Travel to Central America

Let's Go 2003: Costa Rica

Format: Paperback
Author: Inc. Let's Go
ReleaseDate: 01 December, 2002
Publisher: Let's Go Publications
Rating:

Not bad for Harvard College students
The recommendations are largely by and for college students, although other people are catered to. This guidebook has a lot of good info, but it lacks the depth found in other travel guides. We liked Explore Costa Rica for background information--as well as for its online updates, which we found on the publisher's web site.

Come on, now!
It's just that it's scope is very defined: Budget travelers who are visiting the country for 1 or 2 weeks. This guidebook is no where NEAR as bad as the other reviewers are making it out to be.

I found the entries to be very honest and simple; some guidebooks fall all over themselves being "exactamundo" if you know what I mean. All I know, is that it was very helpful WHILE traveling there, especially in the restaurant listings.

Another book I found helpful BEFORE I went, was a more general social history of the country, "Costa Rica: The Last Country the Gods Made. ".

Very disappointed
The book had little useful information and hardly any accomodation or restaurant listings above their "1" rating (which is the least expensive). Thought I would give some of Lonely Planet's competition a try, and I was sorely disappointed. I ended up finding more useful information from the free maps and brochures I got when I was acutally in Costa Rica. Do yourself a favor and get the Lonely Planet version instead.

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