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lost the spirit of Lonely Planet • • • • • (bewertet mit 1 von 5 Punkten) Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen Rezension bezieht sich auf: USA (Lonely Planet USA) (Taschenbuch) I have been relying on Lonely Planet books for years to guide me through various countries and plan entire trips, sometimes as a backpacker at other times more like a regular tourist. So far, I never regretted having spent money on a Lonely Planet. This time I have. Numerous times. The book might be ok to provide a general picture of the US (but so do most travel guides) but it fails to provide the detailled descriptions, smaller attractions and towns that usually make the LP the unique and indispensable travel book it usually is. Yes, the US is a huge country, covering everything in one book seems to be almost impossible (though they did cover India pretty nicely). Why didn't they break it up into two books? Given, there it a LP on the West of the US, but I couldn't find one on the East, only specialized books on NewEngland, Florida or NewYork. Breaking it up into two books might just do the trick... The cathegories sleeping and dining were, most of the time, fused together. Budget accomodation was almost never even mentioned. Most hotels stated were rather expensive, starting around 120$ and up...this is no price for a backpacker (budget accomodation around 60$ was rarely mentioned). The section on NYC was awfully elaborate (almost 50 pages) in contrast to other cities like LA (20 pages), Miami or Boston (15 pages), while other places were barely mentioned. Entire regions that offer lots of places and activities, like 1000 Islands or the Anirondacks barely even make it past half a page. Some times the texts were a random mix-up of reports on regions as a whole with towns and places within the text, mixed with descriptions and activities, while others tried to adhere to the usualy LP style, only mixing aome cathegories like sleeping&dining. Generally this book seemed like a copy&paste job of various author's reports that was never completely read as an entire work. It was quite useless for a backpacker and I ended up getting most information off the internet and never actually using the LP apart of a glimpse here and there. Even though I usually highly value the LP, I cannot recommend the Lonely Planet USA to anyone. Maybe the specialized books are better, but this LP clearly misses the backpacker spirit that usually makes LP worth reading. Eine Rezension von Ein Kunde vom 27. September 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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