Fodor’s Flashmaps Washington D.C., 6th Edition
Including state-of-the-art, computer generated maps for easy reading plus thousands of essential listings of hotels, restaurants, transport options and more for Washington D. C and beyond. Fodor’s Flashmaps are the only guidebooks to pull together so much information and organise it so attractively and efficiently. Each subject – shops, restaurants, cinemas etc is cross-referenced in a full-colour map with locator bullets. Keyed to the text the bullets identify the listings by region and give
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Outstanding resource!,
Maps primarily focus on areas of interest for tourism, embassies, and the downtown business core including The Mall. The two maps of Metro (the subway) show the full metro area system and downtown, the latter of which is detailed enough to show the multiple entrances for each stop down to which side of street. Certain sites and areas rate their own special maps, like the three area airports, the core Smithsonian museums, the National Zoo, the White House, historic Alexandria, Georgetown, Embassy Row, and several others. Like the others in the Flashmaps series, there are separate maps identifying hotels, restaurants, transportation, shopping, and other general areas of interest; hotels and restaurants do have a price guide range identified by dollar signs.
The book consists entirely of maps. If you’re looking for sight-seeing blurbs containing verbose details, buy an additional resource since this book contains none. If you’re visiting Northern Virginia and/or Maryland, I recommend buying additional map(s) (especially if you’re driving) as these areas are not covered in depth.
As hotels have changed hands, embassies have moved, and phone numbers are no longer the same, last year I opted to purchase the 6th edition. Even knowing my way around, this book is still as helpful during my annual return trips as when I first bought it.
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