I purchased the Lifestyle Guide as it seemed to me to provide bigger and better coverage than the smaller AA Hotel Guide, and in many respects this is achieved and I am happy to own, and use it. However, the slight downside is that whereas the "original" AA Guide lists Hotels by County the Lifestyle guide does not - therefore unless you know what, and where you are looking for, the Lifestyle Guide does not help. To overcome this problem I have retained the old AA Guide which enables me to trawl for hotels in an area - having then selected a handful of hotels I can then review them using the Lifestyle guide which is then much easier to use.