Travel to Caribbean

Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands (Lonely Planet Travel Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: Conner Gorry
ReleaseDate: 21 October, 2005
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Rating:

Perfect for trip planning
After you've planned your itinerary, I suggest buying a more specialized LP (Lonely Planet) guide to take with you - a small price to pay for a successful vacation. At 800+ pages, this is too heavy to lug around, but it's perfect for planning a trip and deciding where to visit.

Cuba gets the longest chapter (a whopping 59pp), followed by the Dominican Republic (48pp), Trinidad & Tobago (47pp), Bahamas (43pp), and Jamaica (42pp). However, the book's warnings about Jamaican crime will cause most travellers to rethink their itinerary. Haiti receives a token 18 pages due to the turmoil there. At the other end of the spectrum, the shortest chapters are on Saba and St. Eustatius (10pp each).

I enjoy the LP writing style, and I like their emphasis on practical tidbits. For example, don't fly directly from Aruba to the U. S. because you'll be in line for two hours at the Aruba airport due to understaffing by U. S. customs officers (yes, U. S. ) who handle pre-clearance procedures. This is the kind of nuts-and-bolts information for which LP is famous, and enables visitors to avoid vacation hell.

Pet peeves: The chapters covering the 26 jurisdictions seem to be in random order - why not alphabetical? LP has always been famous for their maps, but lately their maps have been using one shade of gray for water and a slightly different shade of gray for land, which is tough on the eyes. .

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Related products:
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	Fodor's Caribbean 2007 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
	Frommer's Caribbean 2007 (Frommer's Complete)