This is the ultimate getaway to all the best-loved areas of Britain, in a practical ringbinder format for ease-of-use. Explore the best-loved and most popular parts of Britain - including all the national parks, heritage coastline, areas of outstanding natural beauty, mountains and rural areas. Presented in a ringbinder format, the guide enables you to choose your destination, your activities - walks, cycle rides and car tours - plus the relevant listings pages; remove the pages from the ringbinder and store in the plastic folder provided for the duration of your trip. Inside, you'll find easy-to-use maps and modern layouts with newly commissioned photographs to inspire you and locator maps showing the area in detail. There are 1,000 main entries, 150 walks, 50 cycle rides, 24 car tours and hundreds of ideas for activities and places to visit. Simple to use, and with easy-to-carry pages, "The Great Britain Guide" contains all the information you need to make the most of your visit - where to go, what to see and do and what not to miss.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
ordered this thinking it would be up to the usual standard of aa books but sadly its a very poor product. it looks like a well bound book from the picture but in fact its nothing more than a cheap ring binder folder.
the pages are just a4 sheets with holes punched in and although the information thats on them is very good they are ruined by having holes punched through the text leading to information being lost.very frustrating.
also as the folder is made in a sort of box construction with with just the front cover opening its many pages held in a box about 2 inch deep are very hard to get out or turn over without damaging them.
its too bulky and poorly made for a guide thats ment to help someone plan a day trip out in the country. sorry aa but you got it wrong this time.
the pages are just a4 sheets with holes punched in and although the information thats on them is very good they are ruined by having holes punched through the text leading to information being lost.very frustrating.
also as the folder is made in a sort of box construction with with just the front cover opening its many pages held in a box about 2 inch deep are very hard to get out or turn over without damaging them.
its too bulky and poorly made for a guide thats ment to help someone plan a day trip out in the country. sorry aa but you got it wrong this time.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By mutaupi
Format:Spiral-bound
Don't buy this if you are looking for a comprehensive guide of Britain that you can refer to when motoring around. Chances are you won't find enough info on the major places, and very possibly none at all on many smaller places. We bought this book to replace a thirty-year-old 'AA Illustrated Guide to Britain', but were sorely disappointed.
The loose leaf presentation looks at first sight to be a good idea - you could just take the pages you need for a particular day out (or so you'd think). The reality is you'd be taking very few pages on a typical day trip - and not much info.
This is in stark contast to the much older 'AA Illustrated Guide to Britain' published in the seventies, which serves as a useful review comparison.
For example, Oxford and Cambridge have a cursory few paragraphs each in this guide, whereas that old guide had several pages on each. Many smaller market towns are omitted - Buckingham and Bicester are two examples we found (or didn't find!) today. (Both were in the old book, which has an index four times the size of this book.)
So what replaced all the info of our former book? Well, partly this book has fewer pages (418 plays 544) but partly they've taken up a lot of space with walks and cycle rides, at the expense of gazeteer information. You may say that's a matter of taste - maybe some readers _prefer_ that. But remember this is the Automobile Association. Surely an AA Great Britain Guide claiming to be 'the ultimate getaway guide' ought to optimised for motoring. By trying to do the job of the Ramblers' Assn and the Cyclists Touring Club as well as it's own, the AA has diffused the purpose of this book too much. It is a jack of all trades - and a master of none.
The loose leaf presentation looks at first sight to be a good idea - you could just take the pages you need for a particular day out (or so you'd think). The reality is you'd be taking very few pages on a typical day trip - and not much info.
This is in stark contast to the much older 'AA Illustrated Guide to Britain' published in the seventies, which serves as a useful review comparison.
For example, Oxford and Cambridge have a cursory few paragraphs each in this guide, whereas that old guide had several pages on each. Many smaller market towns are omitted - Buckingham and Bicester are two examples we found (or didn't find!) today. (Both were in the old book, which has an index four times the size of this book.)
So what replaced all the info of our former book? Well, partly this book has fewer pages (418 plays 544) but partly they've taken up a lot of space with walks and cycle rides, at the expense of gazeteer information. You may say that's a matter of taste - maybe some readers _prefer_ that. But remember this is the Automobile Association. Surely an AA Great Britain Guide claiming to be 'the ultimate getaway guide' ought to optimised for motoring. By trying to do the job of the Ramblers' Assn and the Cyclists Touring Club as well as it's own, the AA has diffused the purpose of this book too much. It is a jack of all trades - and a master of none.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By KAB
Format:Spiral-bound
This is the fourth copy of this book that I have bought. I bought the first copy for myself three years ago and, since then, copies for a friend, my daughter and now my cousin. I find the book very informative, easy to use and with good photos. As a result of buying this book I have visited parts of the country I previously had little or no knowledge about. As it is in a ring-binder it is easy to take out the information you want for the area you are visiting rather than taking the whole book away with you.
By foshie
Format:Spiral-bound|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book does have some additions compared to its predecessor (AA Illustrated Guide to Britain), such as suggestions for walks, cycle rides and tourist attractions. However, these are of a little interest at least to the serious cyclist. Furthermore, the regional information has been rather consolidated into less specific entries and overall less information in the gazetteer part.
As for the book's binder, this is a serious shortcoming. It is so flimsy that it arrived damaged in transport. The concept is perhaps well intended, in that individual sections can be removed for the holiday destination in question. But the use of the non-standard 3-hole format renders even this "solution" rather unworkable.
As for the book's binder, this is a serious shortcoming. It is so flimsy that it arrived damaged in transport. The concept is perhaps well intended, in that individual sections can be removed for the holiday destination in question. But the use of the non-standard 3-hole format renders even this "solution" rather unworkable.
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