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Lonely Planet New Zealand (Country Guide) (Country Travel Guide) [Kindle Edition]

Scott Kennedy (Author), Charles Rawlings-Way (Author), Brett Atkinson (Author), Sarah Bennett (Author), Peter Dragicevich (Author)

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'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' --New York Times

'This book is jam-packed full of pearls of wisdom on New Zealand, ranging from where to find the cheapest crayfish in Kaikoura to how to bike your way around the wineries of Marlborough, from bone carving in Hokitika to glacier climbing the Franz Joseph and anything and everything in between.' --Amazon customer

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Lonely Planet 's team of authors has island hopped the Bay of Islands, immersed themselves in Rotorua 's proud Maori culture, kayaked Abel Tasman 's pristine bays and cruised the magnificent Milford Sound as well as exploring everything in between. With all that research and more, Lonely Planet New Zealand is your key to the best possible Kiwi experience.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 22313 KB
Print Length: 748 pages
Publisher: Lonely Planet (4 Sep 2010)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B0042FZWN4
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (60 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #17,400 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #5 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Travel > Guidebook Series > Lonely Planet
- #6 in Books > Travel & Holiday > Countries & Regions > Australia & New Zealand > New Zealand

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful

Great, if a little dry 28 Nov 2010

By Tim

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This guide book gives very comprehensive information on sights to see, accommodation (divided by budget), restaurants, and more. There is also a lot of interesting history, both to the country generally, and to each specific region or town. The overall effect is, however, just slightly overwhelming, having the feeling of a directory. This isn't helped by the dense print, and lack of pictures. That said, these do enable the book to have pretty compact dimensions. I wonder if, however, some of the more obscure destinations could be omitted, in order to allow more space to elaborate on the most popular sights.

For planning a visit, there is more than enough information. However, it might be hard to prioritise, because there is just so much in the book. There are five suggested tour routes, but these only get a page each. I would like a bit more guidance on prioritising where to go.

It would be nice to have more of the maps in colour.

Lonely Planet must have recognised some of these shortcomings, because it has produced a "discover New Zealand" book, which is basically a much pruned-down version of the text of this book, but with a larger, better-spaced-out text, colour maps, and colour photos of suggested highlights to visit. If you don't quite such comprehensive information as the larger book provides, you might want to consider the "discover" version instead. But both are excellent.

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful

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By Spider Monkey HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER

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This book, as expected from lonely planet, is superb. My girlfriend and I travelled around NZ for five weeks with no other guide book in our bag, nor did we need any other. The information is easy to access, clear and truly excellent. Prices change, but the things to see and the great restaurants to visit etc do not. NZ is so breathtaking to travel around and this book will help you to get the best from it.

Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Lonely planet, not as good as it used to be. 19 Nov 2010

By F. Martin

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I used to be a big fan of lonely planet guides but recently I've found them disappointing and the New Zealand guide is no exception. I gave this book to a friend of mine who has travelled extensively in the country and his overall impression was whilst factually accurate there were some surprising gaps and an overly onerous approach to the logistics of travelling and not enough guide material for the places being visited.

I agree with this description and in fact the same is true of all the lonely planet guides. I suspect this is because they are aimed almost exclusively at the backpacker traveller and less relevant for the modern internet age when guidebooks don't really need to into massive detail regarding how to get to places. When I visit places, I almost exclusively use the internet to make my travel and accomodation arrangements. What I need from a guidebook is lots of portable information about places to visit and sights to see when I get there. In that regard, the Rough Guides do the job much better.

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This guide was written before the earthquakes in New Zealand and therefore can give no information about its effects. Read more

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Utter rubbish

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