Customer Reviews

Spartacus International Gay Guide 2008 (Multilingual and English Edition)

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This is an annual purchase for me. I agree with the previous reviewer--forget the rest of the guides or jumping around on multiple websites. Spartacus is truly the only international guide you will need. It will bump out underwear or shoes or anything else to get into my suitcase for a trip. Sure, Damron guides are good for USA travel and if you never plan on leaving the US border get that guide. For all the other globe trotting guys like me, this is the one you'll want.

Spartacus saves time! Forget searching through endless website for information on the local gay scene. Who knows if the website even exists anymore or when it was updated the last time. Spartacus is ideal for planning your holiday. It is up-to-date (even though the gay scene changes all the time) and at least I am sure that the advertisers are still around when I visit their city. We don't have a better gay guide - Spartacus remains the number one for gay international travel.

It's an ok guide. It's probably the most useful guide out there, but only because there's no competition. Few guides have the global reach this one has.

A little too brief for my liking.
Doesn't tell you enough of what to expect.
I guess if the guide was a bit more selective, and detailed would be better.
Afterall, a typical traveller won't have time for every gay place in town.
So we will usually just go for the most happening ones.

But what gave me a bad impression was it's missing Taipei altogether!
It has a section on Taiwan and various Taiwanese towns.
But no Taipei! Taiwan is one of the very few places in Asia where being gay is officially sanctioned. How can they miss out the capital?
tsk tsk tsk.

DId I buy this one ?? was long long time ago
my god .................this was long time ago ...........DId I buy this one ?? was long long time ago
my god .................this was long time ago

If you're about to travel or if you have to travel often because of your work, here you have it all to have some fun wherever you have to go. "All" means stuff ranging from legal data (age of consent, status of gay people in each country) to places: hotels, bars, saunas, cinemas, cruising points, dance halls, you name it...
Must have it if you travel and want to explore the international gay scene when you do.