Austria: The Rough Guide

by Rough Guides, Rob Humphreys, Jonathan Bousfield

Rough Guides welcomes Austria to our outstanding line-up of European destinations

Venture across every inch of this prosperous and stable central European country as the Rough Guide whisks you from the cosmopolitan capital, Vienna -- packed with cultural offerings and throbbing with late-night musikcafes -- to the awesome Alpine backwaters of the Tyrol. In between, we take you where other guides don't -- such as the wine-making villages along the Czech border -- and we stretch your schillings to suit your budget in what can be an expensive country to visit.

Genres: Travel

544 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stuffed with information, though in a typeface a little smaller than I'd optimally like. Both practical and inspirational, the Rough Guides are short on photos and long on specifics: addresses, phone numbers, prices, etc. As might be expected, the details are not always correct, since opening times and whatnot tend to change. However, I give this guidebook series an "A" for effort -- they do update the guides frequently. Just be sure to be carrying the most recent one.

One thing I particularly like which sets this guidebook series apart from others is the bibliography at the end. I read voraciously on most places I'm planning to go to, so I find the RG book suggestions -- everything from history to literature to culture -- to be quite useful.

[Jack Hrkach · Rating 2 out of 5]

My rating of a Rough Guide is usually higher than two stars. I try on Goodreads to not exaggerate a book's importance to me, so too many may fall in that third star category, which for me covers most reading. Four stars means that a book has really got to me; five stars I reserve for only the finest books I have read in my life.

Full Rough Guides give me great satisfaction. I was surprised that there wasn't a Rough Guide dealing with Austria, so I ordered this one (cost me only $4.99 in the Kindle store), but as soon as I began it - I've written before of travel gooks/guides that I do not usually read the entire book, just about the places in it I plan to visit, and perhaps others that I may want to visit - I remembered that I had ordered another such "on a budget" guide and that it was almost completely useless. So was this. Very little info, very few places to stay - "budget" is key and while I am a budget traveler I no longer care to bunk in a room with 8 strangers (actually I never DID care for that - my years in the US Air Force taught me well in that regard) - not nearly enough to justify even the small sum I paid for it.

Do NOT decide against reading Rough Guides based on this. Almost all that I have read are among the finest travel guides I could hope for. But if you expect anything more than the most basic information, stay away from this one.