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Best travel guide?

  • 06-04-2009 11:04am
    #1
    Fabio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭


    There's Fodors, Eyewitness, Lonely Planet...

    There's just so many different ravel guides out there that I don't know what to buy for my trip along the East Coast of the USA down to Texas.

    Have used Top Ten Eyewitness before for a trip to Boston and NYC and found it pretty good - always nice to have pictures and the top ten lists of things to see or do.

    The only thing is though, this time I'm hitting 7 cities and could do without 7 different guide books...

    Any advice would be mucho appreciated!


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  • #2
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    I'm partial to the Lonely Planet guides myself, but go into a bookshop and take a look at the options yourself.


  • #3
    Fabio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Fabio


    Must do so...thanks!


  • #4
    jackbhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭jackbhoy


    If you know exactly what cities you will visit then you could use sites like wikitravel, travelfish & even lonely planet and print off relevant info before you go. It'll save a lot of space/weight in your bag as you are not carrying around a big guidebook, 90% of which is not relevant to your trip.


  • #5
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    I must admit that I am partial to the Lonely Planet though I have used Rough Guides before. I actually found the info in the Rough Guides to be ever so slightly better than the LP but the layout and fonts used in the Rough Guide tend to wreck my head so I usually stick with the LP.

    Whatever guide book you decide to buy just make sure that you dont turn into one of those travellers who constantly has their head stuck in it :eek:


  • #6
    Fabio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Fabio


    True out there RATM. The object of the travelling is to head out and explore...or so I say anyway. The guidebook is just an accessory to help if you choose, it shouldn't be the commander of you.


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