1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Around the World, continent by continent, here is the best the world has to offer: 1,000 places guaranteed to give travelers the shivers. Sacred ruins, grand hotels, wildlife preserves, hilltop villages, snack shacks, castles, festivals, reefs, restaurants, cathedrals, hidden islands, opera houses, museums, and more. Each entry tells exactly why it's essential to visit. Then come the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone and fax… Product details and pricing info |
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308 Customer Reviews Posted
- should be titled "1000 Hotels to See Before You Die"
- I love to travel so I grabbed this book as a perfect tool for planning trips. Unfortuntately, while it's certainly interesting for the arm-chair traveler, it's pretty useless if you actually want to see 1000 places before you die.
In fact, many of the listings are little more than press releases for expensive hotels and restaurants. For example, out of 13 listings in Argentina, nine are hotels and one is a restaurant, leaving only three authentic sites to visit. This pattern is throughout the book, in every chapter I examined.
I guess if you want to stay in expensive hotels around the world, then this is the book for you. But if you actually want to SEE and EXPERIENCE the place, I'd look elsewhere. - 2007-07-11, 5 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Start packing!
- This book is so informative and interesting that you just enjoy reading it in your favorite chair and dream about where to go on your next vacation.
- 2007-07-07, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Incurable Armchair Traveler
- This is a great read and a fun read whether you're a traveler or an armchair traveler! I enjoy opening the book at random and reading about places I've been to, would love to go to, or may never see in my lifetime.
- 2007-07-05, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Can't wait to visit every one!
- This book is great! I'd say that if you plan on visiting these places you should probably get the checklist book too. But this book is very informative about each location. It has excellent pictures and tells you a little bit about the history of each location.
- 2007-07-04, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A great life "to do" list
- I liked the depth of coverage of the 1000 things, but I think some of the 1000 things are sort of questionable--I am doubtful that I will miss staying in the numerous hotels it lists before I die.
- 2007-06-28, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
