With Access Philadelphia , your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience--the Liberty Bell, Rodin Museum, and world-famous cheesesteaks are at your fingertips. Philadelphia has been divided and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
While spending 3 nights in Rome recently we used this guide, especially to find small, local restaurants. It was a fantastic, user friendly guide. It is organized neighborhood by neighborhood with lots of information and detailed maps. You can read it as you stroll and immediately identify less significant (but nonetheless interesting)buildings and sites not referenced in other guides, as well as find information about shops, restaurants, lodging, etc. I will be purchasing other Access guides for future trips. The other review states restaurants given were no longer there. That happens. My advice is to make sure you're getting a very recent edition, and deal with it if a place goes out of business or moves. That's not the fault of the guide book.
Love Access Guides, this one is no exception
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Access guides are well written, have nice pictures, and cut to the chase. I find them to be a nice compromise between an internet list of activities with little/no description and the encyclopedia some thicker guides are. This one for Philly has all the expected items with a few gems.
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