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Thailand (Country Guide)
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by China Williams, Aaron Anderson, Brett Atkinson, and Tim Bewer
Sales Rank: 2712
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List Price: $26.99
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Paperback: 820 pages
Publisher: Lonely Planet; 12 edition August 1, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1741043077
ISBN-13: 978-1741043075
Product Dimensions:
7.7 x 5.1 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
For sheer global reach and dogged research, attention must be paid to Lonely Planet…' --Los Angeles Times, February 2, 2003
Product Description
Discover Thailand
Uncover Bangkok's best street stalls or enjoy a skyscraping gourmet dinner.
Climb aboard a long-tail boat and island hop to your own isolated beach paradise.
Get soaked at Songkran, the Thai celebration that becomes the world's biggest water fight.
Trek off the beaten path in remote Isan to watch a rare solar alignment at an ancient Angkor temple.
In This Guide
Ten authors, 259 days of in-country research and 150 maps.
Trek, dive or monkey-watch with our detailed coverage of national parks and natural wonders.
Visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler suggestions.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Beating up on whatever LP guidebook applies to wherever you find yourself is a favorite pass-time of the road-weary or the jaded ex-pat. You instantly become a cool-guy for bashing the guidebooks. Yawn. Then you try to offer (or sell) you own advice! Let's back up for a second and review this guidebook for what it is: a guidebook. About me, I'm a perpetual farang (Thai for westerner). I've used at least 4 of LP's Thailand books, a handful of competitor's Thailand books, and at least a dozen regional guides and city guides that overlap with this most rececent LP Thailand. I've been making trips to Thailand for more than a decade. I've worked there, taught there, and been a student there. I love Bangkok. I love it when a guidebook can tell me something new about BKK or Thailand. And ust when I think I knew it all, this one manages to show me a thing or two! This LP Thailand is moving in the right direction. From the first few pages you can tell that LP has cut and cleared some dead wood from the old editions and has freshened things up significantly. The voice is new and lively, not like some loudspeaker at a bus terminal calling out bays and destinations. Production value is up. Content is fresh but still reliable. Hello LP: The key to being a good guidebook is to avoid what's ultra-new and trendy and instead give the reader dependability. When I want to know about the hot new club or the latest border-crossing info I go to the web or I talk to other travellers. Those things change weekly. It seems like LP has figured this out with this volume. When others say that it's missing from this book I wonder if they really know what they're asking for. Looking back, the older LP Thailand books listed a bunch of places to stay in the main tourist spots like Khao Sarn. I always thought that was a silly waste of space. By and large those backpacker boxes are all the same. And as soon as one of them gets in the LP, the price goes up and they stop changing the sheets. It's that simple. Ever go to one of the listed spots and look around (look up from your LP book) and see everyone else there with their LP book? Please folks: do yourself a favor and use this book as a guide --it's not the phonebook. There are hundreds of excellent places to stay in BKK and in Thailand that aren't listed in this book or in any other book. Use this book to get a feel for types of accomodation being offered and corresponding prices. Then make your own choices. This book will help you make choices; it won't choose for you. I applaud LP for thinning some of its listings and focusing more on important attractions and providing valuable and interesting cultural insights. Going forward, with message boards and emails flying around the world in a blink, listing-type info (just bare facts about place and price) really isn't what I need from a guidebook. LP seems to be keen to this idea and appears to be working hard at giving me more than that. Finally, let me say that this latest LP Thailand is really fun to read. It makes me want to go there right now! Some guidebooks read like a laundry list. Not this one. Read the book before you go...use it while you're there. Then give it to someone who's coming in as you head for the airport to go home --that's if you can find someone who doesn't already have it. And when someone bashes a guidebook or suggests you do something in particular, always ask yourself: "what's this guy trying to sell me?" Chok dee. (Good luck.)
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Thailand (Country Guide)
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