 Lonely Planet
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:16:46 GMT, Deep Frayed Morgues
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
>I use LP all the time, and have only been let down in a minor way a
>couple of times. It's very hard to be subjective with a travel guide,
>because every experience is different. And details are wrong in all of
>them. The real problem with LP is that because it is the best seller,
>all of the budget accomodation listed is usually fully of other owners
>of the guide.
LP covers a wider range of lodgings than Let's Go, who specifically
address only inexpensive lodgings. So Let's Go guides (especially the
country-specific guides) have lots more in the category, and also add
useful information like whether there are double, triple or quad
rooms, and if so what the price is for these. If there are high/low
seasons, they usually also indicate the price differential.
I used LP on my recent trip to Ireland, and I found a number of
inaccuracies. Most were minor, but one that could have been a real
problem was a spectacularly wrong location for the Galway airport.
Fortunately we were only returning a rental car, not catching a plane.
They gave the location as on the Connemara peninsula, where there is
in fact a very small airfield that has tourist flights to the nearby
Aran islands. I saw a little plane mark on my map, which I took as
confirmation, and I even decided to stay in a B&B near the supposed
airport the night before returning the car. The next morning we drove
along the road where the airport should have been and didn't see any
airport signs, so I stopped at a gas station and learned that the real
airport was some 40 km away, on the other side of Galway, in morning
rush hour traffic.
Did LP somehow think that Galway had only a tiny tourist flight
airfield? No, because they said that there were flights to Dublin and
other cities from this airport. They described the Galway airport, but
were very mistaken as to its location.
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
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