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| Turkey (Lonely Planet Country Guides) |  | Author: James Bainbridge
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
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Rating:  24 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 11th Revised edition
Pages: 724
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.2
ISBN: 174104927X
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.61044
EAN: 9781741049275
Publication Date: April 1, 2009
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 Turkey (Lonely PLanet) August 13, 2010
Carole
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is easy to use and gives you all the information you need to find your way to the most interesting places.
I bought it to find my way around Istanbul without paying for a tour. With a family of 6 it has already saved me £360 and I've only used it once! It is also interesting reading and having succeessfully navigated Istanbul - it tells you how to use the tram ( approx 70p per journey)- I now intend to plan future trips to other parts of Turkey. This book is one of the best things I've bought all year.
Great travel book July 5, 2010
Cortney Busch (London, UK via Lincoln, NE)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very comprehensive. Couldn't ask for more information. Definitely recommended to all the other people going on the trip with me.
 Probably not the best July 5, 2010
Anistitis (Staffordshire)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Got back from Turkey after a 2 week road trip holiday in east, central and the east mediteranean coast. I chose this book purely because it's the most up to date one available in the market and kind of covers where we are going. Most of the reviews in the book are relatively ok and lots of things have changed since they did last research. Most hotels are still there and cost has risen up. Overall, the book is written very sparsely but it's difficult as you may end up a 3 volume guide to Turkey. The maps were ok but not brilliant. It certainly caters mostly for travellers who are less mobile than us in the car. So there were hardly any information on travelling in East Mediteranean (like Mersin, Anamur etc) in the car and similarly in the middle like Afyon. Pretty useless - comments like it's better if you have a car so you can see more (But then the more bit just kind of trails off). Nevertheless, as far as standards of LP it achieves its basic level of expectation; a map, a brief description, places to stay and eat. But if you want more than the basic, I suggest look up for more specialist stuff than at this book. For a bog standard LP guidebook, this rates 3/5. Would I suggest you buy it? If you need the one book for your trip and not worry having to lug other books, I would. But if you have extra spaces for other books, then I suggest get something else.
a present February 10, 2010
Shelley (Belgium)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a present for my hubby 'cos we're going to Turkey soon and he collects the lonely planet of each country he's been too. He'll love it. Lonely planet gives a very clear picture of the places u visit.
Helpful as a directory, but not for the opinions December 19, 2009
Mr. Joseph Kelly (UK)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
It's very obvious when you first start reading this guide that it's aimed at the wealthy traveller. It's written from the perspective of people who are having everything paid for, do not need to save money, and therefore focus on the aesthetics rather than the bare essentials and value, whether its eating, sleeping or sightseeing. Phrases like "It's inevitable you'll buy some sort of carpet when you're in Turkey" (under the 'highlights' section) do not seem to have the books largest demographic in mind, 18-25 year old backpackers.
Many of the hotel descriptions focus on the appearance of the rooms and furnishings, not the things that matter like helpfullness of staff, safety, noise levels etc., and this is in the budget section! You just have to assume that as they've not brought them up these things are fine- but that's not always the case. You almost get the feeling they went in, took a look around, wrote down some notes on the decor and then checked in at the upmarket hotel down the road. Who can blame them I guess, if lonely planet is paying you might as well take the luxury option.
Which brings me to another point; the upmarket sections are given far more space than the budget sections than in any other guide I've read, sometimes there's only one or two budget options. They also need to be far more conservative with the flowery language so that they could fit more useful stuff in. Our lives would have been so much easier with some bigger maps that actually had all the road names on, rather than just about a third of them. Other than these criticisms, I suppose the guide was helpful in finding some hotels and eateries, but in all honesty we'd have saved a lot of money and time just asking the locals for reccomendations/directions instead.
I'll leave you with some sample descriptions (with nothing ommited, it's all there) of BUDGET hotels, in Malatya and Antep:
"'Soviet tenement' springs to mind upon first sight of the greyish, peeling facade, but give this central abode a chance for it was undergoing a much need freshening up at the time of writing. When we checked in, brand-new mattresses were stacked next to the reception, which bodes well. The breakfast room boasts contempory furnishings and a flat-screen TV" - Hotel Yeni Sinan. Well at least we know what it looks like.
"As far as physical beauty goes, this is a real plane Jane, but it's a secure place to hang your rucksack, the rates are good, and it's handily set in the centre of town. It features anodyne rooms with well scrubbed bathrooms (but please upgrade the boarding school style furnishings). The breakfast room is windowless" - Yunus Hotel. Man I hate boarding school style furnishings, this was definitely a no-go.
"The decor's a bit blah, and the carpets are tatty, but the bathrooms are kept in fine fettle and location is primo. Oh, and there's the Gulluoglu pastry shop on the ground floor." - Hotel Gulluoglu. Wow, if there's anything I hate more than boarding school style furnishings, it's blah decor and tatty carpets. But a pastry shop on the ground floor?! I'm sold.
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