- Gebundene Ausgabe: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: Taschen Verlag (25. Juli 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 3822814407
- ISBN-13: 978-3822814406
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23 x 17,3 x 2,7 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.169.079 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
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Vier Jahre lang reiste Daisann McLane als Redakteurin des Reiseteils der New York Times rund um den Globus und übernachtete in über 200 preiswerten Hotels von Berlin bis Bali. Jedes ihrer Zimmer hielt sie im Fotos fest, bevor sie abends die Laken zurückschlug. Unterwegs entdeckte sie, dass die Glückseligkeit des Reisenden oftmals im umgekehrten Verhältnis zur Hotelrechnung steigt. 'Cheap Hotels' ist die humorvolle Beschreibung eines Lebens unter haarsträubenden Tagesdecken, eine Anleitung zum Aufspüren preiswerter Hotels, in denen der Charakter eines Reiseziels lebendig wird
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Daisann McLane spent four years on the road, staying at more than 200 budget hotels and took photographs of her rooms before she turned down the covers every night. This guide to choosing inexpensive hotels is aimed at travellers.
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Bedside Traveler
29. November 2002
After I opened Cheap Hotels, I kept repeating "I love this book!" First, it's handsomely printed and bound in Germany. The photographs, speaking their own language, are numerous and wonderfully colorful. The text is in English, French and German, reminiscent of operating instructions. As you peruse it you become not an armchair traveler, but a bedside traveler. The beds (and various amenities) pictured can be had for from $4 to $185 per night (strictly speaking the $185 room has two beds). There's a location on the globe for every adventurous soul.
This book is at least as much of a bargain as these rooms.
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A brief glimpse of life on the road
12. Februar 2003
The photos are what lead me to enjoy this book. Unlike many other books on travel this is more of small notebook on places to have a good rest and a surprising new view. Too many books miss bringing the feelings one has had on the road, this one doesn't. It attempts to get that across in the writing and the photos, the brevity of words does reflect how some experiences have no words.
So far have kept this book close to me to get a feeling during those times when something different is needed. The few friends I've given this book to have enjoyed receiving it.
5 von 6 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Rich and wonderful book!
6. Dezember 2002
"No hotel room has yet changed my life," begins Daisann McLane in Cheap Hotels, "but many of them have made me, unexpectedly and inexplicably, happy."
This book makes me inexplicably happy. McLane loves travel for all the right reasons, and her joy is infectious. A many-decades veteran of "blind dates" with cheap hotel rooms the world over (as Frugal Traveler for The New York Times, editor and columnist for National Geographic Traveler, and longtime cultural observer for Rolling Stone, Vogue, the Village Voice and others), McLane knows her way around a ryokan. This book is her unabashed love letter to all the places from Bali to Bangor where she has "found happiness." A keen and ideosyncratic observer, brilliant writer and gifted photographer, McLane ferrets out and photographs -- gorgeously -- the grace notes that define a culture: the fragrant frangipani on her pillow in Rarotonga, the elephants parading beneath her window in Madras -- even the killer bedspreads that attack her in lodgings from Texas to Tokyo (do you know how often Motel 6 washes its bedspreads? McLane does, and she is not amused).
A far cry from the featureless, fashion-slave catalogues that pass for most travel guides, Cheap Hotels is a touching personal memoir that wraps itself around you like the beautiful, white, all-cotton sheets in McLane's beloved Hotel Castelar in Buenos Aires. Which is not to say McLane is uncritical: trained as cultural historian, she is crack-smart and very funny -- a great travel companion.
Bryan Burkhart's strikingly attractive design so perfectly complements McLane's vision that is hard to imagine one without the other. Compleat with tricolor, trilingual text (English, French and German) as befits its global theme and Taschen imprint, Cheap Hotels is a handsome coffee-table artifcact: a lovely art book, poignant memoir, cutting cultural critique and super travel guide. And, it makes me laugh.
Ok, I'm crazy about Cheap Hotels. For I, too, love to travel -- and now I remember why.
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