Top 10 Singapore (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide) Paperback – August 4, 2015

This travel guide was perfect for our trip to Singapore. We only had a few days there so it was perfect to be able to look through this easy guide and find something great to do or see. The included map was easy to take along with us on days when we didn't have room for the whole book in our bag. We used this almost every day and it got us to all the main sights with ease. It is not an in-depth travel guide, it lists the main and most popular sights with short descriptions of each. If you need an in-depth travel book of Singapore or want to have a guide to things off the beaten path, this may not be the book for you, but I definitely recommend it if you are short on time and want to make sure you sesame good stuff.

We were in Singapore for 10 days and we made good use of this little book. It is easy to carry around, has a decent map, and has good details for each place you would like to visit. In general, we find the Top 10 books to be very helpful. It's great to have a Lonely Planet book with all of it's detail, but if you are traveling to many places as we are, it's nice to have smaller books like this series of Top 10.

We have frequently used the DK Eyewitness Guides - Top 10 books when we are going to be in a city for just 2 or 3 days. I already had the paper version of this book, but thought that perhaps if I downloaded the Kindle version, I could save the weight of the actual book while traveling. This could be a huge weight savings since we would have four DK books in total!I was disappointed in the Kindle version because the photo images are extremely low resolution, whether in original form or zoomed. Also, the master and mass transit maps are missing, though the smaller maps are present. I am glad I only ordered one of the four books in Kindle. Unfortunately, the Kindle versions cannot replace the hard copies unless I take along just the book covers and jackets, leaving the text pages at home. The master maps are on the inside of the front covers.

The PLUS: 5 Stars!The guide takes a pyramidal approach to the sights of your destination. So you slowly can work yourself through the areas that really interest you by easily skipping things you would not want to see or visit at all.It also makes it easy to find the things that are important to you because the descriptions are small enough and pictures further make it easy to attract your interest or pass things by.The MINUS: 4 Stars!The good about the Maps is that they are there at all and also that there is an index of some streets.The contained foldout maps though helpful when there is nothing else at all are not my favorite because they are quite small and are more an overview to identify the area where something is to be found on a better more detailed map. The same maps as the foldouts are also on a separate map that is detachable. This is a good idea but they are way to small and hard to read especially in dim light and in an awkward format to be really useful. - When available, I rather get a local map from the tourist office and transfer my destinations to it.SUMMARY: 5 Stars!This guide is an extremely useful sightseeing guide and small enough to be carried with you all the time for quick reference. It also allows you to choose the amount of detail you want to follow for the town: top 10 Highlights - top 10 to each highlight - top ten to some general categories like museums, bars, hotels, restaurants, shopping, and also some specific categories just for this destination like stunning places to worship or top 10 hawker centers and food courts.Insider tips or as they call the sections: "Street smart" round up this little guide. The maps are OK but could be improved. The deficiency of the maps though should not detract from the overall usefulness of this guide for your destination. This is true for a first time visitor with limited or all kinds of time and also for the return visitor, who wants to to repeat some destinations in more detail or avoid the same old top ten but venture out into new territory.

The title of this valuable 128 guide is misleading--it doesn't cover only the top 10 sights in Singapore but rather is a comprehensive guide to the place, covering, for example, places to see along the Singapore River, museums, Sentosa, the Singapore Flyer (along with a guide to what you can see from it), the Botanic Gargens, places of worship to see, and neighborhoods including Chinatown and Little India. It also provides information on such things as passports, taxis, and the best sort of place to exchange money. Before I went, I read through this book with appreciation. Each place identified in this guide is located on fold-out maps included in this book inside the front and back covers, a quite valuable feature in itself for locating places. I found its bits of advice sometimes very helpful, such as when it alerted me to the EZ Links cards you can use on the MRT (subway)(which you can buy at a MRT station), its mention of the Burgis Street "night market," and its remark that "bumboats are the best way to see the Singapore River." Generally though I find it best to use the website tripadvisor as a guide to select hotels rather than this guidebook, or the other guidebooks to Singapore I had purchased, but this is more a limitation belonging to guidebooks in general rather than of this particular guidebook.

This book is out of date; it has an updated cover but the content is old. DK books are usually excellent; this one is not quite right. Buy something more current.

I'm planning a trip to Singapore in the near future, and I always buy the DK Top Ten books as the starting point before I buy a more informative book. So when it comes to learning something new about a city and wanting to see what the major attractions are, DK helps you plan them out and give you enough information to start to mentally plan out the trip.I would never use the DK Top Ten books as the sole means to plan a trip, since they're meant for quick reference and a high level overview. Still, time after time, these books always reside in my cargo pants pockets on trips and are borrowed by others because it's quick and to the point.For the price, you can't beat it, but you'll want to shop for another book after you get this.