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The Rough Guide to Yucatan 1 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: Zora O'Neill
ReleaseDate: 21 November, 2005
Publisher: Rough Guides
Rating:

Excellent for the independent ttraveller
We rented a car and drove around the Yucatan, not the Cancun strip but other less travelled areas. This book was excellent for our needs. One good thing is that the book was recently updated, the area has changed so fast that you need a current guidebook to keep up with the rapid development. The maps were good inside the book and also the history and description was readable not boring like in some of the books. One oddity though was that the author ignored Akumal, where we spent six pleasant days at a modestly priced resort that wasn't even mentioned in the book. Don't know why the entire town was basically ignored when it is a signficant destination and other guidebooks cover it. However overall the book was quite useful to me. I also bought the Rough Guide road map which was also very helpful because the signage is often poor.

Don' tleav home with out it!
This book covers all the bases, plus has plenty of sidelights to out of the way places to keep your trip interesting. I agree with the previous reviewer. It was evident that the author has done her homework! She will lead you to some great places to eat! I also recomemend you Check out the thriller "A Tourist in the Yucatan" a great beach read set in the Yucatan!.

Highly recommended-- a big help.
All the basics are covered, but it also includes funny and reliable tips on cool places the average tourist might not go to, like Punta Allen and Felipe Carrillo Puerto. I don't usually bother to do this, but I just wanted to post here that this guidebook is great: full of interesting ideas, and very trustworthy. I really liked the fact that when the book covers the crucial tourist areas, it also includes a range options for making your experience even more enjoyable and varied, like mentioning spots that the locals actually go to. You can tell that whoever wrote this book did a lot of exploring to find interesting places.

It's a Rough Guide, so the maps are pretty good and there's all the nitty-gritty travel info I would want. I thought the info on renting a car was helpful, as it included tips on local driving rules that actually took the fear and mystery out of driving there for me.

By the way: you can find *delicious* food when you use this book. Sometimes it seems like guidebooks just reproduce whatever random restaurants are included in other books, but that's not the case here. The restaurants were always really good, and there was a range of price choices. Even the street-vendor suggestions are worth checking out.

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