Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Paris (2nd ed)

For readers who are tired of the promotional fluff and brochure-speak that characterizes most travel guides, here's a fresh voice. The Irreverent Guides offer an insider's look at each destination, and take a fun, honest look at everything they review. It's not every day you open up a guidebook to find categories like:c For tourists who want clogs, windmills, and tulipsc For enemies of clogs, windmills, and tulipsc Sex, drugs, and torture museumsc Bars where you can hear yourself thinkc Where the supermodels eat and where they don'tc Eurotrashiest hotelsc Hotels for people who hate conventioneersc Luscious love nests and lavender lodgingsc Restaurants that don't live up to the hypec Swingin' supper clubs with attitudeThe Irreverents give you the lowdown, the inside story. They have nothing to sell but the truth, which includes a balance of good and bad. They praise, they trash, they weigh, and leave the final decision up to the reader. Our writers take a special pleasure in leading you where other guides fear to tread.Now with new covers, indexes, and more irreverence than ever!Heres the lowdown on everyones favorite cityfrom beating the crowdsat the Louvre to finding the real Latin Quarter and affordable haute couture. All this, plus cafes for women who want to be left alone, where to stay if youre allergic to gilt and cherubs, and naturellementcoping with rude French waiters.