Frommer's Irreverent Guide to London, 3rd Edition

by Kate Sekules

"Like being taken around by a savvy local." —The New York Times "Little fluff and lots of fun." —Boston Globe Are you tired of cliché-ridden guidebooks packed with promotional fluff? Then move over to the Irreverent Guides—the travel series that no tourist board would dare to recommend. Look inside for the lowdown Frommer's. The Name You Can Trust. Find us online at www.frommers.com

228 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1996

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have a very very old edition of this book, circa 1998. It was a gift from a friend back in the late 1990s, and I've held onto it this long because I've wanted to visit London for all that time. I pulled it out and read it cover to cover now because I'm finally planning a trip to London, but I wasn't counting on how outdated the book was- a newer edition might be better. This edition made special comment about the "new" influx of mobile phones ringing throughout the city. Yeah, it's like that.

Besides being hugely outdated, I didn't find much of anything truly 'irreverent' about it. It was written like any other guide book, with the same four categories that every guide book has- stuff to do, stuff to see, stuff to eat, and stuff to sleep on.

So yeah, this was just ok.