Product Description

This colourful holiday guide explores the regions via typical themes with specialist maps pinpointing the best places to pursue popular holiday interests such as the best chateaux, the best views, the best walks. The guide also divides the region into smaller areas and recommends towns, villages, areas of natural beauty and monuments and attractions. The guide is packed with over 350 things to do and see, suitable for all ages and includes discount vouchers offereing reductions on entry fees to attraction described within thr guide and money off local goods.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734639 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

For the advanced traveller...
I normally buy DK guides to plan all my travels, as I find the rough guide and lonley planet guides pretty useless to get a good impression of a place or to find decent hotels, etc. I bought the Pyrenees & Gascony from the Vacances series because there was no specific guide from DK for this area. Although this book provides little information on accommodation and the usual topics such as weather, etc., it does provide fantastic details on local produce and the lesser known sights, with a wealth of pictures that will make you look forward to your holiday. I will certainly get more books from this serie for my future travels to France. If you have been to the area before or know where you will be staying, then this is the book to get!

A rather misleading title
I must admit to being very disapointed by this book. It claims to be a guide to the Pyrenees but in fact actually covers only about a quarter of the region.

It is completely silent on anything Spanish and ignored the Atlantic end of the Pyrenees as well. A token page on Andorra was included. It is a very pretty book but it lacks substance. A guide book needs more than pictures to fill it, it must have some hard information as well. For example there is no weather information at all, this in a region where weather is fairly important depending on your reason for going. All told 1 star and a recommendation to pass along the shelf to something more meaningful.