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Experience the best of Belgium and Luxembourg with Lonely Planet. Seek out the perfect mussels and twice-crisped frites, explore a gallery of surrealist art, cycle and hike in the Ardennes and undertake a systematic evaluation of Belgian chocolate.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In this Guide:
The best drinking spots, rated and reviewed for any mood or time of day
Top Sleeps include a royal castle, a former church and a fiberglass copy of a human body part
Immerse yourself in a local party with our Events Calendar
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In this Guide:
The best drinking spots, rated and reviewed for any mood or time of day
Top Sleeps include a royal castle, a former church and a fiberglass copy of a human body part
Immerse yourself in a local party with our Events Calendar
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As the author I naturally leave others to comment on the overall qualities of this book. However, I feel obliged to reply to the previous reviewer's comments that this guidebook was based on old or internet based reviews and that little had changed from previous editions. I can only assume that the reviewer was referring to an older edition. The current (4th) edition has been very thoroughly re-written and re-researched to a degree that is far beyond what is common in any normal guidebook update. Most significantly perhaps, the 4th edition goes out of its way to introduce dozens of intriguing smaller destinations that had been previously overlooked by guidebooks altogether (eg Marienbourg, Philippeville, Aarschot, Thuin, Gembloux, Spiennes, Aubechies, Ellezelles, Enghien, Sint-Truiden, Tienen, Hoegaarden, Turnhout, Hoogstraaten, Westmalle, Geraardsbergen, Reinhardtstein, Comines, Crupet, Lavaux-Ste-Anne, Semois Valley, Seraing, Remouchamps etc etc).
There was no earthly reason for me to recycle internet reviews given that I visited everywhere covered (the research took about half a year in-country) and the reviewer's assertion that reviews are out of date is particularly surprising. While I did retain some hotels and restaurants that had been reviewed in the past and that I felt were still good choices, reviews for such places were often entirely reworked. Meanwhile a large percentage of bars and restaurants were reviewed for the first time and several places that I included had only opened during 2009 (such as the Herge Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, Hotel Verviers in Verviers and Chateau de la Poste hotel near Crupet). Again, I suspect that the reviewer was talking about the 3rd edition and, if not, I would be interested to hear which specific reviews were considered to be out of date at the time of publication (inevitably many other places have changed in the year since the book was researched).
I would also point out that a large proportion of the more mainstream coverage had been carefully re-thought to make it more practical, and that most of the maps have been re-drawn from scratch based on aerial imagery with laborious on-the-ground checks (ie me walking the streets). All in all, this is certainly NOT a half hearted update of previous editions as should be very quickly apparent if you put the third and fourth editions side by side.
There was no earthly reason for me to recycle internet reviews given that I visited everywhere covered (the research took about half a year in-country) and the reviewer's assertion that reviews are out of date is particularly surprising. While I did retain some hotels and restaurants that had been reviewed in the past and that I felt were still good choices, reviews for such places were often entirely reworked. Meanwhile a large percentage of bars and restaurants were reviewed for the first time and several places that I included had only opened during 2009 (such as the Herge Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, Hotel Verviers in Verviers and Chateau de la Poste hotel near Crupet). Again, I suspect that the reviewer was talking about the 3rd edition and, if not, I would be interested to hear which specific reviews were considered to be out of date at the time of publication (inevitably many other places have changed in the year since the book was researched).
I would also point out that a large proportion of the more mainstream coverage had been carefully re-thought to make it more practical, and that most of the maps have been re-drawn from scratch based on aerial imagery with laborious on-the-ground checks (ie me walking the streets). All in all, this is certainly NOT a half hearted update of previous editions as should be very quickly apparent if you put the third and fourth editions side by side.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was perfect for our road trip to the Rhine Valley via the low countries. It confirmed our initial views on the places we would like to stay overnight and allowed me to find pretty, relatively quiet "non touristy" places for lunch each day en route. The only criticism is that this really does stop dead at the border. Aachen and Maastricht are barely over the border, on a very obvious driving route from the Channel Tunnel to Germany and you have to buy the Netherlands and Germany guides for these. Aachen might be a fair enough exclusion but it would be helpful if Maastricht were in it.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
We stayed in a couple of the hotels recommended in the book and they were spot on. We also travelled around a bit and thanks to the book visited and stayed in some small towns.
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Good starting point
As with all lonely planet guide books this is a great place to get an overview of the area, but again as with most other L. Read more
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