Prague (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
- ISBN13: 9780756660499
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Few cities have as much to offer as Prague, so it can be difficult to decide how best to spend your time, but the Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you to get the most from your stay. This guide will introduce you to Prague by locating the city geographically, setting modern Prague in its historical context. Learn about the city’s main attractions and sights including a feature on the River Vltava. Discover other places around Prague with the day trips listed in the section Prague Area by Area. It is the carefully researched tips for hotels and restaurants, shops, markets, cafes, bars, entertainment and sporting events that separates this guide from the rest. Let the maps, photography and detailed illustration of the Eyewitness Travel Guide show you what others only tell you.
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Review by Shelli Meyers for Prague (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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A chance acquisition of the Prague Eyewitness Travel Guide has made me a rabid and devoted fan of the entire series. Although many travel guides offer excellent text content in terms of descriptions and reviews (Lonely Planet comes to mind), what makes the Eyewitness series such a standout is its innovative use of (glossy, color) photographs and illustrations. The Eyewitness guides use visual displays to convey information that cannot be easily gleaned otherwise, yet is extremely helpful to the travel experience.
Here are just a few examples, from the Prague guide:
* The illustration of the Charles Bridge identifies each statue by the saint’s name; information which is not completely obvious (at least not to non-Czech speakers) when you’re standing in front of one.
* Cutaway illustrations of churches, museums, etc. identify rooms, sections, items, etc., making it easy to home in on areas of interest, or to identify otherwise unlabeled features.
* Photographs of the outside of the buildings of reviewed attractions.
* Photographs of paper and coin currency.
* Photographs and explanations of foods and beverages.
* My personal favorite: photographs of automatic metro ticket machines with detailed instructions on how to use them.
Don’t miss these exceptional and stunningly beautiful guides.
Review by A. Hines for Prague (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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This book blew my mind. Before departing, it helped excite me about the people, history and art of the Czech Republic. Upon arrival, it served as the most perfect guide to Prague. From exquisite must-do walks to the breakdown and illustration of statues along the Charles Bridge, it covered everything worth seeing in Prague. Because of the precise maps and excellent directions, my friends and I were able to cover historic Prague in 4 days, visiting every site that we wanted to because we had such an excellent device for orienting ourselves. I would highly recommend this book to any traveler who loves to understand the history and artistic intricacies of a region. I plan to buy Eyewitness Travel Guides for all my future adventures.
Review by ROBERT KELLEHER for Prague (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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Just returned from the Czech & Slovak Republics. Recommend this book highly for use in Prague – a delightful, friendly city full of great castles, museums, restaurants, and shopping (and hotels that need to be air-conditioned). This book has good details, pictures, maps. Very helpful! Phrase section was all that was needed, so don’t buy an extra phrase book.
Review by for Prague (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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This is one of the best Guide I’ve ever used. It has many illustrations and tips. It provides you with a historical background of Prague. It helps in guiding your tours as it has descriptions + addresses of all monuments, restaurants, shops, … It has also street’s map,… There are many illuastrations in this book that you’ll certainly need to label taken photos. It offers you a virtual tour of the city showing its best attractions.
Review by S. O’Farrell for Prague (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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The glossiness and ease of use for this guide is impressive. Beautiful pictures are line captioned to maps and its sturdiness should endure most accidental beer spills and coffee stains. Its color coded map is ideal for any tourist and essential as Prague’s streets don’t align in a grid, but rather stretch out across the city like spider’s web.
However, as a resident of Prague I can tell you several of the restaurant and hotels reviews are woefully out-of-date. The Square no longer exists. It’s a Starbucks and rumors persist others will soon follow (2009/2010). There is also no mention of the recently awarded Michelin stars now in Prague: Aromi, Le Terroir, Allegro, and Le Cornichon. And La Dégustation Bohême Bourgeoise might be the best. Your best bet is to consult with Praguepost’s website or thepraguespoon.com. Both publish a thorough listing and rating of Prague’s restaurants. Additionally try Inyourpocket.
Some of the hotel reviews in Eyewitness are somewhat dubious and seed my suspicion that the practice of pay for glowing reviews still survives. There is also no mention of rowdy stag groups and the hotels which they favor (read: abuse). For some perspective on time, the Mandarin hotel has been opened since 2006 yet still is MIA in this guide, now 2009.
So my best advice for selecting a travelers guide solely for restaurant and hotel reviews is don’t, but if you must, first review a guide of a city you know well (in the same publisher’s series, of course). If the publisher’s series lags behind the changes to hotels and restaurants in a city you know well, imagine its failure in measuring Prague’s hotels and restaurants. Of course, this doesn’t apply to Prague’s historical points of interest as they’ve remained quite constant over the past several centuries.