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Fodor's Beijing, 2nd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)

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  • EAN: 9781400008186
  • Manufacturer: Fodor's

Editorial Reviews:

  • Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

    Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Beijing!

    •Updated frequently, Fodor’s Beijing provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

    •Fodor’s Beijing features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

    •If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Beijing.

    •Experience Beijing like a local! Fodor’s Beijing includes unique photo-features that impart the city’s culture, covering bustling markets, weird and wonderful operas, the vast Forbidden City, memorable Great Wall trips, and much more!

    •Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

    •Our crisp, clean maps have even more depth and detail. A pullout city and four-color transit maps make it easier than ever to sail in, out, and around town.

    Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

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  • Summary: Hopelessly out of date
  • Comment: This book's 2009 copyright is very misleading. The book is hopelessly out of date. For example, it doesn't even mention the 2008 Olympic venues or the fabulous hotels and other facilities that were built for the Olympics. It doesn't show the ring roads or new subway lines and highways. We stayed in the fabulous Intercontinental Beichen Hotel next to the new Convention Center, the Water Cube, and the Bird's Nest, none of which appeared anywhere in any of Fodor's Guides to Beijing. The maps and directions were useless to us.
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  • Summary: Don't purchase.
  • Comment: I have two major complaints about this book, the first is the map. It covers too small of an area and is not detailed enough(missing major streets). The second is the content. The book reads as a bad last minute project by the publishing house. It also has an underlining attitude that one should not expect to be asked to learn Chinese culture during sightseeing, nor be asked to pay a fair price for an item. It is almost as if the book doesn't expect the city to be as civilized and advanced as it is. Don't purchase this book. It was of no use to us on our travels.