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"EYEWITNESS TRAVEL PARIS", IF YOU ARE EVER PLANNING A TRIP TO PARIS THEN THIS BOOK IS ALL YOU NEED. THIS BOOK IS YOUR BIBLE. IT GOES INTO GREAT DETAIL EVERY SECTION OF PARIS WHICH CONTAINS A STREET MAP OF THAT SECTION, CHURCHES, MUSEUM AND PLACES OF INTEREST. THE PICTURES THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK IS OUTSTANDING. THERE IS A LARGE SECTION FOR HOTELS AND RESTAURANT, AND SHOPPING IN EACH SECTION OF PARIS. THERE IS A SECTION OF GETTING AROUND PARIS WHETHER BY METRO OR BUSSES WITH A MAP OF ALL THE METRO STOPS. YOU CAN TAKE A PARIS VACATION OR A PARIS EXPERIENCE THROUGH THIS BOOK, IT IS UP TO YOU. SO ENJOY ONE OF THE GREAT CITIES OF THE WORLD PARIS " THE CITY OF LIGHTS" THROUGH THIS BOOK. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED

"Absolutely Essential", This book is just chock full of fabulous ideas and tips. A great book for people who relate to the visual as well as the written.Paris (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)

"Nicely Arranged Guide", Purchased the guide as a replacement for a borrowed guide that got wet while we were in Paris. This one came with a wear/water resistant cover and was very nicely arranged for quickly finding the locations and areas of interest.

"We LOVED this guidebook. the only disadvantage is that it's a bit heavy. but the coated pages and the fast-read pages made it fa", this is a great simple guidebook for a short trip to paris. it's very easy to absorb, but there are deeper sections if you want to know more. perhaps we had the latest edition but we did get a quick overview of the trendiest spots in paris - perfect if you're travelling with a pack of teenage girls...

the only problem is that it's a bit heavy. i'd have carried even more often if it were lighter.

"This guidebook made making our way around Paris a piece of cake", We have just returned from Spring Break in Paris and the "Paris: Eyewitness Travel Guide" was our guidebook for our trip. Of course, the photo illustrations in any DK book are always impressive, and since I always like to see where I am going and what is to see there without having to Google everything, that was an obvious plus with this book. I must admit that II do not really think about this particular book as a guidebook for getting in-depth information about places; when I want that sort of information I get a guidebook at the place (only thing I bought on the trip were guidebooks and postcards). In practical terms this guidebook functioned as our menu for the trip, allowing us to see what was available and when you could visit, which was crucial because visiting hours change based on the month and the day (my biggest piece of advice based on this trip is that if you can go see the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay at night--Wednesday and Thursday respectively--you will enjoy them a lot more without the massive crowds during the day).

For me the best part of this guide book ended up being the maps. Paris is gridded out in 18 maps in the back of the book and for each region of the city there is a general map of the entire area with "Sights at a Glance" marked along with metro and train stations. Add to the mix the Paris Metro and Regional Express Railway (RER) map inside the back cover, and we found it incredibly easy to find things. We got a 5-day Metro pass and had the fortune of our hotel being right down the street from the Montparnasse Bienvenile station, which was the intersection of several metro lines (plus linked to a train station which allowed us to go to Chartres and be back by 1 in the afternoon). Except for a bus tour/river cruise the first night and a side trip to Versailles, we did not have our trip planned out. We had a list of things we wanted to see and each day would pick a starting point and work out our other options as we went along. These maps were great for making that relatively easy. Nor did we feel that we were restricted to the restaurants in our area because we were able to use our maps to head off into the night and find them.

The only exception would be the maps of the Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise and Cimetiere du Montparnassem because they were not extremely helpful in trying to find several of the graves I was trying to track down. Those of Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison are easy to find because there are also several people standing around them, but finding those of Moliere, Sarah Bernhardt, and Samuel Becket were much harder. The guide does provide tiny icons representing what the graves actually look like, but the locations can be troublesome, especially when the graves are not right on a walkway. But there are detailed maps for Pere Lachaise and signs at the entrances that you can photograph with your digital camera and reference as you walk about (courtesy of your magic zoom button).

I bought the book a year before our trip, when my impromptu suggestion that we go to Paris for Spring Break was derailed by the lack of a current passport. So there is a minor concern that information is not totally current. On the one hand the Musee de l'Orange with Monet's water lily series was open, but the one place my wife wanted to go, the restaurant atop La Samaritaine, was derailed because the department store was closed. As long as you suspect that these sort of things are always going to happen (I felt sorry for the law students visiting the Louvre to discover that the Code of Hammurabi was not on display), you should be able to roll with these punches. Final word of advice regarding this particular guidebook: Make sure that you have a purse or a coat with pockets large enough to accommodate the peculiar not quite "pocket" size of this guide.

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"Can't Wait for Paris!", I purchased this book in preparation for my upcoming trip to Paris in 9/2008. I didn't realize that I had already purchased a copy a few months ago when I first started thinking about going to Paris. Nonetheless, I don't mind owning two copies--the book is full of information about Paris and there's cool information about the history of Paris. I guess I could bring one copy to Paris with one--I'm sure it will be battered with use, so now at least I'll have a fresh copy at home for my next visit...

"Lots of detailed info, good maps, great pics", This was this best thing we took with us on our honeymoon - no pre-planning needed! The maps in this book were great, especially the metro map, the info by neighborhood, etc was so detailed that it helped plan our daily itineraries and even showed us a few things off the beaten path. I highly recommend this book for both travelers who have been to Paris many times and those who haven't been before.

"great book but two shortcomings", just bought two of these books for a european holiday. they are fabulous books. they made planning my itinerary very easy and i love the detailed information included with all the major sites.

however, there are two shortcomings.

- the maps are not very good. there is no overall paris map that is usable in any way. we had to go to a hotel and find one of the free tourist maps in order to really make our way around the city. also, they break up the city onto 16 smaller maps but there is no way to easily navigate from one map to another. we found ourselves lost frequently.

- the recommendations for food were quite lacking. yes, this is paris and there is a patisserie on every corner, but it would have been nice to find out which ones stand out from the crowd. we were unimpressed with the small restaurant section.

if i could, i'd give the book 4.5 stars. the strengths of this book more than make up for the two shortcomings.

"Great book", This book was perfect for my trip to Paris. Used it lots and lots every day. The maps were particularly good.

"Visually stunning, but bereft of information", The graphics, images, and maps are really well done, and cover many of the places you would want to visit. However the actual textual information is remarkably limited, leaving you to judge how to invest your time based largely on the pictures. In addition, the guide is careful to provide no cost information at all for any attractions.

I would recommend this guide only in combination with another guide that provides more information, background, and cost information. This was the only tour guide I had, so I don't have a specific recommendation for the companion to this one. You should read the reviews of the other Paris guides with an eye towards what is missing in this one. With that guide, I think this one is in fact worth the money and, perhaps more importantly, the space in your carry-on baggage.

I do highly recommend Sandra Gustafson's "Great Eats Paris" and "Great Sleeps Paris", which are far better and much more comprehensive than the corresponding coverage you would find in this or any other Paris guide book.