The Rough Guide to Beijing

by Simon Lewis

This pocket handbook of Beijing features lively accounts of every attraction; presents insider recommendations of the best accommodation, restaurants, bars, clubs and shops; and details excursions to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843539071
• ISBN13: 9781843539070
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Rough Guides
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

The Best Guide Book I Have EVER Owned

Going to Beijing? Bring this book. Everything about it is superb. It served me well on a five-week study sojourn a few years ago. In addition to being of excellent quality (everything in it is valuable), it is nice and compact and will fit right in your pocket. Great maps too. In short, the best guide book I've ever owned, and I've owned quite a few. Troy Parfitt, author

Great maps

Even my sister, an x-pat living in Beijing, was impressed with the maps in this book. She said they were better than any maps she'd been able to find in-country. We still did get lost a couple of times, but overall managed very well. Also, the small list of English/Pinyin/Character words in the back came in very handy when we needed to buy a phonecard and no one understood our feeble attempts at spoken Chinese.

Must-Have if you go to Beijing

This book was great--I don't know how we would have managed without it--it gives great, accurate information about places to go (not the nightclubs though), had great maps. We went to some of the most amazing restaurants that we would never have been able to find if not for the really detailed directions in the book (for example, this famous, but out-of-the-way roast duck restaurant hidden in the depths of the hutongs at Qianmen.) The maps were very useful, especially to show taxi drivers where you want to go, though you have to read the pinyin names to them since they can't read english. But definitely, you can't go wrong in Beijing with this book.

Reliable, Up-to-Date, Far Better than Lonely Planet

If you plan to go to Beijing and you don't speak Mandarin,you *need* a good guide book. I consistently found thisto be accurate, and it gave good advice. I met other travelersusing the Lonely Planet, and they didn't find it nearly asuseful.

informative and stylishly written

I used this book on a recent trip and found it excellent. Each time I followed its recommendations I was rewarded with a fascinating place that most tourists did not know about. This book gave me access to the city's excellent nightlife, which few tourists seem to know about, and gave me the low down on some great restaurants. It's also very well written - sometimes I laughed out loud at the authors sly, sceptical humour. My friend was travelling with the lonely planet but he soon abandoned it and kept borrowing my book.