DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Greek Islands Paperback – June 17, 2013

Took this book with me on my trip through the Greek Islands and found it very informative. I liked how it addressed the various aspects of the whole Greek culture, then and now. The suggested sites always proved accurate and worth visiting. Liked the book's photography. Recommend it as your travel partner to the Greek Islands (and Fantasy Travel to coordinate your ferry travels).

This guide is beautiful to look at because of its gorgeous pictures. And I found it invaluable in planning our day-to-day explorations of the Greek islands on our 22-day cruise. Each night before we landed, I'd study up on each site we were about to visit and discuss my findings with my wife. As a result, we were able to see exactly what we wanted to see and had excellent experiences in every place we visited. My only problem with this guide is that it provides little narrative, unlike the Rick Steves guides I'm more used to using.

This book was perfect for my trip to the Greek Islands. It is well organized and picks up the highlights very well. It touches on Athens where we spent two days. I definitely used it a lot as it is compact to carry with good maps. As we were on a tour, I did not use the restaurant or hotel recommendations but relied on it when I was taking pictures. It is a good guide book.

These guides are very heavy in weight, but they have so many pictures and diagrams that if studied will alert the traveler as to what to look for and recognize when traveling. The DK travel books are much more fun to look at than a Frommer's.

I was a little disappointed with this guidebook. The information contained within seemed to be geared more towards checking off the boxes for covering each and every island, with little actual substance for the majority of islands. We visited two islands: Rhodes and Santorini.The guidebook contained far and away more information for Rhodes than for any other island, which was nice; unfortunately, that dearth of information came at a price of mere snippets for several other locations, including Santorini.Only one page covering the entire island of Santorini, one of the most touted destinations in the Greek Islands. Granted, Santorini isn't huge, but come on, DK Eyewitness, surely your intended audience has at least considered visiting one of the most romantic destinations on the planet. Shouldn't you give us a bit more to go on than just one page?We ended up using internet searches to get real suggestions about what to do and where to stay on Santorini instead of using this guidebook, and left the book itself in the common area of our hotel. Hopefully someone else (who can't get on the internet) will get more out of this guide than than we did.

Great travel guide for the greece islands. We have not been yet but it is very good to get an overview about the different islands and what they have to offer. I always rely on DK and have never been disappointed.

Great book about the islands. Love the color, the depth and the fact that it doesn't spend too much time on too many places.

Most helpful with maps, pictures and highlights! Print is a little small but this book is informative with main sites to see. We have other Eyewitness travel books and I highly recommend them!