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Lonely Planet Switzerland by: Damien Simonis, Sarah Johnstone, Nicola Williams List Price: CDN$ 23.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 17.48 You Save: CDN$6.47 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914.940474 EAN: 9781740597623 ISBN: 1740597621 Label: Lonely Planet Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Number Of Pages: 364 Publication Date: June 15, 2006 Publisher: Lonely Planet Studio: Lonely Planet Sales Rank: 104461 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - We Review Six Guides to SwitzerlandI have been to Switzerland at least six times. Recently I sat down with my daughter who has worked at a hotel at Interlaken in Switzerland during her years in Business Administration at McGill - up to last summer - and we went over the Switzerland guides to see how they ranked, and what was currently the best guide in our humble opinions. We are not experts but have certain requirements and preferences. It helps if one can get a feel for the area in advance of a trip, and generally that is helped by good maps and color photos. So those guides do better in our review. We like to make reservations by internet and telephone and just use the Guide as a "guide". Generally it costs more to publish a book with color photos so ... Read More: Rating:  - Disappointing new guideWe're avid travelers and always take Lonely Planet guides with us -- they're normally very comprehensive and helpful. The new 4th edition of the Switzerland guide proved a big disappointment, though, on our recent trip. For some reason this is an unusually slim LP volume, so the depth of coverage for which LP is famous is lacking. We went to numerous delightful towns, villages, and museums that didn't rate so much as a mention. The city maps are also poor; many of the streets are unnamed, which makes the maps difficult to use for navigation. Finally, some of the authors' choices seem almost bizarre. The first boxed "Highlight" listed for the beautiful international city of Geneva, for example, is a particle physics laboratory(!) ... Read More: Rating: - Switzerland - Lonely Planet GuideI bought the book for a recent trip to Switzerland and found it to be informative and well written. Looks like Lonely Planet are trying out something slightly different here and I like it. Going to Swizerland? Well worth the buy..... Rating: - simplistic and poorly written - take another guideI am spending my summer in Switzerland and decided to take a trusted Lonely Planet Guide with me. What a disappointment! The book is poorly written, has very few good tips on things to do and places to visit and, in my view, is completely useless for out of the way places; my list of complaints can go on and on. I no longer take the book on weekend trips as it is simply easier to ask the locals. Although I usually like Lonely Planet guides, this one should never be published again. |
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