Rick Steves Istanbul (Eighth Edition): With Ephesus & Cappadocia

This book is beyond amazing and helpful. It has history, turkish phrases, insite, everything that you will need. This helped our vacation to be informative and wonderfully successful.

Diferente de outros guias que só listam lugares e preços, os guias do Rick Steves são muito bem escritos. Bom de ler antes da viagem e excelente para consultar. Para quem já usou em viagens, as informações de onde estacionar antes de começar o tour ajuda muito. E sou fã dos mapas com a "Caminhada básica" (Rome's Walk, Naple's Walk, etc) por cada cidade (um trajeto de caminhada que passa por atrações e por cenas cotidianas de cada cidade e te mostra a essência de cada lugar).

While some info has not kept up with recent changes in Turkey where old churches/museums are turning back into mosques, this is still the best resource for a be first time Turkey trip. We used it in Dec 2021 and were generally happy. Lonely Planet was incredibly out of date but filled in some gaps. We mainly planned our trip with this book and the online RS itinerary for his 13 day guided tour. We were happy with the walks in Istanbul but DEFINITELY skip Chora Church and wall walk. The church is closed (becoming a mosque) and the wall area is totally dodgy. We felt 100% safe in all other places of Turkey. You will also note that the writing style in this book is not the standard RS style. The author is different and more difficult to follow (too many parentheses notes). Definitely do the RS mp3 walk of Ephesus. Almost all other places had fantastic audioguides. Overall, I'm extremely happy we had this book. Final note, if you go from Istanbul to Ankara, I'd suggest the train rather than renting a car in Istanbul or taking a bus. Pick up a car in Ankara after using taxis to site see for a day and then head out towards Cappadocia.

The book was easy to use and full of useful information.

I am returning. Disappointed as small pictures of sites and all are black & white. looks like good information but not what I expected . Very different from other travel books I have purchased