Lonely Planet Switzerland (Paperback)

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new author team offers the most up-to-date coverage available - discerning recommendations to hotels, restaurants & nightlife - special sections on the top outdoor activities & the most scenic train journeys - informed listings of Switzerland's top museums & art collections - Switzerland's towns and cities boast wonderful locations, impressive museums and splendid shopping. - Around 60 percent of Switzerland's electricity is produced by hydro-electric power. - Switzerland has produced more Nobel Prize winners per capita than any other country. - Swiss inventions include milk chocolate, life insurance and the pump turbine.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 335 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 4th edition (July 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 174059228X
• ISBN-13: 978-1740592284
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #941,394 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars simplistic and poorly written - take another guide, July 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Lonely Planet Switzerland (Lonely Planet Switzerland, 3rd ed) (Paperback)

I am spending my summer in Switzerland and decided to take a trusted Lonely Planet Guide with me. What a disappointment! The book is poorly written, has very few good tips on things to do and places to visit and, in my view, is completely useless for out of the way places; my list of complaints can go on and on. I no longer take the book on weekend trips as it is simply easier to ask the locals.

Although I usually like Lonely Planet guides, this one should never be published again.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very useful guidebook, June 24, 2000

By	Ravi Desai "Ravi" (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet Switzerland (2nd ed) (Paperback)

I found this guidebook very useful on a recent trip to Switzerland. Unlike most "tourist" guide books which are full of photographs, the Lonely Planet guide only has a few pages of photographs and is full of useful information on places to stay and local restaurants. The book is divided into chapters by region (e.g. Zurich, Geneva). Within each chapter are details on places to visit,hotels , restaurants, as well local services(such as transportation). There is even information on where to find the nearest laundry.

As with the Other Lonely Planet Books ,it is well written and targeted at travelers on a budget.

Some of the information appears to be out of date. Hopefully Lonely Planet will release a new edition of this. Until then this is a great convenient guidebook to use.

Happy travels

34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing new guide, September 23, 2003

By	R. Walter Bachman (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We're avid travelers and always take Lonely Planet guides with us -- they're normally very comprehensive and helpful. The new 4th edition of the Switzerland guide proved a big disappointment, though, on our recent trip. For some reason this is an unusually slim LP volume, so the depth of coverage for which LP is famous is lacking. We went to numerous delightful towns, villages, and museums that didn't rate so much as a mention. The city maps are also poor; many of the streets are unnamed, which makes the maps difficult to use for navigation. Finally, some of the authors' choices seem almost bizarre. The first boxed "Highlight" listed for the beautiful international city of Geneva, for example, is a particle physics laboratory(!) with the world's largest machine. It's probably fascinating (we didn't visit), but does it really rank with the historic European headquarters of the UN, which didn't make the Highlights box at all, or the superb International Red Cross Museum? We came to rely almost exclusively on the excellent Rough Guide to Switzerland, which at 550 pages -- compared to 335 for Lonely Planet -- is much more thorough and useful.