Frommer's MTV Italy

by Sylvie Hogg and Taryn Firkser

Get the inside scoop on Italy. From the coolest nightclubs in Milan to climbing Mt. Vesuvius, MTV Italy shows you where you want to be, with choices for every budget to help you travel the way you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764587714
• ISBN13: 9780764587719
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Frommer's
• Length: 751 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly good information

This book was recommended by a friend. It has very good reviews and recommendations. Since it is a few years old, the prices are a little out of date, but I just added a couple of Euro to whatever they listed and it was pretty accurate. Two of the places I tried to find had closed, so I would recommend calling before you go. Overall though, this was a great book to use while I was in Italy. It was my first time to Italy and this was the book I took with me. The hotel recommendations were spot on. I stayed in an especially nice place in Sorrento they suggested, Hotel Savoia. Really great inn, with fantastic staff. I would probably look for an updated book if I go back to Italy, or at least use it as a base for recommendations. Very helpful!

excited and astounded

i like the other reviewers thought the fact that mtv could help me have a good time was curious. i bought three other travel guides to italy including let's go, lonely planet, and frommers. the mtv guide is the one i literally carried with me through the country. such large easy to read maps. for partying in rome and florence i just ripped them out and circled which numbers were the ones i wanted to hit up. wanna know the best place to play beer pong in florence? yeah that'd be the red garter. all the food info was such the major scoop. obviously pizza is everywhere but discovered the best slices in town in rome with this guide. i also liked that they would say what to skip an is overrated, good times to go, and random trivia on the side linears. and i thought it'd be really heavy on techno clubs and just partying in general but there was more detail in the history of ancient rome in this book than all other three books combines. including the greatest walking tour of the roman forum ever, which was basically step to your right this pile of stone you're looking at was once the vestal virgins house. i do throw out the precationary that i bought the mtv spain book and was dissapointed but for italy this was the best guide there could be.

Invaluable (especially for students or solo travelers)

I picked this book up thinking I would laugh at the ridiculous petty advice and "MTV Book" would give. WRONG. So very very wrong. Just flipping through it initially, I knew it would serve me well for my 2 months in Italy. This guidebook isn't your typical, stuffy "tourist book" (geared at senior travelers usually)....it is divided into regions and cities, and offers the usual info re: main sites, train info, general cost etc.....as well as ESSENTIAL bits for students or those trvaeling solo. Internet points (accurate, although some hours of operation were off, but it happens), laundromats, places to rent cell phones, cheap food, snack food, best places to party [if you prefer to party with your fellow Americans,,,,or, like me, if you want to avoid them!] general club rules, clothing style (up to date) etc....I also enjoyed that each section contained its own "occhio!"....which essentially is a word of warning about their own negative points/seedy sections. Each region of Italy is very different from another, and this book illustrates this VERY WELL. I would say this is a MUST WN for anyone who will be spending more than a week or 2 in Italy.

If you are under 30 and going to Italy, buy this book!

Well I should start with I haven`t used the book in Italy yet so I can`t be sure about the acuracy of the information, but I have been to Italy before so I know what to look for in a good Italy guide. It lists a lot of the useful info like where to meet people and what clubs to go to depending on what you are looking for. I plan on visiting Museums and Churchs while in Italy but I don`t need a guide book to tell me which ones to go to. I use a book to tell me good places to eat, sleep and party and this one seems to cover the bases. Overall worth getting