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Popular with Americans.
Let's Go has shit maps and focusses primarily on what
their editors deem to be the 'best' places to visit. This can
be good if you are working to a limited timeframe, or you perhaps
like to minimise on tough decision making.
Note that 'Nightlife' suggestions by Let's Go are well
informed, and usually spot on.
This can be a real drawback with some of the other guides.
What looks good on paper does not follow to be 'good' in practice.
Let's Go's emotionally loaded narrative sums up venues in a way
which is funny, entertaining and saves you wasting your hard earned
in bars you wouldn't visit or normally wish to visit.
Again, good if your itinary is limited.. Go for it...
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Grown-up guides, perhaps more frank and witty than Lonely
Planet.
Emerging roughly at the same time, Rough Guides were launched
with a TV series hosted by Magenta Divine on Channel 4 which
ran for a number of years.
Something Lonely Planet struggling
to acheive, despite making statements of intention in that
direction for a number of years.
Less political correctness and lack of shit places made
to look good, mean you're getting what you're paying for
with the Rough Guide.
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