Product Description

Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Madrid is the perfect companion whether you’re on a week long break or flying visit to the popular Spanish capital. This full-colour, pocket guide includes themed sections – from the Prado museum to the bustling Rastro flea market, to help you decide what to do, 24 hours a day. As well as sightseeing and transport information 'The Ideas' section provides all the insider knowledge on the best bars, bistros, and gourmet restaurants, all keyed to accompanying, easy-to-use maps. The language section has a useful menu reader and handy phrases to have you speaking a little Spanish by the time you arrive.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63888 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Simon Baskett has lived and worked in Madrid since 1992 and a regular contributor to the Rough Guide to Spain.

Customer Reviews

A must for any visit to Madrid
Every hour spent pouring over this guide before you go, is worth half a day when you are there! We found brilliant cafes, wonderful tapas bars, and the best bottle of sherry in Madrid all on the first day, not to mention the best fried lambs intestines in the world, but that is definately another story. Use the Metro (the map is in the book) and get yourself about. The guide told us when the museums were free and when to hit what streets for the best shops and bars. Easy pocket size guide, it paid for itself withing 48 hours.

Ok - but not great for restaurant reviews
This book was ok - but sometimes we found everything was listed with no recommendations for what to see if you have only a short period of time to see them in. Also, we only tried one of the recommended restaurants from this book and because it turned out not to be very good we didn't try anymore!

We found the Spanish phrases at the back of the book were inadequate with many standard and necessary phrases missing (e.g. Is there a luggage room in this hotel?), and it didn't have great coverage of food items, which makes menu-interpretation difficult.