- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 7th Revised edition edition (1 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1740592077
- ISBN-13: 978-1740592079
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.1 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #23 in Books > Travel & Holiday > Countries & Regions > Australia & New Zealand > Papua New Guinea
- #26 in Books > Travel & Holiday > Countries & Regions > Australia & New Zealand > South Pacific
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Very Poor Guide! :-(,
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This review is from: Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands (Lonely Planet Country Guide) (Paperback)
Once upon a time, Lonely Planet had a good guide to Papua New Guinea (371 pages), and an excellent one to the Solomon Islands (279 pages). For better or worse these fascinating countries don't exactly attract hordes of holidaymakers, so after leaving those books unupdated for many years, the publisher has now decided to dump them together in this new edition (272 pages).
The result is basically a new, much slimmer guide to Papua New Guinea, with fewer than 30 pages on the Solomons (where it only actually covers half the country even nominally). Not only has much of the detail been thrown out, the quality of information has also gone downhill sharply! :-( The authors have very obviously never visited even major tourist destinations of PNG described in the book - as confirmed by owners of accomodations included in it, who told me they had merely received phonecalls from the author who didn't even visit most of the Sepik Region or the Highlands, for example! Much of the "updating" seems to have been done by surfing the web, and as a result the book abounds in recommendations for expensive, upmarket places and tour-operators that do have websites, while completely ignoring cheaper, budget guesthouses which have no info on the net. Even excellent, small locally owned places that were in previous editions of the PNG guide are conspiciously missing! And as for what the authors consider "budget": their itinerary recommended for budget travellers includes staying at a 150 USD/night resort! This book is a real shame to Lonely Planet. If you are planning on resort-hopping on a short holiday, it will be sufficient, but if you want to explore these two countries in depth without spending a fortune, you are far better off trying to find copies of the now out-of-print old editions, which still contain far more useful information than this new guide. Search Amazon using the ISBN numbers 0864424027 for the old PNG guide, and 0864424051 for the Solomon Islands one.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This new 2008 edition is not that bad!,
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This review is from: Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands (Lonely Planet Multi Country Guide) (Paperback)
The reviews below have been transfered from the 2006 edition, probably because the authors haven't changed. However this is a mistake. Lonely Planet did listen to customers and the book is now over a 100 pages longer and contains much more information on all regions of PNG and the Solomons. Sure, it's still not what it was when the countries had seperate guidebooks, but now the PNG part is almost as complex and the Solomons are getting there - the section is almost twice the length. So now this is quite a good guide for PNG at least (haven't tested on the Solomons). The advice is very useful as media coverage of PNG is generally only bad and quite false and the listings seemed accurate. As this is the only guide to PNG it probably doesn't need recomendation, but at least now you can buy it knowing that the new edition IS useful!
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Getting to know the PNG.,
This review is from: Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands (Lonely Planet Multi Country Guide) (Paperback)
An absolute essential. Needs little updating as the country moves so slowly. What a blessing. Even for an expat that used to live there through the sixties, its an excellent guide and full of interesting details about the country.
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