Michelin Green Guide France (Michelin Green Guides) (Paperback)

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PLAN…...DISCOVER…..EXPLORE….with the newly updated Michelin Green Guide Series. Reorganized and reformatted, Michelin’s Green Guide Series helps travelers find the best local and regional travel information.

Our goal is to provide travelers with practical, accurate and cultural destination information to a city, region or country with emphasis on: • Prioritizing your trip via Michelin’s star ratings for major sights • Time-saving practical information with detailed itineraries, excursions and walking tours • Navigating effectively thru the area, destination and sight using maps and floor plans throughout the guide. • Enhancing knowledge of destination and sights with detailed historical and cultural information • Learning the best hotels, restaurants, shopping, entertainment and recreation sights to visit during trip.

New and improved features: • Writing Style-The writing style offers friendly guidance, but still retains the intellectual substance of the traditional Green Guide • Cover- New graphically vibrant covers highlight exciting information inside. • Colors- Contemporary colors have been added for page banner and headers to help readers easily identify the guide’s major sections-making important information to you easier to spot. • Sidebars- Touring Tips, Sidebars and other practical information have been placed throughout the guide. • Double Columns- have been placed introduced in two sections, "Planning Your Trip" and "Understanding the Regions," for ease of reading. • Maps- Colorful, legible Michelin maps have been retained throughout the new layout along with many helpful waling or driving tour maps. Some guides include a metro or subway map on the inside front cover.

From the Publisher

One Team: A Devotion to Quality There’s just one reason our team is dedicated to producing quality travel publications—you, our reader. We want you to get the maximum benefit from your trip—and from your money. In today’s multiple-choice world of travel, the options are many, perhaps overwhelming. In our guidebooks, we try to minimize the guesswork involved with travel. We scout out the attractions, prioritize them with star ratings, and describe what you’ll discover when you visit them. To help you orient yourself, we provide colorful and detailed, but easy-to-follow maps. Floor plans of some of the major museums help you plan your tour. Throughout the guides, we offer practical information, touring tips and suggestions for finding the best views of the city, a good place for a break or where to make that special purchase. Lodging and dining are always a big part of travel, so we compile a selection of hotels and restaurants that we think convey the feel of the city, and organize them by geographic area and price. We also highlight shopping, recreational and entertainment venues, especially the hot spots. If you’re short on time, two- and four-day itineraries are included so you can hit the highlights and quickly absorb the best of the destination. For those of you who love to experience a destination on foot, we add walking tours, complete with a map. And we list other companies who offer boat, bus or guided walking tours of the city, some with culinary, historical or other themes. In short, we test and retest, check and recheck to make sure that our guidebooks are truly just that: a personalized guide to help you make the most of your visit. After all, we want you to enjoy traveling as much as we do.

The Michelin Green Guide Team

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications; Bilingual edition (March 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2067119389
• ISBN-13: 978-2067119383
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 4.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #758,606 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable resource!!, June 30, 2006

By	emma (Dallas) - See all my reviews

I disagree with the reviewer from Switzerland. What I love about the France guide is that Michelin allows travelers to France the freedom to hone up on everything they need to know about major sights and attractions as well as the little hidden corners of the country that real francophiles might enjoy. These are the places where you don't run in to everyone else on vacation with the same guidebook. You can break away from the crowds and still have enough information to make new discoveries. As go the hotel and restaurants, there is a nice red book called the Michelin Guide France that accompanies the Green Guide. Anyone going to France should most certainly have a copy of it - use this and eat in authentic restaurants the way only savvy locals do. Michelin provides you enough info to make your own discoveries without any surprises.

5.0 out of 5 stars Dependable reference guide, September 12, 2009

By	L. Parks (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Michelin the Green Guide France (Michelin Green Guides) (Paperback)

I have found all Michelin products to be invaluable when planning a trip. Hotels and Restaurants are rated, and while I've run into a very few clunkers in the restaurant recommendations, I've found the recommended hotels were well described, very clean, and mainly, that I never would have known about without the Guides.
Both the Green Guide and the Red Guide are dependable and useful. I highly recommend both.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars caveat emptor, July 9, 2009

By	marco polo "traveler" (washington dc usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michelin the Green Guide France (Michelin Green Guides) (Paperback)

A disappointing purchase. It's more a catalogue of French cities than it is a guidebook. If you're a Michelin Green Guide fan and headed for France, you're better off buying the individual guides for the several areas of the country, i.e. Paris or the Auvergne or Normandy, etc.