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The Rough Guide to China 4 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) :: 1843534797
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Author: Guest
We just got back from two weeks in China. This Rough Guide to China helped us navigate the 3 cities we visited in China (Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai). We opted to explore the cities on our own without relying on tours. We mainly used this guide to get to the main attractions it suggested to see, to communicate with people and to select certain restaurants. Overall, we recommend this guide for the traveler who is interested and willing to explore China without the expense of tours. We are so glad we skipped the tours as exploring the cities on our own gave us a pretty good taste of the country's culture and peoples. Some of the things that are outdated in the guide are a function of the rapid development that China is experiencing. In spite of some of the outdated details, the interested traveler will still be able to navigate the country as the guide currently is.
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Author: Guest
The book is sober and a pretty good guide to what to see and what to skip.
In fast-changing Shanghai, however, the map and recommendations on some locations were already outdated, about a year after printing, but I guess we can't blame it on the authors.
The dictoinary in the back and the dictionary of relevant places and restaurants in cities were also very helpful.
The main competitor is Lonely Planet of course, and since I haven't tried it I can't compare, but I never regretted buying the Rough Guide.
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Author: Guest
Although I always buy Lonely Planet guides to every foreign destination, I tried Rough Guide this time. I liked the format, the readability, and the information I was looking for. It is almost 200 pages larger (but because of a quality thin paper is less thick), and has less fine print. I would rate it a bit above the similar Lonely Planet guide to China, and still buy the Lonely Planet. Those two rate way above the competition such as Fodors, Frommers and the like. Of course, the China Eyewitness Travel Guide is in a different class altogether.
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Author: Guest
Using solely this book as our guide, my girlfriend and I navigated Beijing, Xian, Guilin, Yangshuo, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong completely on our own without getting lost once. The maps are absolute life-savers (though they would be even more useful if they included the Chinese characters for the street names), the descriptions of place generally current and accurate (though they might have mentioned that, as of May of 2006, Yangshuo is no longer a mecca of calm and relaxation but rather a maddening gauntlet of pushy vendors and tourists), and it even provided enjoyable reading material on the long train rides.
A lot of people in the anti-tour-group set go with Lonely Planet for whatever reason, but I'm very glad I picked this one up. Next trip: RUSSIA -- I'm picking up the Rough Guide for it now.
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