Joe BindlossLonely Planet India (Travel Guide)

I am going to India for the first time in 20 years. I bought the 2024 guide. It is remarkably inferior to my 2004 guide and I will actually have to use the 2004 guide. For example on Assam, 2004 offers 8 important pages, 2024 offers ONE PARAGRAPH with no mention of Kaziranga. Pictures and trite travel tips like Fodor's have repleaced in-depth and culturally meaningful material . No longer do you see how to get around, etc, money exchange etc.. No longer is humor interspersed.. I may offer the 2024 guide for free (postage only). on ebay. I used to see Lonely Planet as my bible for travel. It is now toilet paper.

I’ve always liked Lonely Planet, but this new edition is terrible. It’s poorly organized and inexplicably often does not provide essential information such as how to get between locations, and entrance hours and prices for tourist sites! Way too much fluff and not nearly enough nuts and bolts logistical information. Awful. I hope this is not the new Lonely Planet model.