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Charming Small Hotel Guides:
Austria and Switzerland
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These books are from the Charming
Small Hotel Guides series, published in the UK by Duncan Peterson and
distributed in the USA by Hunter
Publishing. |
Guidebooks were once the main source of
information for travelers seeking hotels abroad. Thanks to the Web, that's no
longer true. If you're traveling to Switzerland for Austria, for example, you
don't need a Fodor's or Cadogan guide to tell you what hotels are
available--instead, you can simply go online.
Still, just knowing what's available isn't the same as knowing which hotels
are good, bad, or indifferent. And in an era when yesterday's Baedeker selection
may be today's Best Western, guidebooks like the Charming Small Hotel Guides
make it easier to find hotels and inns that offer traditional atmosphere with a
personal touch. (You can also read guidebooks in a car or train, which makes
them more convenient than the Internet when you're traveling.)
The two guidebooks pictured above--Charming Small Hotel Guides: Austria
and Charming Small Hotel Guides: Switzerland--focus on inns with
"rooms that look like bedrooms rather than hotel rooms; a menu that comes
from a kitchen managed with real skill and care; a proprietor who takes pride in
the premises and your enjoyment of them--without being intrusive." Each
book has descriptions of 200 to 250 small hotels, inns, and restaurants that
offer rooms to travelers. In each chapter (organized by province, canton, or
region) you'll find a dozen or more detailed descriptions with photos, plus an
appendix with shorter mini-reviews of other hotels, pensions, and inns.
Best of all, the Charming Small Hotel Guides are packaged for
convenience: They're slender and compact, so you can tuck them into a coat
pocket or purse for easy reference when you show up in Lucerne or Zell am See
without a hotel room.
To read sample hotel descriptions from these two excellent guidebooks, see
pages two and three
of this review.
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