Not a huge map fan? Get confused by too many gridlines and a headache from the impossibly-small-to-read text? Feel bogged down by the attractions guide, restaurant guide, metro guide, and map currently consuming most of the room in your bag? That was me before I found Mapeasy's Guidemaps, at which point all my frustrations were replaced by a newfound excitement and love for my ubercool new map!These Guidemaps are a map, tour guide, restaurant recommender, hotel finder, and shopping aid all wrapped into one compact, tare-proof and water-resistant mappy map tasty enough to eat (see above). Obviously, this product lacks the depth of a hundred page guidebook, but really, who needs all that information?! These maps include major attractions and some wonderful offbeat finds. The maps have interesting information about these places, just enough to wet your palate and give you an idea about the significance of each place, as well as what to expect when you visit. They mark the location of all the cool shops, hotels, and eateries, as well as use a key to indicate how expensive said shops, hotels and eateries are. Plus, they are fun to look at with their childlike aesthetic of colored pencil drawings.
Granted, my map of Paris wasn't perfect. Nor was it up to Julien's standards of map quality--a Parisian dude who has a whole book of maps for Paris alone...talk about overkill! But I love Mapeasy maps nonetheless. And my London map is A-Mazing and saved me from almost getting lost many a time.
MapEasy has Guidemaps for most major European cities, popular American cities, and other cities around the globe. You'll find them for sale in your local bookstore.
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