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Title: Chile Guide (Open Road Travel Guides) by Becky Youman, Bryan Estep ISBN: 1-892975-05-X Publisher: Open Road Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good guidebook, but...
Comment: There is evidently not yet an ideal guidebook on Chile. This one is a bit too heavy and large for easy packing, but it is easier to read and in some cases has more substance than something like the relatively more compact Lonely Planet guide for Chile. The LP guide for Chile suffers from political posturing which we (Chileans) find obnoxious. This Open Road Chile Guide lacks sufficiently detailed region maps but for that you should use the Turistel map atlas anyway. It also tends to assume a tourist less inclined to stay in the cheapest places, compared to Lonely Planet. But it is misses some basic travel-writing fundamentals by saying things like "....hostals off the left side of the highway" when "left" will depend whether you are traveling from one direction or the other. The book's opinion that Chinese restaurants are "new" to the country and therefore have more expensive food is actually laughable, and remind us that the authors are not long-time residents. In some other areas the historical details about certain events seem inaccurate, but in others the even-handedness is refreshing, compared to the politically tainted (and pompously critical) Lonely Planet book. Schedules in the south of Chile are notoriously variable, so anything written should be suspect. But in general, this is a quite useful book, and its occasional inaccuracies are perhaps no worse than those of comparable guidebooks on Chile. Obviously, get the latest edition if you plan to take this book with you to Chile.
Rating: 5
Summary: Provides an insider's guide to Chile
Comment: Although many of the other reviewers were critical of the information in this book, I found it the only Chile guidebook that had recommendations for places that only Chileans know about. I also found the tone of the book entertaining, and it was clear that the authors actually lived here instead of visited a few times. Before moving here, my Chilean husband and I used it for a two week trip for 10 "gringos" and found not one recommendation to be off target. In fact, we've recommended some of the places to other Chileans! Its target audience is not the Lonely Planet crowd, but those of us who are no longer staying in hostals and have the means to rent a car instead of taking the bus.
We live in Chile and after one of our visitors "borrowed" the book, we are now ordering a new copy to be able to plan future getaways and itineraries for friends. I couldn't recommend it more!
Rating: 2
Summary: Error-filled, sketchy, and unhandy
Comment: It is the nature of travel guides to be a bit sketchy, else you would be carrying something the size of a phone directory. But this book is neither the handy and compact size of the Lonely Planet guide to Chile, nor as comprehensive. And it is full of errors in many sections. In the Hanta virus discussion the translation of the principle disease vector is improperly translated as being a "rat" when in fact it is a quite small "mouse." There are many other examples of just plain incorrect translations, some of which may get you into trouble, while others just illustrate lackluster proofreading. These numerous errors suggest that while the authors may have visited Chile, they did not become competent in its language and customs. Much of the information is just plain wrong, and appears to be gleaned from sources other than first-hand knowledge and experience. For example, during the past ten years I have often crossed the frontier between Chile Chico (Chile) and Los Antiguos (Argentina), first as a tourist and later as a Chilean resident, and NEVER have I needed what the authors claim is an essential "salvoconducto." This bit of misinformation was apparently picked up from very old guidebooks of the past, which should suggest to contemporary readers the origins of many of the errors in this unfortunate attempt at a modern guide to Chile. As the Chileans themselves might say "Lindo, pero harto errores"(nice but plenty of mistakes). Conclusion: not recommended.
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Title: Let's Go 2003: Chile by Stefan Jacob ISBN: 0312305605 Publisher: Let's Go Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Rough Guide to Chile (ROUGH GUIDE CHILE) by Melissa Graham, Andrew Benson, Jonathan Franklin ISBN: 1843530627 Publisher: Rough Guides Limited Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Frommer's Argentina and Chile, Second Edition by Shane Christensen, Kristina Schreck, Haas Mroue, Shane Christensen, Kristina Schreck, Haas Mroue ISBN: 0764525387 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island (LONELY PLANET CHILE AND EASTER ISLAND) by Carolyn Hubbard, Brigitte Barta, Jeff Davis ISBN: 174059116X Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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