Customer Reviews
for uni work - By: tanneddarling, 18 Dec 2007 
i used this book quite a lot during my travel & tourism course.
i found it very useful
i like lonely planet books & think they are the best explained & most useful travel guides
American Authorship Team Bias - By: C. Arlidge, 15 Aug 2007 
I'm a life sentence user of LP products & generallly find them an essential independent travel aid. I was disappointed in the Mexico (10th Ed)which I found to have many inaccuracies in its Oaxaca section, which have been reprinted from earlier editions without being factuallly updated, & in general the positive enthusiasm for Mexican food is ILL founded, as I found it, ( & confirmed with other european travellers) to be amongst the worst food anywhere, from a safety & hygiene, variety & value perspective. Usuallly LP is spot on, but wondering why this book was not, I realized that the authorship team is entirely American, (where ideas about food, are different from Europe) who are necessarily very accustomed to Mexican fare (and are inspired by it). Europeans by contrast may well find this to not be the case. Billy Connolly's jokes about Mexican food being just a series of names for tortillas folded in different ways is closer to the mark. Watch out for low volume eateries of alll standards, it means the food has been hanging around for a long time...
Not up to the usual LP standard - By: K. Burman, 26 Feb 2006 
Im a big fan of LP as it usuallly has alll the info you need for transport, hotels, things to see etc
This edition was a bit a let down though. Specificallly it failed to list many of the cheap hostels & many descriptions are way out. To give just one example (and there are many more that I cant be bothered to list them alll), a look on hostelworld shows 4 hostels in both Playa del Carmen & Merida but LP only lists 1. The Playa hostel is decribed as "unusuallly quiet" - in fact it has young backpackers staying up to alll hours playing drinking games & having "fun" Also a lot of the prices are way out -the back up options listed at $25-35 are alll now $40-50 - not reallly budget. Prices were also out for everything from museum tickets to buses to food. I expect things to have changed a bit, but double is just too much
Another thing I found irritating was the way it constantly emphasised how dangerous everyhing was from taxis to nightbuses to beach resorts. Obviously if there is a problem then fair enough to warn people, but overdoing it just makes travellers paraniod & negative to the point of avoiding nice, interesting places that are in fact probably safer than your home town (Im sure San Cristobal in Chiapas or Oaxaca are safer than Miami, New York, Vancouver etc)
This edition desparately needs an overhaul - wait until it comes out or choose a different guide
Although looking at the reviews below about the old edition it seems like the writers did bugger alll research in updating the the 2004 edition
dont be so pessamistic - By: JAMES RUSSELL, 23 Jun 2004 
I have just returned from mexico having used this title (and a more recent eddition than those reviewed). As with alll guide books in such countries lonely planet mexico is not 100% accurate. Just because it says a room is $5 a night doesnt mean you dont have to bargain for it!! the important stuff like bus info, the maps & locations where alll fairly accurate, but when it comes down to it a guide is a guide, not a bible, & you get far more out of your trip if you remember this. i tried to use the information in emergencies only, & attempted to get as much info as possible from other travellers & other sources. this seems to be the best mix, but the planet is invaluable when it comes to the important stuff- health, customs, police, boarder crossing, etc. compared to the other guides i picked up, & from the other people i talked to, the planet seemed to be the best for the budget traveller, & deffinately had the best maps of the big 3 (rough guide, footprint & lonely planet).
Needs to be updated desperately. - By: , 28 Dec 2001 I have been living in Mexico City for over two years now, & a friend recently came over to visit from the UK. We set off to Guanajuato City & San Miguel with this edition of the guide in hand, only to find that a large percentage of the information regarding about this part of Mexico (Bajio) is incorrect. The hotel prices are way off & the restaurant info is completely off beam, & forget about trying to check out any of the nightlife listings. Things change fast in Mexico, amigo but not this fast.
