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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 Door—in Edmonds, Washington, just north of Seattle—Rick's mission is to make European travel fun, affordable, and culturally broadening for Americans.
Gene Openshaw is a writer, composer, tour guide, and lecturer on art and history. Specializing in writing walking tours of Europe's cultural sights, Gene has coauthored 10 of Rick's books and contributes to Rick's public television series. As a composer, Gene has written a full-length opera (Matter), a violin sonata, and dozens of songs. He lives near Seattle with his daughter, and roots for the Mariners in good times and bad.
Gene Openshaw is a writer, composer, tour guide, and lecturer on art and history. Specializing in writing walking tours of Europe's cultural sights, Gene has coauthored 10 of Rick's books and contributes to Rick's public television series. As a composer, Gene has written a full-length opera (Matter), a violin sonata, and dozens of songs. He lives near Seattle with his daughter, and roots for the Mariners in good times and bad.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Lotte
on June 19, 2011
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The Pocket London guide was my first encounter with Rick Steves' books. I found the book to be concise with just the right amount of information. Sometimes travel books can get too in depth when you just need a quick reference so the pocket guide was great. It gave short descriptions and contained all of the main things to do in London. I love the fact that the book offers audio tours you can get for free from iTunes. You can simply bring your iPod and listen to the tour. I used the audio tour at St. Paul's Cathedral. It also has a small tour in the book for places such as the British Museum. You just read along and go where it tells you and it will give descriptions about a few of the things you are seeing. The pull out map it included was very helpful and I used it during my whole trip. It had all the major attractions on it which made it easy to see where you were and how to make a plan to get to the next attraction. The only thing that this book lacked for me was good recommendations for restaurants. I prefer to stay away from chains and enjoy quality food. The Pocket London book only gave a few recommendations none of which particularly met my eating out standards. Then again I did not buy this book for the restaurants it included. I could have done without that section completely. Overall this book is great for giving descriptions on sightseeing attractions and museums. I would definitely buy another pocket guide from Rick Steves' for another city I visit.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Cathy
on September 21, 2011
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I have used Rick Steves' books before while travelling in Europe, and often end up with a crowd as I am reading aloud from some of his passages. This trip with my London book was no different. And the size of the book is small enough to fit in my purse. We also went to many restaurants he suggested, and not only were they very good (particularly for the money), we were often the only tourists in the place. That is my favorite way to experience a locale. I love to understand what it is like to be a local. Thanks, Rick.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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on August 31, 2013
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Rick Steves is one of the most popular series of guides to travel. We were in London for 4 days this summer, and used the book as a quick reference guide. The organization of the book is much like the other guides. It is about 4.5 by 6 inches, 244 pages or so. The first pages of introduction gives a synopsis of the major tourist areas and a schematic of the Underground. The Tube generally circumnavigates the major neighborhoods of the London. What follows are more detailed self-guided tours of Westminster Abbey, National Gallery Museum, British Museum, British LIbrary, st. Paul's Tower of London.
The back of the book includes a detailed map of London with Underground stops, and an Underground map. This map is really good. It was much better than the free map distributed by the hotel, which was festooned with ads. We were able to navigate most of London that we wanted to walk to. The streets are well-marked. The attractions are accurately placed. And the map is quite sturdy. Through all of our flipping and digging through backpacks, it only ripped in the corner attached to the book. London is perhaps the city with the most accessible, reliable public transit in the world. Having the transit map was invaluable.
There were a few helpful hints that are not clearly stated in the guide. For instance, Oyster Cards (passes for the Underground that can be pre-loaded with money) can be purchased from the London Transit website and can be sent to your home BEFORE the trip. Children up to age 18 do not use Oyster Cards but need to purchase transit cards (check the website for details). We also bought theater tickets from the TKTS booth in Leicester Sq. (where you can get tickets discounted for the same day, up to 50% off) This was not marked on the map.Read more ›
The back of the book includes a detailed map of London with Underground stops, and an Underground map. This map is really good. It was much better than the free map distributed by the hotel, which was festooned with ads. We were able to navigate most of London that we wanted to walk to. The streets are well-marked. The attractions are accurately placed. And the map is quite sturdy. Through all of our flipping and digging through backpacks, it only ripped in the corner attached to the book. London is perhaps the city with the most accessible, reliable public transit in the world. Having the transit map was invaluable.
There were a few helpful hints that are not clearly stated in the guide. For instance, Oyster Cards (passes for the Underground that can be pre-loaded with money) can be purchased from the London Transit website and can be sent to your home BEFORE the trip. Children up to age 18 do not use Oyster Cards but need to purchase transit cards (check the website for details). We also bought theater tickets from the TKTS booth in Leicester Sq. (where you can get tickets discounted for the same day, up to 50% off) This was not marked on the map.Read more ›
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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on September 8, 2012
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Good enough for a short trip. It hits the major sights in Central London and the Pocket London is much handier than his full-size guides. The detachable map in the back was helpful and it includes a Tube map for Zone 1.
If you plan to spend more than 2 days in London, I would recommend getting Rick Steves' London instead of Rick Steves' Pocket London.
If you plan to spend more than 2 days in London, I would recommend getting Rick Steves' London instead of Rick Steves' Pocket London.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Alexis
on July 15, 2014
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This is a great book that I bought in conjunction with the England DVD and full London guidebook by Rick Steves, Of all three, this was perhaps the least useful to me. The DVD gave me the main ideas of what I wanted to do during my 10 day London vacation, and the full guidebook helped me plan out all the details. The pocket guide, while a nice colorful little book, was not really needed. I didn't even take it with me to London, and just took the full guidebook instead. The one part of the pocket guide I did take and use constantly during my trip was the tear out map in the back of the guide. This alone was worth the price of the book. I loved it not only for the street map, but also for the tube map on the back. The only thing to note is that it is more of a major streets only map, and when I needed a more detailed street map, I had to pull out my London Streetwise map that I had purchased separately.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Kristen
on February 22, 2012
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I went on a RS Europe guidebook binge recently and I have found that these pocket guides just aren't that necessary. There is much more (if any...) info than in the general, "Best of" books he publishes. Save your money - just buy the whole year (will likely include more cities than you plan to include anyway) and take good notes. Also, make sure you check out his website if you want the free tour info - it's all on there for free. Cheers!
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