Lonely Planet Melbourne City Guide 0.98

Melbourne’s our home town, so you can bet we had fun retooling our flagship Cityguide to make the most of your iPhone. This is a city that offers its many pleasures unobtrusively. Without a good guidebook, you stand to miss most of them, and quite simply, this little baby has it all: hundreds of independent, in-depth reviews of places to eat, sleep, shop, see and socialise; interactive maps offering comprehensive coverage and GPS plotting; lovingly researched chapters on local history, culture, sport, arts, food and more; walking tours (drawn up by notable locals) that take you beyond the tourist circuit and into the laneways and villages that give this city its charm, and lavishly-rendered images to really paint the full picture.

Sport-mad, food-obsessed, culturally curious and genially laid-back, Melbourne is a city that never stops reinventing itself, and our community of resident authors and casual contributors never tires of seeking out the best on offer. Whether you’re on the trail of the perfect coffee, taking a day-trip to test the local wineries, dipping your toe in the country’s best live music scene or just looking for somewhere to lose yourself in a book, you can rest easy with our Cityguide in your pocket. And forget the anxiety of roaming internet costs – our stand-alone apps give you plenty of warning before making a connection. Grouse!

LONELY PLANET iPHONE CITY GUIDES

Imagine taking the worlds favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the worlds favourite guidebook has just arrived on the worlds favourite phone.

• EASY TO USE - swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger

• OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom

• TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call

• TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable

• LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way

• WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS ... – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers

• PERSONALISATION – tailor your cityguide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’

• MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod

• MOREW THAN 30 CITYGUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, New York, Amsterdam, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Bangkok, Madrid, Prague, Seoul, Dubai, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City, with more guides coming soon
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