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Vietnam Cambodia Laos & the Greater Mekong (Multi Country Guide) Review

We just returned from a three week trip to Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. We spent about 10 days in Thailand, one week in Laos, and only four days in Cambodia at Siem Reap visiting the Angkor Wat complex. As we only had time on this trip to hit the highlights, this book was just fine. We actually brought along the Lonely Planet Thailand book and for such a short trip, it was too big and definitely in the way. If you're really backpacking and traveling for many weeks or months through Southeast Asia, I wouldn't recommend this book (buy the individual country books), but for a standard vacation it was a great resource.

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Nobody knows the Greater Mekong like Lonely Planet. Our 2nd edition will take you on a boat down the mighty Mekong, visiting hill-tribes in Thailand, trekking Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan, exploring Angkor's temples in Cambodia, whizzing through the jungle canopy in Laos and kicking back on palm-fringed beaches in Vietnam.

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.

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Detailed advice on a everything from food and drink to transport and health
Full-color chapter on the Ancient Wonders of the Greater Mekong
Unique Green Index to help make your travels eco-friendly

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Customer Reviews

Good guide but bit disjointed - Cory Lynn - NYC, NY
Lonely Planet guides are very good but this one is a bit disjointed. Information on visas is located in a few different areas for the same country & is not very clear. Otherwise it is a very good guide.



The Worst LP I've used - Robert C. Paetz - California
First off, I almost always stick with Lonely Planet, been through 25 countries with them. now:

No info at all about Bangkok's domestic airport, other than one line about "domestic flights fly from, Don Mueng." As a book for backpackers and by backpackers shouldn't it at least give a little transit info about the hub of all the budget airlines in Thailand?!!?

And that was just my first day...

I struggled for three weeks trying to find info I needed (even the basics) which seem to be omitted for no reason other than replacing it with useless info.

I know the editor just combined small snippets of the single country books to make something sorta useful, but he succeeded at creating a pointless book which I lugged around in my bag and kept having to ask other travelers to borrow their LP Laos or LP Thailand.

My recommendation, by the single country guidebooks



A decent starting point - Alexander Steffler - Houston, TX USA
I spent six weeks in May and June 2008 backpacking around Southeast Asia, and this was my primary guidebook. Overall, I found it to be helpful for the macro-level stuff: planning my itinerary, getting a general overview of each country's history, and budgeting.

I give it three stars, however, because although it's unreasonable to expect it to be as in-depth as the individual guidebooks for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, I often found that the authors omitted useful listings for lodging, places to eat, and sites that were included in other books.

If you plan on taking only one guidebook for VN, KH, and LA, this is a good choice. (Another option is Moon, but at the time of my trip it was even more out-of-date than the LP guide.) Just keep in mind that you'll want to refer to other guidebooks, which I found to be readily available from hostels, cafes, and other travelers in this well-traveled region.

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This Way Thailand (This Way Guide) Review

This Way Thailand (This Way Guide) Overview

Each guide in the This Way series offers information on the highlights of not only the world's most popular tourist regions, but also more unusual destinations such as Kenya, Thailand, and Jordan. Designed to provide the maximum of cultural, historical, and practical information in a minimum space, each guide offers a variety of street, subway, and regional maps. From cosmopolitan cities and towering skyscrapers to small villages and natural wonders, each guide is filled with valuable recommendations and addresses for monuments, parks, markets, restaurants, and cafes, whether for a weekend getaway or an extended adventure.

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Check Out Thailand (Country Guide) for $15.97

Thailand (Country Guide) Review

Without a doubt, Kindle owners traveling to Thailand should buy Lonely Planet Thailand Kindle Edition. Despite notable drawbacks (e.g., maps are difficult to read), the search function, bookmarks, hyperlinks to other sections, and most of all portability make it indispensable whether you are temple spotting, questing for the perfect curry, or relaxing on the beach.

Remember how heavy your daypack always ends up by the time you get everything you may need during the day? The portability of the Kindle and Lonely Planet combination eliminates at least a few pounds compared with even the smallest country-wide guidebooks. This is a blessing you will count every evening on the trip.

The primary flaw with this book on the Kindle is the difficulty with depicting the maps on the screen. Due to limitations of screen size on the Kindle 2 (or 1), the well-known and useful Lonely Planet maps are broken into smaller sections, typically quadrants. Finding a restaurant, for example, requires navigating to the fourth page to view the legend, then to the page containing that portion of the map. Although frustrating at first, you will quickly become used to it; and, free maps abound in Thailand.

As anyone familiar with Lonely Planet guidebooks can tell you, this book has everything you need to know about Thailand. Worried about whether or not there is a departure tax to leave Thailand? Need a hostel in Koh Samui? How about a five star hotel? Wonder if you should begin a malaria regimen before your jungle trek? It is all in there.

Before buying, I noticed a number of complaints about this book containing a large amount of politics. Fortunately, it is a guidebook, and you need only read interests you. Thailand has something for everyone; so does this book.

I appreciated having this book with me, especially without the weight of the paperback, and enjoyed the frank opinions on sleeping, eating, and experiences in Thailand. Buy it and carry it along as you create your own paradise in Thailand.

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Nobody knows Thailand like Lonely Planet. Our 13th edition will have you soaking up the sun on the island paradises of the south, trekking among the hill tribes and riding elephants in Chiang Mai, discovering the ancient temples of Sukhothai and snapping up bargains or being pampered in a spa in Bangkok.

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Customer Reviews

Kindle Edition: A Major Headache - A. Battist - New York, NY
I was excited to have an e-version on my iPhone for travelling but I found myself wishing I had a hard copy once I was in Thailand. While all of the useful Lonely Planet info is in there - it is so hard to find in the Kindle Edition.

There is a linked table of contents but overall I found navigating very difficult.

The maps were especially painful. Maybe it was too much to expect an integrated google map but the way the maps are sliced and diced makes it especially hard to follow or find anything.

Conclusion: I'll stick to the hard copies for now.






Lonely Planet Guidebooks Are All the Same..the Maps Are Horrible - run50 - Boulder, CO
A friend and I have done annual cycling trips through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and I have also done Malaysia and Indonesia/Bali. In most our/my trips, we've taken along the Lonely Planet guidebooks to use for accomodation recommendations, restaurants, etc. There are many negatives I have found using Lonely Planet guidebooks. First off, the maps they have in their guidebooks are just plain awful. We can always tell whenever we come into a city wherever we're riding that we're going to have a problem finding the recommended accomodations, because you'll see hoards of backpackers standing on curbs with a Lonely Planet guidebook in their hands trying to make sense of some silly little map they have in the book. They are so bad that we have changed the name of Lonely Planet guidebooks to Lost Planet guidebooks because they will definitely get you lost.

I would think the guidebooks are ok if you're coming into a city by bus or train, but God forbid if you're on a bicycle, motorbike or car. Why they cannot show the main highways entering the cities so you can get your orientation, I don't know. The thing that always gets us, is that they will list street names in the maps, and yet 75% of the cities when you get there, don't have street signs!!

I wrote a letter to Lonely Planet last year after our cycling trip with a recommendation that they should provide in the guidebook reference for accomodations, hotels, etc., the GPS coordinates. This would facilitate very easy and quick access to find these places. Most travelers these days (even the backpackers) carry some sort of GPS, whether it be on a iPhone, other smartphone, Garmin device, etc. The guidebook companies are missing out on a unique opportunity to really provide travelers with something useful...like GPS coordinates. And you don't necessarily need the detailed maps of a city for your GPS to get to these places if you have the coordinates. But, in typical Lonely Planet fashion, I got no response of course.

Accomodations...where do they find these places? Many of their recommended places are so dilapidated, bug infested with cockroaches and mosquitoes, dirty linen that sometimes looks like it hasn't been washed in weeks. And yet, the place will display a sign, that we are recommended by Lonely Planet.

We stopped paying full price for the Lonely Planet guidebooks a long time ago. What we do, is on a stop in Vietnam or Cambodia, we will buy the knockoff/pirated versions for and use. Yeh some of the pages may be faint to read but then the maps are worthless anyway. Paying for a Lonely Planet guidebook in my opinion is a big waste of $$$. You can get much better information buy just going onto the internet when you get to a city and finding cheap clean accomodations and whatever else you need. Save yourself the $$$ on these guidebooks....they aren't really that helpful and you can do it all on your own.



Just short... - Canaan - Austin, TX
When I travel, I swear by Lonely Planet, so I'm used to a certain standard of content and clarity. Although I only used about a quarter of this book's total content on my last journey, there were certain instances where more information would have been certainly preferred; and had me and my partner not been as savvy as we were, whole days could've been compromised. However this guide was still extremely helpful, overall.

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Costa Rica (Country Guide) Review

As with all their books, Lonely Planet is thorough for most types of Costa Rica travelers.

I found that many of the phone numbers and contact info in the book had changed, but all the recommendations for activites, lodging & resturants where still right on (a quick internet search usually brought up the most recent contact stuff anyway). Don't visit Costa Rica without this, or the most recent Lonely Planet book.

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Discover Costa Rica

Gaze at Volcan Arenal as it spews fiery lava into the twilight sky
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Stretch out in a beachside open-air yoga studio in Montezuma
Roll up your sleeves and help the sea turtles of Parismina

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Three authors, 150 days, over 500 Imperial beers consumed
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Customer Reviews

If only there was a way to give this zero stars - ORION -
I have, as I've always done when I travel, stayed in more touristy places(always safer) which this guide would make out to be an absolute nightmare. I stayed in Jaco and loved it,.. I wasn't there much. I had a rent a car and went exploring other places and even stayed in different places off the beaten path using Jaco as my base of operations. Yes I agree that Jaco was probably beautiful and serine at one point in time, however I wouldn't trade the safety in numbers for a cabin in the woods,..never! I would consider myself well traveled and if you are too, you already have the powers of deduction and probably don't need the obvious stated to you. Have fun and enjoy Costa Rica without big brother telling you your contributing to the destruction of the country. I assure you the locals would rather have our money. Are Americans destroying the country, or is it the locals trying to feed their families pandering to tourists? The answer is neither Mathew Firestone, that's the word we live in and if you need to indulge your lust for poverty and untouched beauty than I have a suggestion for you, Somalia. It is still very untouched by American tourism and is a beautiful country to boot!



Lonely Planet Guide to CR is the ONLY book you need - Embee - Nebraska USA
Don't buy any other books. This one is the only one you need to get along well in Costa Rica. It provides specific information....like the location of bus stations! Also nicely woven into it is cultural information that will help you blend in, maybe, a bit better.



INCORRECT INFORMATION! - nylagoer - Santa Monica, CA
this book was only okay. We found several errors, ranging from an incorrectly placed restaurant address (we drove around and around until we asked someone) and, less importantly, old information about a B&B that had changed owners at least five years ago, but the description still contained the previous owners... did the author even bother to check? I have always taken Lonely Planet with a grain of salt, so I would take an extra guide with you. Frommers did a better job on this.

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