Rome Travel Guides - You’d be forgiven
for thinking that you should buy your Rome
travel guide when you land at Rome’s
Fiumicino airport.
Well, that’d be
OK if you’d left yours at home, but
it’s a better idea to pick one up in
your home city and familiarize yourself with
the book and Rome before you leave for your
trip.
While spontaneity is a wonderful thing,
planning your vacation is advised because
most of us simply don’t have the luxury
of spending a long enough period of time
in our chosen destination.
Reading your Rome
travel guide in advance 
will also help you
to know what to pack, how much of a budget
to consider and what kinds of activities
you will engage in once there.
Of course, there are guides and then there
are guides. Don’t bother with anything
whose publication date is more than a couple
of years ago. Despite its long and colorful
history, Rome is an ever-changing city and
any Rome travel guide worth the paper it’s
printed on will be up to date and offer plenty
of useful information.
Also get a good feel
for the book. If you’re planning to
stay in a lovely, comfortable hotel for the
duration of your trip, the weight and portability
won’t be much of an issue. However,
backpackers curse cumbersome and heavy guidebooks
for obvious reasons. Make sure yours is bound
well and is compact and light.
There are plenty of guidebooks available
from well known and reputable publishers,
so avoid any that you haven’t heard
of, unless they come highly recommended by
friends who have used them on their own journeys.
Considering how much there is to see and
do in a place like Italy, a Rome travel
guide should be comprehensive and accurate
and
offer lots of intriguing tidbits that will
compel you to look beneath the tourist-y
surface of the Rome advertised in the glossy
brochures.
My particular favourites are from Frommers
Rome and the "Irrverent Guide" and "Rome
Day by Day" especially, which allows
you to leave base every day with an organised
itenery that is well researched, and put
together in a logical and economic way so
you don't waste any time on the ground.
Also
very useful are the Rome
Eyewitness Travel Guides , from DK, and the most recent "Rough
Guide" which has extensive, and well
researched recommendations for restaurants
and hotels.
Travel
guides for Rome Travel guides for
Rome are an essential purchase
to allow you to use your time well, but also
give you
the chance to get in the mood for your eagerly
anticipated trip.
Rome
travel websites can
also help with your preparation, although
you are already in the best place for "insider" information
here at Lets Travel Rome.com!
You may also want to shop locally to get
a travel
brochure for Rome , which would
contain any information specific to your
home location, and the journey to the city.
Once you’ve purchased your Rome
travel guide, don’t be afraid
to use it like a diary. Make notes in it
indicating things you’d like to do
upon your arrival. Circle important facts,
turn over corners to remind you of pages
you need to refer to constantly and be sure
to write in your personal particulars.
If
you or your Rome travel guide gets lost,
you should be able to find your way back
to each other thanks to the kindness of
strangers. When you return home, your guidebook
will
be like a document of your journey and
you will treasure it as a keepsake for years
to come.
And one final tip - Don't pay the full price
for your Rome travel guide. I've put together
some easy links to my top recommendations
on this page, all of which allow you to buy
at below retail price, so you can be reading
your
chosen Rome travel guide in the next few
days, and get a bargain!
Use the menu on left hand side to
navigate through the Rome
Vacation section of
my site.
