Frommer's Scotland's Best-Loved Driving Tours (Best Loved Driving Tours) (ISBN 0470105712) Book Reviews 1-7 Sorted By Most Recent, at VeryWellSaid.com

Comprehensive with one shortcoming

Most of the trips were little loop trips that began and ended in various locations around Scotland. What I really needed was one loop route around Scotland for one week that included my desired destination cities: Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness, Drumnadrochit (Loch Ness) and Glasgow. So what I had to do on my own was to cobble together pieces of various stops out of the book to fit my planned itinerary and choice of hotel stops. Since I bought the Historic Scotland Pass I also tended to visit those sites more than others in the guide. These factors made this book more of a resource picking places to visit along the way than anything else. A future edition would benefit by including about three good circle routes around Scotland (beginning at one of the two major airport cities: Glasgow or Edinburgh) to help plan a one or a two week long vacation.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-09-06 04:01:40 EST)

05-13-07

(NA)

must have for self driving travellers

great itinaries for loco-regional driving
quite detail maps and time suggestions
best if include more long trips which cover some of everything

(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-07-17 14:58:56 EST)

02-10-06

13\13

Excellent guide to seeing Scotland from behind the wheel

This review is for the 6th edition, 2005 printing.

Excellent guide to seeing Scotland with a sports car or a recreational vehicle (RV; a home on wheels). You will enjoy some great driving tours and routes through this historical region of United Kingdom.

Frommers has recently come out with more "Best-Loved Driving Tours" series ... guides that are not very inexpensive, but are very well researched and quite comprehensive. One will have plenty of driving tours and routes to chose from, whether you like arts and museums, scenic roads and breathtaking views, urban towns and shopping, or just want to experience a regione's culture and life.

Unlike the other Frommer guides that are fatter and heavier, this little book gives you not too many specifics on lodging or eating. It is geared strictly for the person behind the wheel and her or his passengers.

I have had a great experience using this guide and will recommend it to anyone who can afford it. Also, you might want to check to see if your library carries it and check it out for the duration of your visit abroad.

When I backpacked 4 months through Europe I had a copy of the Lonely Planet for Europe (a thick and heavy book) because it covered more cities and esoteric towns, a ripped chapters of all the international youth hostals Europe of the countries I visited, and as primary guide for nominal cities and capitals I used Frommers (ripped the book and kept only chapters of countries planning to visit - so I can keep the weight down).

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-10 13:18:35 EST)

02-09-06

12\12

Excellent guide to seeing Scotland from behind the wheel

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-04-10 04:39:33 EST)

06-20-03

8\10

Didn't look at this one at all

I really wasn't very impressed with the outline. I would recommend Scoland the Best and then the Eyewitness guide as a must if traveling to Scotland. It was not very specific, and the tours for the most part were too long. Most were 2 days, and we were in different places every other night which really didn't allow us to do what the tours suggest.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-10 13:18:35 EST)

03-30-03

14\15

How much time do you have?

This book is going to be of little use to someone who is going to Scotland for a week to 10 days for their first visit. It seems that the original audience for this book is the AA, Automobile Assn (in the US, AAA) members looking for vacations or day trips. Although the book gives 25 great routes to take for scenery, it does not spend very much space telling you about what it is you are seeing when you get there, assuming you already know the history of the castle and so forth.
This book could be very helpful if you were going to be in country for a couple of weeks or months, then coupled with more informative, detail oriented guides, this could lead you to some wonderful vistas. Depends on how much time you have, and what you have seen already in Scotland. If you have been there before, a leisurely driving trip could be just the thing.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-10 13:18:35 EST)

08-08-01

28\29

It will make you want to drive for hours and hours...