Lonely Planet: pocket version or the big version?
score:4
Accepted answer
Lonely Planet actually has three separate guides for Rome:
- Pocket Rome: small and compact, intended for short trips (long weekend or so), focuses only on top attractions and cuts out eg. all lodging information.
- Rome City Guide: the full-length city guide, dense and packed full of information, mostly black & white, standalone guide for long stays
- Discover Rome: full-color, abridged version of the city guide that strikes a balance between the two
My rule of thumb used be that I'd get the pocket guide to carry around for short trip, or the city guide if I'm going to stay for a long time and/or want to do exhaustive research beforehand. These days, though, I rarely bring along guidebooks and only use them for research and getting an idea of the place before I go.
Obligatory disclaimer: I used to work for Lonely Planet, but I no longer do and this represents my opinion only.
Upvote:1
In the past I would have said the big one, as it contains a lot of practical information and mostly that on hostels was hard to get any other way.
But as you do use booking.com hostel information is easy to get.
I would likely go for the smaller version and look up information on internet, or do without a book and make notes from internet.
The big LP books get very heavy in the longer run, it often was the most heavy single piece in my luggage.
More post
- 📝 Schengen visa and previous refusals?
- 📝 Passport control and Schengen visa doubt
- 📝 Netherlands Visa Refusal on 17th March 2020
- 📝 How do I purchase a Turkish SIM card as a tourist and not run afoul of cell phone registration laws?
- 📝 I have a scientific research invitation letter, what kind of visa I need
- 📝 Are there self-guided tours in Boston/Harvard?
- 📝 Traveling from the U.S to Copenhagen (Munich layover - is 1.5 hours enough time)?
- 📝 Canada visitor visa purpose of travel, bookings and itinerary
- 📝 My UK visa application status
- 📝 China passport holder transit more than 11 hours in Seoul (KE) to YVR
- 📝 Returning to Canada as a PR without a card
- 📝 Exits from Black's beach in San Diego
- 📝 Do I need a visa for a 3-day stopover in the Republic of Korea?
- 📝 Connecting flight time at AMS
- 📝 Can airlines deny boarding the outbound flight if you are ineligible for the return leg?
- 📝 Do they still have border controls in the highways when you travel to croatia like before?
- 📝 USA B1/B2 visa visit. Can I change my plans last moment?
- 📝 Where can I see the Olympic Flame?
- 📝 Do I clear immigration and customs in heathrow T3 for stop over on seperate ticket
- 📝 How much money do you have in savings (in GBP)?
- 📝 Overstayed in the US
- 📝 Green card lottery - what does it mean?
- 📝 Can I bring DVDs and personal items in checked luggage
- 📝 Resident getting married to tourist
- 📝 What if my boarding pass name does not match perfectly with my id card?
- 📝 Why do people in Taiwan sometimes use Western-sounding names?
- 📝 Why do SIS and Interpol systems only consider names/DOBs in travel documents, and not document numbers?
- 📝 Luggage when travelling with children
- 📝 Can I leave Italy for another Schengen country before getting my permesso di soggiorno?
- 📝 Is it possible to stay overnight in Paris for a flight in London?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Lonely Planet: pocket version or the big version?
- 📝 Why is the Lonely Planet Mongolian phrasebook so small?
- 📝 Western Europe Lonely Planet Travel Guide for a trip from Paris to Milan for Expo Milano
- 📝 How big are the luggage lockers at Oslo's central railway station?
- 📝 Is filing the physical version of US customs form (CBP Declaration Form 6059B) of any use when flying to the US and entering via Global Entry?
- 📝 How big is the Holi festival in India?
- 📝 Review censorship on the big travel websites: Any analyses/research?
- 📝 How big are the automated lockers at the St Charles station in Marseilles?
- 📝 Would people in Seoul be bothered by a big baggage in the subway/bus?
- 📝 Buy Lonely Planet guides in Istanbul
- 📝 How active are the animals in Kruger National Park (S. Africa) in August? Season to see the Big Five (elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, & buffalo)?
- 📝 How big are the lockers at the Leuven train station?
- 📝 Can one just keep a picture of the Hong Kong landing slip, or does one have to keep the paper version of it?
- 📝 Is it possible for tourists to drive unhindered to the top of Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii?
- 📝 Transporting a big shipment of computer equipment to the Caribbean
- 📝 Tourist traveling back to US with big amount of medical bills, will immigration hold him from the airport?
- 📝 Is it still allowed to travel to the US without booking hotels in advance?
- 📝 How can I get from the Rotterdam cruise port to the Rotterdam Centraal train station using public transport?
- 📝 Which Beaches in the Canary Islands are Closed Due to the Oleg Naydenov Oil Spill?
- 📝 What does "Resident" mean in the context of car rental in US?
- 📝 Do US citizens need to purchase US health insurance while traveling abroad, under the rules of the Affordable Care Act?
- 📝 Can I get a French visa in order to join the French Foreign Legion?
- 📝 Luggage-only insurance when traveling around the world?
- 📝 How can I confirm that my I-94 form was correctly processed after leaving the US in 2007?
- 📝 How can I rent a mobile WiFi hotspot during my five-week trip to the UK?
- 📝 Long-haul flight departs one day before my visa validity starts, to land on the following day. Will I be denied boarding?
- 📝 What kind of food is served inside the Oktoberfest tents and at what price?
- 📝 Sister visiting the UK visa refusal
- 📝 Is the new border crossing between Georgia and Turkey at Kartsakhi open to foreigners?
- 📝 Are there examples of Googie architecture outside the U.S.?