Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Greece, the ultimate handbook to the Greek mainland and islands – right down to the tiniest one-village outcrops. Flick through the full-colour section for an overview of all of Greece''s highlights, from Mount Pilio''s lush countryside and Prespa''s beautiful lakes to the fish market in Thessaloniki and the famous oracle site in Delphi. There are three full-colour sections: Greek cuisine, Wild Greece and Orthodox Festivals, hundreds of reviews of all the best places to eat, drink and sleep, for all budgets, plus practical tips on a wide range of activities, from bird-watching and windsurfing to hiking and cycling. The guide also takes a detailed look at the country''s history, culture, mythology and wildlife and comes complete with maps and plans for every region.
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Famously honest. -- Daily Mail, London, UK
For independent travel, the Rough Guides are the most useful source. -- Daily Telegraph, London, UK
The best currrent general guidebook for Greece. -- CondŽ Nast Traveler, USA --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
For independent travel, the Rough Guides are the most useful source. -- Daily Telegraph, London, UK
The best currrent general guidebook for Greece. -- CondŽ Nast Traveler, USA --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Marc Dubin is author of The Rough Guide to Cyprus and co-author of The Rough Guide to Greece, The Greek Islands and Turkey
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Possibly the best general guidebook for Greece,
By M.S.H. (Evanston, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Greece 12 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
We spent two weeks in Greece -- 9 days on the mainland and the Peloponnese, and 6 days on the islands. Not an hour went by that we didn't refer to our Rough Guide! It is packed full of fantastic information and led us in all the right directions.There were a few gems of our trip that I was surprised weren't mentioned in the book, so if you're planning on spending longer than a week on the islands, you may want to consider buying a guidebook specifically written for them. All in all, I recommend this book if you want just one good, general guidebook for Greece.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Ok, but Frommers and Lonely Planet were better,
By yum yum (Royal Oak, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Greece 12 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
I bought this book based on the reviews on Amazon for this book vs. Lonely Planet. Additionally, I heard Rick Steve's book on Greece was horrible. I usually love Lonely Planet and Rick Steve, so those are my default brands. After I purchased the Rough Guide, I ended up borrowing Frommer's book from the library and my traveling companion bought Lonely Planet. As a general observation, none of the guidebooks were perfect, which was a disappointment. However, in the end, I liked the Frommers the best. It was the easiest to understand and gave the most in-depth coverage of each of the islands I visited, plus Athens. The recommended itineraries in Frommers were also the most on point with advice I received from people who either lived in or visited Greece (notably, I never found the recommended itineraries in Rough Guide). The next best guide was Lonely Planet, which had the best maps. Rough Guide came in third, and I wish I had not spent the money on it. Unfortunately, I could not return it because my dog bit the Rough Guide right before I packed it up to return it.
3.0 out of 5 stars
kindle edition has limitation in navigation,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Greece (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Kindle Edition)
I bought kindle edition. Thought that it's better to take only small kindle and not big book when travelling. Hmm - was not so good idea. Compared to printed edition, it's hard to make some overview about the guide content and navigate quickly to the chapters and sections you are interested. Kindle edition has lack of formatting, graphics, emphasized text, text frames which are very important in orientation within book. Navigate through the subchapters and sections must be done only by turning pages. The maps can't be zoomed so the names of the streets isn't readable. Compared e.g. to PDF loaded from lonelyplanet's web page, it's possible to have readable guide in kindle, but kindle edition must improve before it will be usable for travelling.Anyway I put 3 stars as the content of this book is as I expected from this type of guide. Good to get some rough knowledge about foreign country.
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