Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg (Frommer's Complete) by Angela Charlton
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Book Summary Author: Angela Charlton Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2008-02-05 ISBN: 0470194030 Number of pages: 335 Publisher: Frommers |
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Book Reviews of the Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg (Frommer's Complete)
Customer Review: Confusing, repetitive Guide
Summary: 3 Stars
This guide reads like a draft.... I don't think it was ever tested with a live tourist.
The Book format has the same information being partially repeated, with confusing cross references. In particular chapter "Suggested Moscow Itineraries" described the exact same places as chapter "Exploring Moscow", and the former chapter constantly referred to the latter chapter for details (WITHOUT page number!) which is annoying.
Addresses given are vague and often inaccurate: that is a big problem in Moscow where addresses (even aside from the problem with Cyrillic) are highly confusing to westerners: as a result I sometimes got very lost.
For example, the Kremlin tourist entrance was specified differently more than once, which is a big problem as the Kremlin is huge (e.g. p3 "The tourist entrance is on the north side ... at the Borovitsky Gates". p 117 has a map that doesn't show Borovitsky Gate. It shows the visitor's Entrance at Kufaya Towers on the west side. The latter was correct, the former in error).
The location of internet cafe "Time Online" was unclear. (p.73 "... on the bottom floor of the the Okhotny Ryad shopping Center near the Kremlin
(1 Maneshnaya Ploshchad" was very misleading because it was not mentioned the whole shopping center is underground and huge. I never found it after looking for 90 minutes)