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Add your own pocket compass and you can find your way positively anywhere in the city. They're convenient, compact, detailed, and easy to read - neighborhood by neighborhood, with an overlay reference map in the front and a tube map in the back. This and the Paris version are simply the best maps ever. I only wish I could get them for other cities.
I've got an old version of safari & goodle earth did not cooperate. I doubt I need the whole AZ as if i lived there. I used this on my trip to london and it is great for main parts.Can any one recommend this level of detail for (just) the Maida vale, Kilburn park/ Swiss cottage area - just outside the bounds of this book. that is where my hotel points take me.
It's so much better than the map book I bought from a street vendor last time I was in London. This is a great guide book for those who would like to see London from the "ground up". You can't go wrong with London Map Guide. When I return later this year, it's the first thing I'm going to pack. So many points of interest, including monuments, landmarks and tube stations are all marked on the easy to read maps, that it makes it very hard to get lost in London if you have this book with you. Small enough to fit in the back pocket of your jeans, but big enough to read without my glasses- hey that's a winning combination for me.
The booklet form is easy to carry and use, and the map gives plenty of detail. (You do need a magnifying glass to read the bus numbers). I took several maps to London, but this proved by far the most useful because it shows enough of the bus routes to give an idea of how to get places. The London underground is efficient but involves a lot of steps and tunnels that my partner couldn't handle, so figuring out bus routes proved essential.
We can read about Hampton Court or Windsor or wherever in a different book on the day we go out to one of these places, but prety much every day we end up in the city itself - we don't really visit London to explore the suburbs. There was some mention of wanting more detail of areas outside of city center, but I thik that would detract from the usefulness because the book would be too large. We stay in a town just off this map set, but on th eoutskirts of London there aren't too many options anyway - we just take one of three buses towards town and are then within the scope of the book.
We take it out with us every day, and use it constantly. It's just the right size to carry, we find the A-Z is either too small to read or to thick to carry, and this guidebook has just enough extra info to make it more useful anyway. We've visited London more than 20 times over the last 10 years to visit family, and we still use the millenium edition we picked up in 1999 at a shop down in Soho.
We just keep the book in London along with our Oyster cards, and we're ready to go on the first day upon arriving. :)For the price of this book, I couldn't find a reason not to pick it up and use it from day one on anyone's first trip to London. We always browse the guide books for new ideas when visiting, but when it comes to getting around the city with ease every day we resort to this book.
The bus lnes and tube stations are clearly marked, the landmarks are useful, and we can always figure out how to get from place to place with ease.
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