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The Rough Guide to Greece is the ultimate handbook to the Greek mainland and the islands - right down to the tiniest one-village outcrops. The 24-page, full-colour section introduces all of Greece''s highlights, from Mount PÃlio''s lush countryside and Préspa''s beautiful lakes to the fish market in ThessalonÃki and the famous oracle site in Delphi. In addition, there are four, brand-new, full-colour inserts: ''Food & Drink'', ''Wild Greece'', ''Ancient Architecture'' and ''Orthdox Festivals''. The guide includes hundreds of incisive reviews of all the best places to eat, drink and sleep, for all budgets. There are practical tips on a wide range of activities, from bird-watching and windsurfing to hiking and cycling. The guide also takes a detailed look at the country''s history, culture, mythology and wildlife and comes complete with maps and plans for every region.
Customer Reviews:
Rough Guide Editors: please read this review!.......2007-08-31
Not bad, but there are 2 changes the editors must make for it to be far more helpful:
1) The index must be improved. For example, of the dozens of museums described (very well!) in the book, not a single one of them is listed in the index! I found it frustrating trying to find information for a museum that I remembered was described SOMEWHERE in the book.
2) The Athens "Main Tourist Office" is incorrectly located on the map (p. 128). It is not too far away, but a miss is as good as a mile when you are using the map to try to find it.
Too big - a fault and a virtue.......2007-08-25
This book is so extensive it is actually kind of hard to use.
I wish they would break these books into smaller volumes. Maybe one for Athens, one for islands, one for southern Greece, one for Northern Greece. Something like that.
Also, for American readers: with this series, I think many or all the writers are from Britain. So when you read of a good restaurant, you have to take it with a grain of salt. It may actually be good or, kind of average.
Not up to date.......2007-03-23
Watch out, even though the edition date is 2006, many of the references in the guide point to pre-OLympic (2004) information. Not very useful. All in all, one is better off using Google for information,rather than travel guides.
Excellent Guide to Greece.......2006-08-02
I bought this updated version of the Rough Guide to Greece. It is the 11th edition. I last used the 10th edition on a recent trip to Greece (June 2006) and found the guide to excellent. I left it behind to lighten the luggage somewhat. I wanted to replace it with the new edition and hope to return to Greece.
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The Rough Guide to The Greek Islands is the essential guide to the varied and beautiful archipelagos of the Aegean and Ionian seas. From hiking in the Samarian Gorge and windsurfing off Vassilikà to the Acropolis of Lindos and the view over Firá, the 24-page, full-colour introduction highlights all the ''things-not-to-miss''. In addition, there are two brand-new, 4-page, full-colour inserts: ''Orthodox Festivals'', ''Wild Greek Islands'' and ''Beaches''. The guide includes listings of all the very best hotels and restaurants, plus information on all the top bars, shops and clubs, to suit every budget. There is plenty of practical advice to help you get the most from the many activities available throughout the islands, plus there is comprehensive information on inter-island ferries and maps and plans for every island group.
Customer Reviews:
Very complete, yet concise.......2006-12-27
Before purchasing this book I reviewed a number of books on the Greek Islands at my local library and settled on this Rough Guide version as being the most up to date, the most complete, and the most readable and frank (looked at Insight, Lonely Planet, Fodors (Greece), and others). I am traveling to both Corfu and to Crete this year and feel that the treatment is at the appropriate level for my one week stay on each of those large islands and a one-week sail through the other Ionian islands. I will supplement this with a sailing book/charts on the Ionian Sea and a Michelin Green Guide of Greece which emphasizes the archaeological sites and history. The upside is that with one purchase I now have info on other Greek Islands for future travels in the Sporades, Cyclades, etc. I have successfully and happily used Rough Guides in the past for European regions such as Bretagne.
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The Rough Guide to Cyprus is an indispensable guide to this popular Mediterranean island and this new edition is the most in-depth guide on the market. The author''s recommended hotels, resorts and restaurants represent the best selection for travellers on every budget. There are full details on hiking trails, archeological sites and the island''s famous church frescoes, as well as authoritative features on the island''s rich wildlife, turbulent history and current politics. No other guide covers Cyprus'' history, politics and personalities in as much detail.
Customer Reviews:
Champion Work.......2006-06-19
In June, 2006 my wife and I traveled extensively through all parts of Cyprus by rental car and carried 4 recently published guidebooks. Even with Lonely Planet and DK carrying 2006 copyrights, neither could hold a candle to Rough Guide (Sept, 2005). Marc Dubin's work is not simply that of a traveler writing a guidebook, but like an expert presenting an insightful, informative, and balanced work. It added immensely to our enjoyment and understanding of Cyprus. The highlights section for each chapter provided an excellent overview of each region, and for the first time I found the maps to be even better than the ones in Lonely Planet. The background information was outstanding for presenting a fair treatment of this divided island, with many excellent spotlights on pertinent Cypriot topics.
At 552 pages it is over twice the length of Lonely Planet's 272 pages and DK's 216. Thanks to Rough Guide we found many places which were not even mentioned in the other books, like the secluded, abandoned cave hermitage of Palea Enklistra or the beautifully situated Kelefos Venetian-era bridge in the Troodos Mountains. The photos are still not as superb as DK, and for that reason I would also recommend DK Top 10 Cyprus (more useful than DK Cyprus), with excellent lists and photos of the island's highlights. All in all, Rough Guide Cyprus is one of the best guidebooks for any country that you could ever find.
No better travel guide to Cyprus.......2006-05-29
At the time of this review, there is no other up-to-date travel guide for visiting Cyprus. The Lonely Planet's "Cyprus" 2nd edition came out right as the Nicosia/Lefkosia opened in 2003 and contains outdated information on the crossing from the Greek/Turkish sides - their 3rd edition is due out this summer. Regardless, LP will have a hard act to follow, since Marc Dubin has written the single most comphrensive travel guide to a country I have ever read. I just returned from a 10 day trip to both 'sides' of Cyprus and used literally almost every page. I wouldn't have been able to see half the things I did without this guide and by relying solely on the state-run information kiosks.
It was astounding to talk to other travellers who showed up to Cyprus as package tourists and were clueless about the political circumstances surrounding the island. This wouldn't have happened if they had stepped out of Larnaca (or controversially, Ercan) airport without having a copy of this guide, if for no other reason that the author constantly integrates both ancient (Greek) and modern (political) historical information into all his location descriptions. Hn addition, there is an appendix of almost 50 pages of a balanced account of the turbulent history of the island that doesn't point sole blame on either side of the Green line. The guide also gives comphrensive information in archeological, endemic plant/animal species, a range of restaurant/lodging recommendations, and scuba diving. Like almost all Rough Guides, this book is intent in educating people to become investigative travellers rather than consuming tourists.
Note that the author frequently warns that pre-packaged tourism rules Cyprus. However, you can still backpack through both sides of Cyprus on intercity 'taxis' (small vans) in the south and dolmus buses in the north. The author is correct when he says that the conditions in hostels in Cyprus aren't comparable to their Northern (or Greek) counterparts and the island is not a budget destination, but you can usually find a hotel in a town for $40-45/night - I found locals in every town who were helpful and even outgoingly friendly after a few minutes of conversation.
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The Rough Guide to Crete is the biggest, most detailed and most comprehensive guide to Crete available. Established leader in its field, now in its sixth edition. Knowledgeable yet accessible coverage of the famous sites, with historical background on the island''s Minoan past, including recent discoveries. It also illustrates Crete''s place in ancient Greek myth. The guide includes the lesser-known beaches and stretches of coastline and gives unrivalled detail on the mountains Â- including walking routes and unspoilt mountain villages. Sound coverage on wildlife and the environment, on Crete in literature, and on the island''s traditional music. It also includes all the practical information Rough Guides are so highly regarded for - full details of how to get there, how to get around Â- including local buses and boats Â- where to stay, and what to eat.
Customer Reviews:
Great Travel Book.......2007-08-08
This book was very useful for my trip to Crete. Not only does it give detailed information about cities in Crete, buy it also has a greek dictionary in the back for common phrases. It gave historical facts about monasteries and other places that couldn't be found in any other travel book I looked at. I found the book easy to navigate and read and the most useful travel guide I have ever used.
Good even if a bit dated........2006-07-02
This is a good, extensive guide to Crete, even if this 2004 version is now a bit dated in 2006, though the majority of the recommendations are still good -- except for the recommendation for car rental from "Motor Club" which was a disaster.
Decent guide, some things missing.......2006-06-20
Crete is huge -- you can't even picture how huge until you see it from the air. Crete is 160 miles from end to end, and that is why it is very useful to buy a separate book to help you find your way. I chose this book because it was the first tour guide that I found that explored Crete by bus, instead of insisting that a foreign traveller go through the troublesome ordeal of renting a car. This book is very good in that area -- it offers detailed bus and ferry schedules and acceptable maps for every city.
This guide offers tremendous hotel reviews, covering most of the obvious budget hotels and showing you how to get to them. It also provides extensive historical information on some of the more interesting sites, such as Knossos and Moni Arkadi. There are some important details, however, that this book overlooks. I feel like perhaps the writers didn't take notes on the names of things as they were travelling; in Iraklion, the book gave general descriptions of tavernas they recommended, instead of just saying their name. This made it kind of hard to figure out what they were talking about.
As with some other tour guides, the maps skimped on street names, which made them very difficult to use; they also never give the Greek letters for places, making it sometimes hard to translate what you read in the book to what you see on signs. I was also disappointed in this and other tour guides, in that they didn't mention some very critical basic information, such as how to deal with tipping, or local etiquette; Greeks have very specific expectations regarding their hospitality. I would also have liked to have read that I was not allowed to flush toilet paper down the drain -- not every facility has a warning sign about this, and it would have been useful to read about it rather than discover this oddity through experience.
By far the best Crete guide.......2004-11-12
It's unbelievable how much detailed information is in this book. The organization of the book is very convenient and there are page references throughout the book to the topics being discussed. This makes it extremely easy to either read the book from front to back or to pick out a narrow topic and read about it. My only complaints are that I wish it had more color photos and a better map, but the information is more important than photos anyway. This book will definitely make planning your trip to Crete a lot easier. And it's much, much better than the Lonely Planet Crete guide. Lonely Planet publishes some great books, but its Crete guide is not one of them.
This guide is simply the best!!!.......2002-12-20
The person who wrote the last review was stupid enough to choose a package holiday based in Hersonissos. I say this because Hersonissos is INSANELY OVERDEVELOPED (at least by Greek standards) and one would HAVE to be stupid to stay there when there are other, much more beautiful, much less crowded, much less expensive, much cleaner, and much less developed areas not too far away. Don't get me wrong - both Hersonissos and nearby Mallia are worth spending a night or two in just to experience the nightlife, but then one should move on to someplace prettier and quieter.
As someone who is of Cretian descent (my mother was born and raised there) and who has a ton of relatives there, I can honestly say that this guide is EXTREMELY accurate and on the mark about almost everything. It even contains facts and information which many natives don't know about. Although I usually stay with relatives in or near Hania, this book has helped me plan and successfully undertake some very awesome daytrips. It has also helped me with sightseeing, eating, and accomodation when visiting other parts of the island away from Hania (where I don't have any relatives so I have to stay in a hotel and eat in a restaurant).
This guide is NOT aimed at package tourists but it can be used even by someone on a package tour for the historic and cultural insights it offers. The reason it comes down so hard on Hersonissos is because the place IS overcrowded and spoiled (many other guides agree). Also, Hersonissos can be visited from Iraklion (the capital) or from Mallia by bus or taxi. (If you wanted to visit Monte Carlo, for example, without selling your house, you would stay in Nice or in Menton or some other nearby town and GO INTO Monte Carlo by the frequent trains - you can always take a taxi back to your hotel. This is MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than staying in a hotel WITHIN Monte Carlo itself). This is analogous to the Hersonissos situation. You can VISIT Hersonissos without actually staying in any of its expensive, crowded hotels. Does one have to stay at the Plaza in New York in order to visit the shops on Fifth Avenue or go to a Broadway play? - NO!!!
Customer Reviews:
Good guide for driving in Crete.......2007-01-11
It contains updated information about the roads in Crete and a city map of the main harbors.
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- Brilliant! The best of the Greece books
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The Rough Guide to Greece - 10th edition
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Book Description
The Rough Guide to Greece is the ultimate handbook to the Greek mainland and the islands Â- from cosmopolitan Athens to the little-known one-village outcrops. The guide includes a 24-page full-colour introduction, with the authors pick of the country''s highlights in the ''things not to miss'' section. Every metre of this diverse country is covered, from the stunning beaches of northeast PÃlio to the dramatic Byzantine town of Mystra. For each area, there are comprehensive and insightful listings of the best hotels, guest houses, restaurants, cafes, bars and clubs. There is also informative advice on a wide range of activities, from bird-watching at the Préspa lakes to windsurfing at Vassilikà and hiking on Mount Olympus. Finally, the Contexts section provides detailed accounts of the country''s history, culture, mythology and wildlife.
Customer Reviews:
Just OK.......2001-09-04
This review compares the Lonely Plantet Greece (4th Edition) with the Rough Guide Greece (8th edition). We spent 2.5 weeks in July, 2001 in Greece, our first visit, and these were our guide books.
A relucant 4 stars to each, and a slight preference for RG. We certainly found the books serviceable, and they gave us good ideas of where in Greece we wanted to go. But they were much less valuable in their listings for individual destinations. They were the least valuable compared to the other LP and RG travel books we've used (Portugal, Italy, Thailand, Tokyo).
As usual, they both overstate their hotel rankings which to me make sense only if you've been sleeping out on the beach from necessity, and now have finally scraped some money together for a room. An exagerration, but I've lost patience with gushing praise for facilities which are usually no better than serviceable and sometimes less than that. And, we're not into spending money on fancy accommodations. Occassionaly the books are on the money, but often not.
On the smaller islands RG usually had more accommodation listings, but occassionally LP did. There were at least two instances when LP had none, just saying that rooms were available.
The ferry schedules in the books, pretty much consistent between them, bore little relation to reality, even though we were there in the high season.
I want to complete with my usual gripe about these and other guide books: we don't know which restaurants and hotels were actually visited by the writers (and by which one) and when. To paraphrase from my review of RG Portugal:
LP is out front in saying that its reviewers do not stay at all the hotels or eat at all the restaurants they list. I would like it if the reviews would be initialized by the reviewers with the date. This would allow us to learn each reviewer's tastes and standards, not to mention seeing which places they actually visited.
One LP writer (not I think an author of this book) in discussing restaurants wrote: "As one of those LP writers I can tell you that it is not physically possible to eat even a 'little bit of a meal' in each of those restaurants :-) What we all tend to do is eat at a broad cross-section within the norms of natural eating times and visit the other restaurants and talk to the owner or even the diners if it can be done discretely. In the same vein we don't sleep at every hotel!"
Talk to the owners for your evaluation! Says it all.
Comprehensive, concise, relevant, practical!.......2001-05-21
We just came back from a 3 weeks, modest-budget, partly backpacking, partly car-rental trip around Rhodes, Crete, and Peloponnese. We deliberately stayed off the beaten tracks as much as possible. We used this guide along with French "Guide du Routard" and Michelin guides. I picked this guide against the Lonely Planet one based on an excellent experience with the Corsica rough guide last year.
This Rough Guide was above all very practical -- it simply is amazingly detailed, and what's more, it's mostly right. The rooms , hotels, and restaurants suggested were spot on. Very few outdated entries.
This guide also includes much relevant background info on Greek history, politics, food, an so on. This made for a much more interesting trip.
The paper was very thin yet high quality, making this guide even more worth its space in my pack.
This is definitely not the guide for organized tours -- the authors make no secret of their disdain for package tourism and the spoiling it often brings. But, for the independent traveller, this is the best guide I have found in English or French.
Capable enough to get you through high tide..........2001-01-25
Most of my friends often recommend the Lonely Planet books, especially for those of us who can't mortgage our homes for one-night stays in hotels listed by Frommer's and Fodor's guides. But I went with Rough Guide for my trip last summer to Greece, and while some of the maps weren't as detailed as they could might have been, most of the recommendations were spot on.
Many nightspots get renovated; names get changed, etc. That's something the editors can't really help with. But any restaurant or bar I went to (listed in the guide) was above-average, if not better than they claimed.
The historical data was also well-balanced; so you're not bored to tears with it, and yet it's detailed enough to keep you reading through it. Bonus marks for the great inclusion of the Greek music coverage (flawed, but excellent), and the price of the book is decent.
Brilliant! The best of the Greece books.......1999-03-31
A terrific guide to both the Greek mainland and the islands. Spent several months trawling around the country, at first with several guide books, Fodors, Rough Guide, Lonely Planet, etc., but finally found that the Rough Guide knew the country best, and made for a more entertaining travel companion, so I ditched the other books about three weeks into the trip. Absolutely the only book for Greece if you (a) like good food and nightlife and (b) have a serious interest in the cultural context of Ancient Greece. Plus their commentary on modern Greek history was very helpful, must admit I didn't know much about it until I arrived.
You can't go wrong with this book.
humorous, informative, and insightful.......1998-02-28
If you like self-depreciating English humor, you'll like the Rough guide to Greece. This book is densely packed with informative and interpretive pages. Not like the Fodor's, etc. which are mostly pretty pictures and ads disguised as recommendations. Even the most biting commentary turned out to be true. I consider this book to have been crucial to a very sucessful vacation/tour.
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Rhodes and the Dodecanese Plus the East Aegean: The Rough Guide, First Edition (1st ed)
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Malta & Gozo Directions gives you the best of these islands in an easy-to-use format. The "Ideas" section helps you plan your trip with full-colour spreads covering the variety of attractions Malta has to offer, from the fortified town of Valletta and neolithic temples to the best places to eat and drink. The "Places" section breaks the city down into convenient areas, each chapter exploring a particular district, with eating, drinking and shopping options along with a run-down of the sights. "Essentials" lets you know how to get around, where to change money and everything else you might need for a smooth trip, while "Language" has enough phrases and vocabulary to help you make a few local friends.Â
Customer Reviews:
A Thorough and Concise Guidebook.......2006-03-22
Rough Guides' "Malta & Gozo" is a very handy guidebook. Although it is only 192 pages and pretty light, it is packed with information. The thing that I like most about this book is that it contains detailed maps of all three Islands, Malta, Gozo and Comino, in addition to numerous city maps and plenty of both colour and black and white photos.
The main focus of "Malta & Gozo" is to provide the reader with detailed and up to date descriptions of the main attractions, restaurants and hotels in each community. As well, this guide contains a basic overview of practical information, relating to transportation, money, communication, festivals and language.
One very special bonus is that this book is accompanied by a mini CD, showing the book's contents in digital format. This feature is nice if you would like to take a closer look at the maps provided in the book.
If you would like an up-to-date and thorough guide of Malta, this book is for you.
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