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This completely updated guide reflects post-Olympic Beijing. There is also a special colour chapter on Beijing's disappearing and historic hutong (passageways). You can explore old and new Beijing: from the Great Wall to the Birds' Nest, LP have got it covered. Crammed with more maps than any other guidebook; all maps and attractions are listed in both English and Chinese.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of the Lonely Planet `Best of' series: slim pocket-size soft-cover city guides typically containing around 100 pages. They are full-colour publications and print quality is good.
The inside front cover folds out to reveal a street map of `Greater Beijing' with place-names, districts and parks marked both in English and in Chinese characters. The inside of the back cover similarly folds out as a plan of the central area, with the Forbidden City dead centre.
The book divides into colour-coded sections:
* Introducing Beijing, its neighbourhoods and suggested visitor itineraries
* Highlights
* Sights and activities
* Trips and tours
* Shopping
* Eating
* Entertainment
* Sleeping
* About Beijing (history, environment, government, economy)
* Directory
* Index
Every page is illustrated with colour photography. Mini-articles are often inserted into the main text in coloured text-boxes - for example articles on China's one-child policy or the delicate art of cooking Beijing duck. The layout is user-friendly and the information generally accurate and useful.
One reservation would be that the guide's information about restaurants is not very useful for the budget traveller. You can find great food almost everywhere in Beijing in street-side noodle shops or in the shopping malls; you'll lose count of all the Beijing Duck-themed restaurants in the central area, and we never found a bad one. Also Beijing is a city packed with culture and history, and a further down-side to this pocket guide might be that due to its brevity it is a little short on detail for the visitor interested in the Forbidden City, the Ming Tombs or the Great Wall: such a visitor might be advised to seek out a larger guide, or one more focussed on his/her specialist interests. Also, you'll need a larger-scale map to find your way around street-by-street, as the scale of those in the guide is too small.
However for most casual visitors who have only a few days in Beijing, the LP "Best of" guide is OK.
The inside front cover folds out to reveal a street map of `Greater Beijing' with place-names, districts and parks marked both in English and in Chinese characters. The inside of the back cover similarly folds out as a plan of the central area, with the Forbidden City dead centre.
The book divides into colour-coded sections:
* Introducing Beijing, its neighbourhoods and suggested visitor itineraries
* Highlights
* Sights and activities
* Trips and tours
* Shopping
* Eating
* Entertainment
* Sleeping
* About Beijing (history, environment, government, economy)
* Directory
* Index
Every page is illustrated with colour photography. Mini-articles are often inserted into the main text in coloured text-boxes - for example articles on China's one-child policy or the delicate art of cooking Beijing duck. The layout is user-friendly and the information generally accurate and useful.
One reservation would be that the guide's information about restaurants is not very useful for the budget traveller. You can find great food almost everywhere in Beijing in street-side noodle shops or in the shopping malls; you'll lose count of all the Beijing Duck-themed restaurants in the central area, and we never found a bad one. Also Beijing is a city packed with culture and history, and a further down-side to this pocket guide might be that due to its brevity it is a little short on detail for the visitor interested in the Forbidden City, the Ming Tombs or the Great Wall: such a visitor might be advised to seek out a larger guide, or one more focussed on his/her specialist interests. Also, you'll need a larger-scale map to find your way around street-by-street, as the scale of those in the guide is too small.
However for most casual visitors who have only a few days in Beijing, the LP "Best of" guide is OK.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I went to Beijing for a week in November 2010 and this book was a life saver. My boyfriend and myself are independent travellers who wanted to see all the sights but at our own pace and how the locals would not as part of an organised tour. The maps in this book really helped. All the places are in english with a chinese translation underneath which was extremely useful as virtually no-one outside your hotel will understand or speak english.I would highly recommend this book. The only negative is that some of the recommended restaurants are no longer there.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This guide is pretty good as Lonely Planet guides are but I found it hard to refer back to things i.e., eating and shopping is in a separate section and you had to keep referring to maps on other pages or in conjunction with cultural sights in that area. It would have been more useful to do it area by area and include each subject within that. Beijing is very spread out and I would recommend you visit area by area and as such a method of providing information by area would have been more useful (to me). I used it in conjunction with the Dorling Kindersley Top Ten Guide which was better in this regard and if I had to choose, I guess it would have been the latter for size and convenience. I would like to point out that most if not all places recommended are easy to find if you persevere - again don't underestimate the distances and assume you have missed something.
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Stef
This is OK if you just want an overview of most places and things to do in Beijing but it doesn't go into much depth. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Stef
Need Two Guidebooks!
The Lonely Planet Beijing book is excellent in that is gives good detail about sites including opening hours, prices and the names in Chinese characters as well as helpful advice. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mobile Minx
A really good introduction
Excellent preparation for a visit to Beijing, and good to have with you there too. I found the inside cover map a bit unwieldy though. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Flora Lime
Lonely Planet guide
Excellent product as ever. Only one restaurant did I disagree with as no English menu was available and the book said there was. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mandy Connelly
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