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This great guide to Bangkok features 24 colour maps of the city centre and surrounds, a dedicated chapter on the wonders of Thai cuisine, gives you the low-down on Bangkok's eclectic nightlife as well as easy-to-follow walking tours and fun daytrips.

From the Publisher
Invaluable information and insider tips
Lonely Planet’s newly revised Bangkok city guide helps you discover the city behind the legend. Unlike many cities, the longer you stay in Bangkok, the more exotic it becomes.

Nuts & Bolts:
• 11 detailed color maps
• nightlife, walking tours, river and canal boat trips
• hundreds of accommodation listings for every budget
• eating guide, including night market noodles and high-end cuisine
• shopping suggestions and bargaining tips
• language section, including Thai script and phoneticpronunciation

Inside the Bangkok city guide:
• How much does a traditional Thai massage cost? (pg. 273)
• What is the story of the Emerald Buddha at Wat Phra Kaew? (pg. 154)
• Where are the best food markets? (pg. 282-86)
• How do I bargain with a street vendor? (pg. 281-82)
• What is the proper Thai table etiquette?(pg. 229-230)
• Where does the Bangkok Noi canal taxi route go? (pg. 183)
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Bangkok - the name explodes off the tongue, filling the mind with steamy images of the archetypal Southeast Asian metropolis. Read the first page

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Could be much better, 17 Feb 2005

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Whilst LP guides are generally of a high standard compared to most guide books I think it is fair to say that the quality of information varies considerably between different LP guides. It is a real shame as Bangkok is such a fascinating city but in my view the LP Bangkok guide falls towards the lower end of the scale. Essentially the book seems to consist of taking the Bangkok section and the general info parts of the LP Thailand Guide book, making the maps more colourful and then wrapping them in a 'Bangkok guide' cover - it really doesn't seem to add anything more than the country guide would give you. Compare this for example with the LP guide to London which is much more detailed than the London section of the LP Britain guide. It is a very comprehensive guide to London rather than something suitable if you're just stay for a few days - surely this is what the Bangkok guide should be like? There are a couple of other areas where the BKK guide lets itself down. Firstly inaccuracies are not uncommon (after 3 days of using it I could point out many of them - Lumphini Park metro station is not where the LP map says it is, the Hilton Hotel is no longer there, etc. and this is for a newly published edition - one wonders why LP can't do the checking properly). The second is the new format that LP seem to have opted for on their newly published guidebooks (admittedly a point that applies beyond the BKK guide) which seems to try to move the guides more towards the mid-range market by adopting a style more like the excellent Time Out City Guides. The problems is the BKK guide doesn't do this as well as the Time Out BKK guide and at the same time loses a lot of its user-friendliness and order that the previous edition had. Finally LP in general could do to improve their restaurant expertise if they are aiming to more up-market.

This is all a shame because Joe Cummings is definately a real Thai guru and knows more about the place than I will surely ever know - with Joe's knowledge and Bangkok's amazing intensity and variety this book could be so much better.

LP could and should make this guide more detailed, more accurate and revert to their old style. Until then I would recommend getting the Thailand country guide and then, if you are staying in BKK for more than a week, getting the Time Out Guide to Bangkok to give more in depth city info.

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Lonely Planet is still the best; Joe is one of their top 3., 5 April 1999

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This review is from: Bangkok (Lonely Planet City Guides) (Paperback)

Any travel guide is out of date before it's printed, L.P. is no exception. L.P. Bangkok is still compact, very current, and speaking as a resident in the Pacific Rim, quite useful. The City Guides blend a "coffee table" book feel with useful info for backpackers, ex-pats, and "silk sheet set" tourists.

Any Thai guide must address the flesh trade without sounding a dinner bell for sex tourists, and Joe seems to walk this line nicely. (L.P. always seems to discourage travel for sex & drugs, though rock and roll seems to always merit it's own section.)

RE: Other L.P. Thai guides The On A Shoestring guides are always the most bang-for-your buck, and always a damned good idea for border excursions. If you've got the bucks, I don't think that all 4 formats (City Guide, Travel Survival Kit, On A Shoestring, and Phrase Book) are excessive. My only regret is that the Tokyo City Guide is now in a "standard" format, not the "shirt-pocket" size of the previous editions, nor the "mini" of the phrasebooks. I hope that the other guides retain their current size.

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