These compact and fact-filled guides to major cities around the world are beautiful and easy to use. With more than 600 color photographs -- more than any other guide in this size -- these books combine the inside information of an Access or Gault-Millau guide, the practical information of a Michelin or Rough Guide -- about where to stay and eat and what to see -- in a seductive highly portable volume.Each guide is divided into seven sections with brief, lively entries: Arriving and Getting Around points up the way of getting into a city and then once you are there, the most efficient local transportation; 68 entries in Where to Stay has a wide range of hotels; 79 restaurants are listed in Where to Eat; jazz clubs, theater, night clubs, and other after-hour places are among the 64 entries in After Dark; 74 museums, monuments, and architectural sites are included in What to See; Further Afield takes you on 23 excursions out of the city but in the vicinity; Browsing and Shopping which guides you to 68 specialty and department stores as well as flea markets and tells you what they have to offer. In the map section in the back are 6 double-page spreads of the city area by area with dots corresponding to all the entries in the guidebook.This book will guide you through one of the world's most confusing cities to the very private Shutters on the Beach or trendy Mondrian Hotel or the more modest Sea View Inn; take you to eat at a hot spot like Spago Beverly Hills or the more low-key Musso & Frank's on Hollywood Boulevard; from such bars as The Viper Room to cinemas like the landmark Grauman's Chinese; to such sights as the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens to theHollywood Bowl to the Warner Brothers VIP Tour, side trips to Catalina, Knott's Berry Farm and the Crystal Cathedral.Each Guide takes you fearlessly and efficiently into the heart and culture of the city. Smart, incisive, sharp and sleek, these guides are as practical as they are beautiful.