Customer Reviews

Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet)

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It's a great book. It is very complete and very accurate, most of the times.
I didn't gave it 5 stars because sometimes it isn't very easy to find the information.

I recommend it.

Typical Lonely Planet fare: puts a wide range of sights/activities covering all budgets into succinct pieces without overdoing the tourist spots. The combo AUS/NZ is ideal if you're spending a month or less down under hopping to various locales and don't need all the details of separate guidebooks for each country. The suggestions of this version were all current (as of Jan 08). This book will even steer you to the unique spots and from there you can hit up the locals for more input. If spending greater than a week in any particular city, I'd augment w/ separate city guidebook.

I bought this book to help plan a month and a half long trip to New Zealand and Australia staying mostly in hostels. I cannot recommend this book for a reliable source of information for hostels or restaurants. Most restaurants I have tried to find no longer exist. The hostel and attraction prices are wrong (of course these are subject to change), however, the recommended hostels have been hit or miss. There have been some good ones as recommended by the book (Sydney Central YHA, Old Countryhouse in Christchurch, NZ) but there have been some disgustingly unclean (Bondi Beach YHA) and unlivable (Global Palace) recommended highly by this book. I think that a better source of information would be customer reviews on the internet.

I bought this book 2 months ago while planing a trip to OZ & NZ later on this year.
It is well orgenized (the TOC is region based) and drills down in each area to its unique and famous places.
The book has just the right quantity of information regarding each item with a veriety of maps and side trip activities.
It contains a lot of usefull data about both countries and you can defenetly see the it was written by backpackers.
Reading the book has contributed me a lot in the planing fase of the trip, hopefully i'll be able to compliment it more after i'll return.