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Summary: Did They Really Visit?
Review: I purchased this book before a three-day trip to Liberec. Literally nothing that was written about the city was on target. Their opinion that the place was unattractive was, IMHO wrong. The recommended restaurants didn't exist; were incorrectly located on the map; or were absolutely terrible! The opening/closing times for the Bohemian glass museum in a nearby town were inaccurate.
Too bad I can't return it.
I'm planning on going back to the CZ. I'll take Lonely Planet instead.
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Summary: Full of essential info for all types of travellers.
Review: Information ranging from the cheapest bus to get from the airport to the city, to the locations of the finest restaurants in town. More than adequate chapter on Prague, but the book really comes into its element talking about tiny exquisite villages in Slovakia's back of beyond!
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Summary: An excellent guide for an independent traveller.
Review: My continued use of lonely planet guides is indicative of the quality I find. It is an excellent guide for us. We travel by car and lp is a plus for us as we can get to more remote area. It was right on target with the Czech & Slovak Rep guide. We found a wonderful place to visit and stay called Telc with their recommendation. My only criticism is that the binding did not hold up and the book came loose from it. It was difficult to turn pages because of occasional pages becoming loose.
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Summary: An excellent guide for an independent traveller.
Review: My continued use of lonely planet guides is indicative of the quality I find. It is an excellent guide for us. We travel by car and lp is a plus for us as we can get to more remote area. It was right on target with the Czech & Slovak Rep guide. We found a wonderful place to visit and stay called Telc with their recommendation. My only criticism is that the binding did not hold up and the book came loose from it. It was difficult to turn pages because of occasional pages becoming loose.
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Summary: lots of detail but hard to navigate
Review: This book is chock full of details, with history and facts impressively presented for sights throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia, places small and large. The dense pages are hard to navigate as they are formatted, making it difficult to find information quickly. Also, the author seems to have traveled by car and the book lacks practical information on public transportation, such as how long it takes to travel from one place to another and how much bus or train tickets cost. This book will provide you with great background information once you are already there, but for practical trip planning, I found I needed to refer to the Lonely Planet.
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Summary: lots of detail but hard to navigate
Review: This book is chock full of details, with history and facts impressively presented for sights throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia, places small and large. The dense pages are hard to navigate as they are formatted, making it difficult to find information quickly. Also, the author seems to have traveled by car and the book lacks practical information on public transportation, such as how long it takes to travel from one place to another and how much bus or train tickets cost. This book will provide you with great background information once you are already there, but for practical trip planning, I found I needed to refer to the Lonely Planet.
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Summary: Outstanding guide
Review: This is an outstanding guide. It's absolutely chock full of detail. In fact it's almost TOO detailed. I lived in the Czech Republic for an entire month this summer, traveling mostly on the weekends, and I found myself simply unable to see most of the stuff in this guide, even in Prague. It covers virtually every single museum in the country, and a lot of other interesting sights besides that often don't get into the dorky little travel guides most tourists buy (stuff like breweries and wine cellars). The eating section here is tremendous. It even lists Icelandic and Greek restaurants in Prague! The book has also got a great entertainment section, listing places like nightclubs, jazz bars, opera houses and similar venues of a cultural nature. The shopping section will tell you where to find places like English-language bookstores. And of course, it lists all sorts of accomodations (not just hostels and campsites).The guide is also extremely detailed about what to see outside of Prague and Bratislava. Kutna Hora, Cesky Krumlov, and the Tatras obviously make it in, but you'll also find information about pokey little towns out in the sticks (heck, it's even got a section on notorious East Moravia, which a Czech friend of mine memorably described as the "a--hole of the country"). Finally, although you don't have to be a real outdoors kind of person to buy a "rough" guide, if you do like the outdoors, this is definitely the guide to buy. It has tons of information about hiking in the mountains, boating on the Vltava, places to camp, etc. So basically you can't go wrong here. Light-weight, too. Five stars.
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Summary: Outstanding guide
Review: This is an outstanding guide. It's absolutely chock full of detail. In fact it's almost TOO detailed. I lived in the Czech Republic for an entire month this summer, traveling mostly on the weekends, and I found myself simply unable to see most of the stuff in this guide, even in Prague. It covers virtually every single museum in the country, and a lot of other interesting sights besides that often don't get into the dorky little travel guides most tourists buy (stuff like breweries and wine cellars). The eating section here is tremendous. It even lists Icelandic and Greek restaurants in Prague! The book has also got a great entertainment section, listing places like nightclubs, jazz bars, opera houses and similar venues of a cultural nature. The shopping section will tell you where to find places like English-language bookstores. And of course, it lists all sorts of accomodations (not just hostels and campsites). The guide is also extremely detailed about what to see outside of Prague and Bratislava. Kutna Hora, Cesky Krumlov, and the Tatras obviously make it in, but you'll also find information about pokey little towns out in the sticks (heck, it's even got a section on notorious East Moravia, which a Czech friend of mine memorably described as the "a--hole of the country"). Finally, although you don't have to be a real outdoors kind of person to buy a "rough" guide, if you do like the outdoors, this is definitely the guide to buy. It has tons of information about hiking in the mountains, boating on the Vltava, places to camp, etc. So basically you can't go wrong here. Light-weight, too. Five stars.
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