"Wallpaper City Guides" not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centres, and the best shops to buy items unique to that city. "Wallpaper City Guides" present travellers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, most exciting, and the most beautiful of that particular city. As well as looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority, and have tabbed sections so that the tourist can easily find what they are looking for. There are maps, rate and currency cards, colour-coded parts of the city, and an easy navigational tool. They are the ultimate combination of form and function.
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'The answer to every short-breaker's dream. Small, perfectly formed - they fit into pockets of jeans or jackets - they contain almost everything one needs to know...The jewel-coloured guides look beautiful and are exquisitely designed. Even a geographically challenged dolt like me stands a chance of finding my way around Shanghai with the simple map at the back of the book.'
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Wallpaper* City Guides are compiled by the magazine's travel experts, both by in-house editors, and correspondents who actually live in the highlighted cities, providing up-to-the-minute information
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Different from Luxe City Guides, but less grating, too ...,
By Sharon Langworthy "decadent minimalist" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Wallpaper City Guide: Bangkok (Wallpaper City Guides) (Paperback)
Reviewer "Ikat" has a valid point: the Wallpaper City Guides (WCG) are not comprehensive, and there is a bit of an extended travel magazine article aspect to them: however, I like WCG's differences from Luxe City Guides. Luxe engages in snarky comments and its prose (rather like a slick, smug club kid writing for middle-aged wannabee hipsters with bottomless pockets) is of a sort that I've always found grating. I tossed my Luxe Tokyo guide for this very reason.
The WCG style is meant to whet your appetite and give you a few ideas about what to see if you have but a few days to check Bangkok out. I like its brevity. The WCG gives hotel and restaurant options both expensive and reasonable, making it worthwhile for the traveller on a more modest budget, whereas Luxe covers only the most expensive places to stay, eat, etc. Luxe has no pictures and a tiny, crammed-to-the-rafters typeface: WCG has attractive photos and great layout that's easier to read. I, for one, prefer it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Worthless,
By Ikat (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wallpaper City Guide: Bangkok (Wallpaper City Guides) (Paperback)
This is the most absurd "guidebook" I have ever seen - and I've been to 50 countries. I didn't expect it to have information on the sights but thought it would do a decent job on shopping and contemporary architecture. Wrong. It is more like someone turned an article into a book and added photos to make it seem longer. Don't waste your money. If you want a guide to hip shops, etc. that aren't in mainstream guides, get the Luxe.
11/07 Update: While I still think this was useless, after using more of the Luxe guides I absolutely agree with the other reviewer - they are snarky. And they also send you all over town to find "unique" places that aren't terribly interesting. Some of them are useful but their tone has become really annoying.
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