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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82900 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781598802184
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Steves clearly knows his stuff - the archaeological sites he does remarkably well - and his guide has a ringing actuality about it....It's full of informative and very readable maps, including a driving chart that not only gives the distances between places, but the time it takes to get there - the two don't always correlate in Greece. Given its candid and humorous style, you're bound to see plenty of well-thumbed copies (it comes in a pocket-friendly elongated size) in tourist hands in the near future. --Athens News, October 5, 2009

Customer Reviews

Very limited areas in Athens covered
I usually love Rick Steves' TV shows and guidebooks. The Athens section of the book only focuses on the touristy area of Athens, the Plaka. There is little to no information on the port area of Piraeus as well as other neighborhoods. The "Eating" section is very limited.

When I travel, I use a few different guidebooks (Eyewitness are great for detailing the main sites, Frommer's is great for restaurants).

I am not planning to visit the Peloponnese so I did not review that section of the book. I do feel an Athens only book with more infomation on surrounding areas would be better.

very informative for Athens sites
I found this book to be very informative on touristy sites in Athens. I agree that there wasn't much else for non-touristy areas in Athens.

Ok as general info, horrific advice on restaurants
I bought this book before traveling to Greece. General info in this books if fine and useful, but there is plenty of it on the internet. Any inside info is absolutely horrible. I cannot imagine he ate at some places he recommends as the best and highest regarded in Athens. First of, some are completely empty at peek season in the end of July in the late afternoon like for example "Xenios Zeus" that he recommends. Second, food is not edible in some of these places. We went to "Geros Toy Moria Tavern" that he recommends as the "highest regarded", oldest in Plaka etc. There is a lot of attitude from the waiters, there are stained menus and dirty linens, if you care for this stuff, but most importantly quality of food itself is below McDonalds by far and half of the food was so salty, you would not eat it if you were very hungry. I asked the manager if he can find anyone in his staff who'd be able to eat what he served us if i pay for food and as much for the person's efforts. There were no takers. Greek food overall is very good though and any random place works better for his recommendations, so i would recommend to use his advice as a black list if you buy the book.