This guide book is excellent for visiting the city, gives practical advice for public transport and how to purchase tickets, and for each area of the city gives you ideas for where to stay and where to eat and drink. The guide is user-friendly and with its superb maps you can’t go wrong. Our stay in Rome was enhanced by making good choices from the guide book. We only had four days and we used our time well thanks to the clever way the book is set out.
Rating: 5 / 5

We recently spent two weeks in Rome. One week planned and a second week due to the Icelandic volcanic ash! We used this to plan our days out and tell us as much as we wanted to know about all the sights.

The book has some interesting sections in the front about Rome’s history from different perspectives, but most of it is an area-by-area guide, with good illustrations highlighting the places of interest (numbered), with some of them starred. All the numbered sights then have further information easily found within the section. As you would expect, some of the bigger attractions, such as St Peter’s, The Forum etc. have several pages devoted to them.

There is also a section that describes some suggested walking itineraries, plus a general section of other useful info in the back – we liked the bit on when/where to find street markets.

The only negatives I can think of are that the book is a bit heavy – certainly too big/heavy for a pocket, so I mostly carried it my backpack between stops. Partly because of this and partly because they are on separate pages, the maps in the back aren’t much good to use for getting around. I found the perfect combination was the Eyewitness guide plus the excellent Time Out waterproof map.
Rating: 5 / 5