Customer Reviews

Travel Beijing, China 2012 - Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps. (Mobi Travel)

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Travel Beijing, China - Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps. FREE general info, map and basic phrasebook in the trial (Mobi Travel)

Comprehensive, concise and well-organized. A great resource and a true bargain. I found this travel guide to Beijing to be very useful and nicely put together. Mobilereference always has nice graphics and pictures. There was enough information to be useful, but not so much that it was overkill.

Beijing is easy to get around and the transportation system is a breeze, if not a little dingy. Also, there are plenty of engaging sites and areas and it is quite obvious which places you should see and which you may want to forego.

I give this ebook five stars.

Travel Beijing, China - 2008 Summer Olympics - Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps. FREE general info, map and basic phrasebook in the trial

I recently traveled to Beijing. The ebook was very informative, well illustrated, and easy to read. It had everything I needed for a fascinating travel experience. I strongly recommend this ebook.

I had a short trip to Beijing recently and I really liked the idea of bringing a travel book on the Kindle--a huge space saver and the search feature made things quite easy. I was a little leery of such a book--things like travel books generally lend themselves to page flipping and looking at color pictures. However, this book was well laid out and jumping back to the table of contents was made easy--once I figured out the trick. In any case, it was great for reading up on the next thing on the agenda, gave concise and easy to read historical information and even had some great advice on personal safety and buying/bargaining tips. The Kindle's search feature was a terrific help too.

I did not give the full 5 stars, as though it was great for ON the trip, it was not as good for the PLANNING parts (sorry, but the lack of pictures and page flipping really made a big difference to me). Also, some of the information was a little scattered, such as a couple 'buy' sections in the table of contents, but one section was much more useful than the others. Pictures of the money might have been useful (my husband got at least one ?Thai bill back in change...).

This book was great for taking on the trip and was well worth the money..a great balance of usefulness and convenience. I would just look at other sources too when doing the actual trip planning portions, hence my 4 stars. Obviously, if the last part is not as big a concern for someone who is thinking of buying, then I would go ahead and suggest 5 stars.

I was very happy with this purchase!

JTG

ps, I did not look at the additional features of sudoko or The Art of War, so I can't comment here... BTW, the Kindle connectivity was spotty--I had the 3G bars (never did see a wifi connection but admittedly did not turn my Kindle on at the Starbucks or McDonalds near my hotel), but on a couple occasions though I could get to the Kindle store, there was no downloading or available products. Other times, there were. I did check my yahoo email on one occasion, just to see if I could--and it was during one of the times the Amazon Kindle store was working. I was only there for 4 and a half days though.

My wife and I are headed on a cruise to the Far East and downloaded this book on to my ipad for easy reference. I really like the format and content.

This is just repackaged Wikipedia entries. Avoid. This sort of book is overrunning Amazon and, in the case of a travel guide, it's downright dangerous. You're better off getting a formal guide from one of the major houses because at least the writer has been in country.