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Paris: Michael Brein's Travel Guides To Sightseeing By Public Transportation

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There are more comprehensive guides available for less money (or free, even). It is printed on paper that is just a step above newsprint. Save your money for a more complete guide.

Paris By the Metro is a fantastic resource for anyone who is exploring this great city for the first time or the 20th time.

I and my husband don't think we could've toured the city like we did if not for Paris By the Metro. With it we found all of the monuments and museums that we had come to Paris to see without having to spend an arm and a leg on maps sold in the city or on private transportation.

With easy-to-understand maps of the underground Metro system and instructions on how to walk or ride to many points of interest, Paris By the Metro is the best (and most economical) way to tour the greatest city in the world.

We planned our days in Paris with this guide and it worked out beautifully! We saw everything we wanted to see. If we got off-course, a quick look at Michael Brein's map got us where we wanted to go. Our Paris map is now well dog-eared with use. Thanks, Michael!

While we were in Paris with an organized antique tour group, this map proved invaluable, both to ourselves and even the tour director. Very concise directions from the metro stops made finding attractions a snap. I'd definately use these guides for other cities.

I want to compliment you for the excellent "Paris by Metro" map. My wife and I just returned from our first trip to Paris. We found your map to be an excellent resource and indispensable in making our way around the Metro system. We used the map far and away more than any other, to the point we would not think of leaving our hotel without it. Great job

I took a small group to Paris to visit the Galleries & Museums. Using this guide to get around Paris by Metro was just terrific. We really had a great time following the guide. It was as much fun doing that as was seeing the sights, galleries. My next trip will be to England, you can be sure I will be using Michael Brein's Guide for London. Thank you Michael for doing such a good job!

My visit to Paris was all the more enjoyable, because when I arrived at the Metro station for the new Branly Museum, I was clueless as to its location. I looked at Brein's Paris Guide, which specified my every step right to the entrance of the museum. This map was simply brilliant! No more wandering about Paris in a fog as to the most interesting sightseeing. Make no mistake--I got eye-strain trying to decipher the tiny free maps in French.

Quite useful with a minimum of travel-guide blather.Will prevent a first-time visitor from getting lost on the way to most places a tourist wants to go. Clear directions on using the Metro in a readable size (the 'freebies' from the Metro system are great if you are travelling with a magnifying glass).

Time for it to be up-dated or I would give it 5 stars.

I bought this map along with the Paris Mapguide based upon the reviews here. It's an oversized metro map with mini-maps to 50 attractions. I never found a tourist destination that wasn't easily found from the nearest metro. You can get a free metro map when you buy a ticket or pass. Buy this only if you don't want to pull out your reading glasses to use the Paris Mapguide, but you'll still need a regular map to find the location of a restaurant or shop. Get the Paris Mapguide or the Michelin blue book instead. (To add insult to injury, there's a advertisement for the Paris Visite pass on the back, arguably the worst value for public transport in Paris.)