- Paperback: 1284 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 5th Revised edition edition (1 Mar 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1741045916
- ISBN-13: 978-1741045918
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 5.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Party in Tallinn or pose in Cannes; hike the Curonian Spit; be seduced by the Aya Sofia in Istanbul or simply learn the art of the Spanish siesta. Your European Adventure starts here with the most detailed guide available, featuring more than 40 countries, 200 maps and insider tips to help you to go further, stay longer and pay less for the ultimate European grand tour.
Grand Turismo - Itineraries to aid your planning and splurge features to help you decide where to splash out, whether it be a night in an ice hotel or haute cuisine in Paris.
Be In The Know - with a detailed Directory and dedicated language chapter, plus look out for our author picks highlighting the best of the best.
Time Is Of The Essence - A Year in Europe helps you find out what's happening when, from the best music and sporting events to where to chase the northern lights.
Do The Right Thing - travel ethically and lightly with advice from our unique Responsible Travel section and make a positive difference along the way.
Grand Turismo - Itineraries to aid your planning and splurge features to help you decide where to splash out, whether it be a night in an ice hotel or haute cuisine in Paris.
Be In The Know - with a detailed Directory and dedicated language chapter, plus look out for our author picks highlighting the best of the best.
Time Is Of The Essence - A Year in Europe helps you find out what's happening when, from the best music and sporting events to where to chase the northern lights.
Do The Right Thing - travel ethically and lightly with advice from our unique Responsible Travel section and make a positive difference along the way.
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69 of 69 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
So the latest edition of Lonely Planet's Europe guide is out.
There have been definite improvements over the previous edition!
Most importantly, this book now covers ALL European countries, including little-visited Belarus and Ukraine. It has basic coverage of European Russia, too.
The prices and other practical details really seem to have been updated specifically for this book - unlike in certain earlier shoestring guides, which simply seem to have been compiled by picking info from the already published (then few years old) individual country guides.
So the info in this one is pretty correct as of 2006 state of affairs - that's when it was researched. Be prepared for some changes, of course, especially in some of the still rapidly-changing Eastern European countries.
The contents include the usual practical details all LP guides provide: not just an overview of sights and history, but practical matters like accomodation and transport details, all with actual prices (remember, these do change!), as well as useful info on things like getting visas and crossing borders.
Coverage of individual countries definitely varies though.
You will still find that the most popular Western European countries are covered in pretty good detail, certainly enough for an "All-Europe-Trip", while coverage of Eastern European countries is much more brief, in case of less visited ones really sketchy - hence the 4 stars only.
For more obscure countries like Belarus or Ukraine, this guide only provides detailed info on the capital and at best one or two other towns/cities, or perhaps just a brief overview of the rest of the country.
So this book is great value if you are still in the planning stages of your trip, and simply want to have an overview of the entire continent, prices, visa matters and all, to help you decide where to go.
It will also be an adequate guide to take along if you are planning a whirlwind tour of Europe, concentrating on the more established tourist destinations, with only brief forays to less visited countries.
However if you are planning to spend any length of time in Eastern Europe, I definitely recommend getting LP's separate guide to that region alone - it covers it in maybe three times as much detail as this book.
If you have a specific interest in a few countries rather than the whole continent, get the individual country guides to those ones.
But if you have only a summer holiday to tour the continent, you will probably find this book has enough information for you.
Have a good trip!
There have been definite improvements over the previous edition!
Most importantly, this book now covers ALL European countries, including little-visited Belarus and Ukraine. It has basic coverage of European Russia, too.
The prices and other practical details really seem to have been updated specifically for this book - unlike in certain earlier shoestring guides, which simply seem to have been compiled by picking info from the already published (then few years old) individual country guides.
So the info in this one is pretty correct as of 2006 state of affairs - that's when it was researched. Be prepared for some changes, of course, especially in some of the still rapidly-changing Eastern European countries.
The contents include the usual practical details all LP guides provide: not just an overview of sights and history, but practical matters like accomodation and transport details, all with actual prices (remember, these do change!), as well as useful info on things like getting visas and crossing borders.
Coverage of individual countries definitely varies though.
You will still find that the most popular Western European countries are covered in pretty good detail, certainly enough for an "All-Europe-Trip", while coverage of Eastern European countries is much more brief, in case of less visited ones really sketchy - hence the 4 stars only.
For more obscure countries like Belarus or Ukraine, this guide only provides detailed info on the capital and at best one or two other towns/cities, or perhaps just a brief overview of the rest of the country.
So this book is great value if you are still in the planning stages of your trip, and simply want to have an overview of the entire continent, prices, visa matters and all, to help you decide where to go.
It will also be an adequate guide to take along if you are planning a whirlwind tour of Europe, concentrating on the more established tourist destinations, with only brief forays to less visited countries.
However if you are planning to spend any length of time in Eastern Europe, I definitely recommend getting LP's separate guide to that region alone - it covers it in maybe three times as much detail as this book.
If you have a specific interest in a few countries rather than the whole continent, get the individual country guides to those ones.
But if you have only a summer holiday to tour the continent, you will probably find this book has enough information for you.
Have a good trip!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Anyone buying this book is surely going to be travelling around Europe for a long time - several months to a year perhaps. I am travelling for a year (by bike) and I am a bit disappointed with this book. The basic information for countries is good and that's why it gets two stars. But the rest of the book has been really lazily written. The suggestions for nearly every town/city are the historic town centre and the main cathedral. If you use this book you will be "all cathedral-ed out" in no time. I can get this information from a TIC. I do not need a 1kg book to tell me. There are many interesting places I have passed but missed (because they were closed etc) that this book should have told me about. Sort it out Lonely Planet - cut the mindless waffle and add more places of interest and cheap places to stay.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the second lonely planet book that I have bought, the first being south East Asia which I found invaluable. The book is a little big not exactly pocket size BUT it can answers nearly everything you need to know without giving too much away so you still get the adventure. Packed full of places to see, phone numbers, where to go for emergency help. Ratings for hostels and much more
All in all this is a great book and I am looking forward to using it later this year when I go travelling Spain & France on my Motorbike.
Scott
All in all this is a great book and I am looking forward to using it later this year when I go travelling Spain & France on my Motorbike.
Scott
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Published on 9 Sep 2008 by D. Miller
fab
my trip would not of been the same with out this book!! we would of missed so meany good places with out out it!! great for interrailing!
Published on 29 Sep 2007 by L. V. Greenhill
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