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The Rough Guide to Copenhagen 2 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

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As an experienced budget traveler, I've used many guides to many cities over the years, and I've generally had great success. This guide, however, was a tremendous disappointment. I found that the maps at the end of the book were virtually impossible to use - you couldn't connect one to another (if you were going across different sections of town), and they contained very few destinations on the maps themselves, so it was difficult to determine where things were in relation to each other.

The descriptions were lengthy, yet still lacking in content, particularly in terms logistics such as locations, how to get there by public transportation, prices, or hours.

I also learned an important general lesson about guidebooks - city guides are only worthwhile if you will be spending about a week or more in the city. For just a day or two, it's far better to get the country guide, as the portion on the city of interest will be more concise.

I'll stick to Let's Go (my favorite!) and Lonely Planet in the future.

Based on reader feedback, I purchased the Rough Guide to Copenhagen rather than my old standby, Lonely Planet--and for the most part, I wasn't disappointed. I like the fact that Rough Guides embed "walking tours" within particular city sections, and the Glossary in the back of the book is superior to those in LP guides. Unfortunately, however, for a series priding itself on being updated every year, there were some annoying errors--we planned a visit to "Hamlet's castle" at Helsinger (p. 121) around the 2 p.m. English tour listed in the book, only to find that it no longer exists. Warnings should also be given for smoking-sensitive travellers--we walked into a recommended cafe (Bankeraat, p. 160) and the air was so smoky we had to leave after just a few minutes. Finally, the index for this guide is woefully inadequate--if you want to look up a restaurant name you remember reading about, you're out of luck.