Lonely Planet Scotland (Travel Guide)

Lonely Planet guides tend to cover a lot of ground. This newly published guide on Scotland is no exception. For the enterprising traveler for whom Scotland is no longer an undiscovered country, here is a menu of fascinating choices. In a compact format, various authors offer suggestions, and opinions, on where to go and what to see. Many of the choices are well off the beaten tourist path. The text is nicely supported with lots of color photographs, maps, and diagrams. The book includes a useful pull-out planning map in the back. Well recommended to the enterprising traveler.

this map book is everything I was looking for and more. I will be using it for a driving trip in Scotland this fall. The Paige quality is excellent and I think it will hold up fairly well as far as durability goes. It’s thin and I think it will be, easy to put in a backpack for traveling. It seems pretty comprehensive as far as providing great information on cities, castles, and other sites of interest. I’ll update this review after my trip in September.

Very informative book that gives detailed information and plenty of color pictures! Easy to follow and is written by various authors who live in Scotland

I cannot wait for my trip to Scotland and I learned so much more than I ever knew about it through Lonely Planet's book. A MUST if you're travelling -- they have one for nearly every country. I got the idea to get this from my friend who does a lot of travelling herself and she just recently used the Iceland one for her destination wedding/honeymoon.

This is the second lonely planet guide I've purchased this year and unfortunately it seems to be a trend now that they are using a new format. I've been buying lonely planets for every single trip I've taken for over a decade but I may have to stop if they don't go back to the old organization. It's now almost like a travel blog without a lot of the usual information like places to stay, places to eat, etc. Instead it just talks about a city and disperses throughout the discussion a couple of recommendations for those things. There's no way to find it without reading the entire chapter or easily go back to it like there used to be. And there's no longer the introduction to the books giving you the history of the country. I'm not quite sure why they've done this but in my opinion it makes the guides a lot less useful

Really helpful.

Lonely Planet has changed up the format and gotten rid of all of the parts you bought these books for. The town maps don't have all the attractions, hotels, and restaurants marked. The Getting There and Away section is gone. It reads more like an airline magazine that hypes up a place, but doesn't have the details anymore. They changed their logo as well which is helpful in that you now have to either buy the old editions with the circle in the logo, or try out Moon guides or other sources, but definitely avoid the new guides without the circle in the logo. This was so disheartening to get this new edition, I ended up switching where I was travelling to due to the lack of information in the book.

I’ve always used lonely planet guides for traveling, and the straight to the point layout was exactly what you want when trying to figure out your next move, sometimes on the fly. Now, with this newest version I’ve ordered for an upcoming trip to Scotland, I see it’s very different. Much more busy, less useful, more “personal recommendations” from local people, and honestly too many pictures. I’m going there- I don’t need to see so many pictures of where I’ll be, especially in this day and age of Instagram etc. It’s like the book is trying to compete with social media now. Just stay in your lane and do what you’ve always been best at! What I’m looking for is the old inset maps of sections of cities and towns, and the good old, black and white no-nonsense text giving a selection of places to stay, places to eat, for various pricing tiers. Not sure if this is JUST the new Scotland book that’s like this, as I ordered the Norway book last year and that was as I always expected of LP, but reallllllly hoping this is not the new way the whole series is going. I definitely won’t be using them anymore if that’s the case.