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Summary: Adequate Coverage
Review: For someone travels extensively like me, this travel guide provides adequate coverage - enough information and yet saving some of the mysteries for one to uncover.
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Summary: Don't leave home without your Lonely Planet Northwest
Review: For the visitor, there are a lot of possibilities in the Pacific Northwest. LPs coverage is the best I've encountered in a single book. The historical background, accommodation, prices, maps, and general logistics listed, are a great foundation for someone visiting this awe-inspiring part of North America. The breakdown and explanation of the cities of Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland were excellent and accurate. As for the scenic and rustic areas, LPs description of the coast, National and State parks, & eastern WA and OR give the traveler plenty to play with. The Native American background was good, as with most LP works where there was such an indigenous population. Pack your LP on this trip.
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Summary: Don't leave home without your Lonely Planet Northwest
Review: For the visitor, there are a lot of possibilities in the Pacific Northwest. LPs coverage is the best I've encountered in a single book. The historical background, accommodation, prices, maps, and general logistics listed, are a great foundation for someone visiting this awe-inspiring part of North America. The breakdown and explanation of the cities of Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland were excellent and accurate. As for the scenic and rustic areas, LPs description of the coast, National and State parks, & eastern WA and OR give the traveler plenty to play with. The Native American background was good, as with most LP works where there was such an indigenous population. Pack your LP on this trip.
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Summary: informative and useful
Review: This book has broad and informative contents. You can also see various maps of important regeons in Northwestern part of the continent. I visited Seattle, Portland, Mt. Rainier and Oregon Coast with it. Very helpful for travellers in Washington and Oregon.
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Summary: Beautiful North Oregon Coast
Review: This is a really good book for exploring the Pacific Northwest and we had a fantastic trip using it. The only place it left out that we think it should include is the heavenly ZEN GARDEN Bed and Breakfast on the Oregon coast in Manzanita.The rooms are beautiful, it is almost on the quiet, dreamy, seven mile beach, nearly in the forest of the Nehalem Bay State Park, and the breakfast is Huge and DELICIOUS.
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Summary: Excellent planning guide with lots of background info!
Review: We used several guides in planning a recent trip to south and central Oregon, with a stop at Mt. St. Helens on the way home, and this one was by far the most informative! Before we went to a particular destination, I would tell my family, "First you have to listen to this!" Then I would read Lonely Planet's description and historical/geological background of the site we were about to visit. I think we all enjoyed our trip much more because of this "anticipatory set." Highly recommended, not only for first-time visitors to a region, but for natives to learn more about the beauty and history right in their own backyard.
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Summary: Good guide for sightseeing, but NOT for hotels, restaurants
Review: While this book provides fairly accurate guidance regarding natural features and campgrounds, don't use it a reliable guide to travel necessities that are market driven like hotels, restaurants, admission costs, etc. Each time we used the book to choose a hotel, we were surprised and sadly disappointed in either the quality, the cost, or both. The same for recommended restaurants. Admission costs were generally 20% higher than listed. No big deal, but again, for a current publication it fell short in accuracy. It's as if an earlier printing was simply published as current without checking on the accuracy of the contents.
Use it as a guide, but not as a reference. I'm sure there are other sources of more accurate information for travelers.
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