Lonely Planet Sydney

By Lonely Planet and Peter Dragicevich

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Sydney is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch a concert at the famous Sydney Opera House, laze on the Bondi Beach sand, or experience the style and substance of Sydney's eateries; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Sydney and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet Sydney Travel Guide:

• Colour maps and images throughout
• Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
• Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
• Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
• Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
• Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including customs, history, art, literature, cinema, music, architecture, politics, and cuisine
• Free, convenient pull-out Sydney map (included in print version), plus over 42 colour neighbourhood maps
• Useful features - including For Free, With Kids, and Day Trips from Sydney
• Coverage of Bondi, Manly, Surry Hills, Inner West, Circular Quay, the Rocks, Darlinghurst, Paddinton, Centennial Park, Coogee, Sydney Harbour, Kings Cross, Potts Point, Pyrmont, City Centre, Haymarket, and more

eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices)

• Zoom-in maps and images bring it all up close and in greater detail
• Downloadable PDF and offline maps let you stay offline to avoid roaming and data charges
• Seamlessly flip between pages
• Easily navigate and jump effortlessly between maps and reviews
• Speedy search capabilities get you to what you need and want to see
• Use bookmarks to help you shoot back to key pages in a flash
• Visit the websites of our recommendations by touching embedded links
• Adding notes with the tap of a finger offers a way to personalise your guidebook experience
• Inbuilt dictionary to translate unfamiliar languages and decode site-specific local terms

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Sydney, our most comprehensive guide to Sydney, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.

• Looking for just the highlights of Sydney? Check out Lonely Planet's Pocket Sydney, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.
• Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Australia guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer, or Lonely Planet's Discover Australia, a photo-rich guide to the country's most popular attractions.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet and Peter Dragicevich.

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Release date: Nov 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781743213650

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet has gone on to become the world’s most successful travel publisher, printing over 100 million books. The guides are printed in nine different languages; English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Korean. Lonely Planet enables curious travellers to experience the world and get to the heart of a place via guidebooks and eBooks to almost every destination on the planet, an award-winning website and magazine, a range of mobile and digital travel products and a dedicated traveller community.

Reviews for Lonely Planet Sydney

[drmaf-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Probably the most useful part of the book is the tear-out map of Sydney which I made use of extensively. The information the book provides on sights, monuments and must-see places is exceptional, however the material on eating, accommodation and shopping dates quickly. Sydney is also undergoing major changes in its public transport infrastructure, so the information in that area in this book will rapidly become obsolete. Useful and convenient to carry around, but don't take any information given as gospel.

[tommi180744 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Considering I had been to Australia several times before it still proved a very useful book as this was my first Xmas & New Year in Sydney, so knowing where to go in the awful "rain"! of Christmas Day and massive crowds at New Year was a boon. My only criticism is the exorbitant PRICE: 34.99 Aussie dollars is just RIDICULOUS. Lonely Planet need to look at their overheads because they will price themselves out of the market if that's the general level of their pricing!