Explore Egypt with Lonely Planet: A Comprehensive Travel Guide

Quality Rules: Good references. Most LP books satisfy my need before travel.

United States on Oct 11, 2022

Sandro: Not the level of other Lonely Planet guides.

United States on Jun 12, 2022

Jamie Griffin: This little handbook is basically all about Egypt and more!! Highly recommended! Its all you really need!

Canada on Oct 31, 2021

ErH: This book was very helpful for dining and navigating Giza. Just wish the Egyptian museum hours were accurate because the book says they close at 7pm and when we arrived at 4pm, we only had 1 hour to zoom through the mummies because they actually close at 5pm!

United States on Oct 06, 2021

Adrian: Most of the prices from 2018 are not relevant anymore, apart from that as always great Lonely Plant is best in terms of guide books.

Poland on May 04, 2021

av8or: One of the things I love about lonely planet guide books is that they write their books for the independent traveler and by that I mean the guides are very thorough and they always say at least a little about everything and cover bigger things in even greater detail. I like the way they recommend top sights, restaurants, and hotels. All in all, very well rounded guide books with lots of the little details necessary for independent travel. I have traveled to over 70 countries and use them almost exclusively.

United States on Mar 10, 2020

Peter: Used on my recent trip to Egypt. Very helpful although some of the prices for attractions have increased since the book was published.

United Kingdom on Mar 01, 2020

Peej: If you like a travel guide that tells you everything - but everything - you need to know about a place then Lonely Planet Egypt is for you. For me, the small typeface and sheer weight of information was just too much and there's too much of a travelogue - 'take a left and on the corner is an alabaster seller with a cart' - type of thing going on. I actually found I rarely used it and probably missed out because of it. I'll rate it as average as I understand some people may benefit from this type of information, but I'd imagine those people are likely to be backpackers, young and with good eyesight to be able to read the small text. For me it was very disappointing.

United Kingdom on Feb 27, 2020

Maxim: Quite helpful on a trip to Cairo and Alexandria, maps a bit annoying though as one has to keep cross referencing numbers to a table which is located on a different page in many cases.

United Kingdom on Dec 30, 2019

Lauren Sheldon: Overall, this is an okay guidebook, although it seems aimed at more of a budget traveler than I am, apparently. Gave it four stars because the section on Cairo is confusing and because it often describes sites that are closed to the public (why include them in such detail if you can't go to them??). It's the only current guidebook on the market, but I wish Fodor's and Frommer's would update theirs so that it isn't. (Still much better than DK, though, which is only pretty pictures and contains none of the information you really need to plan a trip.)

United States on Jun 07, 2019