About the Author

Harvard Student Agencies, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, is the largest student-run company in the world. Every summer since 1960, HSA has dispatched Harvard's sharpest, most tenacious students to Europe to get their candid takes and irreverent commentary on seeing the world.

Reviews

The Bible of the budget traveler. --Boston Globe
The granddaddy of budget guides. --New York Times
For independent travelers on a budget, with an emphasis on whatever's hip, fun, or free. --Associated Press
Refreshingly youthful and opinionated. Let's Go has retained its super-low-budget approach, is the best resource for shoestring travelers, and offers the best coverage on hosteling and the alternative nightlife scene. --Rick Steves
Value-packed, unbeatable, accurate, and comprehensive. --Los Angeles Times
The guides are aimed not only at young budget travelers but at the independent traveler; a sort of streetwise cookbook for traveling alone. --New York Times
Unbeatable; good sight-seeing advice; up-to-date info on restaurants, hotels, and inns; a commitment to money-saving travel; and a wry style that brightens nearly every page. --Washington Post
All the dirt, dirt cheap. --People
Let's Go follows the creed that you don't have to toss your life's savings to the wind to travel--unless you want to. --Salt Lake Tribune
The writers seem to have experienced every rooster-packed bus and lunar-surfaced mattress about which they write. --New York Times
[Let's Go's] devoted updaters really walk the walk (and thumb the ride, and trek the trail). Learn how to fish, haggle, find work--anywhere. --Food & Wine
A world-wise traveling companion--always ready with friendly advice and helpful hints, all sprinkled with a bit of wit. --Philadelphia Inquirer
Lighthearted and sophisticated, informative and fun to read. [Let's Go] helps the novice traveler navigate like a knowledgeable old hand. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The serious mission at the book's core reveals itself in exhortations to respect the culture and the environment--and, if possible, to visit as a volunteer, a student, or a teacher rather than a tourist. --San Francisco Chronicle