Comments on: Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/04/14/do-travel-writers-go-to-hell/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:27:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: MB http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/04/14/do-travel-writers-go-to-hell/#comment-47324 MB Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:20:30 +0000 http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/04/14/do-travel-writers-go-to-hell/#comment-47324 I've strayed from LP from time to time. Not because of any bad experience, but rather trying to avoid the LP effect. You know, where all the backpackers in town end up at the same (previously) local spot because of its inclusion in the most recent edition? So I've tried out Moon, Rough Guides, etc. But I keep coming back to LP. For an interesting perspective on Kohnstamm's claims, check <a href="http://rovinggastronome.com/mainblog/2008/04/13/the-kohnstamm-affair-a-long-rant-on-what-its-really-like-to-be-a-guidebook-author-complete-with-numbers/" rel="nofollow">this out</a>. Comes from a writer who's worked for LP, Moon, and Rough Guides. I’ve strayed from LP from time to time. Not because of any bad experience, but rather trying to avoid the LP effect. You know, where all the backpackers in town end up at the same (previously) local spot because of its inclusion in the most recent edition?

So I’ve tried out Moon, Rough Guides, etc. But I keep coming back to LP.

For an interesting perspective on Kohnstamm’s claims, check this out. Comes from a writer who’s worked for LP, Moon, and Rough Guides.

]]> By: Beth http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/04/14/do-travel-writers-go-to-hell/#comment-47322 Beth Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:33:45 +0000 http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/04/14/do-travel-writers-go-to-hell/#comment-47322 I wonder if he wrote the one on the Yucatan. It was so full of wrong information that we were safer doing the opposite of whatever it recommended. We never located a single one of the restaurants it recommended, although it had just been published the month before our trip, and it had egregious conversion errors -- like saying things cost 45 pesos when it was actually 45 dollars, and vice versa. We broke up with LP on that trip. I wonder if he wrote the one on the Yucatan. It was so full of wrong information that we were safer doing the opposite of whatever it recommended. We never located a single one of the restaurants it recommended, although it had just been published the month before our trip, and it had egregious conversion errors — like saying things cost 45 pesos when it was actually 45 dollars, and vice versa.

We broke up with LP on that trip.

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