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Your thoughts on guidebooks

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Does anyone have a particular criteria they use to select a guidebook? Maybe a brand you prefer?

I can't say I see too much wrong with Lonely Planet, except maybe that they are too popular. Apparently a Lonely Planet book raved about a particular travel service in Vietnam. Therefore overnight 100 inferior services were started up in Vietnam with the same name.

What has worked well for you?
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I hear lonely planet makes a good map book of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. You might want to check it out.
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MAAAP QUEEEEEST :tongue:
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Just follow your noses. They will lead the way...

(ender: did you guys get sorted out with Danny OK on Thursday night? I couldn't get through to him before our flight since we were running through Narita like OJ Simpson...just made our flight!) :ninja:
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Yeah dude - not a problem at all. How is the trip goin?

Thanks again man
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Coolio; glad there was no hassles.

Trip's going well. We were hanging on the beach in South Florida and got into NJ yesterday. Leaves are turning here, so it's alllll good.
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cool cool

I think the budget for your trip may be a bit higher than the budget for ours. we hitch hiked from nagoya to hiroshima (in one day btw), stayed with my new good buddy Sean (SJ's Yuki's Passion) in a very spacious but very electricity-less apartment for a couple nights, and then spent all day riding local trains back to nagoya today after 2 fruitless hours of trying to get picked up at a pretty useless (for hitch hiking purposes anyway) expressway onramp...before it started to pour rain. So tonight we are staying at Manboo (mangakissa - 7hrs for only ￥1500) in Nagoya. Woohoo...but we got plenty of One Cup Ozeki and ajoining cubicles so all is good.

whoops, wasting precious recliner time - gotta run.

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