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Business Stationary Mart - Thailand (Country Guide)
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List Price: $26.99
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Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9781741043075
ISBN: 1741043077
Label: Lonely Planet
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 820
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Studio: Lonely Planet
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Summary: Great All Around Guide!
Comment: This guide is great and seems to be the guide of choice of pretty much everyone I saw during my three week stint in Thailand. I had to have seen it in at least 6 languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese), so considering that the international community seems to embrace it pretty well, I'd put some merit in its pages.
As much as I love this book, I have to admit that it isn't perfect. It puts a lot of information within its pages and sometimes misses some places (mostly restaurants and some guest houses) in the smaller towns. Also, the maps can be a little out of scale. However, with that said, the book is great. It gives a great overview of pretty much every town you can think of to go to (some more popular ones more detailed than the others); even some of the rural villages in the north. Transportation tips are also very helpful.
I would highly recommend this book if you're traveling to Thailand. Also, be sure to take some of the reviews of guest houses with a grain of sand. It seems that the guesthouse owners read the guide too, and most of the poorly rated ones that I visited have actually improved since the printing of the book. You might also want to supplement the book with some websites like travelfish.com and travelindependent.info before you leave. Happy travels!
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Summary: really helpfull
Comment: As always, the book contains a wealth of practical information. I've used lonelyplanet guides to plan my travels to New-Zealand, South-Africa and Kenya in the past.
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Summary: Not bad, could be better
Comment: Basically, my main complaint is that they took out the good stuff from the old edition and replace them with irrelevant stuff.
One example would be in the last edition, they had a section with color pictures of different types of food served in Thailand, something I find interesting to note when traveling to a foreign country. They replaced this section with a section with picture of people riding on elephants and scenery that don't really tell you much.
The reason why I did not give them too bad of a rating is that the information is pretty much the same between the two editions. In this edition, there is less information on border crossings, but that is due to increase safety concerns (so I can understand why they did that). I would still recommend the last edition. Besides being cheaper, you actually learn a little bit more.
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Summary: Tiny font, too thin paper, biased towards low budget travelers
Comment: This is the worst guidebook I've had the misfortune to buy; if I had the time, I would have returned it. Unless you have perfect vision the entire book is printed in a tiny font on very thin paper, making it hard on the eyes. The reviews are incredibly biased, totally slanted towards travelers who want to eat street food, stay in backpacker or budget accommodations... It does not take disabilities, age or food allergies into consideration & assumes, in a rather mean-spirited manner, that if you don't want to stay in a low budget place or eat, very spicy street food, that something is wrong with you. Being a disabled traveler who is unable to stay in low budget accommodations because they aren't accessible, I was stunned by the lack of information on moderately priced hotels (let alone pricey ones). If you want to try the haute cuisine of Bangkok, stay in moderate or upscale hotels, instead of backpacking, buy Fodor's guide, as there's no information here, just judgments on your inability to 'slum it'. TERRIBLE.
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Summary: Great tour book
Comment: Lots of information. The websites are in general up to date. There is a lot to see in Thailand so this book covers a lot of the popular areas.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Discover Thailand
Uncover Bangkok's best street stalls or enjoy a skyscraping gourmet dinner.
Climb aboard a long-tail boat and island hop to your own isolated beach paradise.
Get soaked at Songkran, the Thai celebration that becomes the world's biggest water fight.
Trek off the beaten path in remote Isan to watch a rare solar alignment at an ancient Angkor temple.
In This Guide
Ten authors, 259 days of in-country research and 150 maps.
Trek, dive or monkey-watch with our detailed coverage of national parks and natural wonders.
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