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Lonely Planet London Condensed (Condensed Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Fallon
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3561907
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 3.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1864500433
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781864500431
ASIN: 1864500433
Publication Date: April 2000
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Product Description
Especially designed for the discerning short-term visitor to London, this Condensed Guide captures the best this city has to offer in an easy-to-use package. From top sights and walking tours to opinionated reviews of where to eat, stay, shop and have fun, this is an informed and entertaining guide.
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 Concise, efficient August 23, 2007
This guide gives all the right information, not too much and not too little, as well as good maps. I liked the maps this guide gives better than the "London A to Z" map, at least from a tourist's perspective.
 Good but room for improvement July 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I normally have no complaints about Lonely Planet books - I've used them repeatedly. The London book is good with great maps, descriptions, directions, and updated admission costs and times, however, I found two things below my expectations: While the maps are good, this edition did not list supermarkets as most other Lonely Planet books do. (When touring on foot as I normally do, I like stopping in to a supermarket for a quick snack or drink - usually quicker and less expensive than going to a restaurant.) The other feature I found confusing is listing sights outside of London proper with no directions on how to get there. If I wanted sights outside of London, I'd had bought the Britain edition! If excursions outside the city are listed, it would help to see how to get there and an indication of how long it would take to get there, so one can plan an itinerary.
A big list of restaurant that are useless for a backpacker May 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
. The information about the history of London was Ok.
. Ok with the walking tour
. All the highlights and backdoor are inside this guide
BUT...looking with a backpacker eyes..
. They should reduce the big restaurant list and make a better explanation of the highlights is the sight section.
Just for your information, I love Lonely Planet...this is a constructive recommendation that I give to all the city guides...
Another important thing, specially for what they call "A city guide"...they should give more information (map and path) of the buses. Yes...it is not Paris...in London it is easy to find a map for the buses...free of charge...BUT ...I am paying more that US$15 for a city guide, man...they should include.
So, I think, less restaurant and better transport and sight information.
 Hit or Miss March 22, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I went to London for about 5 days. A lot of this book was out of date, such as ticket prices for admission to tourist attractions and opening times). Since this edition was published in January 2006, I would recommend a more recent guidebook.
The restaurant recommendations were more upscale than I was hoping for. A place described as Italian with mains costing 7-p pounds actually turned out to be a Mediterranean tapas place and ending up costing 40 pounds per person. I would agree with a previous review that the accomodations were a bit pricier than I was looking for and had better luck finding a place online. I gave it two stars because I did find a nice, traditional pub to hang out in that I went back to multiple nights.
Cross referencing attractions would have been nice - if you looked for a certain subject in the index, it could be spread across 3 different pages (ie. pg 11, 213, 77). I spent a lot of time during my trip with my nose in this book, and I had even flipped through it beforehand! (it took me 2 hours to decide on the inexpensive "Italian" restaurant).
The Walking Tours were ok, but I got the feeling I was missing a lot of things as I followed the maps in the book. I also got lost a lot, which may or may not could be attributed to the book (my travel companions are still laughing about it).
I was so unhappy with this book, I purposefully left it in my rented flat in London. Choose another guidebook.
 Great guide to London, could use more budget info December 5, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I used this book for a five-day trip to London, my first time there. It was very helpful, contained just the right amount of information, and gave useful suggestions of what to do with my limited time. I was a little disappointed with the lack of budget accomodations included in the book (hence the four stars instead of five) but otherwise, all of the recommendations I followed were great.
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