- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 7th Revised edition edition (1 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1740599985
- ISBN-13: 978-1740599986
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.3 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #11 in Books > Travel & Holiday > Countries & Regions > Australia & New Zealand > Tahiti
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Complete, practical country guide for independent travellers. Tahiti-based author with newlook edition with expert history, culture, food & drink chapters. Special sections on Tahitian dance and scuba diving.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Best of a bad bunch.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tahiti and French Polynesia (Lonely Planet Country Guide) (Paperback)
Far from being fully comprehensive, this guide is pretty vague. Not bad as a rough guide, and admittedly has some useful numbers that I don't know where else I would have found, which is the crux of this book's success. There is no real competitor (it would seem) that has backpacker budget information. If you are looking for a mid-price or luxury holiday then there are better guides. French Polynesia isn't exactly the budget travellers haven that Thailand or even Fiji can be and there are less options for the financially challenged tourist. However the guide could be a lot more comprehensive with the information there is available. Do not take any prices or times in the book at face value - I found most prices a little higher in practice and times well out. But this is pretty normal with travel guides considering the time span between writing and publication. It may be the best on the market for budget (hence the three stars) - but that isn't huge praise! Budding travel writers take note!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good research is essential,
This review is from: Tahiti and French Polynesia: best atolls, lagoons, beaches and more (Lonely Planet Country Guides) (Paperback)
Before going half way around the world to a previously unvisited place, it is worthwhile getting as much information and background as possible. This book gives good clear basic information but nothing in any great depth. Probably great for a few days on the way through to New Zealand - just enough information about the places and food.
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3.7 out of 5 stars (10 customer reviews) 46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but needed more,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tahiti and French Polynesia (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Paperback)
I've used many Lonely Planet (LP) guides and found this one to be lacking their usual detail. I got the sense much hotel information was pilfered from Web surfing the basic info, rather than first-person investigation. While still a good book to take, next time (and there will be a next time because Tahiti is wonderful) I'll be sure take another guide along with it, and to thoroughly read actual travelers' online reviews. I'll also know the questions I need to ask before booking. My sense was that the reviewers weren't seeing things through the fresh-eyes of a first time traveler. The details, such as directions accommodation features were often lacking. One thing I've always liked about LP is that they will list small locally owned budget places - that are occasionally hidden gems - whereas many other guides only list "approved" chain-type accommodations. However, in this book key information about lodging was missing. For example, it's very uncommon to find window screens in Polynesia despite a lot of mosquitoes, yet it is not standard for the book to say if there are screens or mosquito netting at each location (sometimes there are neither). Screens would be a big selling point for me. In Lonely Planet's India guide - which I was quite happy with - they deliberately note whether hotels have air-conditioning or not; in this guide this rather important information (for the tropics) is randomly added. Sometimes we'd get there and they'd have AC and sometimes they wouldn't. A more specific example is a pension primarily described as "friendly" - which it was in spades - with no mention that there's one bathroom shared with 8 people and that doesn't have hot water. With what prices are in Tahiti, poor information is very costly. One "resort" (our over-water bungalow splurge) was merely described as "competitive with other luxury resorts." Come to find out it had bedbugs and no air-conditioning. If level of detail can be evidenced by pages numbers, note that LP's Hawaii guide (five main islands) is 615 pages, while their Tahiti guide (50+ islands/atolls, with ten commonly traveled) is a only 287 pages. 35 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Was it really only a bad dream?,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tahiti and French Polynesia (Lonely Planet Country Guide) (Paperback)
I was flabbergasted to find out that one of the most popular guidebooks in the world was not able to accurately describe our accomodation (The Blue Lagoon in Vaitape, BoraBora) as it later turned out to be ... namely, a disaster! In the guide we could not find any details about the REAL condition of the bathroom or the rest of the pension. We also had to share our room with a mouse (rat?) of undefined size (we met him only through his "leavings" and scurryings) and the traffic of wasps coming and going from their nests in our room. The shower was black and crusty, as was the toilet. Walls and floors were peeling, the air was filled with an overpowering stink of decaying fish and dirt, and we were afraid to get into our beds. The exterior of the building looked like a Tijuana flophouse. We traveled all over the South Pacific, staying in many different hotels and pensions, and never did we encounter such a horrible variance from the description in the guidebook. I mean, this is Bora Bora, an expensive, upscale resort area, and it seems incredible that such lodgings could even exist there. They would have to be more accurate in their evaluations of accomodations and be prepared to warn travelers of nightmarish places like this one!
17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good all around book.,
By scott@scubacharter.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tahiti and French Polynesia (4th ed) (Paperback)
This book is very comprehensive. It will help you find all of the places you want to go, and will give you an overview of what to expect. Some of the items could have been a little more detailed though. We found the combination of this book and Jan Prince's book to be the perfect combination for our trip in November of 1998. Read more about our trip and how we used these books at Scubacharter.com.
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