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Release Date:	September, 2003
Media:	Paperback
ISBN:	0761104844

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Average Review:	Based on 76 reviews.

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Average Customer Review:

Based on 76 reviews.

Exciting, Balanced, Varied, For all Budgets
My hat goes off to this sensitve traveler who spent a life time compiling her own favorite thousand places to see. Do we have to agree? No, but who couldn't find a few hundred suggestions to keep them busy for the next many decades? What's with those who complain about her hotel suggestions? The world's great hotels are always expensive - they are often historic, landmark palaces that promise romance and luxury. Too expensive? Then go elsewhere, but at least stop in for tea or an aperetivo to soak it all in and people watch. Her emphasis is almost always elsewhere - from festivals to ancient temples, and little known sites of natural beauty and open-air markets. Frankly I'm incredulous any one person could put it all together. No one else ever attempted such a feat - and successfully so in my book.

Excellent Book!
This book is awesome for anyone who travels. We use it where ever we go as start for our trips. It has the highlights of anyplace one would like to go in a quick and easy-to-read format. I have never found any guide to be so resourceful. It is not a replacement for an Eyewitness Guide or Fodors, it is a complement. Reading this book is a great way to get excited about going anywhere!

1000 x 1000 cheers - This is The Best
How glad I was to have overlooked a scathing criticism or two re the author's would-be emphasis on expensive hotels only - were we reading the same book???? What planet do these people live on?? The beauty of this book is that it covers every category or travel destination imagineable - from events to museums, bars to national parks, annual festivals to ancient temples. Are there hotels? Let's hope so, because the author's choice in every other category is so on the dime, you can be sure she has singled out all of the world's best hotels too. Are they expensive? Most are, yes - but where else do you intend to go for your once-in-a-lifetime trip to celebrate a honeymoon, a promotion, an anniversary or your mother's 80th birthday??? Still too expensive? Then go and sit in the lobby, wander the impeccable grounds, take in the white-gloved service with a smile and get a glimpse of the good life and make believe if only for a few hours....then explore the hundreds of other options that will fit a leaner budget and keep you mighty busy and awefully happy for years.
The book blew me away - and I thought I had been around the block.