Product Description

Sunscreen: check! Surf gear: check! Lonely Planet: check! Make the great Aussie pilgrimage up the eastern seaboard – sun-kissed realm of beaches and buzzing cities, wilderness and wildlife, country retreats and wineries. Our definitive guidebook gives you detailed regional coverage for the perfect coastal odyssey.

Cruise The Coast – coverage of the best beaches from St Kilda Esplanade to the Great Barrier Reef, and beyond

Embrace The Outdoors – whether it’s boating or bungee jumping, cycling or surfing, we’ll help you to an adrenaline high

Suss Out The Cities – inside information on how to make the most of magical Melbourne, sassy Sydney and breezy Brisbane

Taste The Tucker – freshly shucked rock oysters, snags sizzling on the barbie or fresh mangoes, whatever you fancy, we’ll have you salivating

Go Your Own Way – 95 maps to help you navigate from sports event to market to beach, and detours to escape the crowds

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1056667 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 520 pages

Review
…these smart and exhaustively researched guides have become the gold standard for serious, independent travelers.' --San Francisco Chronicle

Customer Reviews

I could not have written a better one myself....well, maybe.
This book is perfect for seeing the east coast of Australia by car, but will work just as well if traveling by bus, moped, etc. A friend and I had been planning to drive the east coast, visiting national parks and doing lots of hiking, so when I saw this book I knew it was perfect. As with all titles in the LP family, it lists many places to stay/eat based on price range, which is really nice when you are traveling on a limited budget. There are many hikes listed in the book, along with museums, oddities, and points of interest along this 'classic overland route.' My only complaint about the book is that I wish the authors had listed traveling distances between major cities at the beginning of each section, so the reader doesn't have to add up each little segment on the maps. Otherwise the book is very complete.

Planned my entire vacation - great reference
My husband and I took a 18 day trip from Sydney to Cairnes, and used this book for almost all of our motels/B&B's, etc. We were looking to budget less than $100/night for rooms, and all the recommendations in this book were spot-on. The maps of towns are okay, but you'll want a full-size map to get around with and figure distances, too.

Disappointing
In recent years, I have been increasingly disappointed with the information contained in LP's guides. In the case of this one, I purposefully chose _East Coast Australia_ instead of the thicker LP guide covering all of Australia. I figured I could get more detail about locations in that region with this region-specific book, but I was wrong. Morton National Park and neighboring Bungonia Gorge are not even mentioned. (The larger guide does cover Morton.) Canberra, the nation's capitol, gets a mere 4 1/2 pages of text. Some of the smaller towns surrounding Canberra (picturesque Yass, comfortable Queanbeyan, historic Cooma, Goulburn on the motorway between Canberra and Sydney) get no mention whatsoever. Several years ago, LP discovered that there was a dearth of decent travel guides and stepped in to change the situation. Rick Steves is supplanting LP (who supplanted Let's Go Europe earlier) in Europe now. I hope someone will come along and address the rest of the world soon. In the meantime, LP's Thorntree is a great web-based interactive resource that can be taken advantage of.