The Rough Guide to Copenhagen

by Rough Guides, Lone Mouritsen

Book by Mouritsen, Lone

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

272 pages, Paperback

First published April 23, 2001

About the author

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.
With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.

Reviews

[Jac]

As an experienced budget traveler, I've used many guides to many cities over the years, and I've generally had great success. This guide, however, was a tremendous disappointment. I found that the maps at the end of the book were virtually impossible to use - you couldn't connect one to another (if you were going across different sections of town), and they contained very few destinations on the maps themselves, so it was difficult to determine where things were in relation to each other.

The descriptions were lengthy, yet still lacking in content, particularly in terms logistics such as locations, how to get there by public transportation, prices, or hours.

I also learned an important general lesson about guidebooks - city guides are only worthwhile if you will be spending about a week or more in the city. For just a day or two, it's far better to get the country guide, as the portion on the city of interest will be more concise.

I'll stick to Let's Go (my favorite!) and Lonely Planet in the future.