Lonely Planet Eastern Europe (Travel Guide) Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Tom Masters Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1742204163 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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- Series: Travel Guide
- Paperback: 992 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet; 12 Pap/Map edition (November 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1742204163
- ISBN-13: 978-1742204161
- Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This guide was very useful in planning a trip – hotels, attractions, restaurants, days per city - though it had some major, major flaws. The biggest complaint people seem to have about such multi-country guides is that they don't go enough into detail, but that usually isn't a problem in practice. There's enough in here to spend a week or more in most listed cities - working out the details once you arrive - and most people won't even have that much time per city. In fact, the brevity is quite appreciated, since, on your travels, it's far easier to carry around 50 pages per country than it is to carry around 450 pages per country.
That said, one huge flaw is that the date of publication is not indicative of how up-to-date hours and prices are. I visited places where the hours were set in stone - literally set in marble or granite stone, and not new - but completely different from those in the book. Off-season hours are especially unreliable; though some are given properly, other attractions have summer hours listed as year-round. This can really screw up with planning. Sure, in theory, it's best to double-check, but navigating multiple foreign-language websites to find hours - for those attractions that have websites in the first place - is much more difficult than having it all down in one place. (Contrary to expectations, this flaw is worst in the biggest tourist draws, where you'd think they'd work hardest to get things right.)
Another flaw is that the guide seems to favor 21st-century "experience" museums, regardless of quality. For example, in Poland, the Warsaw Uprising Museum and Oskar Schindler's Factory were both dreadful, full of unreadable text, distracting sounds, confusing layouts, and fractured narratives that emphasize style over substance.
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