Product Description

You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!

Frommer's holds the key to worry-free travel in this exotic land, with valuable cultural insights, the latest trip-planning advice, detailed maps, and smart tips on language, local customs, and getting around. You'll find honest, in-depth reviews of luxury beach resorts, high-tech business hotels, intimate inns, and simple guest houses and bungalows, all based on recent personal inspections.

We'll show you spectacular beaches, waterfalls, floating markets, majestic temples, ancient ruins, national parks, palaces, and traditional villages. We'll lead you to amazing restaurants, and even take you elephant trekking in the Northern Hills. You'll also rely on us to guide you through the confusing, bustling, but intriguing city of Bangkok (our author, who lived there while writing this guide, knows it intimately, and discovered all sorts of hidden surprises). With Frommer's in hand, you'll experience all the wonder of Thailand!

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Product Details

Publisher	Frommers
ISBN	0470226315
Format	Paperback
Author	Charlotte Shalgosky
EAN	9780470226315
Label	Frommers
Edition	8
Dewey Decimal Number	915
Studio	Frommers
Number Of Pages	409
Title	Frommer's Thailand (Frommer's Complete)
Publication Date	2008-04-21
Manufacturer	Frommers

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Customer Reviews

crap

Review by N. Fiorentino, 2010-04-25

I am headed back to Thailand in a few weeks and was doing some research on new travel books for the area. I came across this book and realized it was the same book I used on a previous trip to Thailand (2008). Another friend of mine used lonely planet. As one reviewer pointed out this is a book strictly for those with money to blow.

Frommer's became the laughing stock for the rest of our trip (6 weeks). There are hardly any useful maps in the book. If you bought just this book, I do not see how you could even plan to travel effectively throughout the country. We wanted to go to some small cities that were included in lonely planet, but were no even mentioned in Frommer's.

Backpackers should stay away from this book at all costs...be warned...the only thing useful is to use the pages as emergency TP.

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For rich Backpacker or rich people only

Review by Caleb S. Lytton Jean, 2010-02-07

I have to say that this guidebook is one of the most lousy quide I have read in my life. No pictures, less details and humor, insufficient of actitivies, lack of excellent map (most maps were use as big territory in small map, worthless to navigate where you want to go), and most of the activities were plainly expensive, such as hotel, food, and how to get one place to another (I mean from one big city to another big city, im talking about how to get around cheaply). For example in Bangkok, most tourists want to go see the Grand Palace where the King live, and this guidebook only tell them to take the taxis, motorcyle, or tuk-tuk which is just plainly expensive. They did not mention a way to go there cheaper as taking the bus number 15 (I might be wrong) or subway then on the boat to the grand palace. (of course it will take longer and cheaper.) But isn't that what most people want, to see everything which take a bit longer and cheaper?
The point is, this guidebook is technically for people who have plenty of money and don't really care if the vendor sell them at a high cost or prefer luxury.
My suggestion is to take the Lonely Planet, no matter if they are a year or so old, they are still significant than the Frommer guidebooks. I had check most of the Frommer and I find them all absolutely worthless and made me a terrible travelers that want to see almost everything in Thailand which I didn't. I put the blame on Frommer.
Go for the Lonely Planet on most destination. such as, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, HK, malaysia, Singapore, and many others... it is important to have enough pictures to see to encourage you to see it. Lack of picture will only make you go to major cities and that's it.

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OK

Review by Jeff Ammons, 2009-06-26

This guide is aimed at more luxury travellers. It is lacking in hotel and restaurant options for budget travellers. Had I known this before I bought it, I would not have purchased it. It made travelling in Thailand more difficult than it would have been with a more budget friendly book like Lonely Planet.

However, that being said, if you're looking to go to Thailand and enjoy it's luxury resorts, this book is alright. It's got all the big tourist stuff in it and pretty decent maps.

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Not Great.

Review by L. Moore, 2009-01-14

This guidebook was dead weight very soon into my trip. I had the LP Greater Mekong book as well, and the small section of Thailand in that one was better for me than a whole book on the country. As a college-age traveler, on a very small budget, I found that the hotels and restaurants listed were typically out of my range. Something they considered "Budget", would be mid range or higher. The background info and so forth was great, but when it came to recommendations I found Rough Guide and Lonely Planet to be more my speed for suggestions. I was usually able to find something that was not listed to be of the same quality, and cheaper. For folks looking for a more vacation based book, and on a higher budget, this is for you.

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great in helping plan the trip

Review by C. Reid, 2008-10-21

Book has good details on places to eat and shop. We already had a hotel, so we did not use that section.

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