- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Michelin Apa Publications Ltd (9 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906261504
- ISBN-13: 978-1906261504
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 11.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 642,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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To make the most of Austria, look no further: Let Green Guide Austria lead your ascent to the highest peak of the Alps, take you to Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, or on a cruise down the serene Danube River. Michelin® Green Guide Austria offers recommendations of where to find the best Viennese coffee, where to hear Beethoven s triumphant symphonies, where to ski down the highest slopes, and where to explore National Parks. You can plot your journey using Michelin s many color maps and specialist authors driving and walking tours. This authoritative guide is all you need for your vacation to Austria. Features: - A Planning Your Trip section helps you organize your vacation from transportation to and around Austria through choosing where to stay. - Suggested outdoor activities and entertainment venues ensure you take advantage of the Alps, Vienna, Salzburg and Salzkammergut - Address Books placed throughout the guide show the most highly recommended restaurants and accommodations - Descriptions of the landscape and topography of the country from alpine glaciers through alpine flora - A well-researched history of Austria spans the Habsburg Dynasty through today - Features on architecture, art, and music give a clear insight into the country - Sights laid out alphabetically and provide easy navigation through the guide, while the Michelin® star ratings can direct your choice of journey - Specially created, mapped driving tours and local walking tours across Austria - 61 Michelin maps make plotting your journey easy - Clearly written excursions around many of the sights offer out-of-the-way surprises close to principal tourist attractions
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There is a good deal of useful information available here, but the index is poor. For example, I stayed at Schladming, which does not feature in the Index at the back, and appears only under "Schladminger Tauer" in the Contents of the large section called "Discovering Austria" on page 5, although there is a whole paragraph on the village on page 302. Another example was Wilhering, a 3-star site, that has more than a page devoted to it in Discovering Austria (under "W"), and an un-indexed annotated illustration on page 53 entitled "Chancel of Abbey Church Wilhering", but appears only as "Stift Wilhering" (under "S")in the Index. Road regulations and speed limits didn't feature in the Index at all, but were available tucked away on page 19. A more comprehensive index would have given me more confidence in using this guide.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As one who buys a Green Michelin Guide as automatically as he books a cross-Channel passsage, I was disappointed with this one. Although the familiar layout and physical format is there, the coverage for Austria is skimpy compared with other countries. Outside Vienna, many places underlined in green are not even in the index. For Vienna, it spends pages 375 to 379 describing the contents of rooms in the Art History Museum, using what can be bought (and more up-to-date) for a few euros at the museum, in place of much-needed coverage of restaurants and accommodation. I spent half an hour working out what a 'Bezirk' is, vital to planning a day in Vienna. Poor value and untypical of the other Green Guides.
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Michelin slipped up with this one
25 Jun 2007
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We have been fans of Michelin's Green Guide series for thirty years, but have become increasingly disappointed with the sloppy proof reading in the last four revised guides we have purchased. I had high hopes for this 2007 revision of the Austria guide, because our 2001 edition still had prices listed in schillings. Austria adopted the Euro in 1999, and so I assumed that this version would be fully updated. But NO! The lodging and eating out sections for Vienna still list all the prices in shillings! Who even knows what "Single room from 1 300S.", means!?! And note the lack of a comma in "1 300S", so you're not entirely sure whether the 1 is their shorthand for "single", or whether it is 1,300 shillings -- whatever THAT equals.
Then there are the places that appear to have been cut and pasted from another source. For example, there is an almost full-page text box of the Hapsburg family tree. The editors have forgotten that people buy this edition for its text in English, because the box is entitled, "Stammbaum des Herrscherhauses Hapsburg". Maybe a family tree is self explanatory, and maybe readers can figure out that the "Ludwig XVI" who is married to Marie Antoinette is known to English speakers as Louis XVI. But it is just sloppy editing.
I won't dwell on the many sentences that have missing words because I want to get to one of the most vexing features, and that is the insufficient indexing. Many readers are familiar with Michelin's 3-, 2- and 1-star system of rating principal sights. Three star sites are highly recommended, two star are recommended and one star sites are interesting. But many of the two-star sites -- and even a three-star site (Wilhering) -- do not even appear in the index or in the alphabetically-arranged main text!! How is one to decide whether to visit sites that this guide ostensibly recommends by awarding them two stars if neither the index nor the alphabetically-arranged main text can get you to a description of these places!?! Examples are Staatz, Stams, Hohe Mut, Jochdohle, Hafelekar, and Grosser Ahornboden. When the answer is to look in another guide it is time to toss this one.
As Americans living in Vienna we use a lot of travel guides. Of the nine we have for Vienna and Austria, I like "Best Drives Austria - ISBN 0749539240" for its clearly-depicted circuit drives; a book published here in Vienna and not available on Amazon - "Only in Vienna - by Duncan J.D. Smith" for its descriptions of unique sights in Vienna -- like the Turkish cannonballs embedded in Stephansdom; and the Eyewitness Travel Guides for Vienna and for Austria, for their maps, indexing (15-18 pages, 3-columns across and small font, as opposed to this Michelin guide's 7 pages, 2 columns, regular font) and recommended places to stay and eat.
Then there are the places that appear to have been cut and pasted from another source. For example, there is an almost full-page text box of the Hapsburg family tree. The editors have forgotten that people buy this edition for its text in English, because the box is entitled, "Stammbaum des Herrscherhauses Hapsburg". Maybe a family tree is self explanatory, and maybe readers can figure out that the "Ludwig XVI" who is married to Marie Antoinette is known to English speakers as Louis XVI. But it is just sloppy editing.
I won't dwell on the many sentences that have missing words because I want to get to one of the most vexing features, and that is the insufficient indexing. Many readers are familiar with Michelin's 3-, 2- and 1-star system of rating principal sights. Three star sites are highly recommended, two star are recommended and one star sites are interesting. But many of the two-star sites -- and even a three-star site (Wilhering) -- do not even appear in the index or in the alphabetically-arranged main text!! How is one to decide whether to visit sites that this guide ostensibly recommends by awarding them two stars if neither the index nor the alphabetically-arranged main text can get you to a description of these places!?! Examples are Staatz, Stams, Hohe Mut, Jochdohle, Hafelekar, and Grosser Ahornboden. When the answer is to look in another guide it is time to toss this one.
As Americans living in Vienna we use a lot of travel guides. Of the nine we have for Vienna and Austria, I like "Best Drives Austria - ISBN 0749539240" for its clearly-depicted circuit drives; a book published here in Vienna and not available on Amazon - "Only in Vienna - by Duncan J.D. Smith" for its descriptions of unique sights in Vienna -- like the Turkish cannonballs embedded in Stephansdom; and the Eyewitness Travel Guides for Vienna and for Austria, for their maps, indexing (15-18 pages, 3-columns across and small font, as opposed to this Michelin guide's 7 pages, 2 columns, regular font) and recommended places to stay and eat.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Informative
1 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book has been helpful in planning our trip and will be a good resource to take along.
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