Croatia (Country Guide) by Jeanne Oliver
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Book Reviews of Croatia (Country Guide)
Book Review: Croatia by Lonely Planet
Summary: 4 Stars
I like the Lonely Planet city guides. I find them to be very useful and true as far as guides go. I have taken these travel guides with me on my trips to various cities. I enjoy making my travel plans using these helpful guides.Book Review: travel prep
Summary: 4 Stars
Solid vacation advice and the book really helped us narrow down what it is we want to see in Croatia. I do like Rick Steves travel advice just as well so we are using this book as a supplement.Book Review: Lonely Planet Delivers, As Usual
Summary: 4 Stars
My wife and I used this book recently on a trip through Croatia and found it a very good mix of broad and deep, offering plenty of the details we needed for our stay in Split and drive down the coast towards Makarska, as well as great recommendations on what to do and where to go in general. We followed the book's advice when we went to the island of Brac (just off the coast near Split) for the day and visited a tiny little town on the far side of the island called Milna, and found it to be just amazing. Recommended.Book Review: Awesome!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a must have for anyone traveling to Coratia. It is so informative and I love it!!!!!!Book Review: A solid guide w/ mostly accurate info
Summary: 4 Stars
I used LP Croatia side-by-side with the Rough Guide to Croatia during May and June 2006. I only visited Southern and Central Dalmatia including Split, Hvar, and Dubrovnik.
LP Croatia is concise and had no serious inaccuracies but it lacked lots of the context, detail, and history that the Rough Guide provided. If you're just looking for places to go, how to get there, and where to stay I'd get LP. If you want more of a tour guide with lots of bios, background, art & architecture info, I'd take the Rough Guide. If I went again, I'd take both.
Pros: Good logistical information on how to get around and where sites were. Good food sections (burek is amazing) and good language/phrase sections(except that the most important words were all buried). Also, did a great job of explaining how the private room accommodations work. Provided good, practical advice on how to get the best rooms, etc.
Cons:
Maps were sometimes inaccurate--Rough Guide's were generally better. This was largely because of the lack of street signs and lots of small alleys that trick you. GPS would have been very useful.
Unusually, I think LP underrated some places--namely Dubrovnik.
Doesn't prioritize where to go or what to see. For instance, Diocletian's Palace in Split was covered in graffiti and the city had little to offer.
They need a section on "If you have to choose" between different sites and different cities that tells you which are the best sites overall for certain interests.
Bottom line: LP Croatia was a solid travel guide but it could have provided more advice to the first-time traveler.