Product Description

At last - the two hottest stars on the travel circuit combined in one sizzling guidebook! Grab your pack and head south to Australia's awesome beaches and New Zealand's spectacular landscapes. Written for backpackers by backpackers, this guide to the wonders down under helps you travel further and pay less.

• TWO IN ONE - No other guide covers both Australia and New Zealand, let alone from a backpacker's perspective

• GET THE LOWDOWN on where to go for nonstop parties, and where to find a little space all to yourself

• EAT CHEAP AND SLEEP EASY with our fully updated coverage of the best local eateries and great-value accommodation

• TAKE YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS - get your thrills from the best scuba diving, bungy jumping, skiing and jet-boating that Oz and NZ has to offer!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #521570 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 836 pages

From the Publisher
Who We Are
At Lonely Planet, we see our job as inspiring and enabling travellers to connect with the world for their own benefit and for the benefit of the world at large.

What We Do
* We offer travellers the world's richest travel advice, informed by the collective wisdom of over 350 Lonely Planet authors living in 37 countries and fluent in 70 languages.
* We are relentless in finding the special, the unique and the different for travellers wherever they are.
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* We challenge our growing community of travellers; leading debate and discussion about travel and the world.
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What We Believe
We believe that travel leads to a deeper cultural understanding and compassion and therefore a better world.

Customer Reviews

Not Very Dependable
I bought this book to help plan a month and a half long trip to New Zealand and Australia staying mostly in hostels. I cannot recommend this book for a reliable source of information for hostels or restaurants. Most restaurants I have tried to find no longer exist. The hostel and attraction prices are wrong (of course these are subject to change), however, the recommended hostels have been hit or miss. There have been some good ones as recommended by the book (Sydney Central YHA, Old Countryhouse in Christchurch, NZ) but there have been some disgustingly unclean (Bondi Beach YHA) and unlivable (Global Palace) recommended highly by this book. I think that a better source of information would be customer reviews on the internet.

A great choice
It's a great book. It is very complete and very accurate, most of the times.
I didn't gave it 5 stars because sometimes it isn't very easy to find the information.

I recommend it.

Reading this guide convinced me to do the trip
Typical Lonely Planet fare: puts a wide range of sights/activities covering all budgets into succinct pieces without overdoing the tourist spots. The combo AUS/NZ is ideal if you're spending a month or less down under hopping to various locales and don't need all the details of separate guidebooks for each country. The suggestions of this version were all current (as of Jan 08). This book will even steer you to the unique spots and from there you can hit up the locals for more input. If spending greater than a week in any particular city, I'd augment w/ separate city guidebook.