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Baltic States Travel Guide Book?

Any recommendations for a guide book for the Baltic states?

Posted by
1087 posts

Both Rough Guide and Lonely Planet do a one-volume guide to the Baltic States. I have a slight preference for Rougg Guide both but are very reliable.

Posted by
7232 posts

No love here for recent Lonely Planet "guide" books (while once great, new editions are now little more than social media fluff, scraped from bloggers and "influencers" and then printed).

Bradt Guides has an excellent book on Estonia.

Eyewitness DK has a pretty decent book on the Baltics overall.

Posted by
2765 posts

I used the Eyewitness DK book for the Baltics--I had already been to Tallinn so not really needed for that, but it was helpful for Riga and Vilnius. I will admit that I am a person who removes pages from guidebooks--I made neatly stapled packets for each of those cities as bringing the whole sections for each country would have been both unnecessary and weighty.

Posted by
567 posts

The Bradt guidebook for Latvia is very good. Rick Steves Scandinavia has a chapter on Tallinn. Lonely Planet has some good info, but I found the DK/Eyewitness book on the three Baltic countries to be the most helpful overall. Online you can find the In Your Pocket guides, free to download.