PDF Top 10 Sydney DK Eyewitness Travel Guide DK Travel Carol Wiley Carol A Wiley 0790778026790 Books

Product details Series DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Paperback 160 pages Publisher DK Eyewitness Travel; Revised edition (May 5, 2015) Language English ISBN-10 1465426795

Top 10 Sydney DK Eyewitness Travel Guide DK Travel Carol Wiley Carol A Wiley 0790778026790 Books Reviews

• These Top 10 guides by DK Eyewitness are great when one is spending only a few days in one of the world's great cities, in this case, Sydney. (Previously, we used the Top 10 Guide for Athens and found it to be very helpful there as well). This Top 10 provides great detail on the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the fascinating back story and floor plans for the Opera House, and inviting descriptions of The Rocks, Darling Harbor, Toranga Zoo, Bondi and Manly Beaches, and tells you how to get around using the ferries, buses, and walking. It has a pullout map in the back and several maps showing graduated detail, so it was very helpful to stay oriented. Like all of DK's Eyewitness Guides, you get history, great graphics and photographs, and suggestions for how to get the most out of one or two days of exploring etc. We used this book to plan our trip (we knew we wanted to sign up for the "bridgeclimb" in advance and this book provided the details that we needed). However, we ran up against what, for us, was a huge disappointment with this specific guide. One of the Top 10 categories for Sydney is restaurants. We have always relied on the descriptions and price range (from $ to $$$$$) in the Eyewitness Guides to decide where we will dine. In this case we picked Aria, which is one of the best in Sydney, and had a price designation of $$$. WELL, this was completely off base, and when we sat down with the menus in front of us and saw that appetizers where $40 AUS and main courses were $60 AUS...we were stunned! We had chosen the restaurant based upon the description and price info in this guide and brought two other couples with us. The food was good and the service was excellent, as described, but the price point was completely inaccurate and greatly exceeded our budget. We stayed, and did our best to limit the damage to our wallets, but it was beyond disappointing and embarrassing, as my husband and I had selected this place. In general, we are great fans of DK Eyewitness Guides because they not only provide great descriptions of places of interest, but they are also very good at restaurant and hotel description and recommendations. They generally provide an accurate price range, and apt descriptions of the food and ambiance. (In this case, we were disappointed and inconvenienced, as we discussed above, with the inaccurate designation of a restaurant's elevated price range, hence the removal of one star) We have been using these guides for over 15 years, when we travel abroad, and have found that we can usually rely on the information contained within them. We find the history of each place, the timelines of events, the color graphics, maps and photographs to be user-friendly, very helpful and engaging.
• Will spend 3 days in Sydney before our cruise. This will help and would not expect a book to address our specific questions. We have hotel in Kings Cross and the book raised concern with wife about questionable area - while any recent reviews of our hotel make no mention of any concerns. Not sure if the author wants to raise some "excitement" - or if this is out of date - or if this really is a questionable neighborhood. Left us with a big question mark!
• This is NOT an in depth guide, this is a book to start planning your visit to Sydney. So for example, there are no lists of hotels or restaurants. On the other hand, this can fit in a large pocket or purse, and the included fold-out map will fit in any pocket. So this is not for indepth planning, but rather a list with info and pictures of highlights you don't want to miss, in a very portable format.
• I really like the Top 10 books in print versions, so I got the version so that I could save weight in my luggage. Trying to use this book is very frustrating. The maps are small and there doesn't seem to be a way to really be able to see them well. The key to the map locations is of course on some other page and you can't flip back and forth like you would with paper. The book is poorly formatted which makes it hard to read though the information. I keep buying different travel books, but most are a disappointment given the great promise of the format.
• A good deal of usefull information however the print is too small for those who are a bit older. Using it as pocket guide is challenging when you have to pull on your glasses every time you want to check something particularly on the maps
• This was very, very helpful before and during our trip. We especially liked the handy, removable maps and and transportation information. The information was relevant/current and we definitely used this portable little book. We highly recommend this for your trip to Sydney!
• The pull out maps were very helpful. I would recommend avoiding the top 10 as they are over-rated and over-priced. Focus on the other things the book has to offer.
• This book was very helpful in my travels to caines, Melbourne and Sydney. Good Book!