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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book based on the reviews and in the hope that it would be up-to-date as it is re-released every year.
The book is not user friendly at all. The areas are not listed by arrondisement or in any useful order, the maps are at odd points in the book and therefore you cannot flick to them easily, the sections are long winded and inaccurrate. It really is an incredibly frustrating book.
A Sunday Times article about eating in Paris recommended a restaurant the week before I visited Paris (August bank holiday), when I looked it up in the Time Out guide, it was listed as closed in August. Based on the fact that The Times had recommended it so recently we went anyway - it was not closed in August and as far as I know never does close in August. We ditched the book after that in favour of local magazines.
The book is not user friendly at all. The areas are not listed by arrondisement or in any useful order, the maps are at odd points in the book and therefore you cannot flick to them easily, the sections are long winded and inaccurrate. It really is an incredibly frustrating book.
A Sunday Times article about eating in Paris recommended a restaurant the week before I visited Paris (August bank holiday), when I looked it up in the Time Out guide, it was listed as closed in August. Based on the fact that The Times had recommended it so recently we went anyway - it was not closed in August and as far as I know never does close in August. We ditched the book after that in favour of local magazines.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Time Out guides have a quality of their own, best summed up by saying it's like having a friend who lives there. Every guide book has a good list of attractions, restaurants, hotels and so on. The Time Out guides go one better: they rate them in the language a friend might use. 'Don't bother, it's over-priced and over-rated.' Or: 'Don't miss this. It's the one the locals go to rather than the tourist trap over the road.' Using Time Out guides I've avoided being ripped off by private car parks in Crete, found the best flamenco bar in Seville (where entry is free) and now the modestly priced hotel in Paris where Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and their mates used to hang out. (Was the cigarette burn in the carpet left there by Pablo, we wondered?) There are penty of good guides. Time Out guides are the best.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had in my possession a copy of the Rough Guide which was brilliant. Every restaurant it recommended was outstanding and every place was a treasure. But then I lost it. This Time Out book tempted me away. That was such a mistake. I cannot fault it's guides on all other subjects, but the restaurant guides were seriously misguided. Places they said were great were nothing short of average. It really let me down on what should have been a very special weekend away.
It could also learn from the Rough Guide's free pull out map which was very handy indeed.
It could also learn from the Rough Guide's free pull out map which was very handy indeed.
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Too hip to be useful
If it's your first trip to Paris and if you want a guide to get a taste of "real" Paris, "traditional" Paris, or "French" Paris then this isn't the guide for you. Read more
Published 3 months ago by manatleisure
Good comprehensive Paris guide
I like the way this guide is laid out, with the main features of each area of Paris described in turn. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Acorn
I prefer Lonely Planet...
The two restaurants we decided to go to (from this book) had closed down!!! Disaster!
Published 21 months ago by sgtpepper9
Excellent travelling companion
The guide was invaluable on a recent weekend trip to Paris. Factually correct with lots of practical, up to date and new interesting facts and information. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Maris Natrin
The "Je ne sais quoi de Paris"
Having been to Paris many times before, the need for a guidebook did not strike me as a necessity, but when I got this guide as a birthday present, I was most pleasantly surprised... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2008 by R. Worthington
Out and about in Paris
I took this book as my guide for my first trip to Paris in June 2006.
A handy (handbag) sized book with plenty of information and plenty of colour pictures. Read more
A handy (handbag) sized book with plenty of information and plenty of colour pictures. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2006 by dr_sasp
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