DK's Eyewitness Travel guides show you the places you’re planning to visit, using stunning photographs, useful maps and helpful cutaway drawings. The guidebooks present not only practical travel tips but also historical timelines and cultural insights.
- Eyewitness Travel guidebooks are packed with exquisite photos.
- "Cutaway” pages showcase the unique features of each major sight.
- Each guidebook is checked for accuracy each year.
- The guidebooks includeplenty of maps as well as hotel and restaurant listings.
- Like many guidebooks, Eyewitness Travel guides are expensive.
- Coverage of small towns and rural sights is somewhat limited.
- If you’re looking for a comprehensive list of hotels or restaurants, buy an additional guidebook.
- Each Eyewitness Travel guidebook is divided into four sections.
- The “Introduction” section tells you why visiting the country, region or city is worth your time and suggests itineraries.
- The area-by-area section of each Eyewitness Travel guidebook takes you to the important sights of the country or region.
- The third section, “Travellers’ Needs,” includes hotel and restaurant listings.
- You’ll also find shopping information and entertainment options – everything from opera to street performances.
- You’ll find “Survival Guide” facts and tips in the book’s fourth section.
- Each paragraph of the "Survival Guide" offers a useful hint. From pay phones to parking information, it’s all here.
I began my travels as a high school student, using the popular Let’s Go series, which is aimed at the budget / backpacking traveler. Now that I’ve left my travel-on-a-shoestring days behind, I really appreciate the combination of cultural information, architectural and artistic details and useful practicalities that DK’s Eyewitness Travel guidebooks provide.
If you’re visiting a country or city for the first time, you’ll love the practical details offered by Eyewitness Travel guides. The books include websites, tourist information office locations and transportation options for even the smallest towns. The “Travellers’ Needs” and “Survival Guide” sections incorporate all sorts of little details that many other series exclude, such as driving information. You’ll learn how to pay tolls, whether you can use a cell phone while driving and many other important particulars.
While Eyewitness Travel guidebooks include many hotel and restaurant recommendations, the listings focus on just a few establishments in each area. The authors have chosen to provide detailed information on a smaller number of hotels rather than present a laundry list of lodging choices. This can be frustrating if you’re traveling without advance hotel reservations; once you exhaust the guidebook’s short list, you’re on your own.
In SummaryEyewitness Travel guidebooks offer not only eye-catching photographs but also a wealth of useful travel information. You could definitely plan an entire trip using nothing but an Eyewitness Travel guide. The series’ focus on cultural, artistic and historical details adds depth and interest to each country, regional and city guidebook.
