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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful
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The Analytical Reviewer
on July 18, 2011
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You can see from my purchases that I own a lot of travel books. As I have gotten older I have been changing my travel style and with that, I need different books to address my new travel style. DK Eyewitness Top 10 is great as it really lays out the MUST things to do in a location. Then it gives you various top 10 lists for different contingencies, e.g. Top 10 things to do if it rains, Top 10 things for a romantic afternoon, etc. I still couple my travels with the standard Lonely Planet and do so dependent upon the destination, but these have been great little infromational tools. If you are headed to Amsterdam and want to know the best coffeeshops or the smart shops, don't bother. These books are aimed at adult travel as I call it. They'll detail the nice restaurants, nice lodging, exhibits in museums, aspects of cathedrals, and areas of a park, but won't discuss the risky aspects that epitomize backpacking.
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17 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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Nathanael Greene
on July 4, 2011
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"DK Eyewitness Travel" series books are my benchmark for good travel books for any location.
This "DK Eyewitness Travel" book on Iceland is, unfortunately for a prospective traveler, physically smaller than the standard size of the other books in the "DK Eyewitness Travel" series. This book is small enough to fit into your wallet. The color photo illustrations are comparatively small and hard to view. Otherwise, this book is of the same caliber of quality and format as other "DK Eyewitness Travel" series' books - which means this book is better than any other travel book about Iceland I know of.
My overwhelming preference for this "DK Eyewitness Travel" book is particularly due to its (diminutive) color photos, the "sine qua non" of a good travel book about Iceland.
This book's small size is undoubtedly due to economics. Iceland's entire population is only 320,000 people. Iceland's tiny population simply cannot remotely support enough hotels to accommodate the volume of people who must want to visit Iceland - one of the most fascinating and geographically beautiful places to visit on earth, sans palm trees.
Few hotels = few tourists = diminutive "DK Eyewitness Travel" guide, as an economically viable publishing proposition.
My 4 star rating is based on this book's comparison to the other travel books I have seen about Iceland, a lack of competition which probably even merits 5 stars for this book. However, for AMAZON.com customers who are book shopping on the Internet, who are already familiar with the standard sizes of most travel books in the "DK Eyewitness Travel" series, this book's economically understandable (and unfortunate) small size, may somewhat disappoint prospective purchasers.
This "DK Eyewitness Travel" book on Iceland is, unfortunately for a prospective traveler, physically smaller than the standard size of the other books in the "DK Eyewitness Travel" series. This book is small enough to fit into your wallet. The color photo illustrations are comparatively small and hard to view. Otherwise, this book is of the same caliber of quality and format as other "DK Eyewitness Travel" series' books - which means this book is better than any other travel book about Iceland I know of.
My overwhelming preference for this "DK Eyewitness Travel" book is particularly due to its (diminutive) color photos, the "sine qua non" of a good travel book about Iceland.
This book's small size is undoubtedly due to economics. Iceland's entire population is only 320,000 people. Iceland's tiny population simply cannot remotely support enough hotels to accommodate the volume of people who must want to visit Iceland - one of the most fascinating and geographically beautiful places to visit on earth, sans palm trees.
Few hotels = few tourists = diminutive "DK Eyewitness Travel" guide, as an economically viable publishing proposition.
My 4 star rating is based on this book's comparison to the other travel books I have seen about Iceland, a lack of competition which probably even merits 5 stars for this book. However, for AMAZON.com customers who are book shopping on the Internet, who are already familiar with the standard sizes of most travel books in the "DK Eyewitness Travel" series, this book's economically understandable (and unfortunate) small size, may somewhat disappoint prospective purchasers.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Cath V
on February 26, 2013
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Such an amazing country to visit any thime of the year. This guide gives good histoprical, geological and social backgound - the best of the bunch I think
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Constance DePiero
on June 9, 2014
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Great little guide, I bought the Lonely Planet Iceland as a companion guide book and these two together complete the knowledge of trip planning.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Shannon B Davis
VINE VOICE on July 24, 2014
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My only complaint on the Kindle version is that it often refers to web links (requiring internet connectivity) for up to date information instead of including it in the book. Since our phones didn't have internet access in Iceland, we sometimes didn't have enough information to go on.
in terms of planning a trip, the top 10 lists were helpful in planning which areas were worth visiting, and the logistics (such as whether there were restrooms or a cafe on-site at the wilderness locations). It isn't very personally written, and you are not getting an insider's opinion, or any opinion at all, except that the Top 10 are seen as better than the extras. I'm glad they included the extras as we did see some of those. The organization of the book is only good if you don't plan to read it cover to cover - because then it would be disjointed (not grouped by area but by subject). it is good as a kindle book because you can search. I used the search function more than I ever have in any book ever. That way I could look up something I was passing. One negative is that it doesn't mention important information (in some cases) such as the need to have specially equipped cars to reach certain locations. We started down the road to reach a hot spring area near the airport, but found that it was not an asphalt road and we couldn't safely continue - but we only realized this after we had gone several miles off-track.
I loved having it on my iPhone Kindle application because the colors were bright and I was able to look things up on the fly.
in terms of planning a trip, the top 10 lists were helpful in planning which areas were worth visiting, and the logistics (such as whether there were restrooms or a cafe on-site at the wilderness locations). It isn't very personally written, and you are not getting an insider's opinion, or any opinion at all, except that the Top 10 are seen as better than the extras. I'm glad they included the extras as we did see some of those. The organization of the book is only good if you don't plan to read it cover to cover - because then it would be disjointed (not grouped by area but by subject). it is good as a kindle book because you can search. I used the search function more than I ever have in any book ever. That way I could look up something I was passing. One negative is that it doesn't mention important information (in some cases) such as the need to have specially equipped cars to reach certain locations. We started down the road to reach a hot spring area near the airport, but found that it was not an asphalt road and we couldn't safely continue - but we only realized this after we had gone several miles off-track.
I loved having it on my iPhone Kindle application because the colors were bright and I was able to look things up on the fly.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Robbi
on August 17, 2014
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We purchased this prior to our trip to Iceland this past July. Many helpful hints, great suggestions for restaurants. Tried to hit the #1 places on most of the lists as we drove the Ring Road. Bus routes were helpful for Reykjavik. Small size was easy to keep with us at all times to refer to especially when we didn't have wi-fi when we were out and about. Doesn't replace asking the locals for recommendations, though. Noticed a few typos but nothing significant. Will buy more of their travel guides as we were very happy with this purchase.
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on July 9, 2014
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This is nice, love the glossy DK picture and pages. Bought because all the good reviews for the quick 2 day Iceland stopover but also check out the Iceland day by day - I think I like that arrangement better and comes with a map too.
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