Lonely Planet Cape Town (City Travel Guide) [Paperback]

Simon Richmond (Author), Helen Ranger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2009 | Series: City Travel Guide

Discover Cape Town

See how Cape Town plays 'the world game' - pick a local football team, grab your plastic trumpet and support your boys with thousands of other cheering fans
Learn the easy ways (and the hard ways) to climb Table Mountain
Find your way around Cape Town's delicious cuisines, whether seafood (meaty snoek), African (tasty, fried chakalaka), or Afrikaner (spicy boerewors)
Discover the most eco-friendly ways to get face to face with Jaws, while shark-cage diving off the coast

In This Guide:

Over 700 hours of on-the-road research, three expert authors, 32 detailed maps
Unparalleled wines and wineries coverage - find out which of Cape Town's 200 wineries is worth a visit, and how to identify a good drop once you get there
Get off the tourist trail - discover the Cape Town that only the locals know, with interviews, tips and advice from locals in the know

Product Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet; 6 edition (August 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1741048915
• ISBN-13: 978-1741048919
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #3 in Books > Travel > Africa > South Africa > Cape Town
  • #52 in Books > Travel > Reference & Tips > Guidebooks

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good info, poor organization, January 1, 2011

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This review is from: Lonely Planet Cape Town (City Travel Guide) (Paperback)

If you are used to typical Lonely Planet travel guides than you may find this book frustrating. I appreciate the normal method of splitting the book into locations and then giving all the details on lodging, food, activities, etc. This book has all of the lodging in one chapter so you have to weed through and find a place in the specific area of town you want to stay in. Same for food. I found it way too time consuming to sort through and find a restaurant on the Waterfront instead of just looking up the Waterfront section and having a map with food, etc. We ended up using the LP Southern Africa book instead and this one was just a paperweight. It does have great info on everything but I just don't like the way it's laid out. If you are just looking to learn about Cape Town and plan a vacation then it's worth your while, but don't rely just on this book.