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Summary: Most popular travel guide with tourists
Review: Enjoyable tour guide with so many pictures, and narrative. Tourists on the streets were usually referring to this travel guide. Would have liked more walking tours in the book.
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Summary: best travel guide I've ever used
Review: I bought this book to prepare for a recent business trip to London (the trip included extra time for sightseeing). I had previously purchased other London guides and this exceeded all other guides -- it included comprehensive information both as to tourist sights and as to more mundane details such as currency exchange information. This book contains all you need to know for a first visit to London.
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Summary: Don't Leave Home Without It!
Review: As a first-time visitor to London, I was glad to have this guide on hand. Even my friends who had been to London before were using my maps instead of their own. The introduction, including the history of the city, along with the detailed descriptions of events, markets, and landmarks helped me to have a working knowledge of this vast city. I have never felt so at home in a foreign place. The "Where To Stay" section enabled us to find a better hotel at a much lower rate after our first two nights, and we had a nice dinner at one of the restaurants suggested. I even got a snapshot of the very same orator at the Speaker's Corner that is pictured in the book. I saw this guide being used by other tourists in other languages, as well. I feel that this book was a major factor in the overall success of my vacation and will use the Eyewitness Guides for any future trips.
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Summary: One of a series of superb guide books
Review: This book, and its sister volumes, are perhaps the best guide books currently available. Read it before you go, read it while you're there, and read it once you get home again. Its maps, tips, illustrations, and how-to's eliminate much of the hassle and headache in traveling.
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Summary: Outstanding book
Review: I went to London for vacation for the first time and I had no idea where to start since I had only three days. Somenone recommended that I purchase the Eyewitness London guide. This book not only made my vacation wonderful but also helped me to look at almost all the places that I have wanted to look at in three short days. There was no way I could have been able to plan my vacation with out this book.
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Summary: Excellent but no attitude
Review: This is the tour book equivalent of the one volume encylopedia. Covers the topic well, but not much in the way of attitude. However, if you have limited time to see the tourist attractions, this is probably the best on the market. If you want to see the "real" London, get a Rough Guide or the Time Out Guide to London. You'll find out not only what to see, but what's not worth the bother.
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Summary: The most comprehensively helpul London travel book ever!
Review: This book and the others in the series (e.g. for Paris and Rome) provide photos, drawings and diagrams of what other books only tell about in print. Beautifully designed and easy to use, this is the one superb resource to read before your trip; you'll know London before you arrive. And during your visit you'll refer to it continually. You'll get a satisfying balance of information about the city's history, culture, arts, neighborhoods, customs, traditions, shopping, events, transporation and more...plus an excellent "survival guide" section...and detailed street and subway maps and recommendations about carefully screened lodging, restaurants and shopping. We don't travel without the Eyewitness Travel Guide. While this book is similar in style and layout to the equally excellent Knopf guides, I find a better balance of information in the Eyewitness Guides.
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Summary: Absolutely fabulous travel guide-best on the market
Review: This series of books is the most informative, well-organized, insightful set of travel guides ever published. For the seasoned traveler and the first-time visitor alike, these books offer information other guides haven't even thought of. The illustrations are fantastic and the pages give everything from the right "tube" stop to telephone number to hours of operation. Exhaustive info is available on neighborhoods, food, museums, walking tours, connections, seasonal hours, etc. Color illustrations of local currency, street signs, police uniforms, emergency vehicles, museum floor plans, and more! Stuff you have never seen before in any travel guide! This is the one book you need. The series does not yet cover many destinations, especially the smaller European countries, but those regions that are available (mainly the British Isles, France, Italy) are done in an outstanding fashion.
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Summary: Excelent blend of information in easy to read format
Review: I know routinely recommend this book to friends of mine visiting London. D&K publish all sorts of books, but predominantly children books. However this is definitely for all ages
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Summary: Best buy!
Review: Brilliant book. Accurate, easy to use and very concise. A pleasure to carry around with good quality maps, street name lookup and lots and lots of information regarding places to eat (very good recommendations) and places to go to. A must have if you are planning a trip to London.
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