Lonely Planet used to get a lot of flak for the poor quality of their maps and have in recent years made something of an effort to improve them.

Recent trips to Thailand and The Philippines plus wanderings within Malaysia with LP guide in hand have highlighted that they are still pretty unreliable. Numerous times in the last few months we have been 'lost' in the space between the alternative universes of Planet Earth and Planet Lonely.

Recently in Cebu City, Philippines we wished to visit a museum which is marked on the Lonely Planet map. As we walked out of the lobby of our Hotel we were asked if we required a taxi and a taxi was duly found.

The concierge clearly gave our destination to the driver and we went off down the road and turned right at the next opportunity. I thought this was odd as the city centre and museum were definitely leftish, perhaps he knew a quick way? Fifty metres later we stop opposite a hotel with a name similar to the museum, if we had been going here we definitely would have walked it in a couple of minutes.

After discussions we U-turn and head in the right direction until the driver stops and starts asking passersby for directions. At this point armed with our trusty map I offer to provide directions.

All is good and map and reality are in full agreement and we get to the road junction with the road that the museum is on. We stop pay off the driver and get out and head for the museum.

Problem is that the road name is wrong and that the museum is not there. We ask a local who has never heard of the museum. We ask another who gives us carry on, turn right, turn left, walk a bit and you can't miss it guidance. He is right.

But there is no way that the road as depicted by LP is the road we are on.