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Lonely Planet knows Cancun, Cozumel and the Yucat n. This 5th edition helps you build the perfect itinerary, whether it includes visiting ancient Maya ruins, people watching in an open-air caf on M rida 's Plaza Grande or heading to Cozumel to dive into the coral gardens of the Great Maya Barrier Reef.
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:
Outdoor Adventure chapter with ideas for the entire family
Bonus Chapter on neighboring Tabasco and Chiapas
Unique Green Index makes ecofriendly travel that much easier
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:
Outdoor Adventure chapter with ideas for the entire family
Bonus Chapter on neighboring Tabasco and Chiapas
Unique Green Index makes ecofriendly travel that much easier
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just back from three weeks touring the Yucatan and this guide book was very helpful for Cancun, Cozmel, and the Rivera Maya. However, it was not sufficient the greater Yucatan. For that recommend Yucatan (Lonely Planet Regional Guides). You also should get a copy of the thriller hit A Tourist in the Yucatan for some great beach reading!.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Brilliant book, full of information.
Fairly straight basic, mainly B and W but full
of sound up to date information. Not so colourfull
as some but nonetheless very usefull.
Good promp service from supplier and good price.
(Do shop around)
Fairly straight basic, mainly B and W but full
of sound up to date information. Not so colourfull
as some but nonetheless very usefull.
Good promp service from supplier and good price.
(Do shop around)
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just came back from holiday from september to october 2009. I have used the most recent version (edition 2008). For getting around a country a guide book has been very helpfull in the past, I loved lonely planets for this. But this edition send us absolutely to the wrong places.
For the northern part it was correct, although a bit sparse on background information about the different cities. But it really went downhill when we went to ciudad del carmen. Near this place, in laguna de terminos you could kayak your way through mangroves and spot turtles etc. And it even said so on the overview map on page 3. But first of all the city isn't as charming as described, everybody asked us what we were doing there (because there was nothing to do or see). The tourist office only spoke spanish and didn't know a thing about the kayak thing. So we went to puerto real, a very small place (why it made the main map I dont know). Same thing there, nobody knew about kayaking. Because they want to help we were sent all over town and still got nowhere.
Yes you probably can kayak here, of you are one of those lucky tourist who visits countries with his own 4 meter long and 1 meter wide kayak then you can go here, otherwise don't bother. Relying on the LP costed us 2 days of our holiday and a very large detour.
Near calakmul we understood how some of the information was gathered for this edition, by asking at hotels and not visiting the sites themselves. In this hotel we checked the Moon-guide, it was very helpfull for the rest of our trip. Because here it told us about mahahual which is a very nice snorkleplace in mexico near the belizean border. It was very very sparsely covered in our edition.
Here we learned the writer visited this site a few weeks after the hurricane hit, talked to one person only!!! and wrote this down! About 1 and a half years later this book was published. Probably not exemplary for all of the book, but parts of it are very badly researched!
In my opinion that's how accurate the information was.
I advise using the moonguide for this part of mexico!
A shame, for Senegal and Sri Lanka I swore by the LP, but now my views have changed because of this book.
Dont buy it.
For the northern part it was correct, although a bit sparse on background information about the different cities. But it really went downhill when we went to ciudad del carmen. Near this place, in laguna de terminos you could kayak your way through mangroves and spot turtles etc. And it even said so on the overview map on page 3. But first of all the city isn't as charming as described, everybody asked us what we were doing there (because there was nothing to do or see). The tourist office only spoke spanish and didn't know a thing about the kayak thing. So we went to puerto real, a very small place (why it made the main map I dont know). Same thing there, nobody knew about kayaking. Because they want to help we were sent all over town and still got nowhere.
Yes you probably can kayak here, of you are one of those lucky tourist who visits countries with his own 4 meter long and 1 meter wide kayak then you can go here, otherwise don't bother. Relying on the LP costed us 2 days of our holiday and a very large detour.
Near calakmul we understood how some of the information was gathered for this edition, by asking at hotels and not visiting the sites themselves. In this hotel we checked the Moon-guide, it was very helpfull for the rest of our trip. Because here it told us about mahahual which is a very nice snorkleplace in mexico near the belizean border. It was very very sparsely covered in our edition.
Here we learned the writer visited this site a few weeks after the hurricane hit, talked to one person only!!! and wrote this down! About 1 and a half years later this book was published. Probably not exemplary for all of the book, but parts of it are very badly researched!
In my opinion that's how accurate the information was.
I advise using the moonguide for this part of mexico!
A shame, for Senegal and Sri Lanka I swore by the LP, but now my views have changed because of this book.
Dont buy it.
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Great Lonely Planet on the Yucatan
Fantastic travel guide for my upcoming tour of Mexico. Was delivered very promptly and have around a dozen of these travel guides and will continue to buy them for any trip that I... Read more
Published 17 months ago by J. Bird
Cancún, Cozumel & the Yucátan by Lonely Planet
This is a very useful book for these specific regions of Mexico. Besides the tips and ideas for tours, it even has a spanish-english dictionary also with useful sentences. Read more
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