The Rough Guide to Berlin 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) [Paperback]

John Gawthrop (Author), Jack Holland (Author)

Book Description

Series: Rough Guide Travel Guides | Publication Date: January 11, 2001

The definitive handbook to Germany's vibrant new capital. Features include: entertaining accounts of the city's attractions, up to the minute listings of the best places to eat, drink and stay catering to every budget.

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Authoritative -- Business Life, London, UK

Captures the flavour of the new Berlin and includes thorough descriptions of trendy new haunts. -- The Times, 5 December 1998, London, UK --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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WHEN TO GO

Lying in the heart of Europe, Berlin’s climate is continental: winters are bitingly cold, summers hot. If you’re hanging on for decent weather, April is the soonest you should go: any earlier and you’ll need to don winter clothing, earmuffs and a decent pair of waterproof shoes; this said, the city (especially the eastern part) does have a particular poignancy when it snows. Ideally, the best time to arrive is in May; June and July can be wearingly hot, though the famed Berlin air (Berliner Luft – there’s a song about it) keeps things bearable. The weather stays good (if unpredictable) right up until October.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Rough Guides; 6th edition (January 11, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1858286824
• ISBN-13: 978-1858286822
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,182,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must have in berlin..., February 4, 2000

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Edmond Choi (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Berlin 5: The Rough Guide, Fifth (Rough Guides) (Paperback)

Berlin is a huge city which can, at many times, be very intimidating. The Rough Guide Series takes some of that alienation and fear away as it gives you a very thorough and concise view of the city of berlin.

Aside from giving almost 100% accurate advice on where to eat, sleep, and party, this guide also keys readers in on some of Berlin's very vivid history. Taking Berlin, district to district, it is very detailed in letting the reader know where's what and how to get there.

Without my Rough Guide, I would have been lost in Berlin. I wouldn't even have known where to mail my postcards from. The detailed maps and subway layout are excellent as well. All in all, this guide is great for a first time visitor (like me) or someone who is already familiar with all the Berlin has to offer.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of outdated info, December 30, 2001

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Andrew Otwell "heyotwell" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rough Guide to Berlin 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

The Rough Guide to Berlin sure is a convenient size, it fits in my jacket pocket. It also has one or two useful maps. That postive comment out of the way...

My wife and I bought this before we moved to Berlin in Sept. 2001. I think this was only a couple of months after the 2001 edition had been published. We've been let down numerous times by it since: four restaurants reccommended are out of business, prices for museums and other places are about 20% too low, and other small facts are frequently just inaccurate enough to make planning hard.

Sure, budget priced places in Berlin come and go daily, but we've figured out that much of this edition wasn't updated since 2000, including the info about standard tourist attractions and well-known restaurants. Visitors budgeting activities based on prices in this book might be dissapointed.

Finally, an information design complaint. Restaurant maps are numbered with the restaurants in alphabetical order, not according to location. So, if you're standing in Kathe Kollwitz Platz, and you really want Chinese, you have to look at a map, find the numbers on the map in the neigborhood, then look through the whole alphabetical list at each one to see if you want to eat there. Believe me, that's frustrating in the dark on the street.

Better would be to forgo alphabetical listing at all, and list places by proximity. Who says, well, Akbar Pizza is closed, but lets try Amrit for indian since it's next on the list? No, you say, Akbar Pizza is closed, so what else is in the area? You can't easily answer that with the Rough Guide.