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Frommer's Florence, Tuscany & Umbria (Frommer's Complete) |  | Author: John Moretti
Publisher: Frommers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 66552
Media: Paperback
Edition: 7
Pages: 488
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0470528044
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9780470528044
ASIN: 0470528044
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
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Product Description
Experience Siena's Palio, the centuries-old bareback horse race that runs through the city's Piazza del Campo. See chapter 7. Foldout map, plus detailed maps throughout Exact prices, directions, opening hours,and other practical information Candid reviews of hotels and restaurants,plus sights, shopping, and nightlife Itineraries, walking tours, and trip-planning ideas Insider tips from local expert authors
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 very good comprehensive book for travelers February 25, 2010
LC (Sarasota, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have looked at all the guides rick steves, fodors, lonely planet, and michelin. I found the frommers to be the most helpful and diverse - the guide recommends venues in every town/city that will appeal to families, romantics, wine/food lovers, etc. I looked at the 4 reviews before this review and I think those reviews are for an older edition of the book. Those reviews were written in 2009 and this book came out in February 2010.
Frommer's Florence, Tuscany, and Umbria August 29, 2009
A. Weaver
Very nice product! Very helpful for my 4 months in Italy! Be sure to read about the Chocolate Festival in Perugia!
Great guide! December 29, 2009
Ursiform (Torrance, CA USA)
I'm planning a trip to Tuscany and Umbria next fall (I've been to Florence before), and found the Frommer's Italy 2010 guide* so helpful I bought this more focused guide.
Some of what I said about the broader guide applies to this this one, as well: Like the Michelin guide, it rates key attractions with one to three stars. While I would never plan a trip based on the ratings of a single guidebook, I do find the star ratings helpful in elucidating the author's opinions in a way that sifting through different adjectives in descriptions isn't. Unlike the Michelin guide this book groups cities by geography (which is how you would visit them) rather than alphabetically across the whole country. It also has more detail on hotels. In fact, the extensive descriptions of hotels is one of the reasons I found this guide so useful.
While the Italy guide covers Florance and Tuscany, Umbria, and The Marches in two chapters and less than 200 pages, this guide offers more than 400 pages devoted to Florence, Tuscany, and Umbria. (Yes, Florence is in Tuscany, but both guides treat it separately.)
This guide has a different author from the Italy guide, and not all recommendations line up between the guides. But, as I have said, I wouldn't plan a trip based on one author's opinion, so that's not all bad. Overall, I have found this guide to be extremely helpful, and the small, pull-out map of Tuscany and Umbria included is very helpful; I'd been looking, unsuccessfully, for a map of that size and scale!
One thing the guide does not have is photos; but combine the pictorial Eyewitness guides** with the wealth of prose information in this book and you have a winning combination.
Note: This review is of the 6th Edition published in 2008. Other reviews may be of different editions.
* Frommer's Italy 2010 (Frommer's Color Complete Guides)
** Florence and Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Guides); Umbria (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
 Awful. Do not buy this! December 3, 2009
C. Brown (MD)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Restaurant reviews were soooooo bad. We found much better and cheaper restaurants on our own after we gave up on these probably paid advertisements! Frommers should be ashamed at the difference between what they write and what is reality.
The guide to get around is useless, with maps poorly designed and at the wrong detail level for what was needed. My favorite was 'now you are here and completely lost, why not buy our other book that has details!' Thanks god I have an iphone that got me around.
Frommers is dead to me. Give then less that 1 star.
edit**** forgot the useful Children's Activities listed here are terrible. Do not waste your time and effort going to Pinocchio Park no matter what the book says! It is not cute, whimsical or entertaining for the kids or adults. I found much more accurate reviews of places and food on another well known 'tripadvisor' website. Invest some time before hand and do not buy this book! I cannot even give you my copy since it was so useless we left it in Italy!
Beware the restaurant recommendations July 2, 2006
Philip Varghese (Austin, TX)
11 out of 19 found this review helpful
While we found the guidebooks useful in some ways, the restaurant recommendations were extremely disappointing. We ate at two of the recommended restaurants (one recommended by the Frommer Tuscany guidebook, the other by the Frommer Rome guidebook) during a week long stay in Italy. They were the most average meals we had - certainly they were not worth the stars they were given by Frommer. The Rome guidebook also recommended a restaurant (Insalata Ricca) near Piazza Navona without mentioning it was part of a chain. We walked several blocks to this location with family who wanted a light meal before catching the train (we didn't eat there ourselves) and later discovered that there was another one right around the corner from our hotel. I do not plan on buying a Frommer's guidebook again, because I can't trust their recommendations. The facts and history are available in other guidebooks too.
I should also mention that the guidebook claimed that parking in Siena was exorbitantly expensive. Perhaps that is true if one parks the car and stays in a hotel in the city for several days. We visited the city for about 8 hours and paid about $15 which didn't seem too bad.
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