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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam (Irreverent Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: George Mcdonald
Publisher: Frommer's
Category: Book
List Price: $13.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 112864
Media: Paperback
Edition: 6th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0471773379
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9780471773375
ASIN: 0471773379
Publication Date: April 3, 2006
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Product Description
Looking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. You'll get the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even find out what the locals think of you. "Like being taken around by a savvy local," said the New York Times. "Hipper and savvier than other guides," concurred Diversion magazine. Never shy about confronting the issues, the Irreverents are guides to real travel in the real world. The one-dimensional Amsterdam of tulips, wooden shoes, and 17th-century architecture is the stuff of many a standard guidebook, but with its booming economy, legalized prostitution, and tolerant attitude toward recreational drug use, the city is much more than that. For savvy travelers who want to fully experience the place as the locals live it, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam, 6th Edition is the way to go, offering the lowdown on this hip, cultivated city, where old and new sunnily coexist. You'll discover the proper way to knock back genever (Dutch gin--the potent national spirit), why Amsterdam is considered the Gay Capital of Europe, plus the inside scoop on the red-light district, complete with advice and warnings.
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 Dont let the cover fool you! March 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wasnt a very good or useful book. Didn't have a lot of the practical stuff in it!
 One of its kind March 2, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is not a typical travel book with all the standard info you'd find. It's best to be a supplement book (in conjunction to a "standard" one) providing info only the locals know-the un-offical stories. Excellent book.
 Not What You Think September 4, 2005
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Just got back from Amsterdam and had taken this book (along with others) with me. This book was far from the helpful book I had been hoping. It wasn't 'irreverent' really and seemed to miss a lot of good information. It also wasn't presented very well.
I do not recommend this...
Not what I expected. August 10, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I purchase this because I thought I would get more info then I could get from the website. It really was not what I was expecting. It does have good maps in it but that is about all it is good for.
Fantastic Guide Book August 3, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic guide book. Easy to follow, enjoyable to read and full of wonderful information. Like another reviewer said, it is like being taken around by a savvy local. Highly reccommended!
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