Edmonton Striking Back At Harsh Travel Guide Review

Back in April, the Lonely Planet Travel Guide gave Edmonton a review that was less than flattering. City councilors, like Ben Henderson, are now sticking up for our city and the review that seems to have been written by someone “without bothering to come here.” Here’s some of the Lonely Planet’s review:

“Modern, spread out and frigidly cold for much of the year, Alberta’s second-largest city and capital is a government town that you’re more likely to read about in the business pages than the travel supplements. Edmonton is often a stopover en route to Jasper National Park, which is four hours’ drive west, or for explorations into the vast and empty landscape to the north.

Downtown is for the moneyed and the down-and-out. There’s hope that the much-lauded Rogers Place will breathe life into it, but this seems like a tall order.”

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