Lonely Planet Discover Spain (Full Color Country Travel Guide) Review

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Lonely Planet Discover Spain (Full Color Country Travel Guide) ReviewComparing and contrasting the Lonely Planet Discovery Series to the Classic Country Guide edition I would be hard pressed to recommend the Discovery series even if it was half the price - which it should be. If you cut the number of pages, use larger type and add lots of photos you can guess that it is the actual words which get eliminated. Although the page count is trimmed by 60% I would say the content is trimmed by about 75%. Instead of getting 7 pages of content - excluding photos and maps - on San Sebastian you get 1. Across the board, instead of getting 6 or 7 restaurant recommendations for an area, you get 1 or 2. To be clear, the photos are no 'DK Eyewitness' level you could probably get bigger photos from brochures.
** One alert: The classic country guide gets fairly bad Amazon reviews as it seems to incorporate feedback on every published edition, even those 10 years ago, versus the latest v9 edition. I have the classic country guide v9 and its really quite good**
What's Different with the Discovery Edition vs. the Classic edition
- Far less written content
- Less eating, drinking and sleeping suggestions
- Elimination of smaller cities
- Larger type, probably 12 point vs. 8 point in classic
- 392 pages vs. 942 pages
- Heavier paper (so its probably 3/4 the weight of the 942p edition)
- Less maps, but they are in color
- Same number of 'best of suggestions'
- Generally the same number of itinerary suggestions
- A few full page color photos
- Lots of small inline color pictures which are so small they aren't terribly valuable. I highly recommend against the Discovery guide and recommend using the classic country guide for the same price. If you only plan on going to a few areas, it's easy enough to crack the binding and staple together segments you need to save weight and still get very detailed information on the places you want to visit.Lonely Planet Discover Spain (Full Color Country Travel Guide) OverviewExperience the Best of SpainThe Alhambra, La Rioja's vineyards, the Sagrada Familia - we've selected the most iconic sights and incredible places so you can enjoy the real Spain with the minimum of fuss.Highlights reveal the must-see attractions and unbeatable experiencesItineraries make planning your trip simpler than everLocal Experts recommend what not to missPull-Out Map puts the streets of Barcelona in your pocketOur PromiseYou can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage, so you can rely on us to tell it like it is.

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