Lonely Planet Europe Author: Visit Amazon's Tom Masters Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1742204171 | Format: PDF
Lonely Planet Europe Description
- Series: Travel Guide
- Paperback: 1264 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet; 8th edition edition (November 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1742204171
- ISBN-13: 978-1742204178
- Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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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