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Belgium & Luxembourg
Lonely The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Belgium & Luxembourg is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore Unesco listed belfries in Bruges and Tournai, savour Belgian pralines at a Brussels chocolatier, or stroll along the river gorge in Luxembourg City; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Belgium & Luxembourg and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Belgium & Luxembourg Travel eBook (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) The Perfect Lonely Planet Belgium & Luxembourg , our most comprehensive guide to Belgium & Luxembourg , is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. About Lonely Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. Important The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
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First published April 1, 2001
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A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
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May 20, 2024
(Guía en inglés) Me ha servido durante un roadtrip por Bélgica, especialmente para inspirarnos sobre los restaurantes.
(No he usado la parte sobre de Luxemburgo).
(No he usado la parte sobre de Luxemburgo).
June 1, 2017
For my just completed week-long travel to the Benelux (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg) I looked through all the available guides and I finally decided on this one and the analog for Belgium and Luxembourg as they fit best my needs - as usual Rick Steeves' guides are the most entertaining in writing style but they have a potentially major flaw as they talk at length about what the authors feel are the highlights and their choices may not coincide with yours - when they do like in Spain their guide is best but when they don't like in Switzerland or here I look for other options
While drier in style, the Lonely Planet was excellent as it suggested a few places I may not have considered otherwise - they have a top 10 attractions in the Netherlands and top 15 in the Belgium/Luxembourg - to start the guides, they have great geographical orientation, both with country maps, regional maps and city maps including an Amsterdam pullout and they talk about many, many places - yes shorter than the fewer places described in other guides, but enough to decide if you are interested further and today with the world on the cell phone, what is needed is awareness of a place as afterwards you can research it at leisure anywhere; the maps with numbered highlights proved extremely useful in the cities I visited (Rotterdam and Luxembourg especially as there just walking around the city and taking in the super modernistic buildings in Rotterdam and the two tiered old city of Luxembourg is an experience in itself, but also Brugge - here the whole old city is an experience so it doesn't really matter where you go, Hague - here the old city is smaller so easy to see, Utrecht and Amsterdam - this one didn't really work out for me, as big cities go being far away from Milan or Madrid, while from its museums, the Van Gogh is special but Rijksmuseum pales compared to Prado or Uffizi, though the maritime museum is cool as it has a real VOC ship one can visit - the collection itself is ok, the naval Museum of Madrid better, but the VOC ship and getting a feel for how the long voyages in the 1600-1700's went are worth the price)
The other highlight of the 2 guides discussed here was the smaller places - especially for Belgium and its Ardennes region and Luxembourg and the Moselle valley - due to lack of time I didn't visit all I planned but a castle (Bouillon), a scenic drive and a few picturesque villages were all found out from the guide - and then there was the Waterloo museum and battlefield with a good description in the Belgium book (this one I would have visited without any guide mentioning it of course)
Overall - excellent for my needs as they have shorter description of many places, good opening highlights and maps
While drier in style, the Lonely Planet was excellent as it suggested a few places I may not have considered otherwise - they have a top 10 attractions in the Netherlands and top 15 in the Belgium/Luxembourg - to start the guides, they have great geographical orientation, both with country maps, regional maps and city maps including an Amsterdam pullout and they talk about many, many places - yes shorter than the fewer places described in other guides, but enough to decide if you are interested further and today with the world on the cell phone, what is needed is awareness of a place as afterwards you can research it at leisure anywhere; the maps with numbered highlights proved extremely useful in the cities I visited (Rotterdam and Luxembourg especially as there just walking around the city and taking in the super modernistic buildings in Rotterdam and the two tiered old city of Luxembourg is an experience in itself, but also Brugge - here the whole old city is an experience so it doesn't really matter where you go, Hague - here the old city is smaller so easy to see, Utrecht and Amsterdam - this one didn't really work out for me, as big cities go being far away from Milan or Madrid, while from its museums, the Van Gogh is special but Rijksmuseum pales compared to Prado or Uffizi, though the maritime museum is cool as it has a real VOC ship one can visit - the collection itself is ok, the naval Museum of Madrid better, but the VOC ship and getting a feel for how the long voyages in the 1600-1700's went are worth the price)
The other highlight of the 2 guides discussed here was the smaller places - especially for Belgium and its Ardennes region and Luxembourg and the Moselle valley - due to lack of time I didn't visit all I planned but a castle (Bouillon), a scenic drive and a few picturesque villages were all found out from the guide - and then there was the Waterloo museum and battlefield with a good description in the Belgium book (this one I would have visited without any guide mentioning it of course)
Overall - excellent for my needs as they have shorter description of many places, good opening highlights and maps
March 19, 2023
(Edición en inglés) Es un libro centrado en Bélgica, +85% del libro.
Lo compré para preparar un viaje con mis padres por Luxemburgo (país). La verdad que está desactualizado y no aporta grandes conocimientos/curiosidades del país. Por ejemplo, algunos de los establecimientos mencionados ya no existen, y el transporte público lleva siendo gratuito en Luxemburgo desde 2020.
A título personal veo un claro sesgo anti-catolicismo y gran carga de leyenda negra contra el imperio español. Triste que estos patrones se repitan incluso en una inocente guía de viajes.
Lo compré para preparar un viaje con mis padres por Luxemburgo (país). La verdad que está desactualizado y no aporta grandes conocimientos/curiosidades del país. Por ejemplo, algunos de los establecimientos mencionados ya no existen, y el transporte público lleva siendo gratuito en Luxemburgo desde 2020.
A título personal veo un claro sesgo anti-catolicismo y gran carga de leyenda negra contra el imperio español. Triste que estos patrones se repitan incluso en una inocente guía de viajes.
September 6, 2017
I read the eBook version. Formatting was unattractive and I needed more maps, orientation, and agenda ideas than specific hotels or restaurants.
July 6, 2018
There are a lot of routes that it gives the best tips to where to stay, when and how best to make the most of your trip. It also includes basic cost and discounts on some places.
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June 17, 2019
Very informative book, halped me plan my trip to Belgium perfectly.
December 19, 2022
The suggested itineraries lack any detail, some tips would be helpful. Entertaining but historically inaccurate too often
September 27, 2007
its amazing how the gorgeous monuments and parks of brussels is ruined by the knowledge that the beauty is paid for with slavery, unbelievable brutality of the Congo rubber trade.. all because one prince had a fancy for travel books...
April 8, 2013
Useful guide to Belgium, but the Luxembourg section is really quite rubbish. Bearing in mind, it is actually a country, there is barely more than a few words, most of which are outside Luxembourg City. Hopefully it is being updated in the LP/BBC rebrand.
April 12, 2015
It's no secret that I love Lonely Planet and the Belgium & Luxembourg guide is no exception. It was really helpful for planning my trip, made it easy to figure out which areas I wanted to visit & how much time to spend there.
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September 7, 2012*****
March 10, 2015
Ah, les Lonely Planet ! Le meilleur ami du voyageur :p
January 24, 2008
WHEEEEEEEEEE.
boooooooo I am back from my trip
boooooooo I am back from my trip
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