This guide to Turkey includes accounts of the most popular destinations - the sun-and-sea resorts of the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, the country's many varied ancient sites, the rock churches of Cappadocoa, as well as accounts of places and pursuits more off the beaten tourist circuits.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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The last Rough Guide I will buy,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Turkey 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
I found the Rough Guide to Turkey extremely frustrating. It is the most poorly organized travel book I have used. Even good information, if poorly organized, becomes useless. I found myself frequently having to piece together information from 3 or 4 different sections to decipher anything useful.
Transportation information: useless. Accommodation listing: mixed. Of two hotels marked with their highest recommendation, one was very good, the other the worst we stayed in. After that we stopped using the book's suggestions, and just asked other travelers. Historical information: good, concise, interesting. Site and activity information: incomplete or incorrect. We were traveling independently by public transportation for 9 days throughout northern and western Turkey. Whenever I saw another traveler with a different guide book, I begged to borrow it. My Rough Guide ended up in the trash can.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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This was a difficult review for me to write since I have been a fan of "Rough Guides" (and before that, "Real Guides") for some time. While it is a so-so catalog of sights, restaurants, and bars (although disorganized, as others have pointed out), the book is listless and oddly detached in its discussion of Turkey. A quick read of the "basics" can easily convince the reader that it is very difficult to obtain a coffee in Istanbul, the tap water is akin to sewage ("orange"), and a glass of wine? Forget it, the fundamentalists have taken over. Sounds like great fun, eh? Of course all the aforementioned observations are totally untrue. I found the book depressing and sour in tone, if not misleading. Indeed, the book addresses the reader as if he or she were planning a trip to a far off prison farm. For alternatives, try A Hedonist's Guide to Istanbul by Nick Hackworth or the Lonely Planet guide. Although not perfect, both will instill you with the excitement and awe that Turkey can (and does) inspire.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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First steps to Turkey,
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This review is from: Turkey: The Rough Guide, Third Edition (3rd ed) (Paperback)
This is the best single guidebook we've found for Turkey. We escort small groups to Turkey, and the Rough Guide is consistently the best single reference for general and historical information. Combined with the Blue Guide to Turkey, it's easy to plan your trip. As usual with the Rough Guides, it has a lot of information for many types of travelers without sacrificing cultural and historical details. Well organized, with good maps (much better than the Lonely Planet series)
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The easiest way to get to Turkey from Britain or Ireland is to travel by air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
few pansiyons, pansiyon owners, frequent dolmuses, waterless rooms, new otogar, pide salonu, most basic hotels, fairy chimneys, sea buses, iznik tiles, ensuite rooms, helpful tourist information office, fourth courtyard, centrally heated rooms, covered bazaar, verd antique, archeological museum, pullman seat, acropolis hill, tourism police, imperial mosques, mosque complex, spice bazaar, dervish orders, accommodation possibilities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Sea, Cumhuriyet Cad, Aya Sofya, Ulu Cami, Alexander the Great, Asia Minor, Sea of Marmara, Golden Horn, Mehmet the Conqueror, New Zealand, Cumhuriyet Meydam, Syrian Orthodox, Bronze Age, Mimar Sinan, New York, Greek Orthodox, Lycian Way, Middle East, Mustafa Kemal, Sultan Ahmet, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Turquoise Coast, Gazi Caddesi, Konak Meydam, Nemrut Dagi New!
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The easiest way to get to Turkey from Britain or Ireland is to travel by air. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
few pansiyons, pansiyon owners, frequent dolmuses, waterless rooms, new otogar, pide salonu, most basic hotels, fairy chimneys, sea buses, iznik tiles, ensuite rooms, helpful tourist information office, fourth courtyard, centrally heated rooms, covered bazaar, verd antique, archeological museum, pullman seat, acropolis hill, tourism police, imperial mosques, mosque complex, spice bazaar, dervish orders, accommodation possibilities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Sea, Cumhuriyet Cad, Aya Sofya, Ulu Cami, Alexander the Great, Asia Minor, Sea of Marmara, Golden Horn, Mehmet the Conqueror, New Zealand, Cumhuriyet Meydam, Syrian Orthodox, Bronze Age, Mimar Sinan, New York, Greek Orthodox, Lycian Way, Middle East, Mustafa Kemal, Sultan Ahmet, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Turquoise Coast, Gazi Caddesi, Konak Meydam, Nemrut Dagi New!
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- What Were the Crusades? by Jonathan Riley-Smith on page 905
- A History of Ottoman Architecture by Godfrey Goodwin on page 910
- Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics) by Michael Psellus on page 905
- The Delights of Turkey by Edouard Roditi on page 913
- Visions of Ararat: Writings on Armenia by Christopher J. Walker on page 908
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