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Let's Go 2000: Spain & Portugal Incl Morocco: The World's Bestselling Budget Travel Series (Let's Go. Spain and Portugal. 2000)

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We used this book to travel Spain for Spring Break. It does an amazing job on providing the precise items you need to travel spain with a wallet conscious mind. From clean affordable hostel recommendations to maps to sightseeing to getting around to nightlife, this book really did have it all. It's great for do-it-yourself traveling. Our trip was mostly unplanned, so we basically got to each city, picked up the book, and hit the streets. I highly taking some sort of guide when traveling abroad, and for low budget traveling, this book is it whether you go for one week or one month.

I've travelled to Spain twice now with Let's Go, and it's the only one of several Spain books I own that I insist on making room in my bag to bring along. It offers a great overview of history and culture, and great description of the regions of Spain which are so incredibly different from one another. The lodging and dining listings were right-on, whether in San Sebastian or Ronda. For my next trip this Spring, I'll probably have a bigger budget, and not stay at hotels listed in Let's Go, but I'll still always return to my dogeared favorite for background and tips. Their budget-minded guide will bring you a travel experience with loads of authentic flavor and personality. Buy it!

Lets Go! That's what the title and aim of the book imply. However, if you really want to go to the right places at the right time then I suggest that you do not follow the train timetables cited in the book, follow the maps with you're eyes closed (as you've got more chance of getting there) and see as many of the places not mentioned (as we found that there are alot of fantastic places out there that don't even get a mention...) Hence we have renamed the book "The Guideless Guide Book".

We Backpacked for 3 1/2 weeks firstly arond Portugal and then Spain. We discovered that alot of the information in the book was quite inaccurate and in some cases we almost caught the wrong train or got off too late as in one case in Portugal the book had stated that the destination we were going too was half an hour away, when it was actually only 10 minutes.

When we are travelling we like to find things out for ourselves and use guidebooks as the foundation especially in a non english speaking country.

We gave the book several chances to redeem itself along our journey, but it let us down all the way. It is dissapointing, but unfortunately the truth!

Let's Go? "Let's Go" with out this guideless guide book is my advice.