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You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Madrid and Toledo.
In this 138-page compact guide, Rick Steves covers the best of Madrid and Toledo, including tips on arrival, orientation, and transportation. In Madrid, visit the masterpieces of the Prado Museum, and explore the Royal Palace. Or visit Toledo’s vast Cathedral or Alcázar. You’ll get Rick’s firsthand advice on the best sights, eating, sleeping, and nightlife, and the maps and self-guided tours will ensure you make the most of your experience. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves Snapshot guide is a tour guide in your pocket.
In this 138-page compact guide, Rick Steves covers the best of Madrid and Toledo, including tips on arrival, orientation, and transportation. In Madrid, visit the masterpieces of the Prado Museum, and explore the Royal Palace. Or visit Toledo’s vast Cathedral or Alcázar. You’ll get Rick’s firsthand advice on the best sights, eating, sleeping, and nightlife, and the maps and self-guided tours will ensure you make the most of your experience. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves Snapshot guide is a tour guide in your pocket.
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Review by Alexander Albrecht for Rick Steves’ Snapshot Madrid & Toledo (Rick Steves Snapshot)
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I am writing this review in Madrid. I just finished Ricks’ self-guided walk; it was absolutely the best tour of Madrid we have had. It was way better the the guided walk tours and the bus tours we took earlier. Although I am not what you would call a “budget traveler” the book also saved be a bunch of money. What I like is there is just the right amount of information. Enough so you can find the right places to sleep, eat and see, but not so much that you get bored with excess facts. If you are going to bring one guidebook to Madrid, this is the one.
Review by Oramel Skinner for Rick Steves’ Snapshot Madrid & Toledo (Rick Steves Snapshot)
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Just as you would want – good recommendations and strong opinions on what to see and what not to see.
Review by Stephen Greene for Rick Steves’ Snapshot Madrid & Toledo (Rick Steves Snapshot)
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up to now I always got a brand-name travel book, but this one is how I would want one to be written- there’s a HAND-DRAWN map of many neighborhoods, with each attraction and the nearest restaurant locations shown. There’s a tour of the Prado Museum- what’s on each floor and room. Same for Toledo. Also buses and bus tours described, and which bus tours omit what sights. The formula Madrid books concentrate on describing all the hotels and don’t have this good stuff.
Review by Ingrid Nicholson for Rick Steves’ Snapshot Madrid & Toledo (Rick Steves Snapshot)
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GET THIS E-BOOK!!! I debated whether it would be worth the money before I took a big month-long trip to Spain this past October/November 2009. Rick Steves just does not disappoint! The most useful feature (there are tons) in the Snapshot city guide e-books are the self-guided tours. There are crowd-beating tips, updated cost, hours, locations, phone numbers, maps, self-guided walking tours in the city…For so little money, you can save yourself a world full of headaches. He also points out cool things to see in the Madrid that aren’t in other tour books (like rowing a boat in the lake in Parque de Retiro), and he gives invaluable tips of the good places to go for everything (food, entertainment, museums, neighborhoods, etc). Also, the local free tourist maps they give you are usually anemic by way of detailed, accurate information. Having this little tool as a backup is critical when you may not have time to hunt down bigger books and maps. It also gives you info about surrounding cities you may like to visit, as well as tips on language, money, phoning…Plus, it fits in your pocket (I used it on my iPhone with the Kindle reader). You don’t look like a tourist dork reading your iPhone, like you do lugging around maps and books. You look way cooler…
I loved this e-book bc it also included Toledo. There is a tourist info office in the main square area in Toledo (Zocodover Square), but it won’t boil down the city for a day trip like Rick Steves does. No one makes a city come alive like Rick Steves!!!
Review by Michael Sandman for Rick Steves’ Snapshot Madrid & Toledo (Rick Steves Snapshot)
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This covers Madrid and nearby Toledo quite well. The authors’ opinions are obvious, but they hold up pretty well, based on our experience. There could be a bit more information on using the superb but slightly complex Madrid Metro system. There is excellent information on the Prado and on many of Madrid’s other museums. The section on Toledo (which is worth a day’s trip via a 40-minute train ride) is superb. The only complaint I have is that the book is not printed on glossy paper, and the maps are therefore less legible than they should be.
You can walk across the heart of Madrid from the Royal Palace to the Prado easily, and if you take your time, this book will help you get a feeling for the structure and beauty of the city.