Let's Go 2005 Greece

• Paperback - 18 November, 2004 - Let's Go Publications
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• By: Inc Let's Go
• ISBN: 0312335490

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Reviews by readers

A HUGE Help

Let's Go 2005 Greece, was by far the best guide book that me and my father had brought with us to our recent 3 week trip to Greece. No matter where we went, we always had that book with us. I would actually rate this book a 4.9 if I could - since there are only a certain number of towns, hotels, restaurants, sights, bars, and other things that the writers can submit in to one single book - I found that there were so many other great things in Greece besides the things that they had listed. I had searched high and low for the best Greece guide so that my trip would be unforgetable - I ended up with this book and now that I'm back, I don't regret my choice at all! It was amazing!
For all of my future trips, I will look to Let's Go before any other guide book series!
(By the way, the things that they suggest are for all ages! I'm 17 and my dad is 57)

A great travel guide

This guide directed me to some really great cheap lodgings and restaurants, and also gives a good explanation of travel options within Greece.

Terrible travel book!

I spent two wks in Europe with a different guide book (Rick Steve's) and found that book very helpful. Unfortunately, my two wks in Greece using "Let's Go" were terrible (so bad, in fact, that I tried unsuccessfully to get a flight home ten days early). I don't believe that the authors actually traveled to all the small island towns they described. The rates they reported for Evia and Andros Island were double what they really were (despite the fact that I used the 2005 edition for travel during July/Aug 2005), they described a town as "sprawling and modern" when it wasn't even close to that (it was described instead on a Greek website as "what Athens was 20yrs ago"--meaning NOT modern), maps were not detailed enough, and there wasn't a personal touch to the recs they made for hotels/restaurants (it seemed that they randomly chose a few places but did not try many places and then list the BEST options for the price--as Rick Steves did). In addition, they used overly extravagant, and thus, inaccurate, descriptions to describe the beaches. The beaches of the Andros/Evia islands have their own charm, but they are not "beautiful" (other than the clear water, the beaches are very small and often rocky). I suspect that the writers got a lot of their info from internet research rather than personal experience; or, their travel experiences may be so narrow that they have no points of comparison for their descriptions. In addition, this guide book was written solely by non-minority travelers; and though there is a small paragraph describing some Greeks' negative attitudes toward minorities, it significantly minimizes this. I have traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S. and never have I experience the consistent, blantant racism that I did in Greece. To have no writers of ethnicity paints a narrow and inaccurate portrait of the serious problems of traveling through Greece as a person of ethnicity. In addition, I met other backpackers during my four wks of travel who also expressed disatisfaction/frustration with the "Let's Go" series of travel guides.

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