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The Rough Guide to Croatia 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

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I used Rough Guide to Croatia side-by-side with Lonely Planet Croatia during May and June 2006. I only visited Southern and Central Dalmatia including Split, Hvar, and Dubrovnik.

The Rough Guide was the more comprehensive of the two books with a heavy emphasis on history, background, and context. It did a really good job of explaining what I was looking at, whereas LP usually gave very little of this information. But it was also less accurate when it came to logistics and directions, which made me happy I had the LP guide too.

Pros:

Better organized and more accessible than LP

Better city maps than LP on the whole--I would recommend using both though.

More detail about islands around Dubrovnik.

200+ pages longer than LP.

Did a decent job prioritizing things to see and places to go--but this section needs work.

Cons:

Some of the directions were pretty terrible and from a logistical standpoint LP was better.

Lots of useless info if you're not into architecture, art, and very detailed history of every brick and cistern.

Bottom line: A detailed, comprehensive guide but with just enough inaccuracies that I'd want LP as well.