Lonely Planet Germany - European Travel Books

Paperback - May, 2004 - Lonely Planet Publications
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By: Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Sarah Johnstone, Etain O'Carroll, Jeanne Oliver, Tom Parkinson and Nicola Williams
ISBN: 1740594711

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About this book

It's an enormous place with overwhelming tourist options. Smack in the middle of Europe, Germany's got the Bavarian Alps, windswept North Sea islands, the Black Forest and the castle-dotted Rhine. And there's Berlin, a city where you could easily spend all your vacation and not see a tenth of what it has to offer. Germany has history aplenty, an enormous variety of museums, cosmopolitan sophistication and rural quaintitude, camping, beer gardens, and music of all kinds. In short, Germany is the kind of place where a guidebook makes all the difference.

Lonely Planet covers the country diligently and entertainingly, leaving nothing out. With maps of all 16 states, over 35 city maps, and a fold-out transportation map to Berlin, the daunting becomes comfortable. There are the background chapters on history, government, climate and ecology, the people, the arts, society and language, and a big fat chapter covering all the necessary details of visas, money, Web sites, electricity, festivals, health, and accommodations for special needs, plus how to get there and how to get around once you've arrived. Then for every city and burg, Lonely Planet provides the stuff a traveler needs to know, all about where to stay, eat, sight see, shop, and play. And scattered in and among the guiding text are little nuggets of interest, telling the stories of witches and warlocks, Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, and the sad tale of Queen Caroline. Not prohibitively large, Lonely Planet's guidebook packs enough into its pages for 100 good trips. --Stephanie Gold

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Reviews by readers

Extremely Helpful!

The best thing about Lonely Planet guide books is it gives you tons of useful information from customs and culture to language to the nitty-gritty how to, where to go, and what to see and do. We just returned from a one week trip to Germany. It was wonderful, and we took the Lonely Planet guidebook with us everywhere. It led us to many great cities, sights, restaurants, and places to stay. Highly recommended! We have also used Lonely Planet guidebooks on our trips to Thailand and Japan. It has never led us very far astray. :)

Makes the travel easier

For my one-week-only trip (I circulated around Frankfurt and Wiesbaden) the book did it's job. The maps are great; the articles refresh your memory and help you look knowledgeable enough when talking to locals. Overall I think it makes the visit through this very hospitable country easier and even more entertaining.

A good guide

I just got back from a month long backpacking all over Germany. Its truely is a great guide for independent lonely traveller. I do agree with other reviewer's comment that, its geared towards people using public transport more, but that worked out well for me. I don't know what reviewers are complaining about the East Germany part, but I had great time with the help of this book in the east (spent 1.5 weeks).
The only problem is that this guide book is updated only once in 2yrs or so, so some of the info is outdated (the Dachau tour info) and I had to miss out on some tours because of that. I haven't used other guides and this is my first lonely travel so I can't really compare, but this is a very comprehensive travel companion (when you have no companion at all :).

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