- ISBN13: 9781741048582
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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This book breaks all parts of Bangkok and w / in these sections, there are areas of interest, shopping, food, entertainment with detailed maps. I had this book w / me all the time I was there! Rating: 5.5
I took this guide with me for a trip a month in Thailand, most of which were spent in Bangkok. The leader has a good job to point out sights and attractions, as well as a handful of hotels and restaurants in every district in Bangkok. Most information, however, was either out-of-date or simply wrong. Recommended restaurants no longer exist, the hotel rates were still missing, and at least 50% of the web addresses listed in the instructions were included because of spelling or typographical errors that were apparently never checked. The maps included are difficult to use and have many Fehler.Bis of this guide is revised and updated, I can not really recommend. If I’m not the Nancy Chandler map of Bangkok with me and would have led me bonkers had this guide! Rating: 5.2
I’ve relied on LP for over 10 years of traveling, and generally think that their publication is better than Moon, Rough Guide, etc.
Since I now live in Bangkok, I feel qualified to review this book. This version is definitely not up to the usual LP standard. I understand that Bangkok changes quickly, but the locations of temples and such do not change (one example – Wat Phra Si Sanphet in Ayuthaya is about a kilometer off). They have also mislabeled restaurants and they sight a restaurant that is apparently right next to my house in Silom. . . but there has never been a restaurant there. Further, on page 115, the description of the “Riverside Ramble” just cuts off in mid-sentence, which is fine, since they mislabel steps 8-10 anyway.
I think that these authors took a lot of short cuts and just assumed that things listed in the previous version were correct. Sadly, this was not the case.
If you are coming to Bangkok and have the previous edition, you’d be better off keeping that and buying the much cheaper (and more accurate) Nancy Chandler’s map to get around.
LP – please pick up your standards on the next version.
Rating: 2 / 5