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customer reviews
Trustworthy, comprehensive with
excellent maps
I am reviewing the L.P.2007 guide. Note: most of the other reviews are
for older editions, ie. Pre-2007. I was in Vietnam January-February 2007
and used this guide.
The guide has maps that are superb and easy to use. Both the
accommodations and restaurants I chose from the guide's recommendations
were good to very good. The cost for accommodations are listed in
dollars, instead of the insipid icons that other guides use. Kudos!!!
The restaurants cost quotes are in Dong. Caveat! Because the dollar is
in a free fall against world currencies, you will need to add at least
20% to the quoted price for hotels, maybe more.
Vietnam is a country of paradoxes: Communistic-Free Market.
Traditional-Progressive. Etc. To capture a caricature of Vietnam is as
demanding as it would be enigmatic. Yet, Dragicevich, Ray & St. Louis
(authors) have written an outstanding brief profile of this country.
"The Culture" is a section not to miss. No other guide is as complete if
you are going to go "off the tourist track." I found towns and places in
L.P. that other guides don't even list. The information was accurate and
trustworthy.
Unlike Rough Guide's Vietnam (8 pages) this guide has only a smattering
of book/film recommendations. Sadly, in this guide, unlike other L.P.
guides, there are few sidebars or text boxes that give you interesting
tidbits about the country and its people. Though most all accommodations
have an email address, there are NO webpages. NOT GOOD. This guide needs
serious improvement in this area.
The 2007 is a significantly revised guide and one of the best guides in
print for Vietnam. This is a highly recommended guide - happy tramping.
4.5 Stars.
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