Product Description

"Travel: Where to go When" is the ultimate holiday planner, highlighting the world's most spectacular places and the best time to visit each one. Consultant editor Craig Doyle and a team of travel experts have combined inspirational narrative with sumptuous photography to bring over 130 global destinations to life. From exploring the Great Barrier Reef and cruising the Galapagos Islands to swimming in the crystalline waters of Croatia or heli-skiing in Whistler, this book has something for everyone. With a simple month-by-month format, "Travel: Where to go When" makes finding that ideal getaway easier than ever. Search by time of year, type of holiday, or simply flick through the pages and be inspired. Take an inspiring tour of the world with "Travel: Where to go When".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #547 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-06
• Original language: German
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Amazon.co.uk
The Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel series are to be seen clutched in many tourists’ hands across the world, and rightly so. If Travel: Where to Go When (edited by Craig Doyle) is designed to be pored over at home rather taken en voyage that has allowed the publishers to produce a handsome, large-scale volume guaranteed to set you dreaming of exotic faraway places.

This is the perfect holiday planner, concentrating on the world's most desirable travel locations, with specific attention paid to when it is best to visit them. The team of consultants (acting under Doyle's expert direction) have provided a series of concise and informative essays on everything from the wonders of the Galapagos Islands to the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, and from the mule trails of the Cinque Terre to the highly civilised streets of Boston, USA. The latter destination is a good example of precisely what the book does well: pithy, not-a-word-wasted essays giving all the essential information on the destination, with a sidebar on the left of the page detailing how to get there, suggested accommodation and restaurants along with all the information about the weather you're likely to need (the latter is particularly useful -- how often have you seen abroad tourists either underdressed or overdressed, not having done their homework?). On the right hand side of the large, eye-catching spreads are historical details -- never couched in dry prose, just a concise and lively presentation of the facts. A major plus, of course, is the sumptuous photography; everything from a brightly painted, flower-bedecked skeleton at the Mexican Day of the Dead to a glowingly lit night canal in Amsterdam does perfect justice to its subject. --Barry Forshaw

Review
"the perfect seasonal present for the armchair traveller" --The Sunday Telegraph

Review
"Lavishly illustrated with inspiring colour photographs, it guides you through the year, suggesting the ideal destinations month-by-month."

Customer Reviews

Good for answering..."where can I go next?"
I love going to new places and this book is great at giving you enough information about lots of different types of places you can visit to allow you to decide whether you would enjoy going there. The pictures are amazing and really give you that holiday feeling.

My only criticism..it was missing places that I felt should have been in the book!

Nice to flick through but not much more depth than a brochure
This is a lovely coffee table book, and I enjoyed a good couple of hours flicking through and dreaming of going to all the lovely places in it. However, when I finished I did think it hadn't offered much more than flicking through some travel brochures - something which made me question the price tag when you consider that these can be picked up for free in any travel agents.

All that said it has beautifully shot photos and has the USP of the month by month planner of the best places to go. It also tells you about some of the less well know things to do (although in some cases it misses some of the best out because of it).

I would actually give this 3 and a half stars if I could. My summary is that it is beautiful but shallow.

Excellent book
I bought this for someone else, but have spent many happy hours browsing through it and planning my next trip. It is very informative and the photography is excellent.