The Rough Guide to France

by Rough Guides

The ultimate travel guide to this varied and beautiful country. With clear, full-color maps, stunning photographs, and detailed coverage of all the best French attractions, this book is packed with essential and extensive practical advice on what to see and do. Find tips on exploring the country's remarkable landscapes, from the snowy slopes of the Alps and the watery plains of the Camargue to the vibrant metropolis of Paris and the glamour of the glitzy Côte d'Azur. There is plenty of authoritative and enlightening background information, too, covering subjects such as France's stormy history, the tastiest food to try, and the finest wines to quaff. You can rely on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels, bars, restaurants, and shops in France for all budgets. Reliable and informed, The Rough Guide to France is your vital traveling companion. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to France . Series For more than thirty years, adventurous travelers have turned to Rough Guides for up-to-date and intuitive information from expert authors. With opinionated and lively writing, honest reviews, and a strong cultural background, Rough Guides travel books bring more than 200 destinations to life. Visit RoughGuides.com to learn more.

Genres: Travel, Reference, Nonfiction, France

1056 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

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

[Andrej · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although I love Rough Guides, this one was a disappointment. Not enough detail. Not enough information about how to get to places. On a more positive note, the small city maps inside the book are as good as in other Rough Guides.

[Jack Hrkach · Rating 4 out of 5]

I write just about the same thing for every Rough Guide, because, even though it seems to be in decline, that guidebook series remains the most reliable, the most informative, overall the best series I have ever used when I travel.

France is no exception, in fact it's better written than most - and that's saying something, in my book. I visited at least 12 cities on my last trip and learned something new about each one. If you're looking for a detailed travel book, filled not with pictures (don't you see the era things when you're there?) go with this series!

[Jennie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read through about ten guidebooks before my last trip to France and found this to be the best. Then when I went to France it was indeed helpful. I was actually dissapointed with the LP one for France, it was not as "off the beaten path" as I was hoping/expecting. Seems with LP that it really depends on the writer, they tend to vary greatly in quality/depth of info from volume to volume and country to country.

[Ietrio · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a regular travel guide. I don't think it is any better than the others.