Rick Steves' Paris 2010
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: Rick Steves, Steve Smith, Gene Openshaw
- Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
- Release Date: August 2009
- ISBN-10: 1598802879
- ISBN-13: 9781598802870
- List Price: $18.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryYou can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the City of Light—Paris. With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll explore the grand Champs-Elysées, the eye-popping Eiffel Tower, and the radiant cathedral of Notre-Dame. Learn how to save money and avoid the lines at the Louvre and Orsay Museums. Enjoy the ambience of Parisian neighborhoods, and take a day trip to the glittering palace of Versailles, or to the Champagne-soaked city of Reims. Then grab a café crème at a sidewalk café and listen to the hum of the city. You’ll see why Paris remains at the heart of global culture. Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants in delightful neighborhoods. You’ll learn how to navigate the Paris Métro, and which sights are worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Pages 90 - 138 are from the LONDON book.
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Received my Rick Steves' Paris 2010 book today (November 18, 2009) and pages 90 - 138 are from the LONDON book. Amazon is sending me a replacement, hopefully the replacement will be accurate.
Great for a first trip to Paris
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Rick Steves' guides are among the most practical and reliable, and also highly readable. In this guide, Steves focuses on the most important Paris sites, and gives great advice on accommodations and dining. Highly recommended for a first trip to Paris. For a second or later trip, you might want a supplementary guide--one that provides more detail about secondary sites if you aren't going to just visit the top sites again.
Paris 2010 by Rick Steves'
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I have just planned our trip to Paris and found his book to be invaluable. There is so much we want to see and do and Steves' suggested One, Two or Three Busy Days were perfect for our limited time.
Unacceptable. Still contains inaccurate info; guidance is poor.
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I purchased this book from Amazon for my trip to Paris on November 6-8 2009.
For me, this book was terrible. The information contained widespread inaccuracies, even after the corrections to the section on the Louvre. The guidance was specifically targetted to camera tot'n American tourist with their ubiquitous bottled water and map. It was a guide on how to be a tourist in Paris, rather than a guide on how to enjoy Paris the way the locals do. In retrospect, I probably should have known. There were so many clues.
Clue #1. Rick gives tips on where/how to fill up your water bottle.
Clue #2. Rick spoke negatively about a restaurant with a small menu. (WHAT?)
Clue #3. Rick seems to think that good table service in Paris is seeing your server a lot. (Actually in most of Europe, good service is your server leaving you alone to eat and socialize in peace)
Clue #4. Rick cautions you on eating weird food. Like organs. I half expected him to suggest that you bring your own food to eat.
Clue #5. Rick gives tips on souvenir shopping. No joke.
And so on and so forth. Look, if you're a tourist and like to do tourist things that have very little to do with the real Paris and the French culture, then this book is for you, assuming you can tolerate some misinformation. Otherwise, avoid.
Pages are still wrong!
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Just received my Paris book today (Sept 24, 2009) and pages 90 - 138 are from the London book. Amazon is sending me a replacement, we'll see if they get it right.
Update 9/28/09 - Amazon shipped replacement book - still had the wrong pages. I would not order this book from Amazon until they clear out the warehouse. Amazon=Fail.
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