Travel to Puerto Rico

Lonely Planet Diving and Snorkeling Puerto Rico (Diving & Snorkeling)

Format: Paperback
Author: Steve Simonsen
ReleaseDate: September, 2000
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Rating:

Duped and Had
I was, however, severly disappointed when I actually got into the information that the book contained. My first reaction to this book was one of excitment, this came from my first perusing the pictures. The first quarter of the book is devoted to a breif and very lacking overview of Puerto Rico. Although not that useful it didn't hurt. However, there were two things that really bothered me about the book. First was that almost all of the dive sites listed need a guide. The second was that despite the fact that it claims to be a snorkel and dive guide book there is virtually zero snorkel information and of the few sights mentioned only 3, I believe, were actually not seemingly impossible to get to. In fact, my old budget travel guide for puerto rico had over three times as many snorkelnig sites, with, as I was dismayed to see, a lot of sites that were not even included in the SNORKEL and dive guide. How a guide on underwater adventure can be outshown by a general travel guide is beyond me but it is. Do not buy this book if you are planning to mix dives with snorkel and are looking for an all inclusive, it just doesn't have the info. Also, as I said most of the dives require a guide which makes the information in the book rather pointless as the guides will know where the great sites are and a quick conversation can lead you to your next guide and site. This, it seems is probably what the guy who wrote the book did, just went from guide to guide. The main dive areas are well know on the island and you aren't really getting any information that you couldn't just by being here get yourself. My vote, Not worth it.

Great Diving ifno for Puerto Rico
it is a shamed that it di not cover mona Island the best dive site in PR. It covered most of the island with greta details and information. Also, it lacks enough info on shore dive in the island. But overall it gives you enough information to keep you wanting to go back to Puerto rico to dive.

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Related products:
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	Lonely Planet Puerto Rico
	Rand McNally Puerto Rico Easyfinder (Rand McNally Easyfinder)
	Adventure Guide to Puerto Rico, Fourth Edition
	The Complete Diving Guide: The Caribbean, Volume 3 (Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands/British Virgin Islands)
	Fodor's Puerto Rico, 3rd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)