GOOD’s Guide to Guidebooks

‘Are guidebooks becoming irrelevant?’ Adam Leith Gollner asks in the introduction to GOOD’s Guide to Guidebooks.
‘Not quite yet,’ he answers. After all, there’s something ‘reassuring about clutching a guidebook as you stumble from monument to monument through a foreign land’, isn’t there? Your Lonely Planet still feels ‘more dependable than some shut-in with a Wikitravel avatar’, doesn’t it?
I’m a guidebook fan, so I’d answer yes to both of those questions. But even an enthusiast can admit that not all guides are equal - that’s why blunt, entertaining reviews like the GOOD guide are so useful.
Plus, I give them a few huge bonus points for the mad alliteration.
Community Connection: The Matador community loves a good debate about guidebooks! Check out the articles “5 Reasons Wiki Travel Guides Are Better Than Guidebooks” and “6 Simple Ways to Travel Without Your Guidebook.”
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