Vietnam,Cambodia,Laos & Northern Thailand (Lonely Planet Guides) Paperback – February 1, 2012

This book makes me so excited to go back to Southeast Asia! It's an easy size to travel with, and Lonely Planet always has good information. I like the history sections, too. This book is really comprehensive, so you might not read all of it if you're not really planning to go off the beaten track. Personally, though, it's making me want to go to Laos even though I hadn't considered that before. I highly recommend it.

I went on a nineteen day trip to Southeast Asia. I found this book useful in filling in many details that I had not obtained elsewhere.

I'm still reading it, but enjoying very much. I really think that it's very useful for people that is going to do a multi country trip in southeast asia. It includes the main places to visit, sleep, eat, etc...So you don't need to carry a guide for every country. Of course, if you're going to spend a lot of weeks in just one country, maybe buying its guide is a better choice. But if you have few time to know southeast, this is the choice.

We picked this guide book because it's the latest in publishing compared to the others. We were going to Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam so it perfectly covered our plans. Unfortunately we found that it did not have enough details of many of the cities, but more importantly did not have good detailed maps.

Nice guide, I'm planning my trip with this old and used guide I bought for pennies, it just work, cause I'm planning such time ahead that when I'll get near the trip I'm gonna buy the new one.

Excellent book!! It helped very much during our trip in these countries. Perfect tips and recommendarions. Easy to read it. Full recommended!

I purchased this guide as an electronic book since we thought it would be easier than lugging a paper copy. However, navigating through the book was annoying and cumbersome. The version of the table of contents that was linked to the TOC option in the kindle reader menu was useless. I self bookmarked another TOC a few pages in, but even this lacked sufficient detail to quickly jump to the sections I wanted. The index was useless and the search function was too simple to use to find anything (this is from kindle, not this particular book). The transportation guide also did not display well and was difficult to dicipher as a result. We downloaded a PDF of a walking tour in Hanoi but could not find the references in the book. It was difficult to match the book references to the corresponding electronic references. I don't think that adding direct links would have been too much to ask.On the good side, it had all of the information one expects from Lonely Planet and recommendations that matched the standards typical for this family of guides. Their specially designed city guide apps for iPhone are far superior, but since we were traveling to additional areas outside major cities, this guide had more information that we wanted. Be prepared to to be frustrated with the navigation. I will go back to paper versions of the guidebooks for my next trip.

An excellent overview of the country where you are travelling to. Good description of the country, eating places, places of interst and local currency used