A comprehensive guide to travelling in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland, this book is designed for all budgets. Background notes on history, politics, culture and the arts are included as well as 130 detailed maps of countries, regions, cities and villages. Information on accommodation, outdoor activities and places to eat are all covered. Words and phrases in German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Slovene are also provided.
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Mediocre Guide, but there really isn't anything else,
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Central Europe (Paperback)
There aren't too many guides out there specific to Central Europe. The book was helpful for general reference but, lacked any good detail for traveling. The maps were somewhat helpful, but always seemed to be just limited enough so it didn't show where you wanted to go. The book is great for the tourist that doesn't want to get away from touristy places. If you want to go local this book is not helpful. And what is it about travel books? When are they going to make a travel book that you can seperate out the sections you want? If you don't want to carry around some 10 lb brick of a book and only the sections you need. I know the technology is out there.
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Lonely Planet Central Europe: Stretched Too Thin,
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Naturally, because of the number of countries this book covers, it is far less detailed about any one country than Lonely Planet guides covering single countries or a smaller number of countries. Still, for my purposes--a 15-day motorcoach tour including Frankfurt, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Vienna, and Prague, with just a day and a half or so in each city--it proved adequate. Few people will have room enough in their carry-on or checked luggage to carry a book for each country visited during such a tour, so one is stuck with a single multi-country guidebook.
I don't understand why Lonely Planet included Switzerland and Slovenia in this book. If one is traveling to Krakow or Prague, one usually doesn't travel to Switzerland during the same trip. My basis for comparison was the Lonely Planet guide to Belgium. Belgium's a small country and the guidebook covered just Belgium, so the editors had room for all kinds of fascinating descriptions and inset articles providing detail, such as several articles about beer styles, breweries, and top pubs, battlegrounds, and the scatalogical nicknames Belgians have for people of other cities. That was the best guidebook I've ever used.
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My boyfriendand I travel a lot, and we usually take a lonely planet along with us.
The Central europe one, we've only used it for the Check Republic. It was alright but we think that the tips you usually get in this guide seemed to be missing. For the basics is fine, but we weren't totally satisfied with it. We understand that is not only about one country, that includes other's as well and the information is shortened, but anyway,it was of help only to a point. We hope this information is of help for you, kind regards Lucila Lauda and Ulrik Bechtold
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There is so much to see in central Europe that compiling a list of the top 10 highlights is next to impossible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
main train station building, university mensa, telephone centre, offering private rooms, thermal lake, individual country chapters, dorm beds, international buses, official tourist offices, domestic trains, open yearround, castle district, rooms per person, blue trail, organised tours, international trains, music most nights, main tourist office, ferry pier Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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There is so much to see in central Europe that compiling a list of the top 10 highlights is next to impossible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
main train station building, university mensa, telephone centre, offering private rooms, thermal lake, individual country chapters, dorm beds, international buses, official tourist offices, domestic trains, open yearround, castle district, rooms per person, blue trail, organised tours, international trains, music most nights, main tourist office, ferry pier Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Czech Republic, American Express, Karlovy Vary, Lonely Planet, Black Forest, Lake Balaton, New Zealand, Orbis Travel, Art Nouveau, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, New York, Harz Mountains, National Museum, Sun May-Sept, Bank Pekao, Cesky Krumlov, Kossuth Lajos, Lake Constance, Danube Bend, Stay Camping, Thomas Cook, Warszawa Centralna, Julian Alps, East Slovakia New!
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- The Big Red Train Ride by Eric Newby on page 26
- Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies on page 320
- Heroes Like Us by Thomas Brussig on page 193
- The Good Soldier Svejk (Everyman's Library) by Jaroslav Hasek on page 124
- New York City (Fleximaps) by American Map Corporation in Back Matter
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