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Title: Lonely Planet Switzerland by Damien Simonis, Sarah Johnstone, Lorne Jackson ISBN: 1-74059-228-X Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing new guide
Comment: We'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(!) with the world's largest machine. It's probably fascinating (we didn't visit), but does it really rank with the historic European headquarters of the UN, which didn't make the Highlights box at all, or the superb International Red Cross Museum? We came to rely almost exclusively on the excellent Rough Guide to Switzerland, which at 550 pages -- compared to 335 for Lonely Planet -- is much more thorough and useful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Switzerland - Lonely Planet Guide
Comment: I 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: 2
Summary: simplistic and poorly written - take another guide
Comment: I 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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Title: Lonely Planet Austria by Mark Honan ISBN: 1864503440 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Walking in Switzerland by Clem Lindenmayer ISBN: 0864427379 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Italy by Damien Simonis, Duncan Garwood, Paula Hardy, Wendy Owen, Miles Roddis, Nicola Williams ISBN: 1741040809 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Germany by Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Andrew Bender, Angela Cullen, Anthony Haywood, Jeanne Oliver ISBN: 1740590783 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Rough Guide to Switzerland by Matthew Teller, Lucy Ratcliffe, Kev Reynolds ISBN: 1843530643 Publisher: Rough Guides Limited Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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