Rick Steves Rome 2019 Paperback – September 11, 2018

This book was full of concrete information to read in advance -- like the fact that there is one price to eat at a table at a restaurant and another price to eat while standing at the bar -- so you know to specify your preference while in Rome. It also has detailed walking tours, divided by neighborhood of Rome. We completed several and found them easy to follow, informative, and highly enjoyable. Initially borrowed a copy from the library and could see we'd want our own to take with and be able to mark up. Will purchase a Rick Steves book for any other European travels before we go. Highly recommend.

Rick Steve's Guide book to Rome is perfect. I used it every day of my one week trip to Rome and it was so helpful. From suggestions on which sites to visit, how to avoid tourist scams, restaurant and hotel recommendations, and valuable historical information on the sites, I found the guide to be extremely useful. It helped me plan what sites we would see each day and plan accurately for how long it would take to visit each site. The information on the history of the sites and works of art gave context and meaning to what might have been otherwise overwhelming. There is so much to see in Rome, this guide really helped to make my trip run very smoothly. I highly recommend this book if you are planning a trip to Rome!

I had never before read a Rick Steve’s travel book. This was humorous and very informative. In terms of readability it was the best travel book I have read. Not at all like Frommers or typical guide books. There was more substance. Rome has a lot of religious art and the fact that the author was well versed in religion was obvious. It was clear that was a passion of his. If I have a criticism it is that there was too much religious talk for my taste. I would have preferred more information on secular culture and current events.

I was going to be in Rome for exactly 7 days and one of the chapters was "What to do in Rome if you have 7 days!" So, my husband and I made a list of the suggestions and compared that list to ours. We ended up adding 3 sites we never considered before. We also reserved private tours of all the main sites, including the Colosseum and the Vatican. The licensed tour guides have to pass a series of tests in order to give accurate details of the history. The guide book was very useful in explaining the importance of the sites. We ended up taking the book with us most of the time. Very useful and I would recommend you buy this before you plan your trip to Rome.

We've used several Rick Steves travel books and always found them informative, helpful, and easy to follow. Steves does not get too carried away and his material is easy to read. We will use his books for many more trips to Europe.

We just returned from 10 days in Rome. I kept this book with me all of the time. It was great for organizing self guided walks in the different areas of Rome. For example with took a bus to the Termini station and visited all of the sites the book described in that area one day. We were able to see all of the Michaelangelos, Berninis and Caravaggios scared around the city. Good descriptions of what to see at the more popular sites like the Vatican museums as well. We did have some guided tours and we noticed those tracked pretty closely with what was in the book.

Using this book and the Rick Steves book on Florence and Tuscany, we were able to plan our trip to Italy without using a professional tour. We felt like we had everything we needed to make the appropriate reservations, travel safely, use multiple modes of transportation—Metro, Taxi, trains, and ferries—avoid long lines for attractions and museums, and see the most important and amazing things without ever tiring of the huge quantity of history and art that exists in italy.You absolutely must download the Rick Steves Audio Europe app too! You can click on Italy and then make sure to download his audio tours to your playlist for anything you plan to visit. Downloading it in advance will make sure you can access it once there since we found even our expensive cell coverage to be spotty and extremely slow. We compared the Rick Steves narrative to the official Uffizi Art museum audio tour which you have to pay for, and the Rick Steves version was more interesting and gave much more information about the context/climate of the period of paintings and better details and descriptions. My husband who I thought would be bored to tears in the art museum absolutely LOVED it, thanks to Rick’s audio narrative. Thank you, Rick Steves!

This book was an excellent guide for us in Rome! We tore out the pages we would need each day and followed Rick’s walking tours and an excellent guide to day trip to Ostia Antica. I also purchased the Spain guide and used it at every museum and site. I was actually shocked at how easy to follow and how interesting the information was. I’ve always bought and read Rick’s travel guides before but this was the first time I used it on the street. Well worth the money! Loved it!

Excellent! If your traveling to anywhere in the world, Rick Steves tells it he way it is and prepares you well. We were very well informed for our trip to Italy with our family of 6 adults and 2 babies and we didn’t have one problem whatsoever in 2 entire weeks.Do your homework, follow his advice and travel safely and smartly. Be educated!

I used this for my six days in Rome. It was just the right level of detail, and found it extremely useful. It looks so used now - which is a good sign!When traveling, you don’t want to be spending too much time looking at your travel book, yet be informed enough on what to look out for as well as get a good context of what you’re seeing.There is also a Rick Steve’s app to download but it’s content is identical to what’s written in the book.Spend some time reading this book before your trip if it’s your first time to Rome, and you will find this book a most invaluable companion.Just keep in mind this book is written with an American reader in mind, but it wouldn’t matter for anyone who understands English.

I love Rick Steves guides because they are full of tips that you just don't find in other ones. I love the guided walks he includes because they are a great way to orientate yourself in the new city. It also helps make sense of the things you are walking past that you might otherwise miss, rather than just going from sight to sight without knowing what was between.

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One of the best guide books I've ever read. Rick Steeves Rome Guide 2019 helped me plan our 3 days in Rome. It has everything you need to know about the Eternal City.