Preparing well for your trip is essential to avoid unpleasant surprises on arrival. Many travel guides offer to accompany you in the discovery of France and abroad by selecting the best accommodation, restaurants and the essential addresses not to be missed during your trip.
Some guides specialize in low-cost travel and share their best plans. To help you in your preparation, we have selected the five best travel guides for France and abroad.
The best known of travel guides. Born in France in the 1970s, le guide du routard , renamed in 2013 “Le Routard was aimed primarily at people wishing to travel on a limited budget. It has kept this vocation even if it is now consulted by the vast majority of travellers. Accessible in paper format and on the web, Le Routard offers more than 240 destinations in France and around the world.
It owes its enormous success to the multitude of practical information (useful addresses, tips for a successful trip, places to discover, etc.) that it offers. With its website, the guide du routard has notably been enriched with a forum on which many travelers share their experience by giving useful information to those who intend to go to the same regions.
The Lonely Planet Travel Guide was born in the United States in 1972 following the desire of two travelers, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, to share their good plans, their discoveries around the world. In addition to useful information to prepare and make the most of your trip, Lonely Planet offers detailed maps of places to visit and mini conversation guides in the language of the country.
This guide aims to make known as much as possible the regions visited by travelers:it offers a lot of information on the habits and customs, good practices, history, religion, art and politics, of each destination. . Emphasis is also placed on the best way to travel on the cheap.
The Michelin Green Guide is one of the oldest travel guides since it was born in 1926. Its particularity is to highlight the discovery of the natural and cultural heritage of the regions. There is a Green Guide for each French region and many others are devoted to travel in Europe and around the world.
The Green Guide offers practical information by destination on the best time to leave, on the formalities necessary to complete before departure or on useful addresses to know once there. Advice and reviews on accommodation and restaurants are also available in the Green Guide.
This travel guide was created by two students from Lorraine in 1976 who had the idea of bringing together tips (restaurants, outings, shops, leisure, accommodation) for the city of Nancy in a guide. The Smart Boy remains specialized in the testing of flagship addresses, new trends, many municipalities in France with the publication of a dedicated publication "City-Guides".
But Le Petit Futé also has 209 destinations abroad to discover in its “Country-Guides” travel guides. As its name suggests, the Petit Futé guides aim to make people travel smarter by offering the best places in a destination not to be missed while getting off the beaten track.
The National Geographic Travel Guide is a cultural guide. For each country, region or city, it offers very detailed information on the history, culture and news of each destination. This travel guide is also richly illustrated with photographs and very precise maps and plans.
It offers very extensive double-page walks to best guide the traveler in his discoveries. Thanks to its website, National Geographic updates its travel guides in real time and offers, in partnership with the famous site dedicated to travel "Tripadvisor", the best addresses for accommodation, restaurants, but also places to visit. must visit.
