Lonely Planet East Coast Australia: Classic Overland Route [Paperback]

Verity Campbell (Author)

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Series: Lonely Planet East Coast Australia: Classic Overland Route | Publication Date: October 2002

This guide includes coverage of Melbourne, Sydney, Byron Bay, Brisbane, Whitsundays, Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef. It features information on the best to see and do from enjoying city life to lazing on empty beaches, as well as transport options.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1740590120
• ISBN-13: 978-1740590129
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,958,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I could not have written a better one myself....well, maybe., October 30, 2003

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Kevin Desrosiers "veverka" (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lonely Planet East Coast Australia: Classic Overland Route (Paperback)

This book is perfect for seeing the east coast of Australia by car, but will work just as well if traveling by bus, moped, etc. A friend and I had been planning to drive the east coast, visiting national parks and doing lots of hiking, so when I saw this book I knew it was perfect. As with all titles in the LP family, it lists many places to stay/eat based on price range, which is really nice when you are traveling on a limited budget. There are many hikes listed in the book, along with museums, oddities, and points of interest along this 'classic overland route.' My only complaint about the book is that I wish the authors had listed traveling distances between major cities at the beginning of each section, so the reader doesn't have to add up each little segment on the maps. Otherwise the book is very complete.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, April 20, 2008

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David Harris (Kuwait University) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Planet East Coast Australia (Regional Guide) (Paperback)

In recent years, I have been increasingly disappointed with the information contained in LP's guides. In the case of this one, I purposefully chose _East Coast Australia_ instead of the thicker LP guide covering all of Australia. I figured I could get more detail about locations in that region with this region-specific book, but I was wrong. Morton National Park and neighboring Bungonia Gorge are not even mentioned. (The larger guide does cover Morton.) Canberra, the nation's capitol, gets a mere 4 1/2 pages of text. Some of the smaller towns surrounding Canberra (picturesque Yass, comfortable Queanbeyan, historic Cooma, Goulburn on the motorway between Canberra and Sydney) get no mention whatsoever. Several years ago, LP discovered that there was a dearth of decent travel guides and stepped in to change the situation. Rick Steves is supplanting LP (who supplanted Let's Go Europe earlier) in Europe now. I hope someone will come along and address the rest of the world soon. In the meantime, LP's Thorntree is a great web-based interactive resource that can be taken advantage of.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Planned my entire vacation - great reference, January 5, 2006

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A. Bleidorn (Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Planet East Coast Australia: Classic Overland Route (Paperback)

My husband and I took a 18 day trip from Sydney to Cairnes, and used this book for almost all of our motels/B&B's, etc. We were looking to budget less than $100/night for rooms, and all the recommendations in this book were spot-on. The maps of towns are okay, but you'll want a full-size map to get around with and figure distances, too.