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Let's Go Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama: The Student Travel Guide |  | Author: Harvard Student Agencies Inc. Publisher: Let's Go Category: Book
List Price: $17.95 Buy New: $10.60 as of 3/16/2010 01:28 EDT details You Save: $7.35 (41%)
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Seller: GLOBAL-BOOKS Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 936003
Media: Paperback Pages: 336 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1598805878 Dewey Decimal Number: 917.2860452 EAN: 9781598805871 ASIN: 1598805878
Publication Date: December 8, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | ISBN13: 9781598805871 | | • | Condition: NEW | | • | Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. |
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Product Description
Welcome to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama—Let’s Go style. Our team of intrepid student researchers has traversed three countries in order to bring you the freshest and most complete coverage of these Central American treasures. After you’ve sampled some of Central America’s tastiest delights—from hot peppers and salsa to margaritas—we’ll help you picnic on the Panama Canal, catch the best waves in Costa Rica, hop around the San Blas Islands, and bake in the sun like you’ve been there for years. Whatever your journey, Let’s Go Costa Rica, Nicaragua & Panama has got you covered.
Let’s Go publishes the world’s favorite student travel guides, written entirely by Harvard undergraduates. Armed with pens, notebooks, and a few changes of underwear stuffed in their backpacks, our student researchers go across continents, through time zones, and above expectations to seek out invaluable travel experiences for our readers. Let’s Go has been on the road for 50 years and counting: We’re on a mission to provide our readers with sharp, fresh coverage packed with socially responsible opportunities to go beyond tourism.
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| Customer Reviews: Pretty awful February 27, 2010 Hotspur (London, UK) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We bought this book as after extensive travel around the world, we were a little fed up with Lonely Planet's patronising tone. We, however, made a big mistake! We found this book to be almost unusable by the end of our trip. Overall points as follows:
Good:
- Not patronising
- If somewhere was not safe, it said so in plain English (e.g. it didn't call it rustic or something else in code words!)
- Light-weight
Bad:
- Maps were terrible. In Lonely Planet, if a restaurant, hotel, bus station etc is mentioned, it is always labelled on the map. In this book it doesn't even give the address for lots of places so you know the name of the restaurant which is good but you have no idea how to get there!
- It misses out destinations which are very much on the beaten track for the countries e.g. No mention of Manuel Antonio in Costa Rica or Boquete in Panama!
- It sometimes talks about a destination but then doesn't list any accommodation
- Lots of typos and incorrect page number references
- Index is missing lots of information which is in the book
- No clear markers on page to distinguish which country they are talking about
- Overall entirely inconsistent from chapter to chapter
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