Yarra Valley Winery Tours

Yarra Valley Winery Tours

To the coast? To the mountains? To the nation-state towns? You re agreed a welcoming welcome, a first-class coffee in addition to a decent meal to depart as well as the dazzling vistas. Jayne D Arcy, Lonely Planet Writer
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Inside This Book
3 local authors
105 existence of on-the-ground research
54 maps
475 trams
Inspirational photos
Clear, easy-to-use maps
City pull-out map
You Weekend Away feature
Comprehensive projecting tools
In-depth background

• Amazon Sales Rank: #395364 inside Books
• Published on: 2011-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.25″ h x 5.50″ w x 1.00″ l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Meh–reads like mostly researched on internet
By Festivus
I just got back from a trip to various parts of Victoria, and four days in Melbourne, and I have to say that using this as my exclusive guidebook was a big mistake. If it were not for the Internet, I most likely would have missed out on lots of interesting stuff.

The complaints:

(1) The map of Melbourne covers way too small an area of the city.

(2) There are way to many places in the State of Victoria, including major towns, that are given short shrift, if they are mentioned at all. If you are going to do a guidebook that focuses on one Australian state, IMHO you should have an entry for each town of note (lets say, over 2000 population), but there are many glaring omissions in this book.

(3) Many of the reviews seem superficial, at best. In fact, they seem so superficial and divorced from reality that it seems like the authors just hit Google to see what was what in a given town and cut and paste that into the relevant sections, with certain modifications for the style of LP books.

To be fair, there has been a rather severe and hideous departure from a previous high level of quality for all LP books in recent years, and it seems like the editors have been pushing the authors to cut costs around the board by simply doing internet research instead of actually visiting places for each new edition–it really shows and the new owners of LP (the BBC) should be ashamed of themselves, but it seems that ever since the company was sold to the BBC in 2007 (or 75% of it, anyway), this has been the trend for all of their publications.

After traveling with this book, I would consider it little more (and in many cases, a lot less) than being a conveniently printed and bound compendium of information I could have compiled using Google at home.

One word of advice–do not even read the “Places to stay” section unless you want hostel type accommodation. The “Places To Stay” section is a total joke, worse than a joke–it leaves out the best places to stay almost anywhere. Tripadvisor.com is a much better source of information (and crowd-sourced information, at that) than the LP has been for a good long time.

This will probably be the last LP guidebook I ever buy–it has become a total scam.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Lonely Planet Melbourne & Victoria (Regional Travel Guide)
By Simone White
This book is really thorough – packed with lots of information about Melbourne and the Victoria region. A really handy book for someone who is going holiday in the area. Places to eat, places to stay, information on culture, arts, events. Wonderful photos accompanying many of the sights.Lonely Planet Melbourne & Victoria (Regional Travel Guide)

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