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Spain (Lonely Planet Country Guide) by: Damien Simonis, Susan Forsyth, John Noble List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £8.94 You Save: £6.05 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914 EAN: 9781741045543 ISBN: 1741045541 Label: Lonely Planet Publications Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 918 Publication Date: March 01, 2007 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Studio: Lonely Planet Publications Sales Rank: 947 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - An excellent addition to the Lonely Planet listThe Lonely Planet guidebooks are deservedly the default choice for many travellers. This lastest edition (2007) of the Lonely Planet guide to Spain goes a long way to answering those critics who say that European countries have sometimes been Lonely Planet's Achille's heel. This is an excellent guidebook to Spain, both for those who just want to visit the well-known highlights as well as for those who enjoy getting off the beaten track. The language is informal, perhaps a reflection of the publisher's target audience and the overall feel is unstuffy. The book is organised into regional chapters, with Madrid and Barcelona being given their own. The first hundred pages or so are dedicated to themes such as history, culture architecture, ... Read More: Rating: - Good practical guideA good comprehensive country guide, though a little bulky to be ideal for taking away. I would recommend combining it with smaller regional guidebooks if space is an issue or you need more detail. However, for planning a general trip to Spain or deciding where to go, this is ideal. There is a wealth of practical information on everything you might need to know, and I found it well geared up to independent travellers. Of course, prices and other information won't always be accurate as these things change faster than books can be researched and published, but a quick check of the internet will establish any significant changes. The guide covers all of mainland Spain, plus the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza etc.) ... Read More: Rating: - Great 2005 editionThe bad reviews given here are old hat. The new edition is easy to use with very clear maps and it does cover places way off the beaten track as well as those familiar to us all. If you need more detail for a particular area then lonely planet do publish more in depth area books such as 'Catalonia and the Costa Brava' for example. Rating:  - SuperficialDO NOT buy it if you don't want to sleep on a bench in the park. I visited Spain in August, 2003 -the spanish holyday-month where every little hostel seems to be fully booked I experienced that the book mainly is concerned around big tourist attractions and cities. When travelling around to small villages there is basically no information, obvioulsy as a result of what has interested the authors. But more seriously, there is a great lack of info about places to stay incl. telephone numbers which is a big problem as the tourist offices most of the time seems to be closed at this time of the year. Rating:  - Needs UpdatingCouple of problems with this book. First, it needs seriously updating. Especially for prices. One hostal owner laughed when he saw I had this book and advised me that the spot with all the bars and nightlife had been demolished two years ago! This was in Zaragoza. He reckoned on Let's Go being much better for Spain. Also, everyone seems to have the Lonely Planet, which means everything is going round the sometimes limited (e.g. Granada) supply of the same hostals. Also, some of the maps are dodgy, although to be fair mapping places like Toledo must be a bit of a nightmare and I didn't see any other good maps from the tourist board either. No other probs to report. |
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