Lonely Planet Scotland (Travel Guide)

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Very informative book that gives detailed information and plenty of color pictures! Easy to follow and is written by various authors who live in Scotland

Lonely Planet guides tend to cover a lot of ground. This newly published guide on Scotland is no exception. For the enterprising traveler for whom Scotland is no longer an undiscovered country, here is a menu of fascinating choices.In a compact format, various authors offer suggestions, and opinions, on where to go and what to see. Many of the choices are well off the beaten tourist path. The text is nicely supported with lots of color photographs, maps, and diagrams. The book includes a useful pull-out planning map in the back. Well recommended to the enterprising traveler.

I cannot wait for my trip to Scotland and I learned so much more than I ever knew about it through Lonely Planet's book. A MUST if you're travelling -- they have one for nearly every country. I got the idea to get this from my friend who does a lot of travelling herself and she just recently used the Iceland one for her destination wedding/honeymoon.

This is the second lonely planet guide I've purchased this year and unfortunately it seems to be a trend now that they are using a new format. I've been buying lonely planets for every single trip I've taken for over a decade but I may have to stop if they don't go back to the old organization. It's now almost like a travel blog without a lot of the usual information like places to stay, places to eat, etc. Instead it just talks about a city and disperses throughout the discussion a couple of recommendations for those things. There's no way to find it without reading the entire chapter or easily go back to it like there used to be. And there's no longer the introduction to the books giving you the history of the country. I'm not quite sure why they've done this but in my opinion it makes the guides a lot less useful

this map book is everything I was looking for and more. I will be using it for a driving trip in Scotland this fall. The Paige quality is excellent and I think it will hold up fairly well as far as durability goes. It’s thin and I think it will be, easy to put in a backpack for traveling. It seems pretty comprehensive as far as providing great information on cities, castles, and other sites of interest. I’ll update this review after my trip in September.

What the heck happened to Lonely Planet? This guidebook reads like a cheesy tourism promotion brochure/website without providing much of the information which made LP so great. I regularly used Lonely Planet guidebooks since the 80s (literally dozens of them) because they gave honest reviews and were full of useful information that was researched, well-organized, and easy to locate. This Scotland book does away with all that which made Lonely Planet guidebooks so good. Instead, it substitutes useful content for colorful graphics, lots of photos, and the like. Previous LP guidebooks had subheadings for each city/region, such as "Sights," "Activities," "Sleeping & Eating," "Shopping," Getting There & Away," "Getting Around," etc. The subheadings are gone, as is much of the information that was under them. Now, chapters invariably describe an area in flowery language, while giving only minimal travel information in colored boxes and sidebars that are placed in seemingly random places within each chapter. Looking for a place to stay? Basically gone: instead of pages of useful hotel information, there may be a randomly placed sidebar somewhere with something like "top 3 hotels" … as if that's useful. I'm very disappointed.

I have used LP a lot -- there are a dozen on the shelf. This one suffers (as do some others) from small print combined with color on color which makes it hard to read in any but the best light. I'll go with the small print for more info on fewer pages, but would much prefer seeing black type or at least a very strong contrast.The indexing is haphazard -- there are many things mentioned in the book that don't appear. And how can you write about Scotland without a paragraph on the Caledonian Canal, an important tourist attraction in several respects.