The great guide-book exchange

Got an old guide book lying around at home? You know the type: well-thumbed, splattered in tea stains from that incident with the thermos and wrinkled from that time you got caught in a late afternoon rainstorm. Even the information within it is no longer up to date – that path’s to eroded to walk on, or it doesn’t include the latest re-route.

But you still can’t bring yourself to part with old memories of that first trip to the Cairngorms, or, more crucially, the cash to get a sparkly new one. But there’s good news if you’re the lucky owner of a Cicerone guide book.

Cicerone have extended their ‘new guides for old scheme’ to cover their full range of guidebooks meaning that you can trade in your battered old cicerone guidebook for a brand-spanking new edition for just half the price.

Cicerone’s Marketing manager explains that although the guidebooks last for years, customers might still benefit from upgrading to the latest copy; “Our guides last for years and customers often hold on to well-worn copies. But the landscape changes, new facilities may open or paths might be closed or re-routed, so information can get out of date. We want to continue to provide people with the best and most reliable guides to the hills.”

So before you head out to the Lakes, or cycle your way round Devon, go and check out your old guidebook – it may well be worth switching it for the latest edition.

To replace your book, visit the Cicerone swap site, download “the new guides for old form”, send it (and you’re old guide) in and you’ll get an updated, tear and crumple-free book through your door.

More information is can be found at T’s and C’s can be found here: www.cicerone.co.uk/swap

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