Frommer's Barcelona Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket)

I just returned fm Barcelona and brought 5 guidebooks (Fodors See It Barcelona, Frommers 24 Great Walks in Barcelona, Frommers Barcelona day by day, and Time Out Barcelona, and EasyMap Barcelona) because none of them really filled the one-stop-shop I was looking for.

This book was the best of the bunch. It was compact and concise, albeit a bit out of date. The maps were ok, but they lacked the detail that you need for the twisted streets of the gothic quarter. The major plus of the book was its breakdown of what to do by day/priority and interest categories. It has a What To Do on Day 1, then Day 2, then Day 3, plus walks by area and interest areas including architecture, culinary and history walks. Unfortunately, there wasnt a lot of detail about what we were seeing once we got there, so we had to supplement the info with the seemingly lead-bound Fodors tome (doubles as a weapon, apparently).

The front cover has a pretty good small map plus a metro...Read more

This was a great guide - if I was to do it again for the first trip to barcelona I would recommend this book. For your second trip there invest in one a little larger so it can go into more detail on everything you see, but that's all. This book is great.

This book is absolutely fantastic! It's small and concise while still being detailed enough for a short trip to Barcelona. It offers several suggestions for how to spend 1, 2 or 3 days. The guide book was perfect for our port stop in Barcelona on a recent cruise. I hesitated to buy a book for just one city, but it provided much more information than our general Spain book did. It was not too big or too small - great for walking around for the day - and included a fold out map. I highly recommend any book in this series. The guided Modernista walk provided structure to our wandering in Barcelona. It also features a guided walk of Las Ramblas and tons of other helpful information that we used on our short trip in Barcelona. If you were staying more than a week, I might go for something a little more detailed, but this book hits all the highlights.