Rick Steves' Paris 2008 (Rick Steves) | Rick Steves, Steve Smith, ...

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	Rick Steves' Paris 2008 (Rick Steves) Rick Steves, Steve Smith, ... Avalon Travel Publishing, 2007 - 544 pages average customer review:based on 96 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Must read for those who want to see and feel the REAL Paris

Excellent guide book for those with a week available to visit the most celebrated city in the World. A must read for anybody who never been to Paris before. Money saver too!. Standing ovation to Rick Steves.

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Just like all of Rick's books, this one is a winner...especially since it saved me 20Euro per night at my hotel.

Rick is the MANNNNNN!

The book has everything but detachable maps.
We rented through an apt service, but everything else is from the book.

Great guide for a first-time traveller

This book was indispensible for me on my first trip to Paris earlier this year. Rick Steves spells out in great detail how to handle the "little things" that you don't think to ask about until faced with them, e.g. buying Metro tickets, understanding traffic rules, dealing with so-called "rude" Parisian waiters, etc. The book also contains several walking tours, of which I found the "Historic Paris Walk" to be excellent. And there are guides to each of the major monuments and museums with a wealth of information.

I knock off a single star because the book does not attempt to be nonpartial--if Rick Steves thinks something sucks, he'll say so. While that might be refreshing for some who enjoy getting their hands held by tour guides, I personally would have preferred that my guidebook let me decide what was good and what wasn't worth seeing.

I ended up loving Paris and I can't wait to go back. When I compare Paris to the other parts of my European trip, when I didn't have a handy Rick Steves guide, I think that Steves gets credit for my feelings toward my newest favorite city. This book and a basic understanding of the French language are all you need to have a great trip in the city of lights.

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Not For Everyone

This is not a bad guide, but I wouldn't recommend it if you want to carry just one. Steves focuses on just three neighborhoods for hotels and restaurants. But what really started to annoy us was his attempts at humor, political digs (e.g. Rumsfeld references),and casual attitude towards major historical and religious references. Best example is when he describes the significance of the Madonna to Renaissance artists by saying that she was even more popular than the singer Madonna in the 20th century! My wife and I found ourselves rolling our eyes and grimacing as we read Steves guide while visiting some of the world's most major museums and religious sites.

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