Monday, April 23, 2018

The Rough Guide to Morocco (Rough Guides) Paperback – April 5, 2016 by Rough Guides (Author), Thomas Hollowell (Author) (Rough Guides)



I've traveled to more countries than I can count. I like travel guides with lots of maps, lots of summarized information, and many sample itineraries or ways for me to easily create one as a starting point. To me, a travel guide should have layers of information with lots of side sections I can explore if I want to and with supporting details if I want to dig deeper into a given area. "If you have two days in city X, do this" is a great starting point for me to get focused and allow me to tailor an itinerary to my tastes.

This is not that kind of book.

I spent a rainy weekend going through this book and the associated Marrakesh guide (the multi-format eBooks direct from RoughGuides.com) only to find I had many bits of information and no plan. I bought the books because the copyright date was more current than Lonely Planet's, but I later bought the Lonely Planet guides to the same locations and find them to be far superior in terms of organization. I have not traveled to Morocco yet so I can't comment on the quality of information in either book.
If you're making a guide book to Italy, you've got lots of competition, a big market, and a need to really make an effort to compete.
Morocco? Not so much. Thankfully, there are options.

Happy travels.

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