clevelandbrown, LOL!
New guidebook needed, Paris for Seniors (or just tired people): bathrooms, benches, museum captions in large print, seats in museum galleries that are not no-touch antique setees, low-cholesterol, no-sugar restaurants (not a chance!), binoculars for enhanced viewing of the topless dancers at the Crazy Horse, what else?

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I understand that if he recommends you, you agree to give a discount to the hordes of budget travelers who show up carrying his book
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If this is really true, then the recommendations are totally meaningless. If the restaurant owner has to give a benefit in exchange for being listed then the recs are not impartial. I suspect that this might account for the poor quality of the recs.

Also, when i first saw DK eyewitness guides i thought they were great (seduced by the graphics,no doubt). however, even after thumbing through it for a while i became completely turned off by it. Just too dry and too much like a car repair manual. if i see one more cutaway diagram of a cathedral i will scream.