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'Bradt's award-winning Hungary is the most comprehensive guide on the market ..... Entertaining and engaging this is a book for reading - not just for reference.' RCI magazine
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With numerous air and rail links, keen foreign interest in the local property market, a solid spot in the world's top-10 conference destinations for business, and significant recent investment in hotels, spas and other facilities, Hungary's tourist industry is booming. The first edition of Bradt's Hungary was voted Best Guide Book of the Year by the British Guild of Travel Writers; this thoroughly updated second edition further strengthens the guide, offering expanded coverage of the resort-destination of Lake Balaton (which now has its own airport), new walking trails in the countryside, details of the best thermal baths, information on dental and medical tourism, and much more.
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Pretty Much the Best Guidebook to Hungary!,
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This review is from: Hungary (Bradt Travel Guides) (Paperback)
Bradt has long been known for publishing detailed guides to obscure countries and regions few other publishers bother with - their guides to several countries in Africa or the Balkans are the only ones available.
Hungary is very different though: It is one of the most visited countries in Eastern Europe, already covered by all major guidebook publishers. So I was quite curious to see what Bradt could make of it - all the more so as it is my homeland, actually! I first saw the book in a store in Singapore, and immediatey found it so good that I decided to order a copy once back home to be able to read it more thoroughly. In the end, I have concluded that this is probably the best guide to Hungary ever published abroad! It is very comprehensive, covering more places than the competition (Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, etc.). It excels in covering less standard attractions such as ecotourism, birdwatching and nature reserves. It contains lots of useful and insightful background information, often in boxed texts scattered throughout the guide. All this comes with most of the practical info you could expect: details on places to stay from campsites to five-star hotels, recommended places to eat, details on getting to the places described by public transport, including its frequency. And to top it all, the style is perhaps the most entertaining of all Bradt guides I have read, it is opinionated, amusing and convys an obvious fondness of the country. OK, now for the shortcomings - surely no book can be perfect, right? 1) Coverage of budget accomodation options is limited, for some places noting none, for others only one or two. This, and maybe the next I mention, makes Lonely Planet perhaps the better choice for budget travellers (only!). 2) For public transport, fares and length of journey are rarely given. Of course you can easily find these details out once in Hungary. 3) All that witty background info is not always correct! As examples, the authors try and exaggrate the "exoticness" of Hungarians by claiming their language is unrelated to others in Europe (dismissing the well-proven, long-known fact that it belongs to the Finno-Ugric group like Finnish and Estonian) and by claiming that the Hungarians' ancestral homeland lies in "Central Asia" between the Volga River and the Urals - anyone with elementary geography or a map on hand will see that the area mentioned is in European Russia, not in Central Asia! ;-) But the positives well and truly outweigh these shortcomings (which will hopefully be corrected in the next edition), and for most people planning to visit Hungary I can only recommend this book most highly! The only guidebook I found even more comprehensive is the locally published, encyclopedic "Out and About in Hungary" (ISBN: 9639490261) which covers even more places with great photos, but has none of the practical info. That book is widely available in good bookstores in Hungary, but not on Amazon.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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An ideal guide,
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This review is from: Hungary (Bradt Travel Guides) (Paperback)
This book is everything a guide book should be - informative, inspiring, educational & as a bonus - amusing. It is not just a picture book like some guides- the writing style is really interesting which makes you want to read further & discover more. We found it extremely useful & would recommend it.
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Witty and well written: brilliant book,
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This review is from: Hungary (Bradt Travel Guides) (Paperback)
The authors' enthusiasm for Hungary is clear - it's fantastically informative, really easy to navigate and a great read. And it's funny. Love the information boxes. We used it mainly in Budapest but have now read most of the rest of the book, too. Great stuff.
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