Product Description

This AA Road Atlas is the perfect companion for travelling through Spain and Portugal. In A4 format with super clear mapping, the "AA Road Atlas Spain & Portugal" provides information on traffic services, garages, road side assistance, car hire, airports, railways, tourist information centres and weather information, as well as environ maps and street maps of Madrid and Barcelona. This is a helpful route planner with distance pointers, motorway map section and comprehensive place name index is included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29193 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Super clear mapping!
When you find yourself being directed towards motorways that do not exist in you book of maps then you know it is time to buy a new one! The AA Road Atlas does exactly what it says on the cover - super clear mapping. The town plans are useful too.

No excuse for ever getting lost in Spain again.

Review of AA Road Atlas for Spain and Portugal
Whilst this product is up to the AA's usual high standards some of the mapping for Spain is at least 18 months out of date. For instance the A23 from Zaragoza to Valencia is still shown as under construction whereas I travelled on it last June and it was fully completed.

I found this disappointing to say the least - how many other roads that I do not know are treated in the same way? Spanish roads are developing fast and I would have expected this publication to keep up. It certainly was not a bargain at this price.

Not a patch on Michelin
This is nowhere near as convenient to use as the Michelin. This is despite the larger scale - or perhaps because of it. The large scale and smaller pages mean that you can't easily see your route across the country. The AA atlas shows more minor roads than the Michelin, but at 3km:1cm (as opposed to 4km:1cm) it's still much too small scale for the sort of touring that the OS does so well in the UK - if you're doing very small villages you'll need a satnav whichever of these you buy. For route planning - getting from one town to another - the Michelin is incomparably easier. The AA map is also wildly out of date - I bought it 10/09 to replace my 2006 Michelin, but very quickly put the AA in the boot and reverted to the Michelin for the whole 2000 miles we drove - it's almost as up to date. Next year I'll buy the 2010 Michelin - the AA is going to the Christmas village bazaar!