Rick Steves' Vienna, Salzburg & Tirol Author: Visit Amazon's Rick Steves Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1612385451 | Format: PDF
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About the Author
Rick Steves has spent 100 days every year since 1973 exploring Europe. Rick produces a public television series (Rick Steves' Europe), a public radio show (Travel with Rick Steves), and an app and podcast (Rick Steves Audio Europe); writes a bestselling series of guidebooks and a nationally syndicated newspaper column; organizes guided tours that take thousands of travelers to Europe annually; and offers an information-packed website (RickSteves.com). With the help of his hardworking staff of 80 at Europe Through the Back Doorin Edmonds, Washington, just north of SeattleRick's mission is to make European travel fun, affordable, and culturally broadening for Americans.
- Series: Rick Steves
- Paperback: 520 pages
- Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; Third Edition edition (March 26, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1612385451
- ISBN-13: 978-1612385457
- Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Let me start out with the positive: if you are not much of traveler, this book will be good. It describes things adequately for the person who has perhaps never left the USA. The author guides you to all the most obvious tourist attractions and holds your hand through them.
However, I have traveled before, so this book was a disappointment.
Consider this: if you had no particular knowledge of Vienna, and if you made a list of what you can guess or what you already know about Vienna, what would be on your list? Well, you can guess that Vienna will have a cathedral of course, because all European cities do. And there will be museums, of course. Moreover, some king will have built a palace or two. And there will be a city center for walking; every city has all that. You might even have a Walt-Disney level of knowledge about Vienna, having heard of the Vienna Boys Choir or the Lippizaner Stallions.
If all that is true for you, then you lay out the content of this book. This book covers only the most obvious tourist attractions. There is very little information about things that are not totally obvious to begin with.
Would you buy a book about New York City that had one chapter each on: the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art? If so, then this Vienna guide is for you.
The Nightlife section is two (2!) pages. Surely, there is more happening in this city after dark.
What is good about this book: once you have been guided to an obvious spot, the author goes into loving detail about the place. You won't have to buy a museum guide, because this book will take you through in great detail. It is impressive in that respect.
The restaurant section was so-so.
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