Southeast Asia on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Shoestring Guides) |
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Pages: 988 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1741047269
Pub: Lonely Planet Publications
Pub date: 2008-03-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3061
Reader Reviews:
South East Asia (0/0 people found this helpful)
A heavy book to lug around on your travels, but it was my first time 'travelling' and it became our bible. Definatley recommend it. Only use the accomodation as a guide to the area you'd like to stay in as you can get better deals when you turn up at the destination.
..middle level.. (0/0 people found this helpful)
Contains many countries.. But I was little disappointed about information.. Contains only the most popular places. I am considering to buy few one country book to take with me.. I think this isn't that good for me, first timer in SEA.
satisfied (0/0 people found this helpful)
quite happy with the guide, considering that covers a lot of countries I think is quite useful to make you way through all of them and points at the main sights and points of interest, you might need to search further in some cases but as I said it is quite detailed looking at the geographical area that covers.
Not very good (6/6 people found this helpful)
This book is touted as the Yellow bible. This it is definately not. It may be useful whilst planning a trip, but is so limited in scope that it rapidly becomes useless for practical purposes. Destinations are pretty much limited to the major tourist spots, with only a handful of hotels and sights per spot. Country sections wary wildly, with huge countries such as the Philippines condensed into less than 50 pages, whereas Thailand is covered it better detail.
Also, it is unlikely that many people visit every country in S.E Asia, so large sections of the book become redundant.
In short, look at this book before you go to get some ideas, but once on the ground, its a lot wiser to pick up individual country guides.
Good, Bad And Ugly!! (2/2 people found this helpful)
Lonely Planet - great for maps and local transport but thats about all! As any experienced traveller will tell you, the minute any restaurant, cafe or hotel gets it name in LP then its prices will double and the standards will half!
I also agree with some of the other comments here, why do they try so hard to be cool and why do they tell us what we should and shouldnt do?
An OK book but now and then leave it in your backpack and be adventurous.
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