The Problem With Guidebooks, Or How I Came to Hate Lonely Planet On A Sunday in Crete {Gadling}

Jun 25th 2012 2:22PM I think Lonely Planet in particular is guilty of this annoying sin. I think they are trying to recreate their sort of "trendy" label that got lost in the shuffle as they migrated from small, backpacker guidebook company to a huge conglomerate. And don't get me wrong, I use them, but I think they are trying to prove that they are edgy enough to have discovered places that no one else has. The trouble is, often, that there is a reason that no one else has bothered to discover these places!