New England (Lonely Planet New England) [Paperback]

Randy Peffer (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lonely Planet New England | Publication Date: July 2002

This guide details the best spots for hiking, skiing, kayaking, biking, whale watching and sailing. It also offers information on historic sites from the Freedom Trail to the Concord and Lexington battlefields, lodging and restaurant tips for all budgets are also included.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 3 edition (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1740590252
• ISBN-13: 978-1740590259
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,199,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the Best, Not the Worst, September 8, 2008

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M. Soriano (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Planet New England (Regional Guide) (Paperback)

I have the 2008 edition of this guide book. As a lonely planet guidebook, it is not very good. As a guidebook in general, it is not the worst.

I have frequently used lonely planet guides in the past when traveling and have generally liked them but this one is lacking. As several other reviewers have mentioned, the hotels, places and even towns mentioned are predictable. Also, unlike most lonely planet guides, this one is not geared to the budget traveler or backpacker at all unless you consider a hotel around $150 to be "budget". Certainly, the writers could have done more research to seek out unique places to stay. If I wanted a travel book written for my parents, I would buy Frommers. This is practically the same thing. This book is good if you are driving through somewhere for a few hours and need a place (restaurant/pub) to stop and don't know the town at all. For instance, it pointed us to an excellent pub with lots of microbreweries in Portland, Maine that we otherwise would not have found since we were just passing through. But any guide should be able to do the same thing. Overall, the writing does not add much general insight to the regions being reviewed nor does it point out many unusual finds or destinations. You don't get the sense that the writer really explored the region.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars About the reviews, September 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: New England (Lonely Planet New England) (Paperback)

Hey, I bought this book and liked it...and I'm a native New Englander. The coverage for Maine is particularly good, or at least I thought so.

However, I'm posting this not so much to let y'all know that the guide is good, but to say that this book is in it's third edition, published in 2001. All of the reviews here date from 2000 and before. They apply to the second edition of the book, not the third. So take them with a grain of salt, cuz LP changes it's content alot when they update old editions.

Just my two cents.

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another "Lonely Planet" success!, November 18, 1999

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Katrina Fox ([e-mail]) (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet New England (Paperback)

Having never travelled the New England region before, Lonely Planet's guide to New England was invaluable. In terms of content and detail, it covered towns, sites and other regional attractions that other guide books missed altogether. My only criticism is that the guide is a couple of years old now and whilst most information relating to things like opening and closing times was still accurate, reported prices had of course risen!