DK France (Travel Guide)

We've always used DK guides when planning Continental road trips (usually in conjunction with Lonely Planet's Best Road Trips series). This 2024 edition has been a massive help for our next venture this year, a three week tour of France - it's easy to navigate the regions, with plenty of detail of the main attractions, cities/towns/villages and great photos. Highly recommended.

This is a superb guide book to help you plan and enjoy visits to France. in the over 500 pages of this guide there are photographs on every page beautifully illustrating everywhere you might choose to visit and all the information you might need to help you to get there and to make the most of your stay.The book opens with the top 12 reasons to love France, before going on to give suggested itineraries from 5 to 14 days duration. A little later in the book there are suggestions of what might be best to see and do at various times of the year. The section 'France Your Way' offers suggestions depending on what interests you including for Foodies, History Buffs, Sports Fans, Art Lovers, Families, Beach Life, Green Fingers, Bookworms, and many more.Following a brief and interesting history of France, around 80 pages are dedicated specifically to Paris, covering all the city’s areas and sights, including for each area what to see, where to eat and often where to stay. There is lots of useful information about the landmarks, museums and galleries of the city, all lavishly illustrated.The bulk of the book covers each region of the country; Isle de la Cite Le Nord and Picardy, Champagne, Alsace and Lorraine, Normandy, Brittany, the Loire Valley, Burgundy, the Massif Central, The Rhone Valley and French Alps, Poitou and Aquitaine, The Dordogne, The Pyrenees, Languedoc and Roussillon, Provence and the Cote d’Azur, and Corsica,In each case there are suggested itineraries, maps, and numerous suggestions of what to see, do, eat and drink.The book closes with lots of useful practical information including about the French Rail system.If you are planning to travel to or around France this guide will be hugely valuable. I have been lucky enough to travel there several times, but even looking through this book has shown me lots of places I didn't know about and now want to see someday soon. I have always wanted to travel by car around France - this book is ideal to help with ideas and planning for that and for shorter city breaks too.The perfect guide to help you enjoy the beauty and wonder of La Belle France

Despite my daughter insisting that no one needs a travel guide anymore if they have a phone, i still like to take one of these with me whenever I travel, and this DK one is just what the Dr ordered!.This is hardly a pocket guide (unless you buy the special pocket) but this is a very carriable and great resource to have with you at all times.This is divided into geographical regions of France and within those regions it gives you maps, vity guides, must see places to go to and suggest localised tours. A generous index at the rear allows you to navigate around the book easily,These guides are wonderfully designed, absolutely stuffed with relevant photos and lost of bold headings/sub-headings to draw your eyes on the page to what you need to see. This is a brick to wedge doors open with, but a wonderful resource to tell you everything you need to know. I have used previous editions of this in my tours of the Loire and the Dordogne, and simply can't wait for my next one. This is a brilliant guide and one that I will make good use of in the years to come! Highly recommended!

I tend to have a bit of a love-hate relationship with DK travel guides and this one perhaps illustrates the problem more than most. First and foremost there's lots of content here to help you plan anything from a week to a year in France. The photos are inspiring and from what I can see all attractions detail opening times, addresses, website and transport links.The problem for me is it's halfway between a narrow coffee table book and a book to travel with which is full of stuff you don't need. Given the shape of each page it doesn't need 3 columns of text, the maps are often really lacking.On the positive side, the paper is good quality so will last without too much trouble. It's not semi-glossy like the family guide from the same publisher and series.There's also random tips and top 10s.. I just find it irritating, sorry.

Very very useful travelling guide. We are planning family trip to France as soon as all travelling restrictions will be gone . I'm planning the route and just going through this guide I found so many places where we would pass but not stopping would be just a crime. My holiday will have so much meaning and memories thanks to a good book!!!

DK Travel guides are so good. Nicely illustrated to accompany the very relevant and detailed outlines of activities to do and things to see. One day we will be able to travel freely again, but in the meantime, reading ons of these gives the impression of being en vacances...

Very useful, well illustrsted

As usual, DK travel guides (and all their other products) are great for travellers visiting a place for the first time. In addition to well documented and relevant articles,I love the pictures, graphics and 3D illustration.

We depend on Eyewitness Guides to plan our vacation trips. Just had a nice trip to Normandy helped by this guide.

Serve its purpose

I recently went to France and saw a copy that another traveler had. It had lovely reviews of all of the places I visited and I wanted it for the notation that you had of the various cities. Thank you as it was most helpful.