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Frommers Star Ratings System

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AN IMPORTANT NOTE

The world is a dynamic place. Hotels change ownership, restaurants hike their prices, museums alter their opening hours, and busses and trains change their routings. And all of this can occur in the several months after our authors have visited, inspected, and written about, these hotels, restaurants, museums and transportation services. Though we have made valiant efforts to keep all our information fresh and up-to-date, some few changes can inevitably occur in the periods before a revised edition of this guidebook is published. So please bear with us if a tiny number of the details in this book have changed. Please also note that we have no responsibility or liability for any inaccuracy or errors or omissions, or for inconvenience, loss, damage, or expenses suffered by anyone as a result of assertions in this guide.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Brewer has been writing travel articles and guides for almost three decades. He frequently writes about England, Germany, and Italy for Frommers.

Jason Cochran is a two-time winner of Guide Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. He is the author of Frommers EasyGuide to London and Frommers EasyGuide to Disney World, Universal, and Orlando. His writing appears in publications including Travel + Leisure, the New York Post, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and Budget Travel, and he has been a regular commentator on, among others, CBS This Morning, The Early Show (CBS), BBC World, Good Morning America, and CNN. He is the former Executive Editor of AOL Travel and the current editor-in-chief of Frommers.com.

Teresa Fisher is an author, photographer, and travel writer who has had a life-long love affair with Switzerland. She has written extensively for a variety of publishers including Frommers, National Geographic, and Thomas Cook. She has also penned more than 30 guidebooks and childrens travel reference books on a wide variety of destinations worldwide, and features periodically on BBC local radio as a travel advisor. Her travel features have appeared in such British publications as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Times. She specialises in European cities, adventure travel, and all things Alpine, dividing her time between photojournalism and her family-oriented website, www.familyskinews.com.

Lucy Gillmore was the deputy travel editor at The Independent newspaper but, after 8 years on the travel desk, left London to move to Scotland. She specializes in travel and food and writes for newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent and The Times and magazines including Food and Travel, Olive, House & Garden and Conde Nast Traveller. After a couple of years in Edinburgh, she headed even farther north and now lives in the hills above Loch Ness in the Highlands.

Patricia Harris and David Lyon have journeyed the world for American, British, Swiss, and Asian publishers to write about food, culture, art, and design. Wherever they go, they are repeatedly drawn back to Spain for the flamenco nightlife, the Moorish architecture of Andaluca, the world-weary and lust-ridden saints of Zurbarn, and the design-obsessed streets of Barcelona. They can usually be found conversing with the locals in neighborhood bars while drinking the house wine and eating patatas bravas and grilled shrimp with garlic. They are the proprietors of HungryTravelers.com and authors of Frommers Spain and Frommers EasyGuide to Barcelona and Madrid.

John Newcomb is an experienced travel writer who enjoys nothing more than hitting the road.

Margie Rynn has been living in and writing about France for over 15 years. The author of Pauline Frommers Paris, she has also written features for several travel magazines, including Time Out New York and Budget Travel. In a previous New York life, she acted in a Broadway play and performed her own one-woman show. Margie is married to a kind and understanding Frenchman, and they have a lovely 13-year-old son. She lives in Paris, France.

Donald Strachan is a travel and technology journalist who has written about Italy for publications worldwide, including National Geographic Traveller, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, and CNN.com.

ABOUT THE FROMMER TRAVEL GUIDES

For most of the past 50 years, Frommers has been the leading series of travel guides in North America, accounting for as many as 24% of all guidebooks sold. I think I know why.

Though we hope our books are entertaining, we nevertheless deal with travel in a serious fashion. Our guidebooks have never looked on such journeys as a mere recreation, but as a far more important human function, a time of learning and introspection, an essential part of a civilized life. We stress the culture, lifestyle, history, and beliefs of the destinations we cover, and urge our readers to seek out people and new ideas as the chief rewards of travel.

We have never shied from controversy. We have, from the beginning, encouraged our authors to be intensely judgmental, criticalboth pro and conin their comments, and wholly independent. Our only clients are our readers, and we have triggered the ire of countless prominent sorts, from a tourist newspaper we called practically worthless (it unsuccessfully sued us) to the many rip-offs weve condemned.