Lonely Planet Florida: Travel Survival Kit

by Corinna Selby and Nick Selby

Book Overview

From the theme parks to the Everglades, this guide cover the entire state of Florida, while offering special encouragement for travelers to get off the beaten track. Includes comprehensive... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864423748
• ISBN13: 9780864423740
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 615 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Accomodation list great; spin above average

Another Lonely Planet book, this listed enough hostel accomodation for me, and the maps, and background information were plenty of a base to begin a trip to Florida. Upon arriving to the Sunshine state, it is best to add onto this base of (LP) information by word-of-mouth from fellow travelers and locals. This addition provided me with enough information, and it certainly beats the AAA guidebooks, (and many other travel books), which are short, shallow, & designed for the exciting people that travel in RVs and those that mingle with the "Days Inn" crowd. Important to note: there was sarcasm and juvenile expressions in thie book, that appreared to be condescending. This is not the first time that writers for LP have done this. Often, the chirpy sarcasm, was indeed, incorrect. LP should make a note of it. Many-a-times, international backpakers/travelers think they "know" most everything, becuase the think they've "been there and done that." Usually it's quite the opposite. Bottom line: regardless of the impish tones, take this over most other travel books.

Second Edition Is Simply Great

I used this book for a trip to east coast and central Florida and thought it was the best Florida guide of all the ones I looked at. I stood in the book shop looking through all the guides, and checking chapters against each other, and found that this was the one to get. When I got to Florida, I found the information was right on target for all the sights, the restaurants and especially the history. The history of the Space program in this book was better than anything I saw, and even better than the information I got in the Kennedy space Center visitor center. I was surprised to see people claiming inaccuracy in the reviews here, but I looked at the dates and think they must have meant the old edition of the book. This one is tops, and kudos on Lonely Planet and the selbys for this great new edition.

Great book!

The best part of this book is that it takes you into areas and attractions "off the beaten path." The book is also an enjoyable read!

One of the best travel guides I've ever read

Me an my wife traveld this year to Florida and discovered this travel guide in a german bookstore. While we flew to the states I read the whole book during the flight(never had such a nice and entertaining flight), because the book is so interesting and has so many litle nice storys (My favorite: Don't mess with the mouse or what happens if you are thinking about sex in Disneyland). The practical tips are suberb, the information was in Mai 98 always accurate, the prices correct and the tips of the authors were real tips. When we tried something which was written in the book we never got dissapointed. They really checked out almost everything whats written in the book. Real nice to read and really good tips and informations. Everything you need for a nice trip to FloridaFrank (from Germany so excuse my English)