Honduras Guide (Honduras Guide)

by Howard Rosenzweig, Jean-pierre Panet, Leah Hart, etc.

Release Date: June, 2002

Edition: Paperback

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Scant on Needed Details, Poorly Written

My three friends and I just returned from Honduras. We each had a different guidebook. This one was by far the worst (even compared to books which covered central America in general rather than Honduras specifically).

Significant problems with this book include: seemingly random selection of lodging and food choices, almost no coverage of smaller towns, inaccurate public transportation information, and no ordering to hotels and restaraunts at all (neither alphabetical or - more logically - by cost).

Worst, the book is poorly written - we often had trouble figuring out just what the author meant. One particularly frustrating example arose when we tried to follow the book's directions to get to Tela (a city on the North Coast). The book states: "From San Pedro, take a bus from the Tupsa/Catisa station, 2 Avenida, 5/6 Calles SW, for Progresso, and change there for the bus to Tela. Buses leave every 15 minutes for El Progresso. However, you should take the direct bus to La Ceiba (same bus station), and tell the driver you want to get off at the entrance to Tela." Huh? So do we take the bus to Progresso, or to La Ceiba?

The book's history and culture information was fairly good (arguably better than the other guides we took with us) but it simply doesn't make up for the deficient selection and poor presentation of the information travellers really need. A passable second or third book, but not to be relied on as your primary guide to Honduras.