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Lonely Planet Puerto Rico

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Author: Randall Peffer
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

11 reviews
Sales Rank: 59660

Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 360
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.1 x 0.8

ISBN: 1740592743
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9781740592741
ASIN: 1740592743

Publication Date: October 2002
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Product Description

Want to dip into liquid stars in a bioluminescent bay? Climb the ramparts of a centuries-old fortress? Dance with masked revelers at Carnival? Then tap into Puerto Rico's spirited tempo with this essential guide, from San Juan's sizzling salsa clubs to the islands world-renowned beaches.

lodging and dining options to satisfy every budget and taste
natural and historical treasures, including the rain forest of El Yunque and colorful Old San Juan
the best spots for diving, surfing, sailing, hiking, caving and more
handy Spanish language chapter
30 detailed city and regional maps

Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Excellent Coverage of Culebra July 6, 2005
Joel Maners (Jackson, Tennessee USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I used this book in planning a recent trip to Culebra, PR. This book provides the best coverage of any book in print. If you plan on travelling to Culebra or Vieques, don't leave home without it. Ths book also provides a good history of the islands as well. Makes your trip a much richer experience.

3 out of 5 stars

Lonely Planet Puerto Rico-for pre trip only April 12, 2005
C. Cook (East Coast U.S.A. Ct..)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This Lonely PLanet Puerto Rico Book has some information in it that will be helpful to a first timer.....but I would not try to use it as a guide once you arrive. I was expecting to use the maps included in this book and they were absolutley out of date....and did not include many important roads and routes on it's maps. This is my biggest complaint about it..because I bought it thinking it was a good all around hand book especially for the maps and it just plain wasn't. It did however offer insights to general travel issues like what to see or local info....and I must admit that Puerto Rico grows as we read this.and maybe it out grew this book ..but...still... I must ask...how does Lonely Planet expect us to find these things they mention without good and up to date maps to go along ?????

3 out of 5 stars

Good, but not accurately updated January 2, 2004
13 out of 15 found this review helpful

I just reviewed Let's Go PR and Explore PR by Harry Pariser and returned from PR a few days ago. I agree with previous reviewers about this edition - some of the information is not accurate and was not updated. But this might be because the publication year is 2002. I really liked Let's Go - this had by far, the best and most comprehensive info on lodging, eats, and getting around. I would not use Explore PR - this is not useful at all. I would say Let's Go had mostly everything that Lonely planet PR did - except for maybe the background info on culture, history etc. I will consider travelling with both a Lonely planet and a let's go in the future. If you have to choose one book on PR, I would buy Let's Go. If you can take a second, bring the Lonely Planet PR. Also visit Culebra!

1 out of 5 stars

I was also disappointed September 6, 2003
8 out of 12 found this review helpful

I have used LP guides to travel all over the world and this was a major disappointment. I won't dispute that Randall S. Peffer has spent the last 30 years getting to know Puerto Rico as the book claims. He knew it very well, it seems, when he wrote the first edition. When he went back, however, in October 2002 to update the book, I got the feeling that he may have meandered by locales he had mentioned to ensure the building was still standing, not confirming any of the facts he had originally included on his way to drink "Cielito Lindos" at the friend's house who invented them and has never shared the recipe with any other bar on the island (contrary to Peffer's statement that this is the national cocktail). We had a good time despite Randall Peffer's sloppy updating. By the way, the "aphrodisiac" restaurant in Old San Juan is called "OstraCosa" .. a play on words . . . "ostra" means oyster. "otra cosa" means "another thing" the pun was lost on Peffer despite his fluent Borricua Spanish.

2 out of 5 stars

Disappointing! November 7, 2002
12 out of 16 found this review helpful

We bought this book on the basis of the recommendations we found here. But we didn't find it to be very up-to-date, Much of the information has changed, and the author makes strange comments about Vieques ("only a fool or a developer would want the military to leave"). All in all, we found this guide to be a disappointment. It does not have the quality of information we expect from Lonely Planet. We used several other guides and found a new guide, Explore Puerto Rico by Harry S. Pariser, to be much more accurate and with a great environmental slant.

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