Budapest (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dk Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 175239
Media: Turtleback
Edition: Revised & Updated
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0756624355
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.39120454
EAN: 9780756624354
ASIN: 0756624355
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
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Product Description
A travel guide to Budapest offering every significant sight, location, building, museum and gallery, as well as major shops, hotels and restaurants. Mapping, currency guides, tickets and communication systems add to this practical directory which is organised district by district and is designed to help you know what to look out for and how to make the most of your time.
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 Excellent July 24, 2008
The eyewitness guides are a pleasure to read .Many great pictures and plenty of detail but not as heavy as some guides .I am as pleased with this one as the others I already own .These guides are books you actually pick up and read again after you have completed your trip.
A great complement to Top 10 Budapest! June 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great organization, eye-catching photography, well written narrative and superb cartography! DK Eyewitness Travel guides have got it all but, for me, it's the photography that really separates them from the competition. And "Budapest" covers it all - restaurants, music, beer halls, walks, art galleries, museums, spas, architecture, palaces, hotels, cafes, theatres and churches. And all of the information is organized by neighbourhood in the city so I can make the most effective use of my time once I'm in a certain area.
Here's my "best practices" strategy. Read "Top 10 Budapest" first. Make some basic choices, get your mind wrapped around Budapest's geography and begin to localize your choices to certain areas. Fine tune your choice and plan your attack day by day by reading "Budapest". Familiarize yourself with some of the local customes by reading the basic country information in the back of the larger "Budapest" guide - currency, communications, etiquette, food, beer and wine, local transportation and specialized hints like local tipping practices.
Why not five stars? Frankly, with the internet now providing so much current information, I can't see the value in attempting to include lengthy (and probably outdated) lists of hotels and restaurants in densely packed small print index lists at the back of a book like this.
Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
Budapest at its best May 9, 2008
As always DK travel guides are EXCELLENT complete, well written and easy to use, also make very interesting reading to get to know a city with out travelling or prior to getting there.
Pretty good November 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pretty good travel book, and is a good general guide to the city and surrounding areas. The gaps, however, could be a problem for someone who is not confident enough to piece it out with the locals with hand gestures and sometimes limited english. That said, it provides enough info about the big sites to give you a good walking tour of them.
The restaurant suggestions were 100% on with the ones we tried. However, due to slightly unusual Hungarian street and business naming conventions, the addresses were sometimes a little off or confusing. Also, the dictionary in the back lacked some fairly obvious terms, and this is important in Budapest as many seemingly important signs aren't translated into English (or any other language, for that matter).
All-in-all, a pretty good guide, and up to the typical DK experience.
Excellent May 16, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Like all the Eyewitness Travel Guides this one is excellent.
Filled with maps,glorious pictures,practical information,historical background, and great tips as to what-to-do and what-to see; it is a complete guide to the fascinating and beautiul cities of Buda and Pest. I would never travel to new cities without taking along one of these well researched and well written/edited guides.
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