DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: France: Eyewitness Travel Guide 2014

we wanted to travel down the western and south western regions of France, but where to go and what to see? This book was all I needed to plan the trip, giving a summary of the culture and the highlights of each region. Of course France has too much to offer to fit into one book, but this offers an excellent overview.

Bought as a gift and it seems to have been appreciated. Lots of valuable information in there and I believe it'll come into it's own at holiday time.

I think this is a very informative guide. If you plan on traveling to that area or just want more information.

Great product, no need to take anything else

Excellent

very good.

Comprehensive, easy to use guide

Excellent General guidebook. Enough information about the main places to visit in each area, without data overload. Great for planning where to centre your stays for a multi location trip.

Like the organization of these books which allows you to organize your trip accordingly. We have tried the others, but this series is very good. Well researched. Fun to use. Recommend.

Great reference books for planning a trip and for taking with you.

I have purchased a DK Eyewitness Travel Guide for almost every International destination that I've travelled to in the last decade, and the "Eyewitness Travel" books are my preferred guide books. This one is everything I hoped for, and is already marked with many tape flags for the places we will visit during our 3 week river cruise from the South of France all the way to Normandy. At 672 pages, it is a comprehensive guide, organized by region with maps, history, places of interest and suggested tours for every region.The book includes 1455 photographs, 80 detailed maps and 215 illustrations. Larger cathedrals and museums warrant a 2-page spread and a significant amount of detail about what you will see there. The organization by region makes sense to me, and the pages of each region are color coded to the map in the inside front cover for easy navigation. You can either read through the guide by region/location, or flip to the comprehensive 25-page index if you're looking for a specific place/attraction. The glossy paper allows a high print quality, and the font, though small is easily readable.

I love DK Eyewitness travel books and have one for every trip I take. What I especially like are the color pictures and little maps that illuminate and inform. The highlights they cover for each region, town or city are extremely interesting. There is enough information so that I am not overwhelmed, but not so much I am bored. The books are big and heavy and I do not pack them. However, when I get home, they usually help with all those "Where was I?" pictures. I find the section on shopping, hotels and restaurants a bit limited, but I don't buy the books for those sections. I usually look online or read Trip Advisor for more up-to-date recommendations and ideas.

Maps, both general and specific, with recommended walking courses. Web links to more information. Pictures of places and things, including main attractions and interesting details. This is DK. And it's exactly what I needed and wanted. I went with Lonely Planet for my trip to Morocco, and was terribly disappointed. That book is almost solid text because it has descriptions of restaurants and such, but so much was outdated, romanticized, or simply wrong so that I am very happy to enjoy my DK books, which compliment the apps that I use to plan my trips. The only reason that I gave this book a 4 is that DK bindings are not good. I would prefer an electronic version. Thank you.