Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote D'Azur

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Useful and thorough review
A fairly good guide to Provence
Almost Great -- Worth The Buy
Great.
good all-around guide that was useful and mainly accurate

Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote D'Azur (Lonely Planet Provence and the Cote D'azur)
Nicola Williams , and Catherine Le Nevez
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Sniff out fungus worth its weight in gold with a truffle dog in Avignon's forests, p. 178. Learn how to choose the sweetest Cavaillon melon from the lively morning market, p. 223. Fill your lungs cycling through lavender fields from Buoux to Saignon, p. 226. Exfoliate like the stars with a diamond-dust massage in Monaco, p. 88.

--Two long-term, France-based authors, more than 1200 hours of on-the-road research, 63 detailed maps. --Get active with extensive outdoor coverage from bird-watching to donkey rambling. --Bursting with local interviews and brimming with insights on Provencal culture. --You asked for it, we researched it - more of the region's best painting, cooking and French-language courses.

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Useful and thorough review.......2007-06-09

contains very useful information. However, the authors only covers major cities and tourist attractions, and ignore many beautiful villages and towns in country side. For this reason, I recommend reading other guide books and travel essays.

A fairly good guide to Provence.......2006-08-12

LP contains so much information that it makes it difficult to plan your trip without any other guide. So, at your planning stage of the trip I suggest you resort to some other guide.
But, while travelling, I found the book to be very useful. It gives you a lot of vital information that every backpacker needs. However, some of the maps in this LP are slightly incorrect, so I suggest you do not rely soley on the LP maps, but use some more detailed ones. Also, for a traveller on tight budget, the book could contain some more info about camping places.
All in all, a good book that is definitely worth the buy.

Almost Great -- Worth The Buy.......2004-12-02

The Lonely Planet series of travel guides is one I have come to depend on, and this is one of the better ones. Good, concise, useable information. The thing that keeps it from being five stars is the hotel and restaurant listings, which are woefully insufficient. But when you're driving around Provence and stumble on a medieval town and want to know if there's a story there or not, this book will tell you.

Great........2003-09-02

I must say this is my first experience with Lonely Planet guides, though i already had high recommendations and positive feed-backs. I decided to give it a go with my 4-weeks in Sun. :-) I spent four weeks travelling around Cote D'Azur and Haute-Provence from Monaco to Marseille and into Alps e.g. Castellane, St. Andre, etc. The information contained is ver much accurate and helpful (i was travelling alone, not with a group!). There are sufficient maps of major regions and city but this guide should not be used for the sake of map. Always take a detailed map e.g. a driving one if you got wheels otherwise every tourist office got full detailed city maps.
Five stars stuff.

good all-around guide that was useful and mainly accurate.......1999-10-19

We used this guide, along with the Triple A guide on Provence and the Cote d'Azure. The Lonely Planet guide was by far the most relevant and contained most of the practacilities the traveler needs. Some of the facts and features were a little different than the author stated, and it could have been quite a bit more thorough regarding the practacilities of driving. Historical and cultural information was both well done and interesting. Definitely 4* and possibly 4 1/2 *.

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