Avant-Guide Prague

By dan-levine

"Refuse to be a tourist!" commands the back cover of Avant-Guide Prague. This guide challenges the reader-traveler to buck convention in more ways than one. Created for an audience weaned on MTV and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891603000
• ISBN13: 9781891603006
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Empire Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 5.3" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

the cool side of prague

This book is fabulous. As a 'single' traveler, I especially enjoyed the section on restaurants to feel comfortable in alone! I used this book to find interesting sights, great restaurants (not the tourist traps), and the best nightlife in the city. I was also impressed with the explanation of the hotels. I arrived in prague without a hotel reservation, and I looked at several of the hotels on the list, looking for a room. I found Avant Guide to be right on the money regarding price, atmosphere, and room quality. I would recommend this book to anyone who prefers not to follow the stream of tourists from one trap to another. Bravo!!!

The next generation of travel books

I spent ten days in Prague in May 1998 doing research for a novel I was writing and found this book to be the perfect companion to a more general travel guide to the city (specifically, Lonely Planet's -- also recommended highly). I needed to see and learn a lot about both the more popular tourist parts of town, as well as the not-in-Frommer's-guide parts. Avant Guide served me well. I'm awaiting the London edition anxiously.

A guide book with attitude and the information to back it up

I split my time between Los Angeles and Prague and picked this book up mostly to use as a handy reference when I wanted to find a restaurant's telephone number or a museum's opening hours. From the first few pages it's clear this guy knows Prague better than any of the other travel guide writers, I find myself nodding so often in agreement with his descriptions of places I frequent that I'm getting whiplash. As someone who pays the rent with the written word, I also rock with his use of the language. The book is sometimes downright funny. Definitely not your father's guidebook.

Informative guide book in an exciting and original style.

This guide book tells you everything you want or need to know in a unique and very enjoyable style. Best I've ever read.

Great book. cool Travel not for the timid.

I learned about this book in ELLE magazine. It's great. Finally someone was bright enough to create a cool guidebook that's not full of tourist-board surperlatives. Great book, and veryj helpful.