Comments on: Lonely Planet Pick & Mix Travel Guides http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darren Cronian http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-105894 Darren Cronian Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:21:18 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-105894 @ Bob Lonely Planet guides are written by travel writters, where as Wiki Travel guides can be edited by just about everyone who has visited that destination. Hope this helps @ Bob

Lonely Planet guides are written by travel writters, where as Wiki Travel guides can be edited by just about everyone who has visited that destination.

Hope this helps

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]]> By: Bob http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-105852 Bob Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:46:07 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-105852 Hi, Could anyone tell the differences between LP and wikitravel.org? I am currently working on a paper on this. Cheers, Bob Hi,

Could anyone tell the differences between LP and wikitravel.org? I am currently working on a paper on this.

Cheers,

Bob

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]]> By: TG http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-46324 TG Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:17:24 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-46324 We took the Lonely Planet Guide for South America with us on long journey recently and I must say that I was disappointed to say the least. I don't know how things work at LP, but the suggestions in Peru and Lima was off the charts. We followed the guide to some of the nicer hotels, but they were all crap and extremely expensive. We always found some nicer ones at a lower cost. I don't want to pick particular at LP as the guides have been good in other parts of the World, it's just the South American onces that are hmmm "not good" in my book. We took the Lonely Planet Guide for South America with us on long journey recently and I must say that I was disappointed to say the least. I don’t know how things work at LP, but the suggestions in Peru and Lima was off the charts. We followed the guide to some of the nicer hotels, but they were all crap and extremely expensive. We always found some nicer ones at a lower cost.

I don’t want to pick particular at LP as the guides have been good in other parts of the World, it’s just the South American onces that are hmmm “not good” in my book.

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]]> By: Darren Cronian http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-45426 Darren Cronian Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:28:03 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-45426 John, good question. Tom, thanks for dropping by and answering questions. John, good question.

Tom, thanks for dropping by and answering questions.

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]]> By: tom hall http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-45421 tom hall Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:24:14 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/2007/08/21/lonely-planet-pick-mix-travel-guides/#comment-45421 John: File-sharing and piracy are problems for us, even with our print guides. As you might imagine, there were many discussions and debates about these issues before launching Pick & Mix. In the end we decided to simply ask that the chapters be used only for personal, non-commercial purposes, and put our faith in our travellers to do the right thing. But we're keeping an eye out for misuse or piracy, as this is clearly a concern for us. Cheers, Tom Product Manager, Pick & Mix John:

File-sharing and piracy are problems for us, even with our print guides. As you might imagine, there were many discussions and debates about these issues before launching Pick & Mix.

In the end we decided to simply ask that the chapters be used only for personal, non-commercial purposes, and put our faith in our travellers to do the right thing. But we’re keeping an eye out for misuse or piracy, as this is clearly a concern for us.

Cheers,

Tom
Product Manager, Pick & Mix

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