The Rough Guide to Italy 9 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)The Rough Guide to Italy 9 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
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The Rough Guide to
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- Paperback: 10 pages
- Publisher: Rough Guides; 2009-07-20
- Label: Rough Guides
- Studio: Rough Guides
- ISBN: 1848360312
- Sales Rank in Books: #601084
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:  reliable, amusing and honest, By anonymous (Boston, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Rough Guide to Italy 9 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback) The Rough Guide is the way to go for touring and paying fair prices for what you get. Make sure to buy the most recent year and you'll be good to go. (and reserve way ahead of time in Italy especially in Venice, Florence!) The hotel and restaurant recommendations are reliable. The sometimes not-so-politically correct histories within are amusing enough to read the book cover-to-cover. Plus if a place is lousy they tell you not to waste your time instead of sending you there as a plug to sell the guide. Other guides sing praises about places you go to that are trash heaps filled with other tourists that have apparently read the same misinformed guide! Yes because it is a guide and reality changes faster than print: very, very rarely you will find something out-of-date or be disappointed by a recommendation. But less so with Rough Guides.
I've tried them all. The competition is not worth considering as they are almost always outdated or so limited to one set itinerary. Frommer's =...Read more 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:  Difficult to use in Kindle Format, By K & T (San Fran Bay Area) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: The Rough Guide to Italy (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Kindle Edition) I have no qualms with the book itself, but should be sold at a steep discount in Kindle format because it's very hard to use. Main my complaints are...
1) The maps are absolutely unreadable, even with the recent upgrades to Kindle that allow image zooming. These are clearly low-res images, and this needs to be fixed. 2) The Table of Contents is very poor. Especially for the electronic version, there should be much more detail. Each section really should have its own Table of Contents. The only way to make this usable is to set a *lot* of bookmarks in advance. Particularly on the iPhone, it's hard to page through the book looking for what you want. 3) The poor Table of Contents might not have been so slow if the search had not been so bad. You have to wait up to 10 minutes to complete a search. That's really a joke. Kindle really has to up its game on searching. I look forward to the day when these issues are resolved. It's really...Read more 0 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Good book, By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: The Rough Guide to Italy 9 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback) I went with a friend and we used this and rough guides and they helped alot |
