Scotland the Best!: The One True Guide (Paperback)

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'The new style bible' Sunday Times 'Nowadays, if you're not in Scotland the Best!, you might as well give up' Hotelier, Wester Ross

Product Description

This is the guide to help you experience all that is excellent in Scotland. Whether visiting on pleasure or business, why settle for second-rate when you can be guided to so much that is superb? Scotland the Best! provides thousands of recommendations including the very best of nearly everything: places to stay and to eat (whatever your budget), beaches, ice cream, and hill walks, bakers, haunted sites, and seafood, places to take the kids, hear music, buy clothing. This new edition-now expanded, updated, and revised-is the best ever. Peter Irvine has reassessed every recommendation to see whether it is still worthy of inclusion and added newly discovered gems to all existing categories.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing; 5th edition (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0004723996
• ISBN-13: 978-0004723990
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 4.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #939,802 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, unconventional, and TRUE!, September 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Scotland the Best!: The One True Guide (Paperback)

This book is a big hit with visitors and Scottish residents alike. Although the format is unconventional (lists of the best of X, where X ranges from upmarket hotels to spooky graveyards), it can be used to guide the tourist to the best that Scotland can offer. On the other hand, as a 'local', I've found it opened my eyes to places and things I might never have noticed on my own. And the witty commentary prevents the lists becoming too much like, well, lists....

The reviews of places to stay and eat are very accurate - I've had a lot of fun eating out in Edinburgh and elsewhere to check out the recommendations!

Only negative point - I find the map references irritating to interpret - the map section could be formatted and printed more clearly.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The True Scotland, April 21, 2001

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If you are going to Scotland, forget all the other travel books and buy "Scotland The Best." My family and I used it exclusively on two long trips to Scotland, mostly spent wandering around the Highlands and Western Isles. Irvine's book definitely has a point of view, which makes it entertaining reading. Most importantly, the reviews and recommendations are spot on. We found several places to eat, sleep and shop which no other book mentioned. And after you have visited Scotland, this is a great book to pour through as you plan your return visit (because you will go back!).

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Only One I Took Out Of The Suitcase, April 11, 2003

By	Genie B. Hughes (Bavaria, Germany) - See all my reviews

AS a well-prepared traveller, I spend WAY too much money on books and then have to cart them around the whole time. This time, I bought five books on Scotland and Edinburgh. As we travelled for five days, I noticed the book I continuously had out was Scotland the Best! At one stop at one of the "bloody good pubs" by Glencoe, we sat at a table next to Morag and Ian, both Scottish, married 35 years. They saw our book, grinned, and pulled out their own. They said they used it every weekend and kept it in the glovebox. How much more of a recommendation do you need? Buy this book and all the updates!