Lonely Planet Australia (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet


Lonely Planet Australia (Travel Guide)
Title : Lonely Planet Australia (Travel Guide)
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Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 1104
Publication : First published January 1, 1994

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Australia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise magnificent Sydney Harbour, grab a coffee in a Melbourne laneway or head off on an outback adventure; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Australia and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet Australia Travel Guide:

Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, politics, Aboriginal Australia, environment, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, wine, sports, outdoor activities. Free, convenient pull-out Sydney map (included in print version), plus over 150 maps Covers Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, Perth, Darwin, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, Western Australia, the outback and more

eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones)

Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Australia, our most comprehensive guide to Australia, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled.

Looking for Australian road trip ideas? Check out Lonely Planet Australia's Best Trips .

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home.


Lonely Planet Australia (Travel Guide) Reviews


  • Florencia

    2707 pages. An X-ray examination, not a simple travel guide.

  • W

    Lonely Planet guides used to be much more useful in the pre internet era.

  • Stephen Heiner

    I used this book in 2012 my first time Down Under and again this year as I returned to a country that is so far away that I didn't know when I would be back. The book, and frankly, any book from Lonely Planet, provides an invaluable complement to the staggering amount of information online. Unlike online information, this is organized systematically, written by professionals, and updated constantly. You'll find that it will give you a good orientation to a state, region, and city, and point you in directions that will help you make the most of your travels. Don't leave home without one, especially if you are going for more than two weeks anywhere.

  • Mojca

    4 - 4 ½ stars

  • Mauri

    Better for those a little further along in their planning than I am when I usually pick up a guidebook. A more detailed and useful section on Tasmania than the Eyewitness guide.

  • Siffy Torkildson

    Good overview of Australia but lacking in photographs of animals, and culture.

  • Tanya

    I only wish Rick Steves did travel books for Australia.

    I used Lonely Planet Australia as a guide for my recent trip down under, and overall I was disappointed. While it was helpful in deciding what I wanted to see beforehand, I could have found all that information online (on tripadvisor.com, for example). For me the most important function of travel books is to be my on-site tour guide. This book didn't have enough information on any individual place to be worth carrying along. Of the 14 days of my visit, I only packed it in my purse for 2 of them, and even then I didn't find it of much use. I am accustomed to Rick Steves' wonderful tips -- things like "buy your tickets at this little shop and avoid the line" and "if you go to the very back of the market you'll find this fascinating statue" and so forth. There was none of that here. I also found the few suggested itineraries to be very slow-moving and incomplete. But maybe my type of traveller is not the target audience for Lonely Planet.

    The main source of the problem is that this book covers all of Australia in depth. Even though I flew all over the continent, visiting Sydney, Melbourne, the Great Barrier Reef, and the central Outback, I only used a small fraction of the guide's content. Any book trying to cover so many sites is limited on what details it can include, but the compromises made to keep the page number reasonable didn't work for me.

    Another big complaint -- the index was terrible and never had an entry for anything I tried to look up! So I'd find myself paging through 30 pages on Melbourne, for example, trying to find the one paragraph that talked about Birrarung Marr. It was very frustrating.

    Barely 3 stars, because I'm recognizing it has a lot of content I didn't use that probably added value. I wish I had just bought several smaller books on the cities I was visiting.

  • Martha

    As usual, with lonely planet guides, we found this to be super-helpful while planning our trip and while traveling around. At the end of our trip we left this our aussie friends we were visiting, as they had been looking at it and were interested in planning some trips of their own.

    It does a good job of going into detail for all parts of the country, including Tasmania and Victoria. The main downside to the guide is that the book is heavy and rather bulky to carry around. This is particularly frustrating if you are only going to a few parts of the country, like we were. Lonely Planet is now selling their guides as e-books through their website, with the option to buy the entire guide or just the chapters you need. We plan to go that route on our next overseas trip.

  • Sarah

    This guide came with my 4-month working holiday visa, otherwise I probably wouldn't have bought it. It's useful enough for general information and I'm sure it would be great for planning a tourist trip around Australia, particularly if you didn't know anyone in or anything about Australia. For someone living in Sydney, however, it's not especially informative.

  • Nora

    Lonely Planet guides are great. I've used them in Australia and Ireland. They give you the basics on a place, but still leave room for you to discovery things on your own. My only complaint is that the street maps can be pretty unreliable, so keep that in mind when navigating somewhere new.

  • Jim Bowen

    I have just finished a month travelling up and down the east coast of Australia. While this book might be a little too general for some people's liking (it covers the whole country), I was always refering to it when I was looking for ideas about what to do next, which is a good sign I think.

  • Ruth

    I wish that more of the book was applicable! Just not enough time to see all of it in two weeks!

  • Nur

    tribes exists

  • Anshuman

    As with all lonely planet books, you got to take what you need out of it. Over 1000 pages of things to do and see in Australia!

  • JUDI

    Great help in planning my trip.

  • Eleanor

    Bought this in readiness for a month-long trip to Australia with the 5 and 7 year-old - it was an invaluable travel companion.

  • Ooyyo

    This Lonely Planet's book is great as others.