Italy: Instructions for Use
by Nan McElroy

Selected by About.com Italy as their #1 Guidebook!

Italy: Instructions for Use*: The Practical, On-site Assistant for the Enthusiastic (Even Experienced) Traveler is a practical pocket-guide that offers suggestions and solutions for every how-to and what-now travel situation.

*When all else fails... read the instructions.

Compact and up-to-date, this well-organized, illustrated, color-coded guide is logistical Italy from the inside out: an indispensable, in-depth compendium containing the keys to stress-free travel. From preparation to the return flight home, this is the only guide designed to provide you the information you need at the very moment you need it.

Written by an American travel consultant who speaks the language, organizes travelers' time in Italy, and lives Italian life two to four months per year, this illustrated guide is packed with the most current, pertinent, easy-to-locate advice available. Because it focuses solely on the practical information, Italy: Instructions for Use contains many extra, more specific details the other guides simply don't have the room to include, and therefore makes them much more accessible.

No matter what your destinations or travel plans, you'll find all the critical info you need, including:

"An antidote to the hulking volumes that offer encyclopedic amounts of information on a locale, McElroy’s book is designed more along the lines of a operating manual....For first-time visitors, it’s a boon."—Publisher's Weekly

Recommended by Thomas Guide to Italy