Which guide book: Lonely Planet, Rough Guide or another?

sharastani

Do you know of any online travel guides or books?

I saw a recommendation for travel ebooks and eguides for £1.50 but can't find where I saw it ! I thought it was on this site, but must have been a magazine.
I have checked some search engines but nothing of any quality is available.

VickyA_2

I don't know of any like that, but in the past I have downloaded quite a bit of information from the Lonelyplanet website: [url][/url]www.lonelyplanet.com[url][/url] Hope this helps a little.

budgetflyer

http://www.thisistravel.co.uk/travel/guides/world.html

is my favourite web guide to destinations and resorts

for a list of hotel review sites

http://www.budgetflyer.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reviews.htm

System

Just have a look at:
http://www.europe-travel-guides.com

They have many PDF based free downloadable travel guides.

pin

Hi

I know this may be a loaded question, apologies if you view it that way.

I just wanted views, theories, suggestions, etc on which guide book people use / prefer to use when they go travelling.

From a personal point of view I prefer Lonely Planet, but have used Lets Go in the past and was reasonably happy with them.

nearlyrich

I love guide books, I have several different brands and what usually makes me buy it is the amount of info about the actual place I am visiting. I was pleased to see the local library have a good collection of guidebooks so anyone who wants to save money can start there. I have just bought the DK Eyewitness Guide to New Zealand, thinking of a trip there later in 2005.

Fatboy_NSS

I'm a fan of both Time Out and Lonely Planet. I generally try to get the most recently published one from those as hopefully the hotels and restaurants recommended won't have become too overrun by tourists!

Party_Animal

The Eyewitness guides are brilliant and the pictures are superb, Lonely Planet's good too, but as a regular traveller if I only had room for one book it would be the Rough Guide. Used them allover. Ok sometimes they get it wrong and things change but overall I've found them invaluable.

VickyA_2

I tend to prefer Lonely Planet, but it depends on the area that I'm going to. I used a Footprints Guide for both Ireland and South Africa and both just seemed really negative (both versions were more up to date than the LP at the time) about a lot of things "don't go here because there's nothing to see" type thing. I find for a detailed, more cultural view of a city then the Cadogan Guides are excellent.

tummy_tank

i love reading travel guides and holiday brochures as a hobby! sad i know. I have at least five different brands depending on where i go. I tend to check out amazon just to see if they have reviews and how many people bought them as it tells your sales of the book. I don't tend to buy from them as you can find cheaper elsewhere hope that helps and happy travels.

chalky_bertie

Use Lonely Planet every time. They are very good with lots of useful info, PLUS if you check out the website you can also download the latest news.