Greece Athens & the Mainland (Eyewitness Travel Guides) Vinyl Bound – 15 January 2007

We bought this so that we would have a guide to the Thessolinikki area. Haven't taken the trip yet, but it looks like it will work for us like all of the other Eyewitness Guides have.

like how these travel books give history

I usually use Lonely Planet and Green Guide (Guide Vert) but I read a lot of negative reviews about LP, so I gave Eyewitness a try. The photos and diagrams were fantastic - they really helped me make some choices about what to see compared to LP. And I particularly appreciated the diagrams of how many of the ancient sites such as Corinth, Delphi, and Olympia used to look, because you need some help when you see these ruins. Neither LP or Green Guide had these consistently.My main problem was that it didn't have a lot of useful information, or if it did it was hard to find. The book's organization isn't too good - for a given site or city it has information about the city in terms of tourism or practical all over the place. Green Guide has much better practical maps, which are in color and cover a larger geographic area. Eyewitness is great when you get to the site you want to see, but it is not so useful to find the sites.Also, compared to LP and Green Guide it has a lot less historical and explanatory information. And in terms of total number of places covered, I have the impression that Eyewitness has less than others. There's a price for nice, glossy photos.Finally, not that it's critical, but my binding broke within a day, though the book cover mostly kept the book together.I think I will only buy Eyewitness again in special circumstances.

Out standing guides book for travel and visit Greece. Must have this book and I highly recommended.

I have several of the Eyewitness travel guides. The are wonderful resources for planning travels and reminiscing!