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Costa Rica (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dk Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 56369
Media: Turtleback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0756613523
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.2860452
EAN: 9780756613525
ASIN: 0756613523
Publication Date: October 17, 2005
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Book Description
Recognized the world over by frequent flyers and armchair travelers alike, Eyewitness Travel Guides are the most colorful and comprehensive guides on the market. With beautifully commissioned photographs and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of each destination, these amazing travel guides show what others only tell.
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Great Overview of Costa Rica May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a good guide book to have on our recent trip to Costa Rica. We were part of an organized tour group so we didn't need a book to tell us where were the best places to go, although this book accurately provides you with that you. It isn't the best guide to tell you exactly where to eat or stay, so you might want to purchase another guide for those details. They do provide a section on restaurants and hotels but it is not as comprehensive as other guides I considered.
We used it to gain further information about the areas we were visiting. The pictures are beautiful. The information is useful, accurate, nicely arranged and easy to navigate. It not only guides you through the different regions of this beautiful country, but it gives you some history, cultural information, and practical information about visiting the country.
We were very glad to have it with us.
 Rich in pictures, Lacking in Information February 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a college student studying abroad in Costa Rica for the semester. So far, I've been pretty disappointed with the Eyewitness travel guide. Other students and I travel to different parts of CR about every other weekend, but this guide is painfully lacking in writing on the logistics of traveling. (I.e. bus services to use, hostel recommendations, hostel contact information, etc.) The small traveler's needs section that is present is very general and the few hotels that are offered are geared toward a traveler with money to spare. I also found that, despite having many beautiful pictures, there aren't many details about places of interest or special events in CR.
If you're a college student, or a traveler on a budget who needs information about places to stay, I would go for Lonely Planet or the Rough Guide to Costa Rica (A few of my friends here have lonely planet and that's the guidebook we use most to plan our trips; I rented the Rough guide from the library before my trip and thought it was pretty helpful.)
 Best travel guide I've found for Costa Rica December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchased several different guides & found this one to be more complete. Many visuals as well as coverage of most all areas of the country.
Lots of pictures. May 30, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I used this guide in conjunction with the Lonely Planet guide. The Eyewitness Guide shows the reader a great deal more. While Lonely Planet provides a lot more detail, but this one doesn't leave it to your imagination since they have lots and lots of pictures. Also, this one is smaller and easier to carry.
Excellent starting point, but you'll need more June 30, 2006
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This Eyewitness Guide is devoted to Costa Rica and is a pretty typical entry in the series. It opens with a discussion of the history and culture of the country as well as an overview of some of its more prominent characteristics such as beaches, weather, and wildlife. Next, there are a number of sections detailing geographic regions such as San Jose, Central Highlands, Central Pacific, Guanacaste & Northern Nicoya, the Northern Zone, the Caribbean, and the Southern Zone. Each area gets 13 pages or so of descriptions and photographs. Listings for hotels, restaurants, shopping, entertainment, and outdoor activities are presented in the back of the book rather than with the geographic region they pertain to. Finally, there is a section discussing practical information of various kinds for travelers.
The great thing about this Eyewitness Guide to Costa Rica is that it offers over 650 photographs to help bring a gorgeous country to life. Rather than picking which places you most want to visit based on imagining them from descriptions, you can see them for yourself here. The problem with this guide is that its 288 pages are dominated by those photographs rather than detailed descriptions of hotels, restaurants, activities, etc. It simply isn't possible to put comprehensive detail into a few hundred pages when you already have more than 2 photos on average for each and every page.
I would recommend buying this guide, but I would also recommend purchasing the Frommer's Costa Rica 2008 (Frommer's Complete) to help plan the details of your trip. This is a great starting point, but you'll definitely want a resource with more information before you're done.
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