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Features colour highlights sections, easy-to-use grid-referenced maps and insightful history, culture, food and environment chapters by specialised contributors. These guides are the country guides for independent travellers.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Being British myself I was looking for a comprehensive guidebook. Unfortunately the Lonely Planet Great Britain falls short. There are a number of alarming omissions; Coventry, for example. I'm no fan of the city but surely it should get at least a mention for its Cathedral alone. It is as important for a guidebook to tell you what's bad and not worth seeing, just as much as what's good.
Aside from the above the articles in the book are comprehensive, informative, well written and often accompanied by maps (although these could be clearer). The guide lists hotels by category (budget, mid-range and top end) and usually gives a telephone number and website address for each. Restaurant and bars are also listed, together with a critique.
I think that this guide would be a good companion for a foreign visitor who is looking to spend a few weeks in the country, but is only of small use to British nationals. Since buying this guide I have bought Fodor's Great Britain 2006 - this has far fewer omissions and is the one I would take with me on a trip. It's still heavily aimed at the American market but as long as you can put up with that it is a better guide.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Most visitors to the UK come for short-term visits, business trips or weekend breaks, and tend to focus on London so it's appropriate that this book devotes a lot of space to London. Although nowadays, London is such an international melting-pot that it is perhaps not really part of Britain proper; the book should encourage visitors to travel further afield. I didn't think it was Anglophobic. Its criticism of much of the customer service and poor value of tourism in Britain is justified. Surveys show that many overseas tourists are disappointed by the transport, hotels and restaurants that they encounter while visiting the UK. Hopefully this book will point them towards the better places.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
The best of the Great Britain travel books that I have read!
16 Feb 2006
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In planning a trip to Great Britain, I have purchased three travel books: Lonely Planet, Eyewitness and Frommer's. I would rank them in that order as far as helpfulness in planning our trip. Here are my reasons: I have found Lonely Planet's sections on "where to sleep" and "where to eat" are much more extensive, informative and include a wider variety in price ranges than the other two books. Also, they have more information on some of the smaller towns, that are off the beaten track. I enjoyed the wonderful photographs, maps and illustrations in the Eyewitness Guide to Great Britain and if you can afford two books, it is a great way to prepare for what you will see. However, since I only have room for one travel book in my small suitcase, I plan to take the Lonely Planet book with me on our upcoming trip.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Excellent, but many poor maps
28 Oct 2005
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent guidebook. The only problem with it is the quality of the city maps, which are almost impossible to read. I saw an earlier edition in which they were in color and much better. They must have tried to save money in this edition by doing them in grayscale.
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