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Nobody knows Costa Rica like Lonely Planet, and our 9th edition helps you build the perfect itinerary. Whether that's whitewater rafting down the Reventazon, sunbathing in laid-back Montezuma, quetzal-spotting in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, or swaying to reggaeton at an open-air bar in Cahuita, you decide. Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip. In this Guide: Essential highlights chapter showcases the very best of Costa Rica. Tailored itineraries for easy trip planning. Unique Green Index helps you step lightly on your travels.
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Matthew Firestone is a trained anthropologist and epidemiologist, though he postponed his academic career to spend his youth living out of a backpack. To date he has authored more than twenty guidebooks for Lonely Planet, and covered far-flung destinations from the Darien Gap to the Dead Sea. His favourite destination is Namibia, where the stark beauty of the desert is completely overwhelming, though freshly sliced sashimi on any of Okinawa's beaches is a close second. When he's not in school or on assignment, he likes to spend his time exploring the American West with his parents, or catching up with the in-laws on the foothills of Mt. Fuji.
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Costa Rica 9th Ed.: 9th Edition (Paperback)
As in true lonely planet style, this book does not cease to amaze. It is an essential to travel in Costa Rica with. I have 3 different guide books for my trip that I am currently on, and this one is by far the best.
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Don't buy this guide!,
By J. J. - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lonely Planet Costa Rica 9th Ed.: 9th Edition (Paperback)
We have been to Costa Rica quite a few times. Our focus is always nature and out of the way places. Because we travel light and always are carrying 2 or 3 field guides plus big binoculars, we take only one guidebook to save space and weight. Often in the past it has been the Lonely Planet guide because of size and the relative amount of truly useful info and good maps. So this last trip, in Dec. 2010, we decided to take the hot-off-the-press Lonely Planet. Seemed like a no-brainer. WRONG! This guide is one of the most irritating I've ever tried to use. The writer's decision to organize the broad sections of the country in a "fresh new way", as opposed to logical regions as most other guides do, was only the first of the many aggravations. If you want to find out about some place you heard about, but only have a sketchy idea of its location, good luck. Why? Because, in their wisdom, they also decided to include THE MOST MINIMAL index ever. So how are you supposed to find something small, that doesn't show up in the small blurb in the table of contents? You leaf through the book for a long, long time, that's how. In the age of computers, when an index is a pretty easy thing to generate, this is ridiculous. We resorted to using this guide very seldom because it made us furious each time we did. DON'T buy this book. Lonely Planet guides are in general very good guides. Not this one. If I could have given this book zero stars, I would have. Anyone want to buy one cheap though? I got one...
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A Misleading Travel Guide,
By chris boas - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lonely Planet Costa Rica 9th Ed.: 9th Edition (Paperback)
As someone who works and has frequently traveled in Costa Rica, and who is a long-time aficionado of the Lonely Planet guides, I am really sorry to have to write a negative review of the most recent edition (Nov. 2010) of this travel guide. But having used this latest edition on two recent trips, the extent of its inaccuracies, most likely a result of inadequate research and rush to publish, compels me to warn other readers away from this edition. I would recommend that readers switch to the Moon guide for Costa Rica, but if you want to stick with the Lonely Planet series, I would recommend purchasing the previous edition of Lonely Planet Costa Rica published in 2008.While there are numerous examples of why this latest guide is so unhelpful, there can be no greater one than the book's review of a sustainable ranch in the Arenal region called Rancho Margot. In the 2008 guide, the authors got it right, devoting 2 pages of highest praise, and described a place "as a sustainable, self-sufficient working ranch....one of the most exciting development projects in the entire country.". It was this review that led my family and I to take a chance on this remote eco-resort nestled between Lake Arenal and the rain forests leading to MonteVerde. Our family fell in love with Rancho Margot's magic immediately, and have returned every time we come to Costa Rica. Rancho Margot has only improved in its beauty, sustainability ethos, and quality of its service since our first visit in July of 2008, and has been recognized as a global leader of sustainable farm tourism. So it was with great shock and disappointment to see that in the November 2010 edition, the LP editors, in their collective wisdom, decided to tell readers to stay away from Rancho Margot. It appears that they listened to negative gossip of some jealous nearby innkeepers, downgraded their review of the ranch to 'not recommended", without bothering to visit the ranch. For a place that receives near-unanimous praise as a "must-see" destination from guest reviews on Trip Advisor and other guides, the LP's review of Rancho Margot is clearly a huge disservice to its readers. If it was only this one inaccuracy, perhaps this latest edition of LP Costa Rica would be salvageable. But there are numerous additional examples, which other reviewers have highlighted, and which I would only echo, that lead me to this one-star review. 6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Como Siempre "Lonely Planet" un verdadero fiasco.,
By Hector Zalazarl - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Costa Rica 9th Ed.: 9th Edition (Paperback)
Segun dice el libro "100% researched & updated" es una gran mentira, muchos de los lugares que aparecen en la guia dejaron de existir hace meses, mas de lo mismo con esta edicion. No gasten su dinero !
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