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Pros

The streets are well-marked and the map is quite sturdy. The back of the book includes a detailed map of london with underground stops, and an underground map.

It has some common phrases in each language-definite life saver! Some wait till after (running a tab) the rest of the book is practicality.

Loved the size of this book. Book pays for itself. What a great publication this is. It is going to be the only book i will require to explore london.

Some restaurants and pubs charge upon ordering. Oyster cards (passes for the underground that can be pre-loaded with money) can be purchased from the london transit website and can be sent to your home before the trip. Rick steves' pocket london hits ...  Read More

They are informative, always have great travel tips. Good size guide with lots of info for the shorter trip. Check the website for details.



Cons

The guide is not organized in any sensible or efficient way. There are better tube maps on the pages of the areas of london that give better info. He does not say to stand on the right of the escalators at tube stations.

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Quality


Good size font and easy to use as a resource.


Very light weight easy to carry in your purse or back pack.


Couple of additional notes: ice seems in short supply!


Book is small and light weight (maybe the size of an 8x5 photo).

Price


You’d be crazy not to buy this for your trip because it will pay off.


This alone was worth the price of the book.

Shipping


5 days in london, this book really helped me plan what i wanted to see and how to easily get around.


And thanks to the availability of signs in london, our trip was wonderful.


We paid for a few tours so we didn’t have to mess with paying for transportation and making our own itinerary because we had li...  Read More


Helps with transport and just general things you should know.

Packaging/appearance


I bought this book so i'd have something in print format since i bought the full rick steves england on my kindle (i didn't wan...  Read More

Competitiveness


It will rank best things to see and i agree with the rankings.

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  • This product had a total of 383 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 23 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Rick steves books are musts for travelers


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Going to canada next and sad that rick steves doesn’t have a guide to montreal


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The pocket guide while a nice colorful little book was not really needed


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I didnt even take it with me to london and just took the full guidebook instead


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The one part of the pocket guide i did take and use constantly during my trip was the tear out map in the back of the guide


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    We just returned and i must say all the advice and tips in this guide were right on the money from how to get cash to packing for the trip to seeing various sites


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I thought it might have better or more detailed information as well


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    However i ended up not using it because the rs england book has a very thorough london section and i had read all that i needed to know and took notes and had those printed out im a planner fyi

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