Moleskine City Notebook - Paris
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List Price:
$17.95
Czech Hotels Travel Price:
$10.99
Your Savings: $ 6.96 ( 39% )
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Manufacturer: MoleSkine
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Binding: Office Product
Brand: Moleskine
Feature: Genuine Moleskine
Label: MoleSkine
Manufacturer: MoleSkine
Model: CN001PA
Publisher: MoleSkine
Studio: MoleSkine
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Features
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Genuine Moleskine
Map of Paris
Handy Pocket Size
Hard Black Cover
Complete with Shrink Wrapping
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Moleskine City Notebook is a treasurehouse waiting to be filled with experience and observation. The beloved Moleskine notebooks transformed into the ideal traveler's companion serve business traveler and the pleasure traveler alike with elegance and the necessary luxury of great design and excellence in craft.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Handy little item
Comment: This is a handy little book to carry, and it contains street maps for Paris center. Could you do the same with any small notebook? Of course you could....however, as this is a Moleskine product, the quality is high and for me it acted as inspiration to keep notes on my experiences in Paris. It's a pleasure to write in this book. The elastic helps retain tickets/stubs, business cards, and numerous other small bits of ephemera that one collects traveling. There are tabs for organizing, if you are into that sort of thing. The size is ideal for fitting in any pocket or bag.
If you hunt around you can get it for a reasonable price........
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wasn't sure I'd use it, but I did!
Comment: I bought the Paris City Notebook before our trip to Paris and wasn't sure I'd use it since we already had maps and guides and I brought my PDA. But the notebook came in very handy and I think I'll buy notebooks for other cities we visit. The thing I liked the most was that I could quickly look at the street map or metro map without being an obvious tourist by unfolding a map or having my nose in a guidebook. I also liked having a place to jot down the names of the restaurants we ate in. I hardly ever use my guidebooks to find restaurants and instead just stop in places that look interesting, so it's nice to have the names of them recorded. The pocket in the back was a handy place to store restaurant cards or receipts too. I think some waiters thought I was a guidebook writer when I took out the notebook and wrote in it! I also recorded other things in the book as well, like the phone number of a local friend, new words I learned in French, and the address of a shop I want to visit next time.
Overall a nice combination of maps + notebook. Very handy and classy looking too, with the nice hard cover, quality paper, and elastic strap.
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Summary: A Do-It-Yourself Travel Notebook
Comment: This is a very unusual product and I would strongly encourage anyone considering getting one to be completely aware of what it is before they purchase it. First, if you are looking for a single travel guide to prepare you for your trip to New York (or anywhere else there is a guide for), this is very close to worthless, if not entirely worthless. I would call one's attention to the title of the product. It is a "Notebook." That means that most of the pages are blank. This literally is a book for taking notes in.
So what do you get when you buy this? Every book in the series follows the same format. First there is a personal information page with address, phone, allergies, family doctor, passport number, then map information with public transportation maps. Then follows information on the various forms of transportation with phone numbers and websites, including cabs, buses, other forms of public transportation, and airports. There are some blank itinerary pages, measurement and speed conversion charts, size conversion charts (for shoppers), then a long series of neighborhood maps, including an index. And that's it. The final two-thirds of the notebook are blank. The next 20 or so pages are completely blank and unlined for whatever use you want to put them to. Next come several pages intended for writing down names of restaurants, bars, museums, historical sites, hotels, or whatever. The book also comes with unlabeled tabs with stickers to use as desired (for theaters, concert halls, or whatever you desire) as well as tracing paper for, as the label says, "Itineraries or Whatever." Finally, there is the usual pocket at the back that is found in all Moleskine products.
For some people this is going to be an absolutely useless product. But for many this will be remarkably useful. In fact, I can envision two uses for this notebook. First, those who are planning a trip to one of the places for which Moleskine has produced a book. Let's say one has consulted the Blue guide, the Eyewitness Guide (by DK), a Rough Guide, the Michelin guide, and the Let's Go guide. Maybe you've bought all of these, making for five guides. No way do you want to drag all of these on your trip or more than one on your flight. So what might you do? You might take the Moleskin Notebook, record into it all the places you want to see, restaurants you want to dine at, museums you want to stroll through, and anything else you want to do while in your destination of choice, and record it there. So the Moleskine City Notebook can serve as a distillation of all the various travel guides, web sites, and other resources you have consulted. And instead of hauling about a large Fodor's guide, you can carry about this small Notebook that can easily fit into a backpack, purse, should bag, or even pocket.
The only downside is that the Moleskine City Notebook is only as good as you make it. If you do a good job of planning your trip, it will be filled to the brim with useful and helpful information. If not, it will be as unhelpful as you have made it.
There is a second use to which the City Notebook can be put to use, though it is not one for which it was primarily designed. You could use it for the city in which you live, should you live in one of the cities for which one is made. I live, for instance, in Chicago. I have bought one of these so that I can over time use it to record every bit of helpful information that I might find useful or helpful. I can record what hours the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore (the real one, not the trade version on 57th Street) is open. The hours for the Chicago Public Library and the Newberry Library. Phone numbers of restaurants and addresses of bars. And so on and so forth. Granted, these books will only benefit those who live in one of those cities, but for the U.S. New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are pretty populated areas.
So this is a very well conceived product though it absolutely has to be stressed that it is a specialized one. Please note: THIS ISN'T FOR EVERYONE. If you don't want to use the Notebook to plan your trip it is going to be very close to worthless. I'll emphasize again: this is only as good a product as you make it. But if you use it to help you plan your trip, it could be the single item you would most loathe to be without after your notebook.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Moleskine City Notebook
Comment: Overview:
I bought the Moleskine City Notebook, Paris edition to first plan and then accompany me on a recent trip to Europe. Moleskine bills these notebooks as the "guidebook you write yourself." I did just that: I made sure the notebook contained all of the information I would need before I left home, and added my thoughts and observations as I went along. I was able to use the detailed Paris city map (built in to the notebook) to mark the location of my hotel and places I wanted to visit. The built-in subway map was also very handy, both before leaving home (to familiarize myself with the general layout) and during my stay.
Upside:
The build quality, the weight of the paper, and the compact size make this notebook a joy to use. As mentioned above, the built-in maps were indispensable. I also enjoyed writing in the notebook so much that it encouraged me to keep notes and jot ideas as I traveled. This kept my entries fresh. The pocket in the back of the notebook was very handy too: I used it to store receipts, ticket stubs, business cards, a copy of my itinerary, and a bit of emergency cash. All this, and it fit comfortably in my back pocket.
Downside:
The only downside I found was that the three ribbon bookmarks tended to fray very easily. Even after just a few days of use, the ribbons began turning to small puffs of thread. But even that only added to the "lived-in" character the notebook attained after accompanying me all over Paris.
Verdict:
I wish there were Moleskine city guides for more cities. It's not that I'll be able to travel to all of the places they already cover. It's more that I don't want to travel to a city without one. If I head to a city that doesn't yet have a Molskine City Notebook, I'll just have to make do with a blank book. Or perhaps Moleskine Small Info Book for Travel Designed for Travelers.
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Summary: Paris Travel Necessity!
Comment: My husband & I just returned from our first trip to Paris. I read about this guide in a travel magazine and ordered it before our trip. We had many Paris travel books and decided to take this guide and 2 regular books. The maps and street guide in this small notebook were superior to the maps in the other (very heavy) guidebooks and the maps we received in Paris. We walked every day and used this guide extensively. Of course it does not contain restaurant recommendations, that you must get elsewhere. Using this guide, we kept a journal of our visit including restaurants, meals, costs, interesting people we met...in short, this guide was a gem and a true keepsake of our wonderful trip. In addition to it's light weight and compact size, it is unobtrusive...you don't look too touristy carrying it around. Top rating!
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