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Discover Switzerland's territorial variations, activenesses and internet sites with the newly altered Green Guide Switzerland. Climb Dent de Vaulion's summits, cruise Lake Lucerne, feast on raclette, or shop at Europe's longest buying goods centers in Bern. Detailed maps, color photos and illustrations clarify the featured towns and vistas. Strapped for time? The valued star-rating system guides you to the best websites from a breathtaking, driving tour of Berninastrasse to a festival at Basel. Address books, suggested itineraries and well-researched background info ascertain a successful trip.  Use with Michelin Switzerland Map No. 729.

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14 of 18 humans found the following review helpful.
Poorly coordinated and inaccurate
By Peter Stern
First of all, I purchased this guide thinking that it was the most up-to-date. It was advertised on Amazon as being published on May 15, 2009. Unfortunately, only when I started to use the guide and realized that much of the selective information (on prices, for example, or even worse, internet sites that were temporarily closed for 2009) was wrong did I discover that it was actually printed in July 2008! Had I realized that before my trip I would have returned it. The guide is full of other little inaccuracies. We walked from Neuchatel to an archeological internetlocation called Latenium, a distance of 4km/2.5mi. According to the guide, the Papiliorama (at nearby Marin!) was only 1km (~0.6mi) further down the road and we had planned to proceed our walk to there. Fortunately we changed our plans because the next day we came across that the Papiliorama Nocturama (butterflies and nocturnal creatures) was genuinely at Kerzers, regarding 26km (16mi) away! We also had great difficultness in finding other web sites based on the directions given in the guide. We employed a diiferent guide a couple of years ago which gives hand drawn maps of a local internetsite for those hard-to-find places.
Moreover, the guide is organized in an anti-intuitive fashion. All the places in the guide are in alphabetical order. So when you want to follow one of the driving tours (there are over two dozen suggested), you have to skip back and forth in the book to get the details of each point rather of logically following a great deal of geographic route. Even if you want to design your own travel itinerary, finding the applicable data is cumbersome. I think that it makes much more sense to have places which are geographically close grouped together, since in any case, there is an alphabetical index for those who want to find selective information on a specific place.
All in all, a huge disappointment.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent map of Switzerland + more
By Christine Bregenzer
Just as all other Michelin maps are, this one is no exception - very clear, easy to read, good use of color and has all the info I want when I need a reference for my emplacement and planned routes, destinations, etc. Having GPS and NAV-Tech gear in your car is great, but I always have a REAL map by my side just in case that gear sends me on the wrong route or takes me to non-existent roads or on "short-cuts" that are in truth private roads, not for public use. Have heard too a heap of horror stories from others with regards to that kind of trip. Having the best real map assures me I'll never be lost. Then there are those times when you ask for NAV -Tech gear in your rental car and the agency has none....then what're you going to do?

1 of 2 persons found the following review helpful.
Just what you Need
By Medici
Don't listen to the guy who gave this excellent, compact and light weight manual one star. This guide is dated 2011, so perchance the naysayer was referring to a prior edition. In any case, this Swiss guide doesn't in any way resemble the depracating remarks made regarding it. Hopefully this "traveller" will be remaining at home and not spreading negative energy regarding exceedingly helpful travel guides that others of us have purchased at reasonable expense, in order to help plan a once in a lifetime vacation.

This is a superb guide to Switzerland, with much general and introductory selective information so you recognise something with regards to the country before you go there. It even has a section on Nature. How a heap of guides may assert that? The guide is modified to the beginning of 2010, but it is value lay in the history, geography and culture you learn in reading it. It also has ample maps, per region. When I travel I always get local maps anyway, so the outrage over a good deal of map inaccuracy is beside the point for halfway awake travellers, even if unfeigned to begin with, which I doubt. It's likewise exceedingly well and logically organized, beginning with ordinary info and then going to the regions. There are overall maps of Switz. inside the front and back covers, describing driving tours and essential sites. Then the maps become regional. The driving tours are arranged geographically, not alphabetically, and are distinctly shown in both the table of contents and the index at the back of the manual, as per the norm.

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