Fodor's Thailand: with Myanmar , Cambodia, and Laos Author: Fodor's | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CQZ6ENO | Format: EPUB
Fodor's Thailand: with Myanmar , Cambodia, and Laos Description
Sandy beaches, grand Buddhist temples, tongue-numbing cuisine, world-class spas, and a unique and enormously rich language—Thailand is unique among Southeast Asian nations and a not-to-be-missed destination. Thais have a rich cultural history and contrasts abound in the country, both geographically and socially. In a land the size of France, beach resorts run the gamut from sketchy but popular Pattaya to dignified Hua Hin. Idyllic island hideaways of virgin beaches sheltered by palm groves and lapped by gentle waters contrast with Bangkok, the busy capital.
Expanded Coverage: Coverage in Bangkok and Chiang Mai has been expanded, new resorts and restaurants have been added throughout, and the ebook now includes a brand-new side-trip to the emerging destination of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Coverage has been reorganized to make popular destinations easier to find.
Indispensable Trip Planning Tools: An "Experience" chapter introduces travelers to Thailand with colorful photo features, planning information, and maps. Each chapter opens with an orientation map, "Top Reasons to Go," and other essential information to help visitors plan time and vacation details effectively.
Competitive Advantage: Unlike most guides, Fodor's Thailand ebook edition includes coverage of major attractions in nearby Cambodia and Laos, including a photo feature on Angkor Wat.
Discerning Recommendations: Fodor's Thailand offers savvy advice and recommendations from local writers to help travelers make the most of their time. Fodor's Choice designates our best picks, from hotels to nightlife. "Word of Mouth" quotes from fellow travelers provide valuable insights.
ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts.
- File Size: 44366 KB
- Print Length: 676 pages
- Publisher: Fodor's; 13 edition (November 5, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CQZ6ENO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,970 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Books > Travel > Asia > Cambodia
We took this guide with us on our honeymoon to Thailand and visited Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Koh Samui. The information for Bangkok and the cultural sites there was pretty comprehensive and we referred to it frequently for ideas on what to see and where to eat. The information for Chiang Mai and Koh Samui was also good with respect to the "what to see" part, but we found the restaurant recommendations to be more touristy or kinda dated in those locations. Maybe this was personal preference, though. Our biggest complaint was that the maps could have included more of the places mentioned in the book, especially when it came to the shopping locations covered in each city. The guide discusses multiple places to go, but gives fairly vague descriptions of the locations, such as a street name- which occasionally turned out to be a very long street with few markers or indications of where exactly we were trying to go. The guide did give addresses for the hotels and restaurants/nightlife and depicted those on seperate maps for each city, but it would have been really helpful if they had also depicted the stores and/or shopping sections on the maps or given addresses as well since those proved to be the hardest to locate. Overall, it was a decent guide for basic info, but the maps and locational information could be better.
By Devon McGlasson
Thought it was a good idea to buy a guide to covers both Thailand and Cambodia as I will be visiting places in both countries in the near future. However, after receiving this guide and flipping through it I actually think it was a bad idea to buy this guide.
Sure, the guide touches upon most sights in Cambodia and Thailand and has many great full color photographs, but for my purposes (city travel in Bangkok, beach life in Phuket, and visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia) it does a poor job.
Firs of all, almost half of the contents of the guide is devoted to lodging and dining. Sorry, but I am not longer a backpacker and have all hotels booked already. Secondly, I prefer to wander around the neighborhoods and see what restaurants I might encounter. No need for a guide to list that ("telephone book" anyone?)
Third, the city maps of Bangkok are pretty bad and the sites mentioned in the text are hard or almost impossible to find on the tiny maps. Fourth, there was no map of Phuket and scant information on beach/water activities.
In the end, I decided to just go with Eyewitness Thailand for Bangkok travel as they have the same great photographs but provide much higher quality maps and a better background section. Not to mention less emphasis on hotels and dining.
For Phuket I think the pocket guide from LP will work fine, while Angor Wat will be done without a guidebook.
By Dieuwer
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