect'. Everything the authors write about restaurant food and hotel amenities is right on the money. Their critical opinions are a welcome change to most of the other guidebooks available in print. They select places to dine and visit that are known mostly to just the Parisians, but that still welcome a friendly traveler. (We found absolutely no evidence of that famous 'French Attitude' towards Americans at any of the suggested locales.) No giude is better than Open Road's Paris Guide for planning the perfect trip to the most amazing city in the world. "Merci" to the authors.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Quelle Letdown!, February 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Open Road's Paris Guide (Paperback)

After being delighted by their splendid Open Road London Guide, I eagerly awaited my copy of the Paris Guide. Hélas! What a disappointment! This lightweight book has almost no personal "insider" information (unless you want to eat in the 7th arondissement), and it's padded with lots of white space and filler like bare bones lists of French wine producers and food terms (what backwoods folk are these supposedly intimate guides written for anyway?). It's impersonal, superficial, skimpy on all kinds of information, from basics like museums, which include only the biggies, and at that only includes what you could easily find on any number of websites; to shopping info, which --- in this city of shopkeepers and fabulous places to browse and buy --- is pitiful. The Marais, for instance, one of the hottest new areas of the city, chockablock with boutiques and art galleries and the like, gets a total miss. Save your francs: there are literally scores of guidebooks, large and small, that do a better job.