Mexico (Country Guide)
A guide to traveling in Mexico features information on lodging, food, artwork, history, landscape, and more. Original.Product Details
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Initially specializing in Asia guidebooks, the Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit series has long been a favorite of budget travelers all over the globe. Lonely Planet guides have a reputation for plainspoken and practical advice as well as thoughtful writing about history and culture, and Lonely Planet Mexico is no exception. Complementing the information about sights, accommodations, and food are extensive background notes about each region's notable past and present characteristics, from cuisine to geography to art. (Check out the full-color illustrated insert on Mexican artesanías, or handicrafts.) One note: this edition came out during the worst of the peso devaluation crisis, so the prices quoted may vary widely from the actual amount. It's best to rely on another guidebook for exact prices (try one that comes out every year), but for basic comparative information, Lonely Planet is a good name to trust.
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Lonely Planet guidebooks are, quite simply, like no others.' --New York Times
Lonely Planet guidebooks are, quite simply, like no others.' --New York Times
From the Publisher
Note from Publisher: This title is the old edition of Lonely Planet's guide to Mexico. Lonely Planet's new edition of Mexico may be found by typing the ISBN number, 1740596862, into the search box.
Customer Reviews
Good, but not really up to date
I just came back from a trip over the Yucatan peninsula. In general, the choice, description and evaluation of places is good, as in most of the lonely planets. However, the choice of hotels and restaurants, at least in the budget and mid-range section was only helpful in maybe 50% of cases. The other 50% were rather epxensive, no longer existing or just bad tips. Obvious and locally known good places to stay for the night (which are cited in other books) where missing for almost all the towns we went. In general, the prices in the book are completely outdated, in reality everything was more expensive by 20-100%. Over all, it seems that either the tourism industry in Yucatan and Quintana Roo has changed immensly in a very short time period, or this section of the guide has just not been updated for a while...
What a joy to travel with this guide book
Just came back from three weeks in the Western Central Highlands of Mexico. My first impression, what a joy to travel with this guide book. As an experienced budget traveler, I look for the following in guide books (1) detail city maps, (2) budget hotel listings, (3) detail information on getting from the bus station to the interesting part of town. After all, it's easy to arrive in a bus station and hail a cab; it takes a little more effort to take public transportation. This guide gave me the information needed to do this, plus the money saved will easily pay for this book and heighten your travel experience.
I look at this book like a good friend giving me advice on the best places to go and the experiences not to miss. Kudos to the "Highlights" that LP has incorporated into each travel section, it made me read those sections more thoroughly. In conclusion, the writing is fresh and full of emotion along with the accurate travel details listed above made this the best Mexican travel book I've ever used.
Dissappointing
Its OK, I guess, but to me a bit dissappointing compared to previous Lonely Planet Guides that I have purchased. You can tell that it was written by different people. Not up to the usual standards as far as reviews of lodgings and night clubs, restaurants, etc. Lonely Planet has changed -and not for the better.
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