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Lonely Planet Finland (3rd ed) | 
 enlarge | Author: Markus Lehtipuu
Creator: Jennifer Brewer
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1644501
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0864426496
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.8970434
EAN: 9780864426499
ASIN: 0864426496
Publication Date: July 1999
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 All you need to know about Finland-And more! July 19, 1998
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'm an Australian exchange student who lives in Finland, and I have found this book to be most informative in many areas. It includes information on almost every city in Finland, which has been invaluable to me whilst travelling. It is easy to find what you are looking for, and contains information on everything, including History, culture, food, language, activities, special packages and places to stay. I would definatly recommend this book to anyone travelling to Finland, as with it you can see more of Finland in less time and with less problems.
Very detailed and helpful for travelers in Finland February 17, 1998
Carol L. ToppCPA (Ohio)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Most travel guides for Finland highlight only Helsinki and Lapland, but Lonely Planet covers the entire country.
I found the remote town where my ancestors came from mentioned and even a hotel listed. Each city has a highlights section, hotel and restaurant listings.
INcludes maps, some color pictures and a bit of history and Finnish culture.
I'm taking it along on my trip to Finland this summer!
Essential really May 17, 2001
A. Butterfield (UK)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've just been to Helsinki for a few days, and although I didn't get the chance to test this book's usefulness in other parts of the country, it certainly proved worth having just for Helsinki. It tells you all the basic stuff, and some of the interesting stuff. I was able to get from the airport by bus and walk to my hotel from the bus station simply by glancing at the book on the flight to Helsinki. Everything is very clear and nicely laid out, and it's a handy size too. I hope I'll return to Finland; this is the first thing I'll pack.
Great book! March 6, 2003
GlorySummer Scarbough (Ann Arbor, MI United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I visited this country with my Finnish boyfriend in 2002. THe book was a great help. It helped me decide which tourist spots, shopping areas, historical sites and places of interest to check out. The only part that I didn't like was that it didn't touch too much on the smaller cities of Finland, but in general, it's a good buy. Definitely worth it, but make sure you get "Culture Shock, Guide to Finland" if you do travel to Suomi. Having a cultural view of this beautiful country is important.
 Not as inspiring as the cover would indicate! August 29, 2004
Craig MACKINNON (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
To put this review in context - my wife and I travelled to Sweden and Finland this summer. She has family in both countries who we visited and stayed with. Much of the time was spent in rural Finland (Kuusamo and region). Our home is Thunder Bay, which is a small pulp-and-paper city (100 000) in rural Ontario.
The Lonely Planet guides are well-known (at least among my travelling friends) as including a little bit of everything - culture, entertainment, restaurants, and places to stay. Because Finland is a young and sparsely-populated country, it turns out that there aren't a lot of castles or museums or cathedrals to see, and those that are there are not as impressive (generally) as their counterparts in Sweden. No, the reason to go to Finland, according to this guide, is the nature, parks, wildlife, etc.
Normally this kind of thing is very inspiring, and the book makes it sound interesting. However, this is exactly the kind of thing we can do at home - provincial parks, downhill and cross-country skiing, and moose crossing the road are all part of our normal existence. Why would we go to Finland to experience these things? This is the nature of the country, of course, which the editors of the Lonely Planet series cannot control. However, reading the book did not give me any particular desire to go to Finland had I not been planning to go anyways. It seems like the editors may as well have summed it up as "It's a great place to live, although a little dull to visit." In reality, the country is much more interesting than the book would have led me to believe.
Having badmouthed the general aspects, I do want to praise the section on Helsinki. Here the guidebook shines and we toured the city and the sites based on the well-documented walking/biking tour. It is a fantastic way to view the city and made the purchase cost of the book well worthwhile. We saw much more of the city than we would otherwise have been able to. Likewise, as visitors to Scandanavia will likely have noticed, there is a dearth of mid-range eating places (pubs, "family restaurants", etc.) in Scandanavian cities, so we relied on this book to find a place to eat, which again was exactly as described. In that restaurant, we were planning our next move when in walked another couple with the same guidebook, sitting at the table next to us. Obviously they were finding the book useful as well!
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