Customer Review: In one word: fantastic! This book was absolutely incredible. Everything is included from detailed maps, admission costs and hours to every attraction, restaurants and bars, even the VAT rebate for travelers is mentioned. I just returned from a trip around Madrid, Barcelona and Cordoba and found... more info
Customer Review: I used both the Rough Guide as well as TimeOut to research my recent trip to Buenos Aires and the Rough Guide is easily the better of the two. Although TimeOut adds a few things here and there, it became clear early on that it would merely be used to augment the Rough Guide. Rough Guide Buenos Aires... more info
Customer Review: I've been a huge fan of Rough Guides and have used them extensively over the past 15 years or so while traveling to various countries. The Rough Guide to Chile 3 was a relative disappointment. Information is buried in text and hard to parse. I found the Fodor's to be much, much more useful to the... more info
Customer Review: The book's title comes from the company motto for Rough Guides. Yet, compared to the alluring photos and graphics of the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides' Where To Go When and Lonely Planet's The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World, this response from the editors of the Rough Guides... more info
Customer Review: Overall it's a very good guide with plenty of useful information for your first time in the country, but at the same time it's so focused on the point of view of the tourist that you probably will have a skewed perception of your experience if you focus only on the suggestions given. One example of... more info
Customer Review: I wanted a guidebook to help me plan a trip to Egypt and ordered this one. It certainly helped, particularly in selecting what we wanted to include in our sightseeing tours.
Customer Review: I bought this guidebook for a March 2008 trip of two weeks of independant travel because Rough Guide is my usual preference--historical information, little towns, etc are as usual, better than the competitors. In the practical information, however, I encountered problem after problem. For... more info
Customer Review: I received a brand new book and it immediately fell apart so I returned it. Content seemed fine, but pages falling out makes for a very inconvenient travel guide.