Frommer's travel guide to Great Britain.

From Big Ben to the British Museum, London offers travelers an unprecedented number of historic sites, beautiful parks, great theater, fine food and double-decker transportation. But getting around London can be confusing, and staying there can become expensive. This comprehensive city guide helps travelers maximize their time, money and pleasure and minimize their frustration. Maps.

History, traditions, and pomp and pageantry abound in London, yet it’s a very modern European city. Whether you’re a history buff, art lover, architecture connoisseur, Royal watcher, dedicated shopper, or pub hopper, there’s something for you in London. And this friendly guide helps you enjoy it fully with information about: Getting around via Underground (and saving with Travelcards), bus, taxi, or on foot Four itineraries to maximize your sightseeing Great day trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, and other attractions The best shopping neighborhoods and their specialties, including Knightsbridge for the legendary Harrods, Chelsea for the young and the antique, and Kensington for street chic Literary landmarks, parks and gardens, and royal castles and palaces Activities and attractions for teens and kids Like every For Dummies travel guide, London For Dummies, 4th Edition includes: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn’t miss—and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages

"Gershman's guide may be the best guide for novice and pro shoppers alike," praises The Washington Post, and you'll agree. For more than ten years, Suzy Gershman has been leading savvy shoppers to the world's best finds. Now Born to Shop London, 12th Edition is easier to use and packed with more up-to-date listings than ever before. Inside you'll find: The best of the shopping scene, from world-class department stores ands trendy boutiques to street markets and sample sales Excellent values, from antiques to Doc Martens Great gift ideas, even for the friend who has everything—plus the best gifts for less than $15 The best airfare, hotel, and dining values—so you can maximize your shopping dollars Detailed city maps and shopping tours

Stroll along Amsterdam's shady canals, enjoy an outdoor cafe in Budapest, cycle through Copenhagen, or shop at the enormous San Lorenzo Market in Florence. Frommer's tells travelers how to create their own grand tour at a great price. Includes hundreds of listings for affordable accommodations and restaurants. Maps.

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradoxical constructions of landscape and community involved both in tourist attractions and among tourists themselves. The collection examines many different practices, ranging from the energetic pursuit of adventure holidays to the reading of holiday brochures. It illustrates different techniques of seeing the landscape and a variety of ways of creating and performing the local. Chapters thus demonstrate the mutual entanglement of practices, images, conventions, and creativity. They chart these global flows of people, texts, images, and artefacts. Case studies are drawn from diverse types of tourism and destination focused around North America, Europe, and Australasia.

"Written by travel veterans with a nose for comfort…. Accuracy: high." —Details magazine Everything You Need for an Unforgettable—and Affordable—Trip! Inviting places to stay, from charming B&Bs located steps away from major attractions to cozy rooms in trendy Notting Hill—for as little as $35 per person a night! Great dining at unbelievably low prices, from a $10 feast at a traditional Indian restaurant to a $16 fixed-price dinner at one of Soho's hottest new wave pubs A complete guide to the city's sights, from Big Ben and the British Museum to Buckingham Palace—plus the lowdown on what to see and do for free (or almost) Where to shop for woolens and high fashion you can afford—plus the best sales and street markets Low-cost nightlife: half-priced West End Theater, pubs, and more Detailed, accurate two-color city, neighborhood, and transit maps Frommer's. The Name You Can Trust. Find us online at www.frommers.com