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Discover Great Britain
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ponder the mysteries of Stonehenge, blend medieval with modern during a London city tour, or follow a round of golf with a wee dram of Scottish whisky; all with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of Great Britain and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain:
Full-colour maps and images throughout
Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including history, art, literature, music, architecture, sport, politics, landscapes, food, drink, and more
Free, convenient pull-out London map (included in print version), plus over 30 colour local maps
Useful features - including Walking Tours, Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar), and Travel with Kids
Coverage of London, Oxford, Central England, Bath, Southwest England, York, Northern England, Wales, Edinburgh, Central Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Islands, and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain, our easy-to-use guide, is perfect for travellers who seek the most popular attractions a destination has to offer. Filled with inspiring and colourful photos, this guide focuses on the best of the best.
Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends a wide range of experiences, both popular and offbeat, and extensively covers all the country has to offer? Check out Lonely Planet's Great Britain guide.
Looking for a guide to London? Check out Lonely Planet's London guide for a comprehensive look at all the city has to offer, or Lonely Planet's Discover London, a photo-rich guide to the city's most popular attractions.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Oliver Berry, Fionn Davenport, Marc Di Duca, Belinda Dixon, Peter Dragicevich, David Else, Damian Harper, Anna Kaminski, Catherine Le Nevez, Fran Parnell, Andy Symington, and Neil Wilson.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category
'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times
'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ponder the mysteries of Stonehenge, blend medieval with modern during a London city tour, or follow a round of golf with a wee dram of Scottish whisky; all with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of Great Britain and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain:
Full-colour maps and images throughout
Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including history, art, literature, music, architecture, sport, politics, landscapes, food, drink, and more
Free, convenient pull-out London map (included in print version), plus over 30 colour local maps
Useful features - including Walking Tours, Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar), and Travel with Kids
Coverage of London, Oxford, Central England, Bath, Southwest England, York, Northern England, Wales, Edinburgh, Central Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Islands, and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain, our easy-to-use guide, is perfect for travellers who seek the most popular attractions a destination has to offer. Filled with inspiring and colourful photos, this guide focuses on the best of the best.
Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends a wide range of experiences, both popular and offbeat, and extensively covers all the country has to offer? Check out Lonely Planet's Great Britain guide.
Looking for a guide to London? Check out Lonely Planet's London guide for a comprehensive look at all the city has to offer, or Lonely Planet's Discover London, a photo-rich guide to the city's most popular attractions.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Oliver Berry, Fionn Davenport, Marc Di Duca, Belinda Dixon, Peter Dragicevich, David Else, Damian Harper, Anna Kaminski, Catherine Le Nevez, Fran Parnell, Andy Symington, and Neil Wilson.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category
'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times
'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
424 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2010
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
February 26, 2017
Very helpful in planning our trip around the UK, it will be coming with us as well.
December 1, 2010
I couldn't have written a better travel guide myself!! It is extremely user-friendly, and I definitely recommend this edition since it not in black & white (apparently most other LonelyPlanet books are). I zipped through this thing REAL fast, making me wonder: since when is a tourist guide a page-turner?
December 21, 2017
One Word Review: Helpful
Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain guide is a good, solid general traveler resource for exploring Britain. I look to this book often for finding hidden gems.
Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain guide is a good, solid general traveler resource for exploring Britain. I look to this book often for finding hidden gems.
August 23, 2013
In an era when putting together a useful travel guide is more expensive, but cost pressures push quality down, and when many travelers are relying increasingly on 'crowd sourcing' trip ideas through mobile devices, having a guide book that contains expert advice at your finger tips remains important, and this is what Lonely Planet attempts to accomplish with this Great Britain travel guide.
Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain guide is a good, solid general traveler resource for exploring Britain. The great value here is that the information is laid out in a trip centric, rather than a location centric way. That is, the reader should be able to use this to effectively plan itineraries, rather than to focus on specific locations, like you might with a DK travel guide.
Also, in an era when many published travel guides are struggling due to people starting to prefer crowd sourced information, or making decisions on the fly with mobile devices, this book has information directly from local experts, in tourist friendly places like Bath, Edinburgh, Liverpool, the Tower of London, etc. This is not a comprehensive work, but the user should be able to use it to plan first and second visits to the highest traveled places within Great Britain, and to begin to understand the local areas well enough.
Lonely Planet Discover Great Britain guide is a good, solid general traveler resource for exploring Britain. The great value here is that the information is laid out in a trip centric, rather than a location centric way. That is, the reader should be able to use this to effectively plan itineraries, rather than to focus on specific locations, like you might with a DK travel guide.
Also, in an era when many published travel guides are struggling due to people starting to prefer crowd sourced information, or making decisions on the fly with mobile devices, this book has information directly from local experts, in tourist friendly places like Bath, Edinburgh, Liverpool, the Tower of London, etc. This is not a comprehensive work, but the user should be able to use it to plan first and second visits to the highest traveled places within Great Britain, and to begin to understand the local areas well enough.
May 28, 2012
Borrowed this book from the library for recent trip to London and surrounding area. Agree with other reviewers that the country guides are more thorough than the discover series but this will do in a pinch. My library didn't have the Kindle versions of the Great Britain or England country guides so I borrowed the Discover guide instead. A lot of the info is similar between the 3 books but the country guides go into more detail, as expected.
June 29, 2013
i haven't been putting any strictly travel books on here, as i feel they're too straight-forward to merit a review, but i really liked how this book was put together and i would look at it again for a future trip to the UK when i get to travel around more. it was a great way to get a feel for different regions and what they're known for without spending a whole lot of time researching or paging through a thick book. and lots of great pictures and colorful sections as well!
September 28, 2012
my bible during my hitchhiking days in UK
October 25, 2013
Lots of good information, photos, history, and 190 maps I found very helpful for our 2014 trip to Great Britain.
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