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Budapest (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dk Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Category: Book
List Price: $23.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 56508
Media: Turtleback
Edition: Revised & Updated
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0756624355
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.39120454
EAN: 9780756624354
ASIN: 0756624355
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
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Product Description
The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you! More than 700 full-color photographs, precise street-by-street maps, and vivid 3-D illustrated aerial views guide you through Budapest's six main districts. View Mayas Church, the Gellert Hotel and Baths Complex, Parliament, St. Stephen's Basilica, the Hungarian National Museum, and the State Opera House. A special section showcases the major works housed in the Hungarian National Gallery. Beyond Budapest, visit the remains of the Roman town Aquincum, and day or night excursions to the charming villages beyond the city. The guide also includes two guided walks, one to Obuda and the other around Margaret Island, in the middle of the Danube River. Other informative features spotlight Hungarian cuisine, local spirits, traditional folk crafts, and much more. DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide: Budapest is an impressive gateway to the treasures of this fascinating eastern European city.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Excellent July 24, 2008
The eyewitness guides are a pleasure to read .Many great pictures and plenty of detail but not as heavy as some guides .I am as pleased with this one as the others I already own .These guides are books you actually pick up and read again after you have completed your trip.
A great complement to Top 10 Budapest! June 28, 2008
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
Great organization, eye-catching photography, well written narrative and superb cartography! DK Eyewitness Travel guides have got it all but, for me, it's the photography that really separates them from the competition. And "Budapest" covers it all - restaurants, music, beer halls, walks, art galleries, museums, spas, architecture, palaces, hotels, cafes, theatres and churches. And all of the information is organized by neighbourhood in the city so I can make the most effective use of my time once I'm in a certain area.
Here's my "best practices" strategy. Read "Top 10 Budapest" first. Make some basic choices, get your mind wrapped around Budapest's geography and begin to localize your choices to certain areas. Fine tune your choice and plan your attack day by day by reading "Budapest". Familiarize yourself with some of the local customes by reading the basic country information in the back of the larger "Budapest" guide - currency, communications, etiquette, food, beer and wine, local transportation and specialized hints like local tipping practices.
Why not five stars? Frankly, with the internet now providing so much current information, I can't see the value in attempting to include lengthy (and probably outdated) lists of hotels and restaurants in densely packed small print index lists at the back of a book like this.
Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
Budapest at its best May 9, 2008
As always DK travel guides are EXCELLENT complete, well written and easy to use, also make very interesting reading to get to know a city with out travelling or prior to getting there.
Pretty good November 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pretty good travel book, and is a good general guide to the city and surrounding areas. The gaps, however, could be a problem for someone who is not confident enough to piece it out with the locals with hand gestures and sometimes limited english. That said, it provides enough info about the big sites to give you a good walking tour of them.
The restaurant suggestions were 100% on with the ones we tried. However, due to slightly unusual Hungarian street and business naming conventions, the addresses were sometimes a little off or confusing. Also, the dictionary in the back lacked some fairly obvious terms, and this is important in Budapest as many seemingly important signs aren't translated into English (or any other language, for that matter).
All-in-all, a pretty good guide, and up to the typical DK experience.
Excellent May 16, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Like all the Eyewitness Travel Guides this one is excellent.
Filled with maps,glorious pictures,practical information,historical background, and great tips as to what-to-do and what-to see; it is a complete guide to the fascinating and beautiul cities of Buda and Pest. I would never travel to new cities without taking along one of these well researched and well written/edited guides.
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