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Title: Lonely Planet Canary Islands (Canary Islands, 2nd Ed) by Miles Roddis ISBN: 1-86450-310-6 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: This Guide Bites
Comment: I lived in the Canary Islands for 10 years. I am returning this winter for the first time as a tourist, and purchased Lonely Planet's guide, because they are normally good. Using this guide, I cannot find a single decent place to stay, any good restaurants, and even the activities list is pathetic. I know you're probably thinking that I'm just jaded because I lived there and know the spots, but from a basics perspective, not ONE of the major hotels that I know are good are listed, the three hotels that I did recognize are dumps, and the restuarant selections are crappy tourist dives without any real authenticity. Unfortunately, I don't have a good guide to recommend yet, but whatever you do, don't get this one!
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointingly mediocre
Comment: I took this book on my recent trip to Canary Islands. Most of the information contained in the book can be easily found on internet (or even more). The content is an encyclopedic compilation of facts (probably rehashed from other publications) with very little personal experience. This is another hastily written and impersonal guide book. I expected something like the Ultimate Kauai and got less than could be found on Ecanarias web site. The most irritating, in my opinion, were multiple references to another book by one of the authors about hiking trails. If you want to hike - buy another book, uh. There is no even basic walk described. I laughed pretty hard when I read about poorly marked trails in the National Park on La Gomera. The reality is quite opposite. The trail-heads have excellent markings and even area maps. You wander how many years it has been since they visited last time. (the signs start show age here and there). There is nothing outstanding about this book. No personal touch like Ultimate Kaui Guide or sumptuous visual information like in DK Eye Witness series that steers you to the best sights (too bad none on Canary Islands is available yet). Explanation for this mediocre performance dawned on me when I realized what a prolific author Damien Simonis is. He "fathered or better bastardized" guide books covering about 15 - 20 areas (depending how you count) and these include whole countries like Italy, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, southern Spain and even all of Africa. Doing simple math tells you that he could not work on updating each more than 3 weeks a year. Probably many tourists would beat him in this aspect.
I enjoyed other Lonely Planet publication but this one is a real disappointment. There is plenty of free guides in English, even hiking maps and trails, once you get to islands. Save your money and skip it.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Guide to the Islands, by fermed
Comment: Damien Simonis wrote the first edition of the Lonely Planet's gide to the Canaries, and an excellent companion to the islands it was; now (May, 2001) Lonely Planet has issued the second edition of this work, and I am delighted to say that it is just as good (but more up to date) than the first version. Simonis was joined by Miles Roddis to prepare the current book, which follows essentially the same plan as the first guide, and which conserves intact much of the original writing about the islands. The current version displays and entirely new set of photographs by Simonis, who seems to have improved his camera work in the intervening years since he first published the guide.
The book is amazingly fruitful for its relative compact size and number of pages (271): it provides brief but essential information about the history of the islands, its dogs, its Canary birds, people, plants, transportation, medical services, its gay life, the island sports, and the means of getting there. It accurately describes each of the seven islands, and managest to convey the major and the subtle differences between them -- and those differences can be huge: from the dry Saharan landscapes of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, to the verdant La Palma, to the scraggly beauty of Hierro. The Pico de Teide, on the island of Tenerife, is the 3rd largest volcano on earth (after Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, in Hawaii)and rises from the sea to over 12 thousand feet. Its peak is covered with snow most of the year, but at sea level the islands have superb weather.
For those about to visit the Canaries, a Lonely Planet guide to them is essential. I don't think it is necessary to buy the second edition if one already owns the first: there are no dramatic changes between the books, and with a little flexibility the traveler will find the first edition just as useful as the second one. The travel tips are pricesless in both books and they will surely enhance the pleasure of visiting this strange and beautiful corner of the world. Don't leave without a copy.
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Title: CANARY ISLANDS POCKET GUIDE (Pocket Guides) by Berlitz Publishing, Norman Renouf ISBN: 2831576903 Publisher: Berlitz Travel Guide Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Canary Islands (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Piotr Paszkiewicz, Hanna Faryna-Paszkiewicz ISBN: 0789493047 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Insight Guide Tenerife and Western Canary Islands (Insight Guides) by Pam Barrett, Langenscheidt Publishers ISBN: 1585730602 Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group Pub. Date: 30 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Tenerife Map by Nils Robert Meyer ISBN: 3931567362 Publisher: Ray Media Enterprises Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Morocco (Morocco, 6th Ed) by Bradley Mayhew, Jan Dodd ISBN: 1740593618 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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