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new author team offers the most up-to-date coverage available - discerning recommendations to hotels, restaurants & nightlife - special subsections on the top outdoor activenesses & the most scenic train journeys - informed listings of Switzerland's top museums & art collections - Switzerland's towns and cities brag wondrous locations, impressive museums and magnificent shopping. - Around 60 percent of Switzerland's electricity is produced by hydro-electric power. - Switzerland has formulated more Nobel Prize winners per capita than any other country. - Swiss inventions include milk chocolate, life insurance and the pump turbine.

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29 of 30 humans found the following review helpful.
simplistic and poorly written - take another guide
By A
I am spending my summer in Switzerland and decisive to take a trusted Lonely Planet Guide with me. What a disappointment! The book is poorly written, has very few good tips on things to do and places to visit and, in my view, is completely useless for out of the way places; my list of complaints may go on and on. I no longer take the book on weekend trips as it is merely having little impact to ask the locals.

Although I ordinarily like Lonely Planet guides, this one will have to never be published again.

24 of 25 humans found the following review helpful.
A very utile guidebook
By Ravi Desai
I found this guidebook very utile on a recent trip to Switzerland. Unlike most "tourist" guide books which are full of photographs, the Lonely Planet guide only has a few pages of photographs and is full of utile selective information on places to stay and local restaurants. The book is separated into chapters by region (e.g. Zurich, Geneva). Within each chapter are details on places to visit,hotels , restaurants, as well local services(such as transportation). There is even data on where to find the nearest laundry.

As with the Other Lonely Planet Books ,it is well written and purposed at travelers on a budget.

Some of the info appears to be out of date. Hopefully Lonely Planet will release a new edition of this. Until then this is a outstanding commodious guidebook to use.

Happy travels

40 of 46 persons found the following review helpful.
Disappointing new guide
By Elizabeth Bachman
We're avid travelers and always take Lonely Planet guides with us -- they're ordinarily very comprehensive and helpful. The new 4th edition of the Switzerland guide proved a huge disappointment, though, on our recent trip. For some reason this is an unusually slim LP volume, so the depth of coverage for which LP is famous is lacking. We went to a great deal of delightful towns, villages, and museums that didn't rate so much as a mention. The city maps are also poor; a heap of of the streets are unnamed, which makes the maps difficult to use for navigation. Finally, galore of the authors' selections seem almost bizarre. The initial boxed "Highlight" listed for the finelooking global city of Geneva, for example, is a particle physics laboratory(!) with the world's biggest machine. It's in all probability arousing and attention holding (we didn't visit), but does it in truth rank with the historic European headquarters of the UN, which didn't make the Highlights box at all, or the superb International Red Cross Museum? We came to rely almost completely on the magnificent Rough Guide to Switzerland, which at 550 pages -- equated to 335 for Lonely Planet -- is much more exhaustive and useful.

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