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From the bestselling LET'S GO budget travel series, compiled by a team of researchers who travel all over the globe to rewrite and rediscover each destination. Each guide offers more choices than any other budget series, with detailed color maps and up-to-date information for any traveler, including gay and lesbian travelers, the disabled, and women traveling alone. 32 b&w maps. 5 color maps . --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Miserable trip in Italy thanks to Let's Go, April 20, 1999

By	Anthony D. Riker (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

Usually I'm a big fan of Let's Go, but in this case, I have to say that their Italy guide was awful. They were misleading about the distances from stations to hostels. You'd think it wasn't far to walk but these places were often a long 2 or 3 km walk. The maps of Rome were simply inadequate and I spent so much time finding my way around Rome. Everytime I'd step into a new city, I was always disregarding Let's Go's orientations of the cities because it made no sense. Places to eat and so forth were based on which neighborhood they werre located in, and so the lack of clear neighborhood locators or lines in the maps to illustrate where neighborhoods were located really confused me. For Italy I would seriously recommend the Insight guides. Nice glossy pictures so you can see where you are and a nice, hefty indexed map of cities in the back. Don't make the same mistake I made with Let's Go Italy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect book for the entry level italian traveler, December 3, 2003

By	Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Let's Go Italy 2002 (Paperback)

If this is your first visit to Italy or your first visit to one of the many `regions' of Italy(Venice, Napoli, Firenze etc...) this is the perfect book. With separate maps of most Italian towns and easy to read legends showing the locations of train stations, bus stops and cheaper-then-average hotels/hostels you will have no problem navigating the otherwise precipitous Italian landscape. The focus of most `Lets Go' books is the lower end hotels so if you're looking for four star elegance you may be slightly dismayed. Nevertheless this volume has excellent introductions to Italian history, culture, food and geography...

A very helpful guide to Italy, this is slightly superior to the similar `lonely planet' travel guide. Its sections on Venice, Naples and Palermo are essential to navigating those harder then average cities.

Seth J Frantzman 2003

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Guidebooks only get batter..., September 29, 2002

By	"travel0926" (Phoenixville, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Go Italy 2002 (Paperback)

I have been traveling to Europe several times per year for the last 7yrs and I have always found the Let's Go books to be very helpful and have one important quality that most other lack.. honesty and a true sense of the place being described. If you have to have the best in food and lodging these books are NOT for you and there are numerous others that fit the bill.
I have to respond to another review that gave a poor rating to the guide for actions of an employee of a hostel. Tell me what guidebook reviews any hostel or restaurant and then interviews each of the 20-40 employees for any unjust beliefs of another group. My U.S. military friends would top that list. What does a cop know of the Let's Go series, now there is an expert in travel. We should do without travel writers and just consult the highly cultured and well traveded local officer for any travel advice. How many cops have stayed and the pensions and hostels in their city. It is obvious that this reader has not traveled much and is part of the American problem that travels without understanding how the American attitude has painted a dark picture of aggression throughout much of the world.
As GUIDEBOOKS go these rate at or near the top and are unmatched at their intended audience.