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Let's Go 2000: Europe: The World's Bestselling Budget Travel Series (Let's Go. Europe, 2000)

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Let's Go is the college student classic. Without a doubt, if you are looking simply to party Europe, this is your most helpful tool. But if you are looking to experience Europe, understand that Let's Go is the most popular European travel guide. Virtually EVERYONE has it. This fact does have its advantages: you will never be far from the American crowd. But the disadvantages are the same: the bars, the clubs, the hostels and resturants are all on the Let's Go circuit.

In all, my recomendation is to buy the Lonely Planet guidebook that I found much more informative and better written. You can better avoid the American Party crowd when you feel like it, and when you want to partake in the happenings - don't worry they are easy to find.

The other advantage of everyone having Let's Go would be that it can be found almost everywhere (hostel bookshelves, your roommate's backpack) and you will not have any trouble borrowing it for a while. Lonley Planet offers a slightly different perspective, and allows you to more fully enjoy your trip abroad.

Well, they say that Let's Go is the Bible of the Budget Traveller, and that's certainly proved true in the latest edition of Let's Go: Europe. I've travelled with Let's Go: Europe twice now, and I wouldn't use any other series. The first time I used the '98 guide, which quite frankly was not as good as Lonely Planet. But the 2000 guide has fixed those problems. They certainly know the budget travel spots, always looking out for students like myself who don't have too much cash. Let's Go: Europe includes helpful hints on the cultural quirks of each destination. For the youthful traveller looking to have fun, Let's Go is the guidebook to pick.

After traveling in Europe for four months now, I have used the Let's Go, Lonely Planet, Frommers, and Rick Steves guides. The only thing I really appreciated with the Let's Go books were their colored maps of certain major cities (which you can pick up at any tourist information center without buying the book). Their directions for getting to places were very vague--I couldn't find half of the hostels or restaurants I wanted to go to with this book. In addition, I found some of their smaller maps to place icons of places in completely different locations than where they were located in the city, but they still gave the correct address. Lonely Planet books were much more reliable, and I believe that the Rick Steves' books are the best on the market if you want to actually experience a city and not just it's tourist traps with "We speak english" in every window.

Let's Go was an invaluable part of our trip to Europe. It has a lot of countries you probably wont be visiting, so the weight of the book can seem daunting at times. It's defiantly not a pocket guide, but it does a great job of listing where to sleep, eat and have fun in each city. I would say it doesn't offer much commentary or advice on the actual sites (get an Eyewitness guide for that) but is essential for it's hostel/hotel listings. The information was very accurate (although the prices have gone up a little) and the transit time information was great for planning an itinerary ahead of time. As far as overall resourcefulness, I would say it beat Rick Steve's, Eyewitness and Lonely Planet. It's also oriented towards people who want to have fun and is the best guide for nightlife listings.

I went to europe knowing nothing. i had a little money in my pocket, a backpack on my back and a let's go clutched in my hands and i had a blast. no need for lonely planet or rick steves if you're on a real budget. they recommend enough places to stay that we always had somewhere to sleep, they included vegetarian restaurants which was awesome. overall, it was my bible while i was there!

Let's Go covers EVERYTHING you could possibly want to know, and it does it in a realistic manner. The information is real straight-forward-here is where you will find out the cleanest hotels to stay in, the tourist attractions that are over-rated,and where to eat for $5. Plus, it covers all of the European countries and the major cities in each. It also has the weirdest hard to find info of any travel book, like gay-and-lesbian nightlife, maps of each city, and what the locals suggest you do.

Europe 2000 was invaluable on my recent trip around europe. The inclusion of Gryon, Switzerland was fantastic. THe new rating system made things alot easier when deciding what places to visit on a limited budget. However, hostels with a thumb were often party and no sleep hostels.

I have all the major guides and this was the best of them. Granted, I haven't used it to travel yet (mid-May), but given the comments from buyers of the other guides I think my choice to bring this along is the right one.