The Rough Guide to Greece

by Rough Guides, Nick Edwards, Andrew Benson

The Rough Guide to Greece is the ultimate handbook to the Greek mainland and the islands - right down to the tiniest one-village outcrops. The 24-page, full-colour section introduces all of Greece''s highlights, from Mount Pílio''s lush countryside and Préspa''s beautiful lakes to the fish market in Thessaloníki and the famous oracle site in Delphi. In addition, there are four, brand-new, full-colour ''Food & Drink'', ''Wild Greece'', ''Ancient Architecture'' and ''Orthdox Festivals''. The guide includes hundreds of incisive reviews of all the best places to eat, drink and sleep, for all budgets. There are practical tips on a wide range of activities, from bird-watching and windsurfing to hiking and cycling. The guide also takes a detailed look at the country''s history, culture, mythology and wildlife and comes complete with maps and plans for every region.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

1184 pages, Paperback

First published January 27, 1982

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

[Shavon · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Rough Guides are among my least favorite travel books: too much info, too small print, too heavy to carry around as reference material in country, too few pictures, no removable map. They do have one pro: there’s something for every price point - or maybe that’s another con. Their books are not targeted at any particular audience.

[Kiron Reid · Rating 5 out of 5]

We used the 2018 15th edition of the Greece Rough Guide for our first trip to mainland Greece, a city holiday in Thessaloniki (Thessalonica to the British) in October 2021. We used the guide (in paper and electronic format) every day. Very readable. The information in it was almost all accurate (the location of the city buses near the central square had moved slightly) and was all useful. Restaurant recommendations in the city and on the coast were good, including for vegetarian food. It made our holiday easier. Useful historical context on the city. Not much information on the nearest beach to the city but good on Halkidhiki and Kassandhra peninsular. Only we tried to visit the town of Sani and found you basically couldn't get in without paying a fortune to park at the marina so we gave up. I have used the book for general information on subsequent travel to Greece, to Thessaloniki and also less well known locations in central Greece.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't read the whole thing--just the parts that involved the 6 islands I visited. The Rough Guide isn't as I remember when I first discovered it back in 1997 or so. I used it to find lots of out-of-the-way places for various travels, but there are so many people on the planet now that those secret, special places are pretty much non-existent and Rough Guide has to tell us about all of the normal places that everyone goes to. Still, I was disappointed in the book.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This guide book does a good job being honest. For instance, it described Omonia Square in Athens as being filled with homeless people and junkies. I went to check it out. Sure enough: homeless people and junkies. This is useful and refreshing compared to the local, cloudy-eyed tourist trap-bait that is sold in the city itself. It's index, however, is weak, and that is important because it is not particularly well or logically laid out and organized. Many of its urban maps are vague, but it does give enough historical and cultural info to make carrying the hefty volume around with you.

[Danielle Mccormick · Rating 5 out of 5]

The amount of travel guides in print is too immense for me to ever review them all... but I just want to put it out there that in my humble opinion Rough Guides are the best. In my experience, they have never faltered or steered me incorrectly and best of all, they are written FOR budget travelers who are (most probably) going solo. If that is your style of travel then rough guides can and will save your skin when you land in a foreign country with no plans, no knowledge of the language, no connections, and a limited amount of dollars and resources.... Just open up your rough guide.

[Patti (baconater) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting bits of info but awkward to use as an ebook.