Customer Reviews

Frommer's Bali and Lombok (Frommer's Complete Guides)

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I went to a bookstore and browsed all the Bali travel guides and loved the layout of this one. When planning a trip, there is so much information and this book has really helped me sort it all out. What I love is that it has a 1-3 star rating system for sites, restaurants, and cities. This is so helpful when picking which of the hundred temples you want to narrow it down. A lack of a rating system dissuaded me from buying the Lonely Planet. Another thing I liked is the first chapter gives you a list of the 5-10 best temples, spas, restaurants, etc. It also suggests activities such as cooking classes and alternative healing. If Eat, Pray, Love partially inspired your trip, it even tells you how to look up the medicine man. For me, food is an essential part of any trip and the restaurant recs check out nicely with other sources. The only thing that could be improved is travel times, especially since it takes a while to travel on the roads within Bali. Overall, I couldn't be happier with this book, how it's organized and the valuable information given.

We used this guidebook extensively on both Bali and Lombok for our recent honeymoon. The restaurant recommendations were spot on! We ended up staying one night in the Gili's as a result of recommendations from this guidebook. There was an amazing Reggae bar in Gili T. There is also a good background section about Bali history. If you are considering a trip to Bali - you should definitely stay on Lombok as well. It's like Bali 20 years ago - with no traffic, just beautiful beaches, great inexpensive food, and the Gili's just a short boat ride away.

The book was pretty informative about all the major places in Bali and Lombok. I found the book quite helpful in planning my trip based on the brief but useful introductions of each place. However, the part about hotels and accommodation is not very updated as when I looked online, I found many more options in terms of accommodation that looked really good and could have been included.Also,the dearth of pictures is a flip side of the book because I believe, it always helps to take decisions about visiting a place once you get to see pictures which speak more than words at any time. Besides those shortcomings, the book is pretty handy to carry with you once you figure out your itinerary on consultation with other books and websites.

This book was purchased as a gift for a friend that was traveling to Bali. I previewed the book, thought that it was excellent. After gifting the book to her, she also thought that it was great and we enjoyed talking, utilizing the book, about her upcoming trip.

In summary, an excellent travel document.

Content was good but without hyperlinking between articles and sections this book was less than useful in a digital form because it was difficult to jump back and forth as one often does with travel books.