Word: frommer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force de tour are the uninspired paperbacks by Pan Am and TWA, a surprisingly uninformative series by Holiday, a Rand McNally pocket guide. But the one that is making the biggest current splash is a brightly covered paperback called Europe on $5 a Day. Written by Manhattan Attorney Arthur Frommer, its cardinal rule is "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room"-a stricture that has sent hundreds of thousands of Americans sponging their way through Europe. But the book is deceptive. Its clean family hotels may turn out to be flophouses or cathouses, and its 500 restaurants...
There are at least two budget guidebooks that are more helpful than Frommer's. Norman D. Ford's All of Europe at Low Cost is a thorough, realistic guide to cutting corners as well as to good inexpensive hotels and restaurants on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Shorter, hipper and absolutely fresh is Let's Go, published by the Harvard Student Agencies. Intended primarily for students, Let's Go really swings through Europe. But in addition to being up on what's in, it offers excellent pointers on such things as wine-tasting tours...
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...question: Could Fireman Gilbert's coal-car "bed" on the cover of the same issue suggest Mr. Frommer's grisly $5-a-day "amenities" for innocents abroad...
...shower was two flights down, but at Paris' Hotel des Deux Continents last summer I first met my European wife. How did I find hotel and bride? Guided by Arthur Frommer's book! Even those who can afford Europe on $10 or $20 a day shouldn't travel without the Frommer. Fielding is for people over...