These are complete guides with attitude. They're designed for younger, sophisticated travellers with taste and money who want a cutting-edge perspective on the hottest destinations. These guides are irreverent, honest, and funny, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. They offer the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even tell what the locals think of you. Never shy about confronting the issues, the Irreverents are guides to real travel in the real world.

Among the offerings in this series are:

• The Eurotrashiest hotels
• Restaurants that don't live up to the hype
• Where the supermodels eat and where they don't
• Luscious love nests and lavender lodgings
• Most overrated museums
• Bars when you can hear yourself think