Lonely Planet Pocket London

Lonely Planet Pocket Guides

by Emilie Filou, Tasmin Waby

Lonely Planet's Pocket Londonis your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Explore history at the British Museum, delve into history at the Tower of London and soar over the city on the London Eye; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of London and make the most of your trip!
Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket London :

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Full-colour maps and travel photography throughout

Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor a trip to your personal needs and interests

Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots

Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices

Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss

Convenient pull-out London map (included in print version), plus over 8 colour neighbourhood maps

User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time

Covers Westminster Abbey and Westminster, National Gallery and Covent Garden, British Museum and Bloomsbury, St Paul's and the City, Tate Modern and South Bank, Kensington Museums, Regent's Park and Camden, Shoreditch and the East End and more

The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet's Pocket London , an easy-to-use guide filled with top experiences - neighbourhood by neighbourhood - that literally fits in your pocket. Make the most of a quick trip to London with trusted travel advice to get you straight to the heart of the city.

Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends both popular and offbeat experiences, and extensively covers all of London's neighbourhoods? Check out Lonely Planet's London city guide or the Experience London guide.

Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's England guide for a comprehensive look at all that the country has to offer.

 

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day.

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Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've used Lonely Planet guides abroad before but never thought of trying out the London one until I saw it come up on the Amazon Vine list for review. This is a brilliant resource for tourists or even for people who visit London fairly regularly. It is small enough to be easy to carry but also has a fold out map that will come in extremely handy.

I love the fact that it is spilt into different areas (Westminster, Covent Garden, Bloomsbury, St Pauls, South Bank, Kensington, Regent's Park / Camden & Greenwich) and includes a suggested route (along with recommended tourist hot spots) for if you only have a day to explore. The guide lists top tourist attractions, suggests walks and areas to visit for shopping trips and even includes places to eat and night life hot spots.

At the back there is a best of London section that includes things like markets, museums, parks, views, architecture, tours, churches, hidden sights and festivals.

This is a guide book I'll be dipping into again and again in the future to help me gradually explore more of London

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great: Compact & Concise

This book has the "best of" in an easy to follow format. A must have if going to London. It will be on my phone when I go.

[Nadine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely awesome resource for touring London!

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Took me 200 pages before I realized this was written before 2012

[Harold D Pelton · Rating 3 out of 5]

It helped with trip

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Planning for my November trip has me hyped 🙌🏻

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lonely Planet Pocket guidebooks are the best. How else could I have planned a week in London with so little effort? They offer suggestions with just the right amount of summarized detail; provide clever tips to maximize your time most efficiently; share advice that’s organized in the most logical manner. No other guidebooks come close if you’re trying to navigate a visit to a big city.

[Joan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great little travel book that provides the reader with walks and sights in specific areas of London, small maps included, along with brief itineraries that can be done in a day. A great help in planning a trip to a London and lives up to being a “pocket” guide.

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

We're preparing for a third visit to London, so I am gathering guidebooks left and right to make sure we have the latest information.

This small volume (it is barely the size of my hand), published in May 2012, even covers information about the Olympic Village -- that's how up-to-date it is. With an included map and recommendations for restaurants, attractions and so on that include places off the beaten path as well as the big ticket items, it's the kind of book that will definitely go in the suitcase.

Despite having been to London before and read a great deal about the city over the years, I still found information in this book of which I had previously been unaware. It's packed with facts, suggestions and "survival guide" material like important phone numbers, how to use the phone, electrical outlets and such. If you are planning a trip, or even like to travel from your armchair, this little book is an outstanding addition to your library.

[Sarah Goodwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I live in England but bought this as I was taking a friend to London for the first time. The map is better than the one in the Amsterdam book (bigger and with more information, though still not showing the whole of london). The tube map was invaluable for planning journeys and so I didn't have to stop and look at maps on the busy underground.

We only had one day in london, so I didn't see many of the sights in the book. We did go to the Tower of London, and did the red bus tour.

I would definitely use this book again if I was going to London, there's a lot of information about different places to visit, eat and drink. Can't say how useful it would be to non-UK residents but, it does the job for planning a day out if you already live in the UK.

[Jasmina · Rating 5 out of 5]

The information within the book itself is relatively good. There's a few sightings I wish were there, but that's alright. I found several places, restaurants etc that I wouldn't be able to find about on my own, and it's nice that it's all in one place! The map is really good. It's detailed and it also has both tube and bus routes. A downside I found was that the map is quite big. It's not THAT convenient to bring out when you're out (especially if it's windy) (it is possible to fold it quite nicely, so I suppose it is in fact manageable in some way), and one could also have had put in more of the areas east of Hyde Park..

[Carlita MF · Rating 4 out of 5]

La guía es bastante práctica, te muestra los puntos más importantes a visitar en Londres de forma clara y concisa.
Lo que más rescato son las rutas que propone, los lugares para comer (amé que salgan referencias de precios) y las fotografías. Sí me hubiese gustado algo sobre otros museos (como el de Sherlock Holmes) y lugares a visitar fuera de los convencionales, o también excursiones a lugares cercanos (como he visto en otras guías), pero para una guía básica está bastante bien.

La versión digital es muy buena.

[Tuula · Rating 4 out of 5]

Major sights and places to see covered in couple of sentences. Especially useful are the hints of the nearest Tube stations and Tube map (which naturally can be obtained online, but still). Bood divides London to six areas, which presented individually. Each area has a smaller map, presenting e.g. walking route of the area. In some cases this caused problems as the tiny map "cut off" without hint to the next map part, so tiny usability issue there. But pull-out map to the rescue then.

[Mrs. Ruigrok · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another wonderful Lonely Planet book....easy to ready/easy to use/ to the point and it included a great city map of London. It was light enough and small enough to throw into my purse and was a handy companion on our trip.

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for a short visit. The map was helpful. My only complaint is the restaurant suggestions were expensive and unappealing.

[Chinch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did not have the warmth of a lonely planet book. While the information was accurate, it felt rather factual than enticing

[Belinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seems okay. I bought it for the map and detailed little guides for things, I can put it in my handbag. It's so tiny and cute!

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lighter on the historical details than I'd like, but then again, it is the pocket version.

[Aaron Wong · Rating 4 out of 5]

I miss London.

[Marilyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Guia muy completa