“His situation now is a bit like that of the college guy on Spring Break who lies to his buddies, telling them that he cheated on his girlfriend with a gorgeous, blonde 19-year-old. When the news eventually makes it back to the girlfriend– as it always does– he’s in the unenviable position of having to explain that before he was lying, but now he’s telling the truth.”

It’s a pretty apt description, especially when you take into account that he wasn’t responsible for the entire guidebook. I’ve long since given up on Lonely Planet after being burned multiple times by inaccurate listings, and I recently read Unlikely Destinations with a bittersweet tinge–the kind of tinge you get when you see your ex and think how you had some good times but ultimately he/she had too many problems for you to handle. The company had such a promising start and has since lost sight of the forest for the trees.

That’s it: I’m boycotting his (or whoever actually wrote it’s) book!

Ironically, for someone who claims now not to plagiarize, he keeps using the phrase “the journalistic integrity that you espouse” over and over.

To be honest, the entire notion of print guidebooks is pretty much a “dead man walking”. They’re like CDs and DVDs. Digital distribution is the wave of the future.

Anthony: Ha! If nothing else, it’d be fun to buy just to point out the apparently wild inaccuracies.

No wonder LP guidebooks are inaccurate and out of date.