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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Beijing and Shanghai Paperback – July 15, 2013
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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R Clarke
on October 28, 2011
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Whether you are heading to Shanghai, Beijing or both, this is your essential guide. It shows you in full color almost every sight to be seen, and has handly to-scale maps to get you around these bilingual cities. Having spent almost over a year's time in Shanghai and environs, along with Beijing, during the past five years, this is always the book I take along. No question about it, look no further.
The book also features highly recommended walking tours in the cities to get off the well-worn tourist trail and see some of the "real" cities, rather than just the tourist-town areas. As usual for DK Eyewitness Guides, this is best as a sightseeing planning and then handy tour guide to take along. Your search for hotels and restaurants are best done on the internet to get up-to-date reviews. Hotel conditions can change dramatically and restaurants close their doors all the time, so the more timely the reviews of the trip food and lodging, the better. I use TripAdvisor and the NY Times on line as sources for these places.
Only fault is that more locations and sites need to be written out in Chinese characters to show them to taxi drivers, none of whom understand or read English, or any western language for that matter. You can get your hotel front desk to make out "taxi cards" for you as a substitute to show the drivers. Other guides do feature more Chinese to help the tourist get around. Also bear in mind that the subways change so rapidly in both cities, you are best served using <...> and <...>. While the maps were accurate when printed, these editions tend to last several years.
The book also features highly recommended walking tours in the cities to get off the well-worn tourist trail and see some of the "real" cities, rather than just the tourist-town areas. As usual for DK Eyewitness Guides, this is best as a sightseeing planning and then handy tour guide to take along. Your search for hotels and restaurants are best done on the internet to get up-to-date reviews. Hotel conditions can change dramatically and restaurants close their doors all the time, so the more timely the reviews of the trip food and lodging, the better. I use TripAdvisor and the NY Times on line as sources for these places.
Only fault is that more locations and sites need to be written out in Chinese characters to show them to taxi drivers, none of whom understand or read English, or any western language for that matter. You can get your hotel front desk to make out "taxi cards" for you as a substitute to show the drivers. Other guides do feature more Chinese to help the tourist get around. Also bear in mind that the subways change so rapidly in both cities, you are best served using <...> and <...>. While the maps were accurate when printed, these editions tend to last several years.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Anthony A. Rusinak
on March 13, 2012
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I purchased this guide because there was not a "Top 10" guide by DK Eyewitness Travel for Shanghai that I could find. It was well written, full of colorful pictures, and very informative.
It's size made it somewhat of a hassle to carry around on daily excursions (as opposed to the "Top 10 Beijing" guide I purchased) but it did the job and helped out with where to go and what I was looking at.
As I wrote in the review for the "Top 10 Beijing" guide, Mandarin translations that you could simply point to in the book to communicate where you want to go to taxi drivers, etc. would have been IMMENSLY helpful and this book lacks any of those.
It's size made it somewhat of a hassle to carry around on daily excursions (as opposed to the "Top 10 Beijing" guide I purchased) but it did the job and helped out with where to go and what I was looking at.
As I wrote in the review for the "Top 10 Beijing" guide, Mandarin translations that you could simply point to in the book to communicate where you want to go to taxi drivers, etc. would have been IMMENSLY helpful and this book lacks any of those.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Jason Luong
on October 25, 2013
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The first tier cities will be a life changing experience that anyone that can on when visiting China. As author of Getting Around China - A Guide to Taking the Bus, Taxi, Train, Plane, Private Car, and Driving in China, I found this book to be both informative and helpful to readers who are traveling to Shanghai and Beijing and just the country itself. Filled with details that leave no stones unturned, this is truly a great reference that avid travelers should have in their bookshelf.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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navynurse
on June 30, 2014
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We used this on our trip to China last month and it was a lifesaver! We didn't get a roaming wi-fi thing, so we used the book anywhere we went. It gives ideas for "walks" around the city when we weren't sure what to do. I will say one walk we did in Shanghai the book had numbers on the map, but they really weren't where the numbers were. It still walked us the correct way and we saw everything, but it just wasn't right where the book showed it was.
It has a large pull out laminated map that you can keep in your bag while out walking around. There are train maps on that as well as in the back cover of the book. THAT was a huge help!
Also, I don't like filling my bag with pamphlets from every place we go to, so I could just use the book when we walk through some big tourist areas like The Forbidden City to tell me about it.
I've loaned it out to a friend going this fall and then will pass it on to another friend that will travel there next year, so it's getting a lot of use!
It has a large pull out laminated map that you can keep in your bag while out walking around. There are train maps on that as well as in the back cover of the book. THAT was a huge help!
Also, I don't like filling my bag with pamphlets from every place we go to, so I could just use the book when we walk through some big tourist areas like The Forbidden City to tell me about it.
I've loaned it out to a friend going this fall and then will pass it on to another friend that will travel there next year, so it's getting a lot of use!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Yinnie
on January 5, 2013
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Really useful for my Asia travels. Information is laid out well. Very descriptive without being drawn out and boring. The day by day itineraries were helpful. Followed most of it and worked well, especially since there was a lot to see in my short trip. Love the subway map. highly recommend DK, as I've gotten other travel books from them too
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Sally M Miller
on November 14, 2012
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I purchased copies of this book before my Grandson went to Bejing to study and I joined him in Shanghai there after. Again the book was very usefull, enjoyable and informative.
Unfortunately my copy got damaged on the trip home so I ordered a replacement for reference.
Unfortunately my copy got damaged on the trip home so I ordered a replacement for reference.
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Cassie Sims
on April 1, 2014
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This is a fantastic travel guide. As someone who has made several treks throughout Asia, I was looking for a book specifically about traveling to Beijing and Shanghai. This book greatly helped with my recent trip. I really think there isn't a finer imprint than DK for exotic travel.
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Hsiu Chang
on March 16, 2014
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I bought this guide for my trip to Shanghai in 2014, it was very useful. Even though the book was published a few years ago, all the info is still relevant.
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