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| France (Rough Guide Travel Guides) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kate Baillie, Tim Salmom, B. Rian Catlos, Amy K. Brown, Rachel Kaberry, Greg Ward, Jan Dodd, Marc S. Dubin, Ruth Blackmore
Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 322125
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8Rev Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1328
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 1843530562
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781843530565
ASIN: 1843530562
Publication Date: June 26, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Rough Guide to France follows its now well-established format that puts cheap eats, clubs and accommodation above comfort and style. That is its appeal for the student traveller intent on making the most of limited resources. The 2001 edition adds and updates a host of Web site addresses and includes euro price equivalents. Its 100 maps have improved measurably and its listing of map sources in England remains very helpful. Yet the guide, despite its assurance that this is an "updated" seventh edition of the book, is a remarkably similar--and unfortunately sometimes outdated--version of much earlier guides in the France series that was launched in 1995. In this Rough Guide edition, for the most part, there are fewer restaurant listings and many of the recommendations remain the same as those touted five years ago. Those with a bit more change in their pocket might find better gastronomic satisfaction from Fodor's France or Cadogan Guide to France for upmarket touring. On the plus side, the Rough Guide to France goes to great lengths to explain and encourage public transportation rather than driving. For cyclists, the list of routes, rentals and means of transporting bicycles across the Channel is one of the best for a broad-based guidebook. The camping section, too, has more depth than its competitors. Take the name of the book as a guide: it's for those who want to rough it. --Kathleen Buckley
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| Customer Reviews:
 France is too big for one book January 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a big fan of the Rough Guides for cities and own a few, including the one for Paris, and have found them to be excellent containing every bit of information I could possibly need.
This guide tries to squeeze the whole of France into a book the size of a city guide, which means it only has space to describe briefly a few major towns in each province.
For backpackers this may be adequate information, but is of limited use to someone trying to plan day trips. Maybe a guide to each of the provinces would have been better.
 Best guide to cheap accomodatiopn and good food in France August 7, 2001
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
Travelling in France is wonderful for the food and the cheapness of the hotels however many guides (such as Michelin Red Book) etc either cover a wide range of hotels and restaurants or only expensive ones. This book covers the affordable but good! having used it over the past two years I have stayed at some amazing little inns and eaten some superb food (and drunk some exceptional wine) at very reasonable cost. Dont expect it to show you a chateau, the hotels are usualy modest but clean with typical 'local' decor. The restaurants are generally local cuisine, not 4 star but very very good. Before I found this guide I used to take pot luck, ok if you can put up with the occasional awful place, this guide helps you avoid the problem.
 Fantastic even for a student backpacker April 26, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I lived in France for a year and travelled a great deal with my rucksack, and this book was like my bible. There were so many times I would have got lost without the maps inside. The best thing is that you even know where the tourist office is before you arrive, and all of the information was spot on. I used this book especially in the South of France and in Corsica, and what I found especially useful was the 'classmark sysytem' of the price of hotels and youth hostels. We had most of it booked before we even arrived, which was such a godsend when we arrived there knackered! The ONLY problem was that it was quite heavy to carry around - but a small price to pay.... Don't go there without it!
If you can take only one book on your trip...this is it. March 13, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
My husband and I took a couple of well known guide books with us on our recent trip to France...but this is the one we found most useful. One invaluable feature is the inclusion of maps. When we got lost in Avignon we had only to open the Rough Guide to find our way. Also, we were able to locate the bus and rail stations on the maps. There is much to be learned by reading a number of guidebooks before you go but this is the one to take with you.
The most useful general guide book of France January 18, 1999
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
For the tourist rather than the holiday maker this is truly a useful book and well worth the cost. Use it to plan your journey before you go and while away dark winter evenings or let it take you on your way once you are there. We used ours to tour the Loire Valley, Normandy and the area around Paris.
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