Product Description

This guide features: all the sights that are fit to see, from Roman and Byzantine splendours to Ottoman architecture; places to stay, including backpacker dorms; a large section on eating and drinking, including budget dining; trips out of town, including opening times, prices and transport.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #968949 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 316 pages

From the Publisher
Time Out Istanbul offers the definitive picture of Turkey’s cultural capital

Customer Reviews

Time out guides are tops for city breaks
Time Out guides are the best single guides for city breaks and the Istanbul guide is a case in point. Accomodation and entertainment listings are critical and comprehensive and the information for tourists informative and helpful. However the maps at the back could be more useful. For a visual guide to the city look at DK. Anyone from a week-end tourist to a long term expat would find this invalubale.

Not enough info on the sights
We spent 6 days on holiday in Istanbul, in Sept 08. The Time Out guide was much less useful than our other book (Eyewitness).

The best part of this book is the section on the history of the city: interesting and entertaining - just what a good guide book should be.

But there isn't enough detail about the historical sights. For example, about one and a half pages are devoted to Haghia Sophia - Istanbul's foremost attraction. Meanwhile there is a 4-page section on Gay & Lesbian life in the city, including rather too much detail about what goes on in certain hammams.

If the balance had been the other way around, it would have been a much more useful book for our visit.