Just received the new edition of Vietnam (july’23). I don’t know whether other new LP are the same layout now but what a mess.Hardly any history section, the highlights of the area are not very clear, accommodation and food is no longer at the end of the area’s section but placed along the city at the bottom across several pages or on the side so you need to flick several pages to find what you want.Why can’t it be in the same section?There are a lot more photos but the layout is messy, confusing, not properly thought of and all over the place.Too difficult to find quickly what you need.Don’t look in the contents page for accommodation or restaurant pages, it it not there. Just have to go to the specific city and start turning pages to find these.If it is the way forward for lonely planet, even though I have been a customer for many many years, I will have to switch to a different Guide because I absolutely hate what they have done.A total mess!( Have decided to send it back and awaiting the new edition of a competitor coming out in October)
