DK Germany (Travel Guide)

You don't know how good a guide book is unless you know a place, which sort of defeats the object! I know central Munich pretty well - my husband worked in Munich a few years ago and we've visited since, so I decided to look at the Munich section to see what I thought of it and was very impressed. The pictures and maps are excellent and the 'if you only have one day in Munich...' is perfect - the guide takes you to all the places I would have suggested and the route takes you past many other places that might catch your eye and cause you to go off track a little, but that's ok because Munich is a very 'human sized' city - no buildings in the centre are allowed to be taller than the cathedral so you don't ever really get lost. The guide also takes you into Munich's suburbs to the Olympic Park, Schloss Nymphenburg and other interesting places.Based on how good and informative the Munich section is I don't doubt that the rest of the book is just as good. It's nice that there is an information section at the back of the guide giving information about public transport, average prices etc, and a few handy phrases - I would recommend the 'menu decoder' as being especially useful.At £15.63 (as at 22 April 2023) this is a chunky book jam packed with pretty much everything you need to know about travelling in Germany, which is useful as we're going on a Rhine cruise in October - it's been over 40 years since I was in Cologne and I'm looking forward to visiting it again. Would recommend.

I used it as a travel guide throughout Germany. It is DK's usual simple double page spread of the most important things to see in a city. Not a great deal of information but good pictures.

I really like using DK Eyewitness books when planning my holidays and I always use DK guides in the planning stages as I think that they point you in the right direction of what to see and do. This is a DK book about Germany. DK books are fantastic for holiday planning in any country. They are so useful and are packed with pictures, maps and information. This book is a great size to take away with you, packed with so much information, pictures and ideas. It is a good overall guide, which will point you in the right direction of places to visit. I usually use a guide like this to get ideas then research things on the internet. Great little guide perfect for planning your next holiday at a reasonable price.

DK travel guides have heavily reinvented themselves in recent years, and are now among the market leaders, in my opinion.With more concise and more practical details than Lonely Planet, and offering the colour imagery that Rough Guides lack, they also come in a nice size format (not very wide) and are pretty lightweight too.This Germany guide, like all other DK guides, is really well organised, with a clear contents page and thorough index.It is split not just by region, but also by wider region (ie Eastern Germany).Loads of recommendations covering areas from eating, cultural visits, accommodation and day trips.Really helped me plan a trip to the Bavarian Alps, and I look forward to using it while there.

Once upon a time, DK Eyewitness Guides were the best with high quality paper and good photographs. The most recent ones - of which this is one - use low-quality paper and consequently the photographs look poor.Additionally, with this one, certain key sites are conspicuous by their absence and there are a number of mistakes in the index.I don't think I'll buy any more books from this series.

This may be a Travel Guide, but there’s one obvious way it’s not travel-friendly- it’s quite big and heavy! Even with very thin paper, and relatively small print, the comprehensive information covering all the regions of Germany in this guide fills 500 pages. So it’s not the kind of thing you can slide into your pocket to call on while you’re wandering around a German city. It’s the kind of guide you use to plan a trip, then you leave it out of your suitcase to save space.Because I’m looking at this guide on that basis, despite it having 500 pages, I still wonder if it could have had a bit more general cultural information at the start of each section. There are small ‘getting to know’ and ‘explore’ sections already, but they feel like they are tiny bite-sized nuggets that only scratch the surface. It feels like there’s plenty of room in there for some longer stories, some more interesting local trivia, and so on. What there is is fine, but it does feel quite dry, like formal travel guides of old.As you get into the individual towns and cities and individual venues, I have no complaints though. A large number of locations are listed, and most of them have quite lengthy introductions, as well as the standard sparse tourist basics like the street address, web address and opening times. Here there’s a bit more character.One of the best things about this book is the quantity and quality of the photographs. By quality I don’t just mean the print quality, although that is very good, and despite the paper having a thin newspaper-like quality to it, many of the photos are surprisingly sharp and vibrant in colour. It’s also the range of photos on offer, many of which are better-than-average examples of typical tourist trap photos. There are some sunset shots and some magnificent skies, and some great choices of landscape photo, that succeed in making Germany look incredibly beautiful. Many of the pictures are a bit tiny, but they can still draw you in, and it’s a book you might sometimes want to open up just to appreciate the pictures. The picture editor has done a good job here, better than many travel brochures I’ve seen.For me this book falls between two stools, not quite being the perfect pocket travel guide for a long weekend trip, but also not quite being the coffee table book for keeping at home, when it could have been either. But it has plenty of content and some lovely pictures, and certainly makes me hope that my next trip to Germany is sooner rather than later.

This is a really useful guide that contains a lot of information about Germany and places to visit. We particularly like that it doesn’t just focus on the places that everybody would go to, but also contains details of places that are slightly off the beaten track. Four stars.

Own this but gave one as a gift because So much information and beautiful color. Recipients very pleases. Always travel with DK guides.

I normally get lonely planet and have been thrilled with this book as an alternative. I really appreciate the photographs, history, and maps. Very helpful book

Truly, like the book, it even has an itinerary for if you’re there for three for five days, I do miss the Maps being in that slick Lind on paper, I don’t love..of paper

i Likes the old format with its "what to buy sections, its hotel listings, its restaurant listings, its survival guide hints" that were all grouped together. It was those features, together with photos that set DK apart from other guidebooks.