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I thought it would be so great to liberate myself from carrying a phone book sized anchor with me. It's almost impossible to find anything in it.
Alas, its better to carry the real thing. then i went to the Istanbul section and clicked through about 50 clicks until i finally got to the museum's introduction.
For example - if you want to know when the Istanbul Modern closes, like i did today, i had to do a time consuming search with let me to various schedules for travelers spending one, two, three days in the city. Also, forget the maps - the Kindle renders them in to gray blobs that have no use other than inspiring more clicking.
I like my kindle a lot - i do, but a warning to travelers - unless you plan on reading this book cover to cover and committing every detail to photographic memory, do not put it on an e-reader. but boy, was i wrong.
it was so frustrating.
Furthermore, I hear many people ranting on here about how the book doesn't rate this or is not located where it is. In turkey there is glamour but on the beaten path expect wires hanging in the shower and expect small basic rooms, not no dang Hilton everywhere you go. If you want real Turkey this book will help you find it, but expect a few inaccuracies just because its written by a team of "westerners" who can't figure out which way is which in Turkey, direction wise. So TRAVELERS understand ONE THING. In Turkey if a website is not offered for a hotel over 80% of the time they are going to be "shady" as far as the people who are there and business, not all turks are friendly. So enjoy this book and enjoy Turkey but please keep an open mind and PLAN before you go stay at a pension that doesn't have a website or doesn't have even pictures online.
Most likely for the reasons of having pensions listed in the book with a map and location but not located where they are once you get where this book tells you. You will get shady characters and sometimes bad business. This book is great for a portable reference (compared to what else is out there) I would also recommend rough guide's Turkey. I've been to places like Kusadasi and find it very nice, but also on that aspect very touristy.
Sorry for the ranting. Use this book along with [.]. Also, some cities exist just for tourism (no real turks live there) such as a city like Kas. I stayed in dumps and magnificent 5 star hotels.
I'm going to be honest check the internet before you go. Don't believe me then visit and see the ridiculous prices for restaurants and crappy souvenirs. Turkey is NOT England or USA Turkey is not far from a Third world country, a second world country possibly. and you will have a better trip.
Okay first off, this reviewer is turkish and has been all over turkey for years from small towns to big cities. As far as how they rate towns like Kusadasi and Bodrum, people need to understand every town or city has a rundown (ghetto) neighborhood. You will find frequent power outages, inadequate roads, transportation is great in Turkey, but understand that staying at a pension in Turkey is not like staying in a pension in America or a hostel in Germany.
I recommend the Rough Guide to Turkey as a superior source of historical information and traveling tips. Once we stopped using Lonely Planet and just used the Rough Guide, we had much better luck. Instead, we were outfitted with an insufferable guide who forced my traveling partner to translate for the entire day. The guidebook stressed that this tour company was run by someone who spoke fluent English and ran things efficiently. For example, my traveling partner and I took the advice of the guidebook and took a tour of Mt. Much of the information provided regarding the East gives one the impression that the authors did not actually visit the places they wrote about. Nemrut with Harran-Nemrut tours based out of Urfa. In addition, the guidebook is riddled with Turkish spelling errors (in case this matters to you) and contains multiple wrong telephone numbers for hotels.
indexed "locations" to navigate it. You can't search the book, and have to go through about 28000 (). It's really a piece of crap and I'd never recommend anyone to buy this version. I just bought the Kindle iPad version of this guide. It's a complete failure, utterly unusable. So, if you are looking for a specific place like, say, Datça, you really need to flick through all the pages to find it.
There are a few errors in it along the way, but I would have been so lost without it. This book is absolutely amazing for traveling in Turkey. Indispensable.
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