Lonely Planet Scandinavian or separate country guides

anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments

Posted 13 years ago

Hi,

In June 2011, we want to travel by train (and ferry) from Finland through Sweden to Norway. We stay 1 week in Tampere, Finland and then stay in Stockholm and Östersund (Sweden), Trondheim and Oslo and Bergen (Norway). So we would really need at least 2 country guides of Lonely Planet to cover this trip.

So I was thinking about buying the Lonely Planet Scandinavian Europe guide. Does this book has the same information, or do you have more when buying the separate guides?

Thanks,
Leen

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Flo
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10724 comments

replied 13 years ago

Hi Leen,

although I dont know any of the mentioned guides I think you will be doing fine with the Scandinavian edition. It certainly wont have the same amount of information compared to the dedicated country editions but should be sufficient to cover your needs for this trip.

Here you will find more information: [u]https://rail.cc/en/information[/u]

Flo 8)

nltrainer
Traveller
1416 comments

replied 13 years ago

step into a bookshop and compare..........
In general, the shoestring guides by LP ONLY have the low-budget info (on HTls, food etc)-the 1 country guides have the full lot for also hi-so expensive. They may also have a few more rarely visited towns in them. The 1st time IRler -from what I mostly read-is not that adventurous and only tries to cross off as many capitals as possible.