Rick Steves' Vienna, Salzburg & Tirol Author: Rick Steves | Language: English | ISBN:
B0050BWYEY | Format: EPUB
Rick Steves' Vienna, Salzburg & Tirol Description
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Vienna.
With this guide, you'll explore elegant Vienna—the epicenter of opera, coffee, Art Nouveau, and waltz music. Meander through Habsburg palaces and nibble a Sacher torte in a velvet-lined café. In the evening, catch a classical concert, or sip wine with the locals in a traditional Heuriger garden. Beyone Vienna, stroll the Baroque street of Salzburg, home to Mozart and The Sound of Music. For a taste of the Alpine living, head to the snowy peaks and green valleys of Tirol.
Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. He’ll help you plan where to go and what to see, depending on the length of your trip. You’ll get up-to-date recommendations about what is worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.
- File Size: 28063 KB
- Print Length: 520 pages
- Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; Third Edition edition (May 28, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0050BWYEY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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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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