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Nobody knows Romania like Lonely Planet. With our 5th edition you can discover the gruesome truth about the 'real' Dracula at Poienari Citadel, escape to Marmures where horse-drawn carts transport you to villages steeped in local customs, or experience the spectacle of mass migration on a Danube Delta bird-watching tour.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Essential color highlights show you the very best of Romania
Dedicated activities chapter pinpoints the top hiking, skiing and cycling spots
Unique Green Index to help make your travels ecofriendly
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Essential color highlights show you the very best of Romania
Dedicated activities chapter pinpoints the top hiking, skiing and cycling spots
Unique Green Index to help make your travels ecofriendly
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I used to love LP guides but recently they seem to be less and less reliable. Having just used the Ethiopian (with a lot of out-dated and misleading recommendations) and Laotian (written for monks?) guides, I hoped that the new Romanian guide book will bring some new tourist gems into the spotlight. This was not the case. The book still focuses largely on Transylvania and the North of Moldova (undoubtedly great tourist destinations) but fails to bring anything new, while Romania is quite a big country.
The perfect example is the Tg Jiu section. I am not quite sure who is the person who reviewed it but I am shocked to hear that this is one place in Romania where people are not friendly (or something on those lines). I used to live there and still go at least once a year and I have yet to experience this hostility. Also Brancusi's sculptures in town are "small and insignificant"?? The recommendations for restaurants are "thin" and the best traditional restaurant in town (which has been around for years) is not even mentioned. There's not much about the nearby mountain resorts, the caves, monasteries and the excellent ethnographic museum 10 minutes outside town.
As said, Romania extends beyond Bucharest, Transylvania and the North of Moldova and perhaps the authors should take the time to research and visit the places they mention in the guidebook.
The perfect example is the Tg Jiu section. I am not quite sure who is the person who reviewed it but I am shocked to hear that this is one place in Romania where people are not friendly (or something on those lines). I used to live there and still go at least once a year and I have yet to experience this hostility. Also Brancusi's sculptures in town are "small and insignificant"?? The recommendations for restaurants are "thin" and the best traditional restaurant in town (which has been around for years) is not even mentioned. There's not much about the nearby mountain resorts, the caves, monasteries and the excellent ethnographic museum 10 minutes outside town.
As said, Romania extends beyond Bucharest, Transylvania and the North of Moldova and perhaps the authors should take the time to research and visit the places they mention in the guidebook.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is an excellent guide to Romania. I used it all over the country and constantly found it reliable, informative and easy to use. The writers have gone out of their way to find both the usual and the unusual, and the guide is really comprehensive. Excellent.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
About to spend 3 days on a city break to Bucharest, I searched for a guide to the city and found two - both dealt with Romania generally, rather than Bucharest in particular. I made a choice based on reviews. The Lonely Planet guide was detailed and no doubt worthwhile for a trip throughout Romania and I cannot criticise that. However, as guide to Bucharest it was limited. There were no colour or large scale maps and this made walks and tours around the city a little more difficult than they needed to be.
As a guide to Romania generally I am sure that the book is fine - but for a trip to just Bucharest, download or try to obtain the little pamphlet "Bucharest in your Pocket" - it includes maps, is uptodate and is free!
As a guide to Romania generally I am sure that the book is fine - but for a trip to just Bucharest, download or try to obtain the little pamphlet "Bucharest in your Pocket" - it includes maps, is uptodate and is free!
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