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| Authors: Rick Steves, Steve Smith, Gene Openshaw
Publisher: John Muir Pubns
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 2055343
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 4.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1562614681
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.436104839
EAN: 9781562614683
ASIN: 1562614681
Publication Date: March 1999
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| Customer Reviews:
 Practical and thorough July 12, 2008
This book is great. It is detailed without being overwhelming and gives lots of great practical advice.
Rick Steves' Paris 2008 June 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great information and I love Rick Steves's books. I go to Paris next week and know his informative book will help me get around to the important sights.
 Doesn't really work on the Kindle June 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
While this is the usual good Rick Steves book, the Kindle edition lacks the maps (other than a few line drawings) which you need in a guidebook. So if you thought you could take this to Paris and use as your main guidebook, you would be disappointed. The text is fine, and is typically useful, but it is hard to figure out where things are without maps.
Fantastic Book for Paris--Highly Recommend June 12, 2008
I just returned from Paris and used this book every day on our trip. We were not disappointed. Rick helps you figure out how to get the most out of Paris for the number of days that you're there. He provides tips on how to save money (i.e., Paris Museum Pass worked great), how to avoid crowds, and gives his opinion on things that you shouldn't miss, which as a first time visitor to Paris I appreciated. Another great feature of his city tour books are the muesum guides. For the major museums, he provides a written guide (and for some museums free podcasts) on what to see. Each museum guide suggests exhibits to see and is accompanied with a short blurb about why this painting or exhibit is important. I've used the Paris book and the London book and have had very memorable trips. I highly recommend it.
This is the guide you BRING June 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Spending thousands of dollars and having it ruined by being unprepared is simply inexcusable. Rick Steves brilliant guidebooks ensure that this will never happen. There are many brilliant guidebook series...lonlely planet, rough guides, michelin...but none moreso than Rick Steves. This is the one guide that gives you everything. Good restaurant picks, sleeping options, general travel advice, and the one thing that distinguishes Rick Steves from the rest-sometimes humorous, sometimes emotional, but always interesting guided tours of the sights. I used Rick Steves' Paris 2007 (Rick Steves) on my trip last August, I purchased every guidebook under the sun, and this is the only one I ended up using while I was there. Simply put, this is the best Paris guidebook out there until Rick Steves' Paris 2009 (Rick Steves' Paris) is released.
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