Thailand's Islands & Beaches 9 (Lonely Planet Thailand's Islands & Beaches) Paperback – July 21, 2014

I enjoyed this book. Good info and guide to beaches here. Thanks

Lonely planet is my favorite brand concerning guides and travels. Once again, it turns out to be the best: Thailand is well devided between inner territories and cities and all the beaches/islands so this kind of guide is perfect if you're planning a tour on the beach.

I used this while backpacking through Thailand and It was definitely helpfull. Unfortunately, some of the directions for transportation were both unhelpful and even got me lost, but things change so you can't really hold the book accountable for that. However, the restaurant recommendations, accommodation suggestions and authentic experiences that are recommended are absolutely on point. The Lonely Planet is my absolute favorite travel book company and probably one of the only ones I will ever purchase again.

Shmeh, not as helpful as I would have liked and it's identical to the main guide, so don't get both. I was hoping for more in depth detail in this.

Great info on the islands and where to go and what to see and do there. Lonely Planet makes excellent travel guides if you are looking to go a bit off the beaten path and see a place through the eyes of a local.

So I went on a long trip around SE Asia which included many countries in the area. I was thrilled when I found out that these books were on Kindle. I figured I could download the books instead of carrying a heavy book with the limited space in my pack, and I was going to need a lot of books. For starters, the Kindle books are worthless. Instead of having more information, because they don't have to use more paper, there is less information. In fact, so little that it looks like they put these books together in such a hurry just to get by so they could throw them out there. The formatting is outrageous. Even the worst Kindle books have clickable links so you don't have to scroll back and forth, back and forth, from the index. I asked Amazon for a refund and had them delete the worthless excuse for a publication.Next, most all of the information in all the different countries' books I looked at in bookstores and from other travelers was way out of date, and these are new books. The worst problem is that there is so little information as to make these books a complete waste of owning. All the great places I stayed at, and everybody else easily found as well, are not in their books. Following Lonely Planet guides actually keeps you from finding all the best places to stay, because you are relying on out of date, poorly researched information. They will tell you things like this is the place all the backpackers go and is the best value, and it will be completely wrong. I went to one place they gave a great review in a new book, and it seemed like a drug den with gangsters running it. The new owners of Lonely Planet have taken the good name of the Wheelers and their past accomplishments, and are milking it for all it's worth without putting in the work.Here is what I suggest. Go to Google maps to look at the cities or places you plan to go. Even the smallest places like Don Khon, or Thakhek, in Laos, or Cambodia, or wherever, will have hotels listed on Agoda, or Booking.com, or some other site, for example. Just Google the place name and hotels. You will also see other places listed on Google map which have links to reviews, with up to date listings and prices. You will also see where the concentrations of places to stay are in a town, that might not have a link, and then you simply go there and look around. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the way Lonely Planet was getting it's limited information, because in everything I read, it seemed that they had never visited any of the limited places they cover, and when I say limited, I mean limited. How they can have the guts to print out new editions with less information than the previous one is beyond me. My fifteen-year-old edition of India, for example, had more maps than the new book. Anyway, you don't need maps in a book anymore. Everything you need to know is up on the web and current and the smallest villages have internet access.I would look at fellow traveler's books in disbelief. The people carrying them said they were almost useless. It was a common topic of conversation. Everyone said they would no longer buying these. One guy joked about feeding it to the cows that commonly eat paper out of the trash in India. Seriously, they would be more useful with blank pages so you can write in your own info, or that from other travelers. Don't waste your money or be disrespected by these slackers, who I wouldn't be surprised never travelled farther than their computers to the coffee machine.

Information was detailed , accurate and up to date. This book was quire helpful on our recent trip to Thailand.

BUY IT!! if you are going to Thailand.. just get it, and Take it with you!