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Since 1987 I have been buying each new edition of the Lonely Planet Thailand travel guide. Back in the 1980s, this was the only worthwhile travel guide to Thailand, but Lonely Planet and Joe Cummings are clearly resting on their laurels. There is very little new material in each new edition that comes out every few years. Now, in 2002, there are lots of new and better

guidebooks out there. I can recommend Insight Guides, Rough Guides, and DK travel guides, to name only a few good ones.

Joe Cummings has been the main author of the Thailand Travel

Guide for over two decades. He is also the author of many other

travel guidebooks published by Lonely Planet. The problem with his books is that he is not excited about travel, and this feeling comes through in his guidebooks. He is an expert on Asian art history, and I think that it would be more appropriate if he wrote books specifically about this subject, instead of travel guides for the general public.

To get a good feeling about the kind of writer that Joe Cummings is, I would strongly recommend that you also read through the reviews of his Travel Guide to Laos, which is also

published by Lonely Planet.

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I recently completed a trip through India, Nepal, Thailand and China, and used Lonely Planet guides for all four countries. They all had their ups and downs, but I thought the Thailand one was the best, by far. First it was the most accurate, that is the info was closest to what I actually encounted while travelling around. And second it had the most evocative and confident prose. One could really sense the authors' strong affinity for the country. Like another reviewer wrote, Cummings doesn't talk down to his readers yet he doesn't pander either.

I felt very much as if I had my own personal guide leading the way with the Thailand book. The other three seemed more like compendia of information gathered without regard to any central zeitgeist.

The Pattaya reviewers must have tourist businesses in that city! The authors seemed very even-handed in their treatment of the city nonethess. Furthermore 12 pages on any destination seems plenty to me, however, so I don't understand tte complaint.

I also used LP's Thai Phrasebook and found it very useful.

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Some of these reviewers work for other guidebooks; these guys are pretty unscrupulous, as their guidebooks reveal.

Joe Cummings wrote the Lonely Planet guides to Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) and Laos. His insight into the societies and politics is unsurpassed, and I recommend his guidebooks for that reason alone. (Sometimes LP authors are a little condescending; Joe is not at all. This is important to me.) However, I had the old guide and I recommend you get this newer one (it came out while I was gone).

I didn't give it five stars just because, for Christ's sake, it's a guidebook, not War and Peace.

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My friend and I took the Lonely planet and the Let's go travel book with us to Thailand. We found Let's go a lot easier to use. Lonely planets' index was useless causing time wasted while hunting through the book looking for info. Let's Go Thailand had better maps and was easier to follow all around.

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Sometimes, I think Lonely Planet has become so popular on the backpacking set that no one even questions its substance.

When I was in Thailand, people referred to this as their "Bible", an incredible overstatement. It isn't that the information was wrong, just incomplete when it seemed to matter.

I think there are other guidebooks that offer better information, even though budget travellers are made to believe it is the only series for them. Shop around before you buy this.