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Switzerland (Country Guide)
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List Price: $21.99
Special Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.940474
EAN: 9781740597623
ISBN: 1740597621
Label: Lonely Planet
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 364
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Studio: Lonely Planet
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Editorial Reviews:
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The winter playground of St Moritz, outrageous clubbing in Zurich, culture vultures in Basel, cosmopolitan Geneva - Switzerland is three countries rolled into one. Our Helvetic experts help you break down the cliches and discover something a little bit different.
Museums, mountains, music - the lowdown on the essential sights.
From hiking to skiing, making the most of the stunning outdoors.
Recommended sleeping options from lakeside camping to chic city hotels.
Loosen your tongue - with four languages to choose from , we explain your Gruezis from your Allegras.
Know it all - William Tell and neutrality, global warming and cultural diversity : historical and current issues explored in depth.
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Summary: Comprehensive travel guide, best choice
Comment: This book and the map was all we needed for our trip to Switzerland. The book has all sources of information - places to see, restaurants, transportation tips, etc. In Geneva and Bern, we followed the walking tours suggested in the book, and we were able to see all major attractions in 2 hrs. For some interesting places to see, the book just provides a brief description, but also gives a website link (when available) for more information, which is very helpful. I would definitely buy another book from Lonely Planet for my future trips.
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Summary: Helpful, accurate, well organized
Comment: This book was the first item to land in my backpack whenever I left my apartment during the year I spent living in Bern, Switzerland. Like most Lonely Planet guides, this one is well-written, entertaining, and generally accurate and up-to-date.
Things I found helpful:
- The suggested walking tours of cities are great for a quick orientation of the place.
- Brief context and history about locations gives you about the same information as your average tourist brochure, but more concise and convenient.
- Hiking routes are briefly mentioned with sufficient detail, but for any extended hiking, I would highly recommend Lonely Planet Walking in Switzerland.
- Information on the best value in train passes and train routes makes eco-friendly travel easy.
- The section on Liechtenstein is a nice addition since many treat it as a day trip from Switzerland.
Considering that Lonely Planet typically caters to budget travelers, I was surprised to see how many upscale hotels it includes for some locations. Overall, the book provides something for everyone and is useful for both short trips and extended exploration of the country.
Mary Ann Miller, author of CH is for Chocolate: Individually Wrapped Tastes of Switzerland
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Summary: Doesn't give Switerzerland its Right
Comment: I had used Lonely Planet for other locations trips, the guide to Switzerland is not detailed at all, least helpful, not so "guiding"...and seems to want to cover the many parts of the country leaving out the important details of any/each city or countryside attraction
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Summary: If You Build It, They Will Come
Comment: I recently found myself contemplating a trip to Basel and, never having been there before and, knowing I would be alone without even a gendarme to ask questions of, nor another human being, I thought I should find a Basel guidebook. Amazingly enough it seems there is no such thing available on Amazon so I went with this larger book, which deals with all of Switzerland--in fact, nearly all of Western culture in one fell swoop.
The authors of LONELY PLANET SWITZERLAND have convinced me for the present at any rate that Switzerland (Helvetia) is the most important country on planet earth, not that they suggest we rank countries by importance or anything. It is a handy guide in the sense that physically, the book is constructed so that you could rip out, as I did, the section on Basel and Aargau, and throw the rest of the book away, and the pages you need form a complete little fascicle, due to an amazing new wonder glue that holds different little chapbooksized sections together until you don't need them together any more. Thus armed with my guide, I went to Basel. The authors share not only hotels, restaurants, and train stations, they go all out to make you feel like you can do it too. I learned how to use the phone, where to shop for lampshades, how to buy a single stamp, where the best (and worst) Swiss-Indian cafes are, and what famous medieval scholar is buried in the tombs inside Munster cathedral. Why Erasmus of course!
They have cute sidebars like Basel's most famous guy, Albert Hoffman, still alive at age 102 or something like that--the man who invented LSD.
Later, I met a pair of Basellienne poets, one American born, one educated in the USA, who showed me their Basel, a charming tour of tombs, elevators, shops and bridges, culminating in a magical ferry boat ride across the Rhine from Big Basel to small. The afternoon was clear, like a glass of vodka, and I felt positively drunk with knowledge as I looked across the water and seemed to see my own back, walking away, mever to return.
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Summary: Excellent Travel Resourse
Comment: Lonely Planet's guide to Switzerland was extremely helpful while travelling to the country. Great detail and updated information on items such as hours of operations and costs were extremely helpful. Additionally, information on excursions such as to Vaduz, Liechtenstein was very up-to-date and an easy read.
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