Guidebook for Sicily

Nope.

Try Lonely Planet series.

LP has a new guide book that was just released a few months ago.

DK"s Top ten series has great books on Sicily-ck out Amazon.

jon,

Unfortunately RS doesn't publish a guidebook on Sicily yet, but hopefully that will be available at some point in the future. As indicated in previous replies, the Lonely Planet books would be a good place to start. As you'll note on their website, the book is only about $13 and you can download the Sicily chapter of their Italy guidebook for $2.72.

http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/shopSearch?q=Sicily

I ordered "Michelin Sicily the Green guide". Just looked for a used copy under used books. Mine is in perfect shape for $5 instead of $25 new.

I used the DK Eyewitness Sicily book. I like their 10 Ten series for a city I'm spending a short time in. For a place as big as Sicily, I would use the big book. It's not comprehensive in its descriptions, but it's very useful to choose destinations and routes.

I have a pdf copy of the guide booklet that RS tours used to give out to tour members on the Sicily tour (c. 2014). I can't figure out how to attach it, or I would post it for you. PM me if you want it.

Kaye

Thanks to all of you. We purchased Lonely Planet (still not as good as RS).

I used Lonely Planet in conjunction with:

"National Geographic Traveler: Sicily" - great book, NatGeo is often overlooked

"Eat Smart in Sicily: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure"
Author: Peterson, Joan

DK Eyewitness guides are excellent for description of sights, especially thanks to their pictorial images.
It's not that great for hotels, restaurant, and other practical suggestions, but you can do online searches on your travel iPad or iPhone for those.

I just got the DK Sicily guide and it looks good. Also, used my $100 tour voucher to get the Lonely Planet Sicily guide but have not looked at it. Don't leave for many months so I don't want to get the info too soon! I think DK Guides are great for showing you all the sights with good history and background info (so I know what I really want to see and how practical it would be to do them.) I prefer RS for the nitty gritty--- museum opening hours and costs, hotel recommendations etc. But he does not have a Sicily Guidebook -- yet!

I have the new lonely planet Sicily - it just came out last month or so, make sure you get the new edition. Since there is no Rick Steves book I would recommend the Lonely Planet

Someone gave me the Michelin Green Guide, but I don't like it so much - it says its from 2016 but a lot of the information is not updated, for example it seems to imply that the Etna cable car is closed due to damage from the 2002 eruption...but it has long since reopened as far as I can tell from recent reviews.

Apparently there is also a new edition of the Blue Guide coming out in late February - amazon just emailed me an ad for this, because I have been spending too much time on Sicily books, apparently :)

When I took the RS Sicily Tour in 2014, our guide told us that he had been involved in drafting an RS Sicily Guide Book, which at that time was twice as long as desired, and would still need considerable editing. It seems to me, from what RS staff has said here on this forum, that the project has at least been put on the back burner. I imagine that one question would be whether the market of travelers to Sicily would justify publishing a new book just on Sicily.

I enjoy the Rough Guide series. They have good maps and interesting sidebars.
There is a separate Sicily edition.

I've been impressed with the accuracy of the nitty gritty logistical information in the RS books. In my experience Lonely Planet isn't quite as accurate, though it does attempt to provide the sort of information needed by travelers using public transportation. It's just that the last critical little detail is too often missing. "Get Bus X at such-and-such square." How hard would it be to say which side of the square the bus departs from?

For my upcoming trip to France I'm carrying the RS book, which unfortunately has a lot of gaps, so I'm taking notes from the Frommer and Fodor guides I borrowed from the library, both 2015 editions. (There was no Lonely Planet on the shelf.) Wow, are those two books sloppily edited. I've found sentences that are only half present, inconsistent information within the same sentence, etc. I am not impressed. In terms of content, I prefer Frommer's, which just seems to have more sightseeing information, but I have no idea whether I'd have the same reaction if I compared the two books for Italy or some other country.

From my perspective, any guidebook that includes color photos is too heavy to cart around on a vacation that lasts more than a week or two. Glossy paper is a killer.

I just downloaded Lonely Planet Sicily, Italy, and the Amalfi coast books on my Kindle for free with Prime. Not fond of the Kindle format for guidebooks, but for free, I will take it!