Lonely Planet Best of Beijing (Lonely Planet Condensed Beijing, 1st Ed)

Rating:
Summary: A Pretty Good Travel Guide, Perhaps Too Condensed.
Review: This is a pretty good travel guide. It might have been a little too condensed. I liked the slim form factor of the book. I personally would have preferred if it was a little bit larger and went into greater detail on some of the topics.

As opposed to the more complete Lonely Planet Beijing book, this book was published earlier this year. I would like to think that some of the information is more up to date as a result. It's simply too difficult to compare due to the fact that the book doesn't cover as many topics.

On the upside, like most Lonely Planet books, the graphics and pictures are awesome. I would have preferred a little more detail on the site map, but in general Lonely Planet does a nice job with their visuals.

On a whole, I would recommend this book to somebody who will soon be travelling to Beijing.