I'm leaving for Mexico in a few weeks.
What would be the best guide book for travelling in Mexico?
- I'm a backpacker and planning to spend less than 30$
a day in Mexico and Guatemala.
LP book is the best?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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For Mexico anyway, LP wins for
completeness, but Let's Go is
exceptionally good for finding
good low-priced restaurants.
Their accomodation
recommendations used to be
dubious, but they have improved.
I still prefer LP, in part because
of the maps. Never been to
Guatemala, so I can't comment on
which would be better there.
You may also want to look at Moon's Mexico travel guides.
They offer a very complete guide covering all of Mexico as
well as regional guides for Northern Mex, Baja, the Pacific
Coast, and the Yucatan. Most large bookstores carry them.
LP guide is good for Guat. though an update is needed.
I`ve used LP during my last trip in Mexico, but you may try
using the Rough Guide instead. Take a look at its website:
http://www.roughguides.com
You may also purchase both guides and compare them while
travelling.
I recommend the Footprint Mexico & Central America Handbook.
Travelled around in Mex and CAm for 6 months last year and
found the information very exact - including the price guide
for accomodation !!! They publish every year a new updated
edition.
In addition to your guide, you absolutely positively must
get _The People's Guide To Mexico_. It'll tell you about
everything from how to camp to what to look for in a pair of
hurraches to what different hand signals mean in Mexico.
Plus, it's an undeniably fun read.
We lost ours half way through Mexico and so relied on other
travellers's LP books until we could get our own. I hadn't
realised what a difference LP makes.
I would have to agree with Don. The '99 Footprint
guidebook to Mexico and Central America is tome like. It
is in hardback so is heavier to carry round, but it the
cover won't get ruined either. The book is VERY thorough
but I found it difficult to pick out the information I
needed so would recommend using it in conjunction with a LP
guide.
We always use several reputable guide books; if the same
place is mentioned in more than one we give special
consideration. However, we also get really great up to
date information about hotels especially when we ask on the
Net. Here, of course, LP is tops for people who are
actually doing it, but there are numerous other buletin
boards which you can access from internet cafes along the
way. Also don't discount your own sense of what might be a
good place to stay. One of the advantages of travel in
Mexico, for example, is that most wonderful little hotels
are family run, affordable, and the prices are posted by
law near the desk. If you see something you like you can
ask to see a room. "Gracias, pero no" works if you don't
want to stay. And most restaurants posts a menu outside
the door so you can check the dishes and prices before you
go inside and perhaps get embarassed if it is too expensive
or you don't like what is offered. Ask other travelers
where they have been, where they are staying, and where
they are going. But most important of all, stay flexible
so you can make the most of where you are at all times.