Austria

by Rough Guides

The Rough Guides Snapshot Europe on a Austria is the ultimate backpacker's guide to this breathtaking country. You'll find reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the top sights and attractions, from café culture in Vienna to adventure sports in Innsbruck, alongside cash-saving tips and suggestions for when you feel like treating yourself. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you make the most of your trip, whether passing through, staying for just a few days or longer. The Rough Guides Snapshot Europe on a Austria covers Vienna, Melk, Linz, Graz, Salzburg, Werfen, the Salzkammergut, Hallstatt, Zell am See-Kaprun and Innsbruck.Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget , with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Austria, including transport, costs, health, festivals, work and study, plus a handy itineraries section. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget . The Rough Guides Snapshot Europe on a Austria is equivalent to 48 printed pages.

Genres: Travel

116 pages, Kindle Edition

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.