Which? Recommended Provider: Time Out Guides kicks off 2014 by being rated top guidebook brand by Which? Survey, for level of detail, photography, quality of maps, ease of finding information and value for money.
The Time Out Rome city guide is an insider's guide to one of the world's best-known and most-visited cities. Written by experts and long-time local residents, it provides extensive coverage of the major, spectacular, unmissable sights... then goes much further; it offers visitors the chance to see the Eternal City as the locals do, revealing the very latest trends in booming nightlife and arts scenes, listing the born-again trattorie that have pushed designer restaurants on to the sidelines, and exploring the burgeoning aperitivo trend that brings a vast and fascinating cross-section of sipping-and-nibbling Romans to some gorgeous out-of-the-way piazze every evening.
http://nhw.livejournal.com/998924.html[return][return]good background essays, very good restaurant recommendations, a sensible approach to navigating around the sights. My one complaint is that the maps are not tied to the text awfully well, and actually allowed us to go seriously astray when we looked for the catacombs along the Appian Way.