You won't find a more up-to-date guide to Great Britain. Packed with information, spiced with humor, and including new color maps and photos, this book shows you how to find the real Great Britain!

Great Britain brings to mind Big Ben, Stratford, and Stonehenge. Charming university towns and Scotland's Edinburgh are also must-sees. From windswept Roman lookouts to nearly edible Cotswold villages, Great Britain has much to uncover and is ripe with history and beauty.

In Rick Steves' Great Britain, you'll find in-depth Rick-tested information on trip planning, hotels, restaurants, tourist offices, transportation, telephones, festivals and holidays, mail and email, weather, survival phrases, and easy-to-follow maps. It covers all the best sights (but does not include the illustrated city walks and museum tours found in Rick's city guidebooks).

• London: including Greenwich, Windsor and Cambridge
• Bath and Surroundings: including the Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick Castle, Coventry, Ironbridge Gorge, Glastonbury, Wells, Avebury, Stonehenge and Salisbury
• Wales: including Ruthin, Llangollen, Conwy, Caernarfon Castle, Snowdonia National Park, Blaenau Ffestiniog and South Wales
• Northern England: including the Lake District, Blackpool, Liverpool, Durham, Hadrian's Wall, Holy Island, Bamburgh Castle and York
• Scotland: including Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Glasgow, Oban, Pitlochry, Glencoe, Stirling, Loch Ness, Culloden, Inverness, the Northern Highlands, and the islands of Iona, Mull and Skye
• NEW! Full-color fold-out Planning Map: This handy 14 1⁄2"x19 1⁄2" map includes all of Great Britain and Ireland, a big map of central London (with major sights) on the back — plus little close-up maps of the Cotswolds, Edinburgh, York, Bath and Dublin. (Note: this is a slightly smaller version of Rick’s stand-alone Britain & Ireland Planning Map.)

Published: October 2012

Check out Rick Steves great DVD about England and Wales

Are you planning to drive in Great Britain? Take a look at the Michelin Road and Touring Atlas of Great Britain. It will get you where you want to go with a minimum of hassle.