Rick Steves' Italy 2008 (Rick Steves)

I bought the Rick Steves' Italy 2008 book several weeks ago, It has helped alot with my preperation for my trip to Italy. I plan on taking it with me, I know it will be very helpful. I have booked hotel rooms and B&B's for our trip, as well as planning our agenda. I know I could not have planned this trip away from a tour group with out it. AJ

I just love Rick's travel books....having used many others over the years, I find his to be highly readable and entertaining, and full of essential information for the unwary traveller. Top marks once again!

This book has helped me so much in my vacation planning process. I thought I'd have to pay lots of money for big company tours of everything but this book has shown me so many ways to save my cash. It tells you how to book locally run, English speaking tours and reservations rather than paying extra for English services online. It also has easily readable maps of every area of interest in the country, with every sight labelled clearly so you can plan where to start and finish your days. It suggests the level of tourist priority of each sight to help you decide where to spend your time. I cannot convey how much money I will save, using this book enough to you all! I don't know what I would do without this book!

This is my favorite Italy travel guide, and I buy each yearly update when it comes out. The Maps are the best for actually getting around!

Rick Steves' Italy is a wonderful guide book. I bought it while searching for just the right place for our honeymoon, and through this book I found the perfect place - one that I had not seen mentioned on any website or book or travel brochure in my extensive previous searches.

It has a friendly, personal tone to it, and lots of useful tidbits that are missing in some of the other similar books. I am very satisfied with it!