Karen Brown's Italy Bed & Breakfasts 2009: Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries (Karen Brown's Italy Charming Bed and Breakfasts) Review

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(More customer reviews)We selected the Dream Domus B&B in Florence. The information was correct, but failed to mention the 45 steps one must climb to reach the B&B - it's on the 3rd floor (US standards) - no elevator - in Europe it's the 2nd floor, as stated in the book. This is a problem for people over a certain age - think of carting luggage all the way. A nice young woman helped - she carried our heavier pieces up and down.

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Experience the Italian way of life by staying as a guest in an Italian home. Accommodations vary from simple farmhouses to noble country villas--all promising memorable stays. Bed & Breakfast travel affords visitors to Italy more intimate contact with the country's traditional ways and culture than can ever be experienced when staying at hotels. The Karen Brown team has visited literally hundreds of properties in order to recommend what they consider the very best. Paired with regional countryside itineraries, this guide provides all the information for planning the perfect vacation. It is ideal for travelers who wish to explore the country and depart with an in-depth understanding of the culture. 7 Regional Countryside Driving Itineraries, Descriptions of over 275 Places to Stay.

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Bed and Blessings Italy: A Guide to Convents and Monasteries Available for Overnight Lodging Review

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(More customer reviews)I was sent this book some weeks ago and I enjoyed reading at it. I was gladly impressed about the author's humor, just beacuse all of their comments are true. I am Italian and I live in Rome since I was born and it happens to me to work with these places when I eventually welcome people from Italy and all over the world. I also was well impressed about the honesty of the writers in describing places in and out as well as their location. Besides limited curfew times, which can turn your visit into a problem if you wish to stay out forward, these are the places to go especially if you plan to spend most of your time visiting the city. They are cheap, clean and most of all, centrally located! So, why spending a fortune into hotel rooms when you can easily get what you need for much less? I hope to find an update edition soon! Keep up a good work guys!

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Eating & Drinking in Italy: Italian Menu Translator and Restaurant Guide (Open Road Travel Guides) Review

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(More customer reviews)Not only does this book have the most comprehensive menu translator available (and it really can save you from making some huge mistakes when ordering), but the restaurant recommendations are perfect if you're looking for excellent Italian dining. There are great recommendations for restaurants in Rome, Venice, Florence and Milan that we used on our last trip. We dined at moderate prices on great meals thanks to this pocket sized book. Highly recommended!

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Nothing can make a trip to Italy more enjoyable and rewarding than a great dining experience—that is, of course, if you know what you’re ordering! This handy, pocket-sized guide helps you navigate Italian menus, in addition to steering you to some great Italian restaurants, bistros, cafes, wine shops, and food markets. Most of the book is a comprehensive menu reader, translating thousands of Italian words into English. There are also sections on restaurant etiquette, a pronunciation guide, English-to-Italian words and phrases, and descriptions of the many different kinds of eating establishments in Italy. Reviews: "...an opinionated little compendium...the right size for a traveler"—The New York Times "A charming and whimsical guide...irresistible"—Chicago Tribune "...a terrific primer for first time visitors...a pack-along must for the less-adventurous eater."—Houston Chronicle "...elegant"—Minneapolis Tribune "...opening up the world of good eating with their innovative paperback series."—Salt Lake Tribune

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Gambero Rosso Rome: Restaurants, Trattorias, Pizzerias, Wine Bars, Snacks, Wine Shops, Gourmet Foods, Home & Table, Hotels Review

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(More customer reviews)The Gabero Rosso guides are legendary in Italy. Serious Italian food and wine lovers will rarely try something new without a recommendation from a friend, and often that friend is the Gambero Rosso guide. And I, along with many of my friends, won't travel through the countryside without a copy of the Gambero Rosso restaurant guide -- that way when we get hungry, we can quickly locate a great place to eat, call ahead and find ourselves sitting down before tasty meal very quickly and easily.
The problem for the causal tourist has always been that the Gambero Rosso restaurant guides are not published in English.
Now there is at least this book. While the Rome guide obviously lacks the vastness of the national editions, it is the best available English-language resource for anyone in the Eternal City looking to find a great meal at a restaurant that isn't already listed in every other guide book.
Granted, this book suffers from some of the shortcomings of the Gambero Rosso series as a whole: it generally doesn't reward restaurants that do something out of the ordinary, no matter how good, and the growing sector of ethnic and fusion restaurants in the capital are ignored. One might even criticize the choice of Rome for Gambero Rosso's first English-language restaurant guide, since Florence, Bologna and Genoa all have culinary traditions superior to that of Rome (no doubt Rome's 30 million tourists a year were the deciding factor there). But for any ex-pat living in Rome or any English-speaking visitor who wants some solid advice on where to eat his or her tripa or tagliateli, this is the book you want.

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Karen Brown's Italy Hotels 2009: Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries Review

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(More customer reviews)Karen Brown books are essential to all my trips to Italy. I have made 4 different trips from the North to the South and to Sicily. I am
grateful to her because we have stayed in some amazing places that were recommended in her books. Its VERY unlikely I would have ever found these, often unique, charming inns and hotels without her books. A few caveats are; the place/Inn/Hotel etc. may have gotten a little 'shop worn' since the original Karen Brown visit a few years prior and the owners may be less charming to you than someone there to review them and give them a 'stamp of approval' and put them in a very high profile travel book. I might suggest that Karen Brown
or staff re-review these places more frequently and do so anonymously. While I give her books very high marks there were a couple un-
pleasant surprises. Oh well, travel is never 'fool proof' and I still give her books a 95%!


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Italy is magical and this guide continues to be the best seller in the Karen Brown series. Truly a tourist's paradise-within its boot-from its tip to its famous toe, travelers will experience memorable and romantic accommodation, incredible dining, a wealth of history, incredible culture, enchanting towns and villages as well as a landscape that varies from picturesque lakes to tremendous mountain peaks and the rolling hills of Tuscany and Umbria. Let this guide introduce you to the magic and romance of Italy. 7 Regional Countryside Driving Itineraries, Descriptions of over 270 Places to Stay.

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