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1.South America on a Shoestring (10th Edition/March 2007) : Big Trips on Small Budgets (Lonely Planet Shoestring Guides) by: Danny Palmerlee March 01, 2007
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Whilst travelling through Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paragruay and Brazil, I quickly realised that this book was not going to be much help 'in the field'. It is in urgent need of up dating; many of the hostels and hotels mentioned have either closed, renamed or vanished off the face of the earth. I used this guide to plan my trip, but upon arrival it did little more than fill up space in my rucksack. The maps are quite useful...to a point. Most of the restaurants, hostels etc are not in the right place on the map (which i found out to my cost when lugging my rucksack around Ascunsion). However, the layout is accurate and helps to orientate yourself around cities. The information regarding major tourist attractions ... Read More:

2.Brazilian Portuguese (Lonely Planet Phrasebook) by: Marcia Monje de Castro January 01, 2008
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At first sight, a useful book despite a dictionary at the back that contains some glaring omissions of basic words such as 'from' and 'please', as well as other useful words such as 'sting'. Its culinary reader is threadbare too, with plenty of omissions - annoying when tried to decipher a menu. But the real flaw is in the phonetic spellings of the Portuguese words. The author uses 'ng' to indicate the nasal vowels that characterise Brazilian Portuguese, but this only works about half the time. The rest of the time you're just mispronouncing the word. The biggest omission of all, though, is as follows. In Brazilian Portuguese, when a 't' is followed by an 'e' or an 'i', this means the 't' is pronounced like the 'j' in jam ... Read More:

3.Central America (Lonely Planet Shoestring Guides) by: Robert Reid November 01, 2007
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After using the Lonely Planet's 'South East Asia on a Shoestring' I was sceptical of buying another of LP's guides. However for some reason I found myself with 'Central America on a Shoestring' and it actually turned out to be a very handy travel companion. The information was up to date (probably as we somehow managed to be one of the first people to get our hands on it) and the writers remained nicely neutral to cater for various ages and travel desires. Definitely recommended.

4.South American (Footprint Handbooks) (Footprint Handbooks) (Footprint Handbooks) by: Ben Box August 31, 2008
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We purchased this book after reading other reviews and were very disappointed. Much of the information was factually incorrect, we disagreed with hotel and restaurant recommendations and often found them to be closed down or some of the worst places we stayed or ate if we did use them. In many cases we wondered if the guide writers had even been to the places and throughout south america these books could be found in any secondhand shop that sold english books! Also, prices are quoted in USD not local currency which makes it virtually impossible to use them as a reference. Overall very disappointing!

5.Peru (Lonely Planet Country Guide) by: Sara Benson, Paul Hellander, Rafael Wlodarski February 01, 2007
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Whenever I go traveling I always take a Lonely Planet with me, they are indispensable and Peru was no exception. While the book served me well and ensured my travels where well informed and trouble free. But!, I feel the book is not up to lonely planets usual standard, the whole book was pitched at a too negative tone, it had me thinking I would be raped/mugged/attacked every 5 mins, to the contrary I felt entirely safe for all the time I was there. Many of the prices where incorrect despite the books recent publish date, I also found the descriptions of many of the hotels to be wrong, it seemed as if they had been randomly shuffled in editing.

6.South American Handbook 2007 (Footprint Travel Guide Series) by: Ben Box August 29, 2006
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I used this when travelling around Argentina and Bolivia for several weeks and it was immensely useful. I met up with people using Lonely Planet and Rough Guides; they all envied me for this one. Far more practically useful (and accurate) than the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides (e.g. bus and train times in remote border villages - very very important when there's only 2 per week). It was fine, but not quite so good as the others when it came to the history / culture sections,

7.South America: 25 Ultimate Experiences (Rough Guide 25) by: Rough Guides May 03, 2007
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I used this when travelling around Argentina and Bolivia for several weeks and it was immensely useful. I met up with people using Lonely Planet and Rough Guides; they all envied me for this one. Far more practically useful (and accurate) than the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides (e.g. bus and train times in remote border villages - very very important when there's only 2 per week). It was fine, but not quite so good as the others when it came to the history / culture sections,

8.Argentina (Lonely Planet Country Guide) by: Danny Palmerlee, et al August 01, 2008
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I have used Lonely Planet guides a number of times to good effect, however the Argentina guide was woefully inaccurate, resulting in a good deal of frustration. The maps are both out of date and in some cases never correct in the first place. A suggested option for tango in Buenos Aires led us into a tourist trap hell hole which ended up costing over £50 and the police getting involved. I think the book was written in 2003 and therefore is inadequate to guide a stranger. In the end we abandonded the book and found life much easier. Argentina is a fabulous country - simply stunning. Buy another guide to avoid wasting your time there - but enjoy the place.

9.Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (Lonely Planet Country Guide) by: Danny Palmerlee, Michael Grosberg, Carolyn McCarthy August 01, 2006
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I bought this guide before I travelled around Ecuador and other parts of South America last summer. Although it was helpful, well presented and laid-out, I found the guide disppointing in two main ways: The maps used are sometimes inaccurate in terms of where the symbols for bus stations, hotels etc have been placed, and some street names do not match those given in the guide; The guide has been badly edited in a few places, meaning that it is difficult to understand what point the author is trying to make. I also found that a lot of information in this edition is long out of date (if you are buying this, make sure to print of a copy of Lonely Planet's updates from their website, although I don't know how useful they are either). I would ... Read More:

10.Cuba (Lonely Planet Country Guide) by: Brendan Sainsbury November 01, 2006
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For my first trip to Cuba, this book was pretty accurate, up to date and informative in terms of places to visit, tourist attractions, what to do and where to go. It gives you useful advice on how much you are expected to tip, what to expect of the country and how to get around and where to go which was very useful. The only negative aspect of this book was probably the design layout. It covers a vast majority of aspects of Cuba which can be a lot to get through, the layout is quite difficult to read and its mostly black and white columns of writing do not make it appealing. As it is written from first hand experience it is definitely a very useful book for first time traveller's however a lot of the entertainment they had suggested for Havana, no one had heard ... Read More:

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