Customer Reviews

Lonely Planet Baja California (Lonely Planet Baja & Los Cabos)

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Lonely Planet's Baja book is an excellent guide to the peninsula. I especially appreciated the detailed info on how to get around in Baja. The section on health in the front of the book came in handy after a small altercation with a manta ray! It was excellent for travelers on a budget. The descriptions of cities, places to stay and restaurants were all very accurate, but left enough room for our personal tastes to guide us to the spots that seemed especially fitting.

I felt as though once we arrived at our final destination there was a lot more there than was really covered in the book, but I guess they only have so many pages to work with!

This was the only book we brought with us, and it made for a great trip!

My wife and me chose this LP guide for our recent trip to Baja Norte. I actually enjoyed Palmerlee's writing style and his side commentaries on the Baja music scene and other topics of interest. However, there were just too many cases of inaccurate information. For example, Palmerlee says a taxi from Ensenada to La Bufadora is about $12 when actually the round trip cost given to us by numerous taxi drivers was $40. He then says (correctly) that you can save money by taking a $1 bus to the town of Maneadora. But from there, he says, you must hitchhike to La Bufadora. The truth is, as we discovered by talking to the locals, you can easily catch another $1 bus from Maneadero to La Bufadora. Thus avoiding the hitchhiking which many people, including my wife, would not want to try.

Another problem was that the hotel recommendations were too often off the the mark. For example, at the highly recommended Hotel Los Pelicanos in Rosarito we were taken to a dark, dreary room by a very unfriendly hotel receptionist. Of course, we chose not to stay there.

I know that prices change and good places go bad. But still this book just had too many inaccuracies for me to recommend it. In fact, my wife started saying we should read what the Lonely Planet guide said and then do the opposite. I think this was probably a bit of an overstatement on her part. But still I'm sure this is the last thing LP wants to hear from it's readers. By the way, Lonely Planet is still my favorite publisher of travel guides. But hopefully the book we purchase for our next trip will provide better information.

... and with about as much personality and selectivity. Like the Moon guide, a very useful book to have once you find yourself in Town X but not very useful for figuring out whether it would be better to plan a trip to Town X versus Town Y.

I love this guidebook! Very useful in planning a trip to Cabo and in researching the rest of the peninsula for possible future trips. Love the organization and smallish size of this book. Well written, good maps, and practical information and recommendations.

I just got back from sailing down the pacific coast of baja cal. and this book was worth every penny. while this book was not written for sailing the information it had on small coastal villages was accurate and up to date. the historical sidebars were also quite interesting. Great Job!

I was very disappointed in this book. I bought it soley for San Jose Del Cabo & Cabo San Lucas information, & a lot of restaurants & even resorts were missing. I found the sections on those two areas lacking in historial, cultural, sightseeing, restaurants, hotels and just about all "areas" of information. I would not recommend it if you want information on the two areas I mentioned above.

A trip to the Cabos usually does not involve a great deal of land travel as the Baja peninsula is long. But casual tourist and serious visitors alike can learn from this compact guide book. It is the best of the travel books dedicated to Baja that I have seen.

Product arrived in a timely matter and in the condition as described. Would buy from them again.