Let's Go Italy: The Student Travel Guide

Italy is the place for amazing food, the best vino, epic art, unparalleled natural beauties, and some seriously tight leather pants. Though you probably won’t catch any of our student researchers in leather pants, they know Italy as the Italians do. They’ve endured gallons of gelato, pounds of pizza, miles of museums, countless clubs, and as many ruins as the Romans left behind—all to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of Italy, with plenty of witty asides. Get ready to experience adventure and la dolce far niente with Let’s Go Italy.

Let’s Go publishes the world’s favorite student travel guides, written entirely by Harvard undergraduates. Armed with pens, notebooks, and a few changes of underwear stuffed in their backpacks, our student researchers go across continents, through time zones, and above expectations to seek out invaluable travel experiences for our readers. Let’s Go has been on the road for 50 years and counting: We’re on a mission to provide our readers with sharp, fresh coverage packed with socially responsible opportunities to go beyond tourism.

 (8 customer reviews)

fantastic travel book for people traveling on a budget or just looking for ideas for low cost tourist info ; also things off the beaten path which is always nice when on vacation , get away for the tourist -- oh ! wait , i am a tourist :)

great ideas for low cost lodging of different types , hostel , budget hotel & b&b

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Excellent book to help with an upcoming trip to Italy ! Great reference source.

LG Italy 2009 was a bulky 800 pages; this LG Italy is 530 pages (and no '2010' in title). I'm all for trimming out extraneous outdated material, but nowhere do I find an intro explanation like: "LG 2010 has a new slender look. We've improved it by deleting [whatever] for these reasons: __." Instead, 270 pages have vanished. I've flipped through (my local library copies of) LG:Italy:2009 and this '2010'. Here's a partial comparison [vs 2009]:

Not a good sign: the 2010 Index is 3 pages [vs 5.5]. The 1-page [vs 2] Table of Contents no longer lists all the regional towns that have significant page content. The inside back cover is blank [vs 'useful' conversions, phrases, phone#s]. There are 7 blank final pages [as if users don't know to use post-it notes?]. Inside the front cover, the color city maps are all gone (Venice 2pp, Florence 2pp, Rome 7pp). Even the RAIL Map of Italy is gone.

Apparently Bergamo, Assisi, and Orvieto are no longer worthy of any content! Why...Read more