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Get to the heart of a destination with Guides by Lonely Planet! Packed with offline maps, audio phrasebooks, a currency converter and advice from on-the-ground experts, our free city guides are the ultimate resource for travelers before and during a trip.
EXPERT-CURATED CITY GUIDES
Our writers live and breathe each city they visit, reviewing every place that makes it into our carefully curated guides. Their essential tips and advice on where to stay, what to do and where to eat will help you discover amazing, off-the-beaten-track places.
TOP RECOMMENDATIONS
Overwhelmed by options for hotels, restaurants and things to do? Guides only surfaces the spots really worth seeing in a city, as chosen by our travel experts.
OFFLINE MAPS
No connection? No problem. Everything, including maps and phrasebooks, works 100% offline so you can avoid extra roaming charges abroad.
AUDIO PHRASEBOOKS
Talk to the locals with more than 10,000 phrases for 19 different languages, including Spanish, French, Japanese or Chinese. Finding the right thing to say has never been easier!
SIMPLE BOOKMARKING
Save and organize your favorite hotels, restaurants and things to do so you can visit (or revisit) your personal must-sees while on the road.
This version of Guides includes 100+ cities, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Paris, Rome, New York, Tokyo or Bangkok. New cities are constantly being added and you can vote for your favorite cities to be added in the app.
Lonely Planet is the world's leading travel content provider, supplying inspiring and trustworthy information for those planning a trip, on the road or browsing as an armchair traveler. We’ve spent the last 40 years traveling the world and crafting the most reliable travel guides, and we put all that knowledge into making the best free travel app.
We’re always working to improve this app and would love to hear your feedback. If you have any questions or ideas, please email us at appsupport@lonelyplanet.com
Happy travels!

• Explore city guides curated by our experts
• Navigate with easy-to-use offline maps
• Discover a city's Must see sights, or dig deeper with collections
• Speak like a local with phrasebooks in 18 languages
• Get into and around the city with transport info
• Uncover the vibe that's right for you with neighborhood guides
• Save places with simple bookmarking
• Find the perfect activity with powerful filtering
• Travel confidently with essential tips
Our writers live and breathe each city they visit, reviewing every place that makes it into our carefully curated guides.
This version of Guides includes the following 243 cities, with more to come soon: Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Adelaide, Agra, Akureyri, Alghero, Amman, Amsterdam, Ankara, Antalya, Antigua, Antwerp, Astana, Athens, Atlanta, Auckland, Austin, Avignon, Baltimore, Banff Town, Bangkok, Barcelona, Běijīng, Beirut, Belfast, Belgrade, Belize City, Bengaluru, Berlin, Bilbao, Bishkek, Bogotá, Bologna, Bordeaux, Boston, Bratislava, Brisbane, Bruges, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Busan, Byron Bay, Cagliari, Cairns, Cairo, Calgary, Canberra, Cape Town, Cardiff, Catania, Cebu City, Chandigarh, Charleston, Chéngdū, Chiang Mai, Chicago, Chişinău, Cincinnati, Cluj-Napoca, Coimbra, Colombo, Copenhagen, Dakar, Darjeeling, Darwin, Delhi, Denver, Dhaka, Dubai, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Dundee, Edinburgh, Edmonton, Évora, Fez, Florence, Frankfurt am Main, Fremantle, Fukuoka, Geneva, Genoa, George Town, Ghent, Glasgow, Göreme, Granada, Graz, Guǎngzhōu, Guatemala City, Haifa, Halifax, Hamburg, Hángzhōu, Hanoi, Havana, Helsinki, Hilo, Hiroshima, Ho Chi Minh City, Hobart, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Hyderabad, Innsbruck, Istanbul, İzmir, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Kaohsiung, Kathmandu, Kochi (Cochin), Kolkata, Kraków, Kuala Lumpur, Kuta & Legian, Kyiv, Kyoto, Lahaina, Las Vegas, Leh, Lihu'e, Lima, Lisbon, Liverpool, Ljubljana, London, Los Angeles, Luang Prabang, Luxembourg City, Luxor, Macau, Madrid, Managua, Manila, Maputo, Marrakesh, Marseille, Melaka City, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Minneapolis, Montréal, Moscow, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagasaki, Naples, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Nice, Novi Sad, Oakland, Osaka, Oslo, Ottawa, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Panama City, Paris, Perth, Perugia, Philadelphia, Phnom Penh, Pittsburgh, Portland, Porto, Prague, Puerto Vallarta, Québec City, Queenstown, Reykjavík, Richmond, Rīga, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Salzburg, San Diego, San Francisco, San José, San Salvador, San Sebastián, Santa Barbara, Santiago, Sarajevo, Savannah, Seattle, Seoul, Seville, Shànghǎi, Shēnzhèn, Siem Reap, Siena, Singapore, Sofia, Sorrento, Split, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Suva, Sydney, Syracuse, Tainan, Taipei, Tallinn, Tangier, Tashkent, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tirana, Tokyo, Toronto, Trieste, Turin, Ulaanbaatar, Valencia, Valletta, Vancouver, Varanasi, Venice, Victoria, Vienna, Vientiane, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington DC, Wellington, Xī'ān, Yangon, Yerevan, Zadar, Zagreb, Zürich
Questions? Feedback? We're always listening at AppSupport@lonelyplanet.com
Happy travels!

What’s New

NEW IN 1.14.2:
This update includes some improvements to our city guide download process that should make for speedier downloads.
Like every update, this version of Guides also provides some performance improvements & bug fixes.
Questions? Comments? We're always listening at AppSupport@lonelyplanet.com.
NEW IN 1.14.0:
Hallo, Buongiorno, 你好, Bonjour, & Hola!
This update adds experimental support for machine translating our Lonely Planet reviews for Points of Interest, Neighborhoods, and Activities! To try it out, set your device's language to one of the languages listed below, then go to any Point of Interest, Neighborhood, or Activity in the app and tap the blue bar at the top of the page. Note that the translation bar will not appear if your device language is set to English.
The app performs these translations using an automated translation service. We would love to know whether you find these translations valuable. You can leave feedback on any translation by using the button labelled 'Report Issue' near the bottom of the page.
We're currently supporting the following languages:
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Hebrew
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Like every update, this version of Guides also provides some performance improvements & bug fixes.
Questions? Comments? We're always listening at AppSupport@lonelyplanet.com.

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Good start

I’ve had the opportunity to travel around the world and I’ve used another pocket size book/guide (won’t mention name) and I love every bit of it, before my trip, during my trip and even after. However they didn’t have the book I needed for my next trip (Japan). My local Barnes and noble recommend Lonely Planet and so far I’m impressed. I leave in a few weeks and I’m feeling confident about having the book and app for my trip. Any questions that I may have had, lonely planet has answered already. Questions that I didn’t even think about they already answered. Thank you!

Very good content, UX can be improved

I really love this app. Lonely planet has such great content and I constantly find myself going to places that are not filled with tourists but where locals actually hang out. There are excellent off the beaten path places and wonderful food options. For that I’m eternally grateful! The only complaint I have is for the map functionality - since I constantly struggle with data when I travel, I always download the offline map, and that’s when it gets tricky. Sometimes the map doesn’t respond until much later, sometimes it crashes the app, and more frustrating is when it doesn’t tell me which direction I’m headed. I use this offline map called Planet Earth to supplement when I navigate offline which have worked out fine. But it would be so much better if the Lonely Planet app can nail that aspect too. Thank you for the hard work and I am a huge fan!

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Developer Response,

Hi Drawsomethingmaniac,
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave this review! We're grateful to hear that you enjoy Lonely Planet's content, and we're sorry that you're having issues with the maps. We'd love to better understand the exact issues you're seeing so that we can be sure to resolve them.
If you could send us an email to AppSupport@lonelyplanet.com to give us some more detail, we'd love to get your issue fully resolved.
Thanks!

Paris, Tokyo, Cape Town, Buenos Aires—Lonely Planet’s travel guides cover an incredible range of cities worldwide. The publisher’s awesome app offers dozens of guides free, and they’re all crammed full of insider knowledge and trustworthy tips. Get the expert lowdown on local hotels, restaurants, shops, museums, and highlights every visitor should know about. Learning about attractions near your current location is super-handy, and the offline maps are detailed and easy to use.

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Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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Supports

• Family Sharing

  With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.