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| The Rough Guide to French Hotels & Restaurants 8 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Philippe Gloaguen
Publisher: Rough Guides
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1216479
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1008
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1843535572
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.4
EAN: 9781843535577
ASIN: 1843535572
Publication Date: December 19, 2005
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Product Description
The Rough Guide to French Hotels and Restaurants 2006 edition is translated from the Guide de Routard ? a perennial bestseller in France, acclaimed by readers and critics alike. There is a brand-new, full-colour introduction highlighting the authors? favourites, with categories including: cool/hip hotels, restaurants for wine lovers and romantic breaks. The guide lists over 4000 hand-picked places to eat and stay throughout France, from characterful country inns to stylish city-centre hotels. This updated edition includes easy-to-read price symbols, so you can see at a glance which price bracket the entry falls in. There is a comprehensive restaurants listing, emphasising both quality and value for money, with tips on local specialities. The guide comes complete with a new French food and drink glossary, with detailed maps of every region pinpointing the location of all the recommended establishments.
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 Very useful September 25, 2008
I prefer to travel without reservations, and I prefer small locally-owned lodgings. I have used two editions of this book along with Lonely Planet on my driving trips through France. Between the two guides, I have found some really interesting, nice, and reasonably-priced lodgings.
 not enough listings September 1, 2005
The Rough Guide is an English language edition of the Rotard one published in France. As stated in the introduction, it specializes in presenting medium to small, independent, appealing, and affordable restaurants and hotels. It is comprehensive in that it covers all of France. However, it is less than comprehensive in its coverage of individual locales. For some towns that are well known destinations, barely one or more listings are sometimes given. These places must certainly have more choices that meet the criteria of the Rough Guide, and, in fact, by consulting other guidebooks I have found other choices that by their description ought to be in the Rough Guide.
Indispensible for independent travelers! July 7, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Do you dream of renting a car and roaming France wherever a tree-lined road takes you? Of being able to be captivated by the flowers and stones of a quiet town and wish you could stay one night? This book is the English translation of the Guide Routard, relied upon by the French for their vacations with dead-on descriptions of hotels and restaurants most of us can afford. With this book you can confidently soujourn so far off the beaten path that you may well be the only American that hotel will see this year -- or at least maybe this week. The hotels listed are the best of the two stars, meaning that you'll find character if not always the firmest of mattresses. The restaurants are truly the best that France has to offer for the local night out and the family Sunday lunch. I wouldn't hesitate to stop at any of their suggestions and I know I won't break the vacation budget.
Authentic Advice February 21, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have found the Rough Guide (in English) or Routard (French) the second most useful hotel and food guidebook for France, after the Michelin Red Guide. I take both along because The Rough Guide offers less expensive suggestions, its range sometimes bridging from Michelin to Let's Go (the specialists for cheap). The Rough Guide includes more remarks than Michelin, so it's the sort of guide that is worth checking out before arriving, to find places you'll like. I agree with another reviewer that it offers listings for more towns than many popular U.S. issued books for France, so it's especially useful for those of us loving the countryside and finding the byways.
Invaluable for a driving tour of France January 19, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm slightly shocked to be the first reviewer of this guidebook, which is the best of it's kind I have ever seen. It is strictly a resource for locating restaurants and hotels in France, with little or no guidance about the sites that the towns offer.That said, I cannot recommend this book too highly. What it is is a guide to small hotels and restaurants offer special value, ambiance, food, or comfort in virtually every city, town, and village in all of France. This guide will allow you to find that 13th century hotel in Dinan or that old restaurant in Troyes. Most of the offerings here are exceptional value in some way, usually offering exceptional comfort at moderate prices. As such it fits below the Michelen Red guides but often offers much better value than the Red Guide. France offers much in culture and cuisine, and staying and eating in historic places can add much to one's experience.
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