Uruguay (Lonely Planet CUSTOM Guide) [Paperback]

Gregor Clark (Primary Contributor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1741798701 | ISBN-13: 978-1741798708 | Publication Date: October 1, 2008

The first ever Lonely Planet guidebook was stapled together at a kitchen table. We're keeping that spirit alive with CUSTOM guides - sections of our most popular books combined to fit your trip.

Uruguay
Uruguay is delightfully low-key and surprisingly diverse, but you won’t find a guidebook for it - until now. This custom guide, made up of chapters selected from Lonely Planet's Argentina guidebook, covers Uruguay, including cosmopolitan Montevideo and the wilder outer reaches. We've also included buzzing Buenos Aires because, let's face it, you're in the area already – why not take in the BA blend of old-world languor and contemporary attitude? Sound like your kind of thing? Then this is the CUSTOM guide for you.

This book includes:

• Maps and detailed information to help you explore every corner of Uruguay
• Chunky coverage of Buenos Aires: where to stay, where to eat, what to see
• A language chapter that covers all the essential travel phrases in Argentine Spanish
• Health information including recommended vaccines

This CUSTOM guide is made up of the following chapters:
Uruguay    Argentina 6th edition, Aug 2008
Buenos Aires    Argentina 6th edition, Aug 2008
Language    Argentina 6th edition, Aug 2008
Health     Argentina 6th edition, Aug 2008

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

The first ever Lonely Planet guidebook was stapled together at a kitchen table. We're keeping that spirit alive with CUSTOM guides - sections of our most popular books combined to fit your trip.

Uruguay
Uruguay is delightfully low-key and surprisingly diverse, but you won’t find a guidebook for it - until now. This custom guide, made up of chapters selected from Lonely Planet's Argentina guidebook, covers Uruguay, including cosmopolitan Montevideo and the wilder outer reaches. We've also included buzzing Buenos Aires because, let's face it, you're in the area already – why not take in the BA blend of old-world languor and contemporary attitude? Sound like your kind of thing? Then this is the CUSTOM guide for you.

This book includes:

• Maps and detailed information to help you explore every corner of Uruguay
• Chunky coverage of Buenos Aires: where to stay, where to eat, what to see
• A language chapter that covers all the essential travel phrases in Argentine Spanish
• Health information including recommended vaccines

This CUSTOM guide is made up of the following chapters:
Uruguay    Argentina 6th edition, Aug 2008
Buenos Aires    Argentina 6th edition, Aug 2008
Language    Argentina 6th edition, Aug 2008
Health     Argentina 6th edition, Aug 2008

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1741798701
• ISBN-13: 978-1741798708
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #501,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful -- but more, please!, February 24, 2009

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Nathan Sanders (Montevideo, Uruguay) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Uruguay (Lonely Planet CUSTOM Guide) (Paperback)

We moved to Montevideo for four months in January, and we wanted to buy some sort of guide before we left. This was the only Uruguay-specific guidebook we could find. Overall, we're very pleased. It covers a little bit of everything: history, lifestyle and current issues in Uruguay, plus lodging, sights and eating at several Uruguayan cities. It even had some key Spanish phrases in the back. The only slight disappointment was that it just skimmed the service. Only 68 of the 148 pages dealt specifically with Uruguay. There were almost as many pages devoted to Buenos Aires -- in a Uruguay guidebook. More maps and restaurant reviews would have been nice. But even so, I would strongly recommend this book for travelers to Uruguay.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uruguay, July 19, 2009

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Bailey Drake (New York, New Yorkk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Uruguay (Lonely Planet CUSTOM Guide) (Paperback)

Being one of the few and most thorough books on Uruguay, this book is essential. While some people state that there is too much information on Buenos Aires, I do not feel that this is a problem. A lot of foreign travelers travel to Uruguay from Buenos Aires via ferry. This book provides sufficient information on all of the most populous cities in Uruguay.

However, if you plan on traveling through Argentina as well, all you need is Lonely Planet's book on Argentina. (Unless you are just traveling to Buenos Aires and Uruguay, then the book on Uruguay will suffice.) The book on Uruguay is an excerpt, taken verbatim, from the book on Argentina. It is not necessary to get both.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beter than Fodors, May 15, 2009

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Gary --- "lives to travel" (Culver City, California United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Uruguay (Lonely Planet CUSTOM Guide) (Paperback)

I had a hard time finding a comprehensive travel guide of Uruguay. The Fodors Guide of South America only focuses Montevideo, Punta del Este, and Colonia de Sacramento. This Lonely Planet guide focuses on many small interesting towns - and gives a much better overall view of things to do in the country. An added plus was that it includes in-depth information about Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's right across the Rio Plata - and a good add-on to a trip to Uruguay. So if you're thinking of going there, too - you only need to buy this one book!