Frommer's Portable Berlin, 3rd Edition

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Summary: Pretty darn accurate
Review: I must say, this book was very accurate for me. I followed the information in the book and was able to experience a very interesting country. I was able to eat at some rather delicious restaurants, I stayed at a wonderfully pleasant hotel and I saw beautiful attractions. The portable guidebook fit right in my back pocket too.

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Summary: Frommer's Portable Berlin
Review: This is a misguiding guidebook of Berlin. Following this guidbook, I had to undergo constant frustration before I finallyy jumped in one of the Berlin bookstores and bought another guidebook in English. The explanations are truncated and ambiguous (unjustifiable even for a "portable" book), and the maps are either lacking, incorrect, or grossly mis-mapped (some restaurant locations and sights of interest); the total lack of some important places for tourists is especially inconvenient (Amex offices, major shopping areas, American Embassy, for instance). Such a basic fact as how the houses in Berlin are numbered should be mentiond in the book, or else tourists are guaranteed to have a hard time to find places; there should be far better and kinder explanations about how to exchange foreign currencies and to cash TC, and how much is the commission fee even for cashing TC (0 % to 19 % according to where you cash your TC). As a result, I got an impression that this guidebook was written by an author who does not know Berlin too well.