Lonely Planet Experience Scotland (Travel Guide)

It’s a great and fun book but it’s r for planning the trip details.

Visitors to Scotland often fail to get as far as planned. Why is that? Often, they are beguiled by the attractions of their arrival city, say, Edinburgh or Glasgow. Sometimes, they underestimate the challenges of driving in Scotland, and the many roadside attractions along the way, and never quite get as far as planned. How to do better?This Lonely Planet Experience Scotland might help. Rather than burying the traveler in detail, it identifies and links worthwhile experiences as a way to put together a trip. The listings are concise and helpful, and plotted on regional or local maps for a sense of scale. Perhaps best of all, the writers have contributed lots of practical advice on how to approach your trip and your hosts, the Scots themselves. The narrative includes lots of color photographs, regional maps, and local diagrams. Very well recommended to the enterprising traveler.

However it did mention the Braemar Gathering and I might not have heard about it otherwise.

An outstanding resource for planning that “bucket list” trip to Scotland. This book has earned a place on the bookshelf and electronic libraries after traveling is finished.

I thought this would be a perfect resource for a trip to Scotland this fall. The book is attractive but somehow over-curated, with tons of pictures, lists, and other bells/whistles but virtually none of the information I actually needed in practice while I was on my trip. A lot of the basics (like the index) are badly done — for example, Eilean Donan Castle (a major attraction in the Highlands) is featured on the cover of the book's pullout map yet appears nowhere in the index or the text of the book. Ultimately I barely used this guide, and it turned out to be a waste of money. I'd recommend the standard Lonely Planet Scotland instead.