- Taschenbuch: 808 Seiten
- Verlag: Lonely Planet Publications; Auflage: 11th ed (1. September 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1740596978
- ISBN-13: 978-1740596978
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 13 x 3,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
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the legendary best-selling, longest-running guide to Southeast Asia's most popular destination the only guide to Thailand written for travelers on any budget suggested itineraries include classic routes, tailored trips, off-road excursions and travel with children opinionated and up-to-the-minute coverage of Bangkok's hottest bars, restaurants and shops written by a Bangkok expert Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation to have never been colonised Thaksin Shinawatra became the first Thai Prime Minister to be re-elected when his Thai Rak Thai party was victorious in February 2005. Before taking up politics, he was a police officer, and later a billionaire telecommunications tycoon a Rocket Festival is held in May in the country's north-east, using a volatile mixture of bamboo and gunpowder to convince the sky to send rain for the new rice season
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the legendary best-selling, longest-running guide to Southeast Asia's most popular destination the only guide to Thailand written for travelers on any budget suggested itineraries include classic routes, tailored trips, off-road excursions and travel with children opinionated and up-to-the-minute coverage of Bangkok's hottest bars, restaurants and shops written by a Bangkok expert Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation to have never been colonised Thaksin Shinawatra became the first Thai Prime Minister to be re-elected when his Thai Rak Thai party was victorious in February 2005. Before taking up politics, he was a police officer, and later a billionaire telecommunications tycoon a Rocket Festival is held in May in the country's north-east, using a volatile mixture of bamboo and gunpowder to convince the sky to send rain for the new rice season
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3 von 3 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
Ich war nun mittlerweile schon 3 mal mit dem Lonely Planet in Thailand unterwegs und es ist wirklich das Standardwerk für Backpacker und Individualreisende.
Der Umfang ist gigantisch und deckt auch den kleinsten relevanten Ort ab.
Das Buch ist in einzelne Regionen unterteilt. Innerhalb dieser findet man schnell den gesuchten Ort - entweder durch einfachs Durchblättern oder über den Orts-/Indexsuche am Buchende. Zu den jeweiligen Orten bekommt man Informationen über Unterkünfte (einfach, mittel, teuer), Restaurants, Läden, Sehenswürdigkeiten usw. Außerdem ist jeweils sehr ausführlich beschrieben wie man auf eigene Faust dort hinkommt (Bus, Zug, Flugzeug, Boot, ...) mit entsprechenden Tipps. Abgerundet wird der jeweilige Eintrag durch das jeweilige Kartenmaterial.
Kleine Kritikpunkte gibts natürlich auch. Aufgrund des Umfangs und des Konzepts hat das Buch nur sehr wenig farbiges Bildmaterial. Außerdem gibt es aufgrund der Popularität wohl keine "Insider-Tipps".
Bei der Rezension von "rcbenda" fragt man sich, in wie weit der Rezensent mit dem Loose-Verlag verbandelt ist. Der Schreibstil und die angegebenen Argumente lassen keine sehr objektive Beurteilung vermuten.
Der Umfang ist gigantisch und deckt auch den kleinsten relevanten Ort ab.
Das Buch ist in einzelne Regionen unterteilt. Innerhalb dieser findet man schnell den gesuchten Ort - entweder durch einfachs Durchblättern oder über den Orts-/Indexsuche am Buchende. Zu den jeweiligen Orten bekommt man Informationen über Unterkünfte (einfach, mittel, teuer), Restaurants, Läden, Sehenswürdigkeiten usw. Außerdem ist jeweils sehr ausführlich beschrieben wie man auf eigene Faust dort hinkommt (Bus, Zug, Flugzeug, Boot, ...) mit entsprechenden Tipps. Abgerundet wird der jeweilige Eintrag durch das jeweilige Kartenmaterial.
Kleine Kritikpunkte gibts natürlich auch. Aufgrund des Umfangs und des Konzepts hat das Buch nur sehr wenig farbiges Bildmaterial. Außerdem gibt es aufgrund der Popularität wohl keine "Insider-Tipps".
Bei der Rezension von "rcbenda" fragt man sich, in wie weit der Rezensent mit dem Loose-Verlag verbandelt ist. Der Schreibstil und die angegebenen Argumente lassen keine sehr objektive Beurteilung vermuten.
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17 von 17 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Good but Lonely Planet is capable of doing better
14. Juli 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
UPDATE:
The book turned out to be decent background reading, but nothing one would take as a first choice everywhere. Many restaurant recommendations were good, some not so. But to be fair, the opinions were honest. And I am not sure what else I would take for a trip to Thailand. Its not a very difficult country to navigate with English spoken well and everywhere. Warning though on the prices, they were most inaccurate.
ORIGINAL:
We've been to Thailand before and covered a fair amount of the country. So purchasing the updated edition we were expecting to see a lot of the highlights of our previous visit, covered extensively. In this regard, Lonely Planet was a mixed bag. Some of the highlights from our visit to southern Thailand including details in and around Krabi were just not there. Also, visitors tend to use guidebooks and lean upon them for detailed recommendations of hotels. This book sets up brief and basic introductions, hoping instead that you use the internet instead to follow up on more details. Same for restaurants. If this was the true intention, websites and internet links would have been most helpful.
Its obvious that the book is not a complete overhaul from the pervious editions. A lot of the material is identical, word for word. Details of new hotels, ferry schedules, or the new low cost airlines flying internally in Thailand or within S.E. Asia are just not mentioned.
Still, its a reasonably exhaustive first step towards getting to know Thailand. And helping you plan your itinerary. Be warned though that you'll still want to use the internet a lot, to complement the information here.
Finally, I was contempleting getting the Lonely Planet Thailand's Beaches (including Bangkok) but that's not been updated at all in a long time (I intend to primarily spend time in the southern coast) and this book would be fine for most people especially if you are not anticipating the northern areas like Chiang Mai. Because this full LP version is rather heavy... and you are likely to not carry it with you everywhere you go. Still, overall-- a 4 star effort.
We are off to Thailand in August 2006. Stay tuned for updates to this review, the following month...
The book turned out to be decent background reading, but nothing one would take as a first choice everywhere. Many restaurant recommendations were good, some not so. But to be fair, the opinions were honest. And I am not sure what else I would take for a trip to Thailand. Its not a very difficult country to navigate with English spoken well and everywhere. Warning though on the prices, they were most inaccurate.
ORIGINAL:
We've been to Thailand before and covered a fair amount of the country. So purchasing the updated edition we were expecting to see a lot of the highlights of our previous visit, covered extensively. In this regard, Lonely Planet was a mixed bag. Some of the highlights from our visit to southern Thailand including details in and around Krabi were just not there. Also, visitors tend to use guidebooks and lean upon them for detailed recommendations of hotels. This book sets up brief and basic introductions, hoping instead that you use the internet instead to follow up on more details. Same for restaurants. If this was the true intention, websites and internet links would have been most helpful.
Its obvious that the book is not a complete overhaul from the pervious editions. A lot of the material is identical, word for word. Details of new hotels, ferry schedules, or the new low cost airlines flying internally in Thailand or within S.E. Asia are just not mentioned.
Still, its a reasonably exhaustive first step towards getting to know Thailand. And helping you plan your itinerary. Be warned though that you'll still want to use the internet a lot, to complement the information here.
Finally, I was contempleting getting the Lonely Planet Thailand's Beaches (including Bangkok) but that's not been updated at all in a long time (I intend to primarily spend time in the southern coast) and this book would be fine for most people especially if you are not anticipating the northern areas like Chiang Mai. Because this full LP version is rather heavy... and you are likely to not carry it with you everywhere you go. Still, overall-- a 4 star effort.
We are off to Thailand in August 2006. Stay tuned for updates to this review, the following month...
12 von 12 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Good detail on less traveled Southern locations
15. Januar 2006
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Last year I took the Rough Guide to Thailand and this year I am taking the latest edition of Lonely Planet. Already I can see a significant difference in the level of detail regarding smaller towns and islands. I especially like the attention to email access, as it's difficult to stay in touch without it. No guide is perfect, but the supplemental information about the status of recovery from the Dec. 2004 tsunami and policy changes under the current government help compensate for the frequent sales pitches for companion books from the large Lonely Planet library.
If it's possible to update this review after I get back, I will!
If it's possible to update this review after I get back, I will!
8 von 8 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Outstanding for the first time visitor
27. November 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
I just returned from a month in Thailand and found the Lonely Planet Guide to be very impressive. Several things to remember is that:
a) if the publishing date is 2005 the content is probably several months to a year older.
b) if you have local friends and/or family the guide will still be useful but not nearly so compared to a traveler who is on their own. You might keep thinking why the guide doesn't cover something that your in country friend gives you great info or insight into. Relax, the LP guide, despite its heft can only provide so much info.
Comments on LPs logistics and highlights...
1) Logistics.
Negative. There wasn't a lot of coverage given on the new low fare airlines that are now available but this might be because these airlines did not exist in force when the research was done.
Positive. I traveled on local bus, long distance bus, train, taxi, moto-taxi, sky train, subway, regional airplane and even tuk-tuk. The guild had very precise information on how to get around locally and through out the country. This was probably the most helpful part of the book with information I was not able to find easily elsewhere. (Always keep in mind that prices and times will change though.)
Highlights.
Negatives. I could tell that the writers have a particular perspective on what is a highlight and what is not. They love the Wats or temples. I admit that many are incredible and worth the journey. But there are many, many, many of them. After seeing a few Wats, Wat fatigue set. The point is to keep your own interests in mind and not let the guide pick too much of what you decide to do.
Positives. I enjoyed many of the suggestions in the book including the cooking school in Kanchanaburi, walking the alleys of Chinatown in Bangkok, a particularly spectacular guest house in Koa Tao, etc.. My highlights were definitely not the guide's highlights but were found in the guide.
Thailand has a lot to see and the LP guide does an admirable job within the limits of the print format. Now get out there!
a) if the publishing date is 2005 the content is probably several months to a year older.
b) if you have local friends and/or family the guide will still be useful but not nearly so compared to a traveler who is on their own. You might keep thinking why the guide doesn't cover something that your in country friend gives you great info or insight into. Relax, the LP guide, despite its heft can only provide so much info.
Comments on LPs logistics and highlights...
1) Logistics.
Negative. There wasn't a lot of coverage given on the new low fare airlines that are now available but this might be because these airlines did not exist in force when the research was done.
Positive. I traveled on local bus, long distance bus, train, taxi, moto-taxi, sky train, subway, regional airplane and even tuk-tuk. The guild had very precise information on how to get around locally and through out the country. This was probably the most helpful part of the book with information I was not able to find easily elsewhere. (Always keep in mind that prices and times will change though.)
Highlights.
Negatives. I could tell that the writers have a particular perspective on what is a highlight and what is not. They love the Wats or temples. I admit that many are incredible and worth the journey. But there are many, many, many of them. After seeing a few Wats, Wat fatigue set. The point is to keep your own interests in mind and not let the guide pick too much of what you decide to do.
Positives. I enjoyed many of the suggestions in the book including the cooking school in Kanchanaburi, walking the alleys of Chinatown in Bangkok, a particularly spectacular guest house in Koa Tao, etc.. My highlights were definitely not the guide's highlights but were found in the guide.
Thailand has a lot to see and the LP guide does an admirable job within the limits of the print format. Now get out there!
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