Travel to Australia

Moon Handbooks Australia (Moon Handbooks : Australia)

Format: Paperback
Author: Marael Johnson
ReleaseDate: 09 January, 2006
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, Moon Handbooks
Rating:

Disagee with other reviewers
The Moon Handbook gives just basic information on tourist sites which is okay, but it doesn't go into anything out of the ordinary. Both my wife and I found this book to be very inferior to other guide books on Australia (eg Rough Guide is far superior in our opinon). I bought the book because of the positive reviews and the recent edition (late 2005) - both of which were the wrong reasons to buy. The book is not worth lugging around Australia.

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Extremely helpful
They were all helpful in planning my trip, but Australia Handbook stood out for its coverage of the country in general as well as all the usual hotel and restaurant recommendations. I bought a number of guides to Australia and studied each before leaving. As well as balancing this coverage, I found the book to be up to date and, with everywhere I traveled, anyway, coverage was thorough. Many guidebooks I have used in the past concentrate on the big cities, but this one led me further afield to the kind of places only locals would usually know about. By the end of my trip I was relying almost entirely on it for places to stay and eat, and couldn't find a fault in the choices provided.

I highly recommend this book to anyone traveling to Australia.

A great book to a great country
It contained all the information we needed for pretrip planning as well as wealth of information on the country itself. We purchased this book before leaving for a six-week trip Downunder. Once in Australia I found it an indispensible aid for choosing what we wanted to see in the limited time we had. The accommodations and restaurants recommended were also spot on, and it was obvious to us as soon as we started traveling that the book is extremely well-researched.

Australia is truly a wonderful place, so it may sound cliched, but this book really helped make our trip everything we had dreamt of. I highly reccomend this book to anyone heading Downunder. It is well worth the investment.

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