The Rough Guide to Washington, DC

by Jeff D. Dickey

Book Overview

Slim, stylish and pocketable, Washington Directions is full of ideas for stop-overs, long-weekends and flying visits to one of North America''s most fascinating cities, richly illustrated with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405382260
• ISBN13: 9781405382267
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Rough Guides
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

great book for smart travelers who appreciate a dry wit

I used this guide on my first trip to Washington D.C. It was comprehensive and chock full of good, sound advice about the city and its attractions. The restaurant part was exceptional - everywhere I ate was delicious, healthy, unique and well-priced. I am still dreaming about the falafel place in Adams Morgan which was suggested in the book and thoroughly enjoyed, and was not a place I would have pursued on my own. There are little bits of humor which spring up in unexpected places in the book and they provide a good dose of lightness to the otherwise fairly dense text. Of course you can always get a D.C. guidebook from DK or Lonely Planet and follow around the rest of the tourists/lemmings while you are on vacation, or you can pick up a copy of this, The Rough Guide to Washington D.C., and end up thrilled with a special travel experience, like I did.

Great Book

The rough guides dc is great because it contains a lot of sophisticated information and stories. It has a couple lists and tours, I believe, as well as stories. The book includes material on museum collections. This is great because instead of carrying around and wasting so many maps fliers, etc. You have one book with all you need (including maps) in an intelligent format. This book contains hostels, and hotels...Right up my alley.

For travelers who want to stay off the beaten path

After (physically) examining a dozen or so different guides to D.C., this is the one we chose. As with all Rough Guides, it's light on photos and fluff and heavy on information. It told us what we needed to know to get to the monuments and other famous sights, but also steered us into some of the local neighborhoods for great, affordable food. This Rough Guide contained more history than most of their city guides -- great for the international visitor or the American who wants to know the stories behind the city. One caveat to families: there's not much "what to do with the kids" information.