Frommer's Scotland (4th ed) (Paperback)

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Review
"An up-to-date, often outspoken 466-page guide to the best Scotland has to offer." (Scots Magazine, May 2008) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description
Its simple: Frommers offers the most complete, easy-to-use, and up-to-date travel information consumers can buy. No other series can match our commitment to offering all the practical details in such a fun, user-friendly format. Our candid, authoritative hotel and restaurant reviews are the best in the businesstheyre incredibly detailed, and they include carefully chosen selections for every taste and budget. And we offer a wealth of sightseeing, sports, strolls, and special momentsfrom the major tourist highlights for a first-time visitor to off-the-beaten-track discoveries that will impress even the most seasoned traveler. And its all accompanied by our detailed, accurate two-color maps that show you the way. Most guidebooks read like textbooks or promotional brochuresbut not Frommers. We know that readers turn to us when theyre planning a vacation, so even though we take the details seriously, we produce guides with a sense of fun and discovery. And we believe that you can tell a book by its coverso we dont settle for anything less than spectacular photography. No wonder were turning heads. And no wonder readers have rediscovered that Frommers is the name you can trust.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company; 4th edition (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028616693
• ISBN-13: 978-0028616698
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,016,310 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frommer's Scotland, February 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Frommer's Scotland 2002 (Paperback)

Of all the travel books I purchased for my first trip to Scotland, the Frommer's edition is the one I used and kept after my trip. It is comprehensive, detailed, and gives good advice. It had all the attractions I wanted to visit and more. They also have a great website as a reference tool.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good coverage, but not great for budget travellers, April 11, 2006

By	G. A. Murphy (Boulder, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Frommer's Scotland (Frommer's Complete) (Paperback)

I'm planning a trip to Scotland (leaving next week), and have never used Frommer's guides before. It has good suggestions for interesting touristy places to visit in Scotland, and gives a well written, concise historical description of the sites, which I like.

However, for booking hotels, I haven't selected a single suggestion from Frommers. This is because their suggestions are generally way too expensive. For example, looking for accomodations in the Orkney Islands, you'd think it was impossible to spend less than $150 a night if you relied exclusively on this guide. On the web, I found that there are at least a handful two and three star hotels in Kirkwall that were less than $100 a night, and look very nice.

Also, it says in Frommer's that it's ~$100 to travel by train to Edinburgh from London, but it doesn't mention that there are actually a huge range of fares, from ~$20 to more than $200 at www.virgin.com/trains, that depends on how early you purchase the tickets, and how flexible you want the ticket to be.

From these and other examples, I've decided that Frommer's is a fine place to start for an overview and figuring out where I want to go, but I'd end up unnecessarily spending a fortune if I relied on it for the practical stuff.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Okay, but not the best travel book, February 21, 2009

By	WineLover (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frommer's Scotland (Frommer's Complete) (Paperback)

I've been to Scotland 8 times (my relatives live there) and I think the author and I have differing opinions on what towns are really worth seeing. On our most recent trip a couple months ago we used this guide to travel through southern Scotland, an area we hadn't been to before. We found a few of the towns recommended to not be worth the drive there. Also, it seems that the book was not really updated. One wonderful restaurant in Oban was not listed (Seafood Temple) even though it was the most popular and famous restaurant and one restaurant we tried to go to in Elgin had apparently been closed for about 3 years.