DK Eyewitness Top 10 London

By D.K. Publishing, DK Eyewitness Travel, Roger Williams

Book Overview

One of the world's most captivating metropolises, London is a cultural colossus-renowned for its museums, monuments, amazing art, and fabulous array of restaurants and bars. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you'll find your way around London with absolute ease.

Our updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of London into helpful lists of ten-from our own selected highlights to the best museums and art galleries, places to eat, parks and gardens, and riverfront sights. DK Eyewitness Top 10 London is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.

Inside DK Eyewitness Top 10 London you will find:

- Thirteen easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend, or a week
- London's most interesting areas, with the best places for shopping, eating and drinking, and sightseeing
- Inspiration for different things to enjoy during your trip - including festivals and cultural events, traditional pubs, sights off the beaten track, and things to do for free
- A laminated pull-out map of London and its environs, plus eleven full-color neighborhood maps
- Practical advice: for getting ready, getting around, and staying safe
- Top 10 lists of London's must-sees, including detailed descriptions of the British Museum, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Buckingham Palace, London Eye, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square, Tower of London, and St Paul's Cathedral

Looking for more on London's culture, history, and attractions? Try our DK Eyewitness London.

About DK Eyewitness:

At DK Eyewitness, we believe in the power of discovery. We make it easy for you to explore your dream destinations. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travelers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. Filled with expert advice, striking photography and detailed illustrations, our highly visual DK Eyewitness guides will get you closer to your next adventure. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Named Top Guidebook Series at the 2020 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, we know that wherever you go next, your DK Eyewitness travel guides are the perfect companion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241509629
• ISBN13: 9780241509623
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: DK Eyewitness Travel
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 3.9" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Very Useful

Eyewitness travel books have been a great source of information for me. I have about six of them and each has qualities that are helpful to a travel person wanting to see and understand the sites. The authors clearly have a keen sense of the destination being described. I recommend the books highly.

Useful for a quick overview of London

Useful guide. Easy to carry. Good info. Especially liked the tube map - easy to carry. Be careful to check that info is current as the book is not new.

Great Guide

Excellent source of information. Well organized book with maps for each section. Fold out maps on each cover with a pull-out in back are all very helpful. It came in especially handy while planning the trip but was also useful while there. Small enough to fit in your jacket or bag.

Compact and comprehensive guide

This is a great guide for several reasons. 1. It is small and can fit in your jacket pocket for quick reference. 2. It is well organized by neighborhood. 3. the recommendations are right on. 4.the maps are extremely useful. There are larger more detailed guidebooks out there. In fact I've used the standard eyewitness guidebook to London on a previous trip and it was great. This version is perfect for a returning visitor who wants some help navigating around London but has a basic familiarity with where things are.

The perfect travel companion

Buying travel guides isn't exactly my thing - not suprising that it took me only minutes to get frustrated in the bookstore with the plethora of options available. For my purposes, I was looking for a book that would highlight must-see attractions, must-dine restaurants (I'm a food buff), must-walk streets, must-do road trips, etc. And critical that all this had to be presented in a easy to read manner, preferably as a simple bulletted list rather than paragraphs of information. But my biggest requirement was this: the guide had to be small enough (and light) to fit in my coat pocket, leaving my hands free as they should be.From all these angles and more, the Eyewitness Top 10 guide was the clear winner. Not only does the book provide top 10 attractions for the city as a whole, but it also mentions top 10 things to do within each attraction - e.g., you'll find top 10 things to do at the british museum, top 10 things to do at tate modern (with a list of must-see art works and where they're located within the museum), etc. Further, the book seems to recognize that people have different styles of exploring new cities because the organization of the book makes it really simple to plan your day according to a variety of themes: attractions, eateries and even neighborhoods - so you'll know what to do if you plan to spend an entire day around westminster & the south bank OR around covent gardens, for example. There is also a listing of the top 10 restaurants around each area which really came in handy. The book is full-color with detailed (yet to-the-point) maps, pictures, underground tube map, directions, etc. The book also contains quite a bit of trivia about each location, but the best part is the presentation - short & sweet and never overwhelming.The book contains a whole section on "Streetsmarts" which really helped me with the most basic of things - from understanding the foreign currency to making a phone call. Great section! I'm pretty sure I'll end up getting top 10 guides from this series for other european cities for future trips - they're easily the best travel guides I've found. And at less than 10 bucks a pop, can't imagine another guide that can even think of competing.