I like Rough Guide too. As a matter of fact: I just started preparing my trip to India a little over a week ago: I picked up the LP guides from the library but I am heading into town when I finish typing this to buy the Rough Guide. Best Guidebooks for Europe | Lonely Planet, Rough Guides .
Both Lonely Planet and The Rough Guide are geared for the independent traveler, and both are helpful for getting in and out of an area and getting around in a city.
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I’m not one for slavish devotion to guidebooks, mainly because I know people who write them. The Lonely Planet Guide To Crete and the Rough Guide To Crete are, in my view, the two best general guidebooks to the island of Crete. Lonely Planet and Rough Guide are the two most recommended guides from what I've heard.
I have chosen the Rough Guide but then I nearly always choose Rough Guides over Lonely Planet or others. I have read Lonely Planet online, not the book. The Best Travel Guide Books Lonely Planet Guide. Usually I made good experiences with Lonely Planet, but at [original link] the South Africa guide of LP is rated very bad. They are much more useful for reading at home to decide what it is that are the places you really want to see. If a good one is recommended, check that it is the same issue that is currently for sale, because the quality can also vary from issue to issue. Lonely planet is largely derided amongst "travellers" due to the large number of people arriving in various places around the world and almost liveing their lives by them, but they can still help you out when you aren't sure where to go.
I’ve used Rough Guides before, though never to the extent I did for my trip to Canada. I found the Rough Guide much better suited to my needs than the Lonely Planet. I believe there's a similar Rough Guide for that broad region. Especially it is rated worse than the … Forget any images of jaunting … In the year I’ve been using the latest editions of both books I’ve also noticed The Rough Guide has more content than the Lonely Planet Thailand book does for most of the destinations I specifically go to. It ventures far off the beaten track and, as most people neglect to bring their Rough Guide on the road … Lonely planet vs. It is a good thing if you get a chance to ask people who have already travelled with a particular one, and then you will have a better idea about if that particular Rough Guide is better then the Lonely Planet for the same country.
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I imagined that if I was somewhere in Japan I'd never been to before, and had The Rough Guide maps in front of me, they …
Hotel recommendations are definitely tilted to the budget end. Maybe I’m biased for an Australian publishing company, but they are definitely one of the few travel guides that remember how absolutely RIDICULOUS it is to travel to ANYWHERE from Australia (or New Zealand, for that matter). Between the two, for a traveller on a budget, using public transport, Rough Guide is better. A quick count on my bookshelf and there are 23 there. The Lonely Planet series offers comprehensive, no-nonsense facts, low- and mid-budget listings, and helpful on-the-ground travel tips. Actually I start planning my trip to South Africa in 2010. Lonely Planet (yeah, I know) has "Central America On a Shoestring", which packs a lot of those countries into an inch-thick book, with not too much of that being Mexico. June 2010: I bought the latest Rough Guide to use as a guide book for Iceland on this trip. Ian Wright, we loved you way back when. They have an exhausting, nigh-on impossible job, and get paid shockingly little for it.
12 March 2012 at 5:07PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning. Rough Guide vs Lonely Planet.
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