BUG Britain & Ireland

BUG Britain & Ireland (1st edition) is a brilliant travel guide for anyone backpacking around Ireland and the United Kingdom. It concentrates on giving honest and detailed up-to-date information and more in-depth reviews of backpackers’ hostels and youth hostels than any other guidebook. The guide also has comprehensive information on activities, sights and budget travel options.

BUG Britain & Ireland (1st edition) concentrates on the information that independent budget travellers really need. The guide doesn’t include information on motels, hotels and five-star resorts, giving more space for really detailed reviews of more hostels than any other guidebook.

So whether you’re working behind a bar in London, tracing your ancestors in Ireland, visiting castles in Wales, searching for the Loch Ness monster in Scotland or simply checking out the pubs and nightlife, the BUG Britain & Ireland (1st edition) guide is the book to take you there.

BUG Britain & Ireland (1st edition) features:

• in-depth reviews of virtually every hostel in each destination
  
• BUG’s exclusive star rating system to help you find a great hostel at a glance
  
• extensive background information on entry requirements, work visas and health cover.
  
• information on getting around by air, bus, car, ferry, train and thumb
  
• detailed coverage of Britain and Ireland’s historic sights
  
• 42 maps

Most travel guidebooks don't give you the information that you really need

Most travel guidebooks try to cater to everyone. They list fancy restaurants and posh resorts and also provide information on cheap hostels and everything in between. The problem with this is that you're left with a bulky guide that is full of mostly irrelevant information. Furthermore, most of the information you really need is left out to make room for more reviews of places you can't afford.

BUG is different. It is a guidebook just for backpackers -- young independent budget travellers just like yourself. You won't find any fancy hotels in a BUG guide, just backpackers' hostels and youth hostels, and lots of them. In fact, every single hostel that is open when the book is being researched is included in the BUG guide and the reviews are more detailed than you would find in competing guides.

With more detailed reviews of more hostels than any other guidebook, BUG really is the Backpackers' Ultimate Guide.

Here's what the press say about BUG guidebooks:

"this guide is packed with useful information and its thorough accommodation reviews and new hostel star rating system make it easy to choose where to stay, ... This guide is well writtenb and well researched"

The Observer (UK)

"... its strength is its entries for backpacker accommodation and getting around by public transport"
The Dominion Post (NZ)

"For anyone who has waded through the screeds of type in some guidebooks and cursed its irrelevance and useless extra weight, the BUG guides will be a welcome breath of fresh travel air"
The Press (NZ)

Details

BUG Britain & Ireland (1st edition)

Tim Uden

BUG Backpackers Guide

208mm x 121mm

448 pages

42 maps

paperback

April 2005 (UK), May 2005 (rest of the world)

ISBN: 0 9581796 5 4