Lonely Planet Greece: Travel Survival Kit

This was the only guide I could find as I planned our trip to Greece that would give me all the specifics I needed to be prepared to travel in Greece. The other guides mostly describe the tourist attractions and throw in a couple hotels and restaurants. If you like to make all your own plans and are on a budget, this is the guide for you. I can add to the accuracy of their details when I get back from our trip.

I really like the Lonely Planet travel guides. They really try to cover all the basics and then give you tips for off the beaten track. This edition is a 2006 so prices are not even close, but I still got websites to check out current prices. I wanted an overview of Greece so I could start planning where I wanted to go and this guide certainly does that. It also has lots of maps for each region. I highly recommend this Lonely Planet Guide to Greece.

My husband and I have been to Greece 3 times using our 4th edition LP Greece. The maps are excellent; we've gotten exactly where we need to go. We read about the different islands, appear at the port w/our luggage, and take whatever boat is going next to a particular group, i.e. Cyclades, and read about the various other stops on the way. The book is not designed to be a travel agent by doing all the work for you. It is a guidebook, and some specific info should be found elsewhere (such as the internet) in trip planning. We use the internet sites listed in LP, esp. the hotel sites, so we have an idea of the author's grading scale. We found plenty of great suggestions regarding places to stay and eat, and if other reviewers felt that info was lacking, the LP would have to be 6 inches thick! While some towns have a 100 places to stay, it is not necessary to list every place in LP. We use the LP reviews as a guideline; we compare the author's opinion by what we actually found. After all, one person's dungeon is another's castle ( & vice versa). The hints, tips, & warnings (esp. about taxis!) were a great help. We're buying the newest editon for our 4th trip as our poor old book is so worn and unreadable.

I spend a month every summer in Greece, and this guide is excellent! It is concise, reads very easily, and gives good common-sense recommendations on what to see and where to stay. It is as up-to-date as you can reasonably expect with changing prices and euro/dollar fluctuations. A very, very practical guide from the budget tourist to middle class. Excellent pictures, very good maps, a fine job! It reminds me, in a way, of the Michelin guides to Europe. Reviewed by David Lundberg, author of Olympic Wandering: Time Travel Through Greece

Greece was my first time travelling alone and this book was recommended by my friend from Greece. I brought other books but I never needed them. This book is laid out in an easy to read style and one can find information very quickly. When I was in Greece, everybody who did not have a Lonely Planet book was asking to borrow mine. Another nice thing about the book is the size, it seems as if the authors designed it to be carried around. It is not heavy, even at 700+ pages. I carried it everywhere. The accomodation recomendations were accurate and excellent choices. The locations of some of them could not have been better.