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What Will Your Madrid Encounter Be?
Tucking in to just one more plate of tapas in La Latina
Upgrading your wardrobe in Salamanca's designer boutiques
Brushing up on your Velazquez in the Museo del Prado
Making like a genuine Madrileno over a glass of "vermut" in Casa Alberto
Watching Real Madrid's "galacticos" knock one in the back of the net at the Bernabeu
Hitting the bars at midnight hitting your bed at dawn
Discover Twice The City In Half The Time
Full-color pull-out map and detailed neighborhood maps for easy navigation
Our resident author recommends the very best sights, restaurants, shops and entertainment
Unique itineraries and highlights help you make the most of a short trip
Madrid residents share their tips on the city's best parks, restaurants, bars and barrios
Tucking in to just one more plate of tapas in La Latina
Upgrading your wardrobe in Salamanca's designer boutiques
Brushing up on your Velazquez in the Museo del Prado
Making like a genuine Madrileno over a glass of "vermut" in Casa Alberto
Watching Real Madrid's "galacticos" knock one in the back of the net at the Bernabeu
Hitting the bars at midnight hitting your bed at dawn
Discover Twice The City In Half The Time
Full-color pull-out map and detailed neighborhood maps for easy navigation
Our resident author recommends the very best sights, restaurants, shops and entertainment
Unique itineraries and highlights help you make the most of a short trip
Madrid residents share their tips on the city's best parks, restaurants, bars and barrios
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I opted for the Lonely Planet guide as it was published only last year, and guide books tend to date very quickly.
The information provided did seem to be wide-ranging and was up to date on the whole, but the layout of the guide is incredibly frustrating. The maps to each section have numbered sites on them, but the numbers don't correspond to the text. You have to figure out what place the number is referring to yourself. This is enormously irritating.
The pull out map is not convenient for use around the city. You will find a better free map in the Madrid tourist offices.
In future I think I will stick to Rough Guide, as although the content of the Lonely Planet guide seemed fine, the presentation has been badly thought out.
The information provided did seem to be wide-ranging and was up to date on the whole, but the layout of the guide is incredibly frustrating. The maps to each section have numbered sites on them, but the numbers don't correspond to the text. You have to figure out what place the number is referring to yourself. This is enormously irritating.
The pull out map is not convenient for use around the city. You will find a better free map in the Madrid tourist offices.
In future I think I will stick to Rough Guide, as although the content of the Lonely Planet guide seemed fine, the presentation has been badly thought out.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Great guide as Lonely Planet always used to be! You can fly into town and with nothing more than this book, find accomodation, the best tapas bars, great music clubs and discover all the hidden interesting things to see. I must stress buy this issue because my experience of recent guides ( particularly the latest Andalucia guide ) is that the new format is awful. More suited to coach trip holidayers than the independant traveller that LP originally targetted.
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The description of the barrios' character and style barely resembled the reality.
On the positive side I should say the guide recommended a couple of places for eating (Almendro 13 and Casa Lucas) that were indeed very good. But then the guide got us into a tourist trap, a restaurant rated as very good for paeilla that was in fact a rip off with below average food.
The truly upsetting thing though is that the guide does not make any mention of one of Madrid's best jewels, the temple of Debod, an ancient Egyptian temple of the second century BC, originally coming from the Nile valley and rebuilt stone by stone in Madrid - how can they have missed that?? It's 10 minutes walk from the Palacio Reale so it's in the city centre!
On the positive side I should say the guide recommended a couple of places for eating (Almendro 13 and Casa Lucas) that were indeed very good. But then the guide got us into a tourist trap, a restaurant rated as very good for paeilla that was in fact a rip off with below average food.
The truly upsetting thing though is that the guide does not make any mention of one of Madrid's best jewels, the temple of Debod, an ancient Egyptian temple of the second century BC, originally coming from the Nile valley and rebuilt stone by stone in Madrid - how can they have missed that?? It's 10 minutes walk from the Palacio Reale so it's in the city centre!
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Everytime I go for holiday somewhere, I always get one of these Lonely Planet Encounter guides, they are very useful, help me plan my visit and decide what I want to see and what I... Read more
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Great for a weekend away
Having bought and relied upon this book for a long weekend in Madrid a couple of months ago, I am a bit confused about some of the previous reviews. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Rave
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