Travel to Australia

The Rough Guide to Australia 7 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: Margo Daly
ReleaseDate: 17 October, 2005
Publisher: Rough Guides
Rating:

Gives a few great places a bit of a rough treatment
It is a lot thicker than the Lets Go version and believe me, weight and space are important when lugging the thing around a whole continent. This is another guide written in the same sort of format as Lets Go and Lonely Planet. Let's Go also has a fair bit more information than Rough Guide in fewer pages. I also don't like the paper the pages are made of in this book as it's not a nice texture, is very thin and the pages stick together when the book's been inside a hot backpack and just don't feel nice turning the pages when it's a bit humid. Rough Guide is also rather opinionated on everything from each hostel to local information booth staff friendliness. I must say I do agree with some comments but a lot I never had the same experiences. That's the thing about travelling one person can have a great experience with a tourism operator and the next not so good. It depends who else is on the tour, in the room, which staff member you get and so on. If this was a constantly updated website that encourages feedback and changed the information regularly than I would see a place for it but not in a guide book. If you follow the author's opinion you'll miss out on some great experiences and even the places he recommends you may still have a bad time at. That's just the way tourism is. I'd recommend Lets Go over this for backpacking around Australia.

Do not travel to Australia without this book
The maps within it were fantastic especially on our four day drive up the coast. This book was a lifesaver for us on our three week vacation to Australia. It was very helpful with regard to accommodation, and finding tourist information offices. We didn't leave our room without it on any day of our trip.

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