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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 917 EAN: 9781741048858 ISBN: 1741048850 Label: Lonely Planet Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 608 Publication Date: October 01, 2008 Publisher: Lonely Planet Studio: Lonely Planet Sales Rank: 11262 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This guide provides details on the less frequently visited Central Valley and Highlands regions, interviews with locals who offer contemporary cultural tidbits, and a chapter on sustainable travel options. Maps throughout. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - As always a good helpThe lonely planet helped as as always to plan our vacation. We spend only one week in this interesting country, but managed to plan an interesting and packed two day trip. Instead of booking through the hotel and spending at least $250 per person we took all the information out of the book. Besides saving some money, we had a lot of information and explored the country a lot better than with a pre booked trip. As the book is from 2006 some of the prices have already increased. I can highly recommend ... Read More Rating:  - Culture Chauvinism by the Backpacker SetI generally find Lonely Planet Guides quite helpful. This volume, sadly, was written by a couple of Ugly American Backpackers. Their coverage of San Jose was positively absurd. The author's overstate crime dangers by a comical margin, and come off sounding like the snide "Ugly American" of bygone decades, looking down their noses at the sad, dirty third world. They also fail to comprehend the obvious: if you want to see what life is like for Costa Rica's citizens, you might want to spend ... Read More Rating:  - So-So.The detailed city maps are not very good, outdated with businesses that have gone away, etc. Moon guide books have way better maps than Lonely Planet. The hotel reviews I thought were way off base, and don't include some major hotels. All in all, let me just say this: Lonely Planet isn't the Bible. Check out other guide books and go with any of the major ones. If you buy Lonely Planet, also buy a map, because their city maps are wrong! Rating:  - Find a new author Lonely PlanetIf you want to enjoy traveling to Costa Rica I would recommend another book. If you want to spend your time lamenting about how Costa Rica has changed, how Americans are annoying, and be afraid to take your valuables out of your hotel safe than I recommend you check this book out. I would often read passages out loud to different people I was traveling with. You would think that Jaco is similar to Jersey but with more crack and lots of prostitutes from reading this book. In fact, when I went it was mostly ... Read More Rating: - Pretty out of dateI'm an LP loyalist for all my travels, but of all the countries I've visited before, this LP guide seems to have the least accurate information. I only traveled to a small section of CR, flying into Liberia and staying in Playa Grande. Even in that narrow scope, I found listed restaurants that no longer existed and hotel descriptions that were quite off the mark. For example, I chose Hotel El Punto in Liberia as a staging place before flying out on my final night based on this description: s/d/tr/q ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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