Lonely Planet Europe on a shoestring Author: Tom Masters | Language: English | ISBN:
B00FGJC3OQ | Format: EPUB
Lonely Planet Europe on a shoestring Description
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Europe on a Shoestring is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, what hidden discoveries await you, and how to optimise your budget for an extended continental trip. Tour French chateaux, take boat trips to Greek beaches, hike past Bulgarian monasteries and glug Spanish wine, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Europe and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring Travel Guide:
- Colour maps and images throughout
- Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
- Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
- Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
- Budget-oriented recommendations with honest reviews - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, art, literature, cinema, landscapes
- Over 180 maps
- Useful features - including Itineraries, Month by Month (annual festival calendar) and extensive Language section
- Covers Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scandinavia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and more
eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones)
- Downloadable PDF and offline maps to avoid roaming and data charges
- Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews
- Speedy search capabilities to easily find what you need
- Bookmarks to shoot back to key pages in a flash
- Embedded links to get to recommendations' websites
- Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience
- Zoom-in maps and images
- Seamlessly flip between pages
- Inbuilt dictionary to decode site-specific local terms
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Europe on a Shoestring is perfect for both exploring the top sights and taking roads less travelled.
- Looking for just a few of the destinations included in this guide? Check out the relevant Lonely Planet destination guides, our most comprehensive guides that cover destinations' top sights and offbeat experiences, or check out our photo-rich Discover series guides, which focus on destinations' most popular attractions.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Tom Masters, Carolyn Bain, James Bainbridge, Mark Baker, Oliver Berry, Greg Bloom, Kerry Christiani, Chris Deliso, Marc Di Duca, Peter Dragicevich, Mark Elliott, Steve Fallon, Duncan Garwood, Anthony Ham, Anna Kaminski, Craig McLachlan, Anja Muti?, Brandon Presser, Tim Richards, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Tamara Sheward, Regis St Louis, Andy Symington, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Luke Waterson, Nicola Williams, Neil Wilson.
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
- File Size: 138490 KB
- Print Length: 1264 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet; 8th edition edition (September 1, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FGJC3OQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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This book is very well done! It is chock full of information you can use when travelling (when I say chock FULL I mean it)! You would probably want to copy and condense the pages you need before going! This isn't the size to fit neatly into a bag! It is 2 inches thick, 1250 pages, and is 5 X 8. It is also fairly heavy and is on good paper! There's a very small section of pictures at the beginning (which are great pictures, by the way, otherwise no pictures. There are, of course, good maps! They do a good job of covering all necessities in here. (if you are going to more than one or two countries, you would probably just need to make room for this whole book!)
Will give a rundown of most of what is included:
Countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Netherlands, Belgium/Luxembourg, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia/Hercegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Moldova, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Scandinavia, France, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Ireland.
Listings: Sights, Beaches, Activities, Courses, Tours, Festivals/Events, Sleeping, Eating, Drinking, Entertainment, Shopping, Information and Transport.
Symbols: Telephone numbers, open hours, parking, non-smoking, air-conditioning, internet/wifi access, swimming pool, vegetarian selection, English language menu, families, pets, bus, ferry, metro, subway, tube, tram, train.
The contents has a listing of the different cities included for each country. Listing of exchange rates for each country, which includes: Australia, Canada, Euro, New Zealand, Japan, UK and US.
Info on biking, hostels, homestays, farmstays, guesthouses, camping and visas.
The last multi-country travel guide I picked up was "Let's Go Eastern Europe", about 15 years ago. That book was over 800-pages, but seemed much more wieldy than "Lonely Planet Europe", which adds only about another 400-pages to additionally cover all of western Europe, but is much more weighty due to the quality of the paper. But both books serve their purpose. My point is that potential travelers to Europe should ignore some of the other reviews which seem to dwell on book size. As mentioned in my recent review of "Lonely Planet Germany", I recommend travel guides from both of these two series, but each has its own purpose. In my opinion, "Let's Go" is really the budget travel series, despite the apparent "Lonely Planet" re-branding of at least this book, which uses the "on a Shoestring" and "Big Trips on Small Budgets" subtitles. Over the years I have read quite a few "Lonely Planet" travel guides, and I see no additional information in this book that is geared more toward budget travel than in other entries of the series. Both series of travel guides are targeted at travelers not interested in boilerplate or mainstream sightseeing of the countries covered. "Lonely Planet" offers much more detail than "Let's Go", and is arguably more sophisticated than "Let's Go", which is written by college students and is more focused on off-the-beaten-path sites, and accommodations at youth hostels.
If you are familiar with other recently published "Lonely Planet" travel guides, you will see the same relatively consistent format in this book. I personally value this consistency, because it increases usability.
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