Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10241 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Turtleback
• 296 pages

Customer Reviews

Topflight as usual with one omission
We are great fans of the Eyewitness travel guides, and if the release date is within the past year, we would go with Eyewitness. This volume is up to Eyewitness's usual high standards. As usual, the great illustrations give the book a tremendous advantage over its competitors. Over the centuries, Slavs, Croats, Dalmatians, Slavonians, Serbs, Jews, Italians and others have left their imprint on the country. The illustrations help us keep our bearings.

Other advantages: all three major regions are covered, the food, hotel and entertainment sections are up to date, and the cultural and wildlife sections are particularly well done.

One surprising omission: Eyewitness usually provides an excellent list of books for further reading. That section is missing in this volume, and we bought a "Rough Guide" with its list of books and literature to fill the gap.

Neither guidebook is particularly strong on the history of Croatia, the result of the extremely complex nature of its history. Luckily, Croatia Through History by Branka Magas has just been released and provides an excellent detailed account.

It's best to do your homework before you leave home, of course; who wants to spend time reading history on the ground? As usual, Eyewitness's "Croatia" is the perfect guidebook for our taste.

Robert C. Ross 2008

A helpful introduction to Croatia
This guide is great for getting started in your trip planning. It also includes information on eastern and central Croatia in addition to the coast. Some guides ignore the east. The pictures in the guide are wonderful and give you glimpses of what to expect. There are many helpful general travel insights that you need like information on changing money, use of credit cards, tipping, local customs, etc. We don't plan to stay and eat in the major tourist cities so the food and lodging info isn't that helpful to us. But overall, this guide was worth the money for when I can't be on the web getting info. The book has a British slant since it's from a British publisher but if you don't need all the references to be in dollars that won't be a problem.

DK guide to Croatia
Love those DK guides. Got the book in plenty of time for my trip.
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