Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.5924
EAN: 9780470089637
Edition: Revised
ISBN: 0470089636
Label: Wiley
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 864
Publication Date: 2007-08-27
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley

From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World

"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
—Chicago Sun-Times

"Indispensable"
—The New York Times

Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide:

1. Exclusively patented, field-tested touring plans that save as much as four hours of standing in line in a single day

2. Tips, advice, and opinions from hundreds of Walt Disney World guests in their own words

3. Almost 250 hotels rated and ranked for quality and value, including the top non-Disney hotels for families

4. A complete Dining Guide with ratings and reviews of all Walt Disney World restaurants, plus extensive alternatives for dining deals outside the World

5. Every attraction rated and ranked for each age group; extensive, objective, head-to-head comparisons of the Disney and Universal theme parks

Customer Rating:
Summary: A great read
Comment: I am only a little way into this book. I had no idea there was so much to know. But this book is very helpful.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Couldn't have done it without this book!
Comment: This book has it all - great information on just about everything along with some hilarious stories that brought tears to my eyes! We went to Disney when our daughter was nine months old and only managed to make it on ONE ride - 'It's a Small World' and then it was nap time! We paid a LOT of money for that one ride, but it makes for a great story. This time, I swore I'd get prepared. To celebrate our daughter's second birthday, we spent four days in a Disney resort. With a little planning, we were able to hit three parks in two days AND we went on plenty of rides. The info from this book helps you understand the right rides and shows for your age child - no wasted time standing in line only to escort the children out because they're screaming of fright! This book was dead-on with its recommendations. To top it off, my husband is NOT a planner, but he is now after this trip. Our daughter had a great time with no waiting in long lines and nobody got crabby! (hard to believe since it was 95 degrees out!) We saw tons of crying kids and screaming parents and all I could think of was that they probably didn't have a "plan"! This is a GREAT book - for the price, it's highly worth every cent!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: too much detail
Comment: This book has alot of content, but not the things that I needed. There are cartoons, and there are lots of personal annectodes submitted by readers. And it does not work well as a quick reference if you are trying to find the answers to some simple questions. You really have to want to read it to get anything out of it. At the last minute we were confused as to where our hotel shuttle would be leaving us, and how to proceed on our first morning, but the book was too big to stuff in our backpack on our way into the park. We ended up ripping apart the book to get the parts we thought we might use. Frankly I was much better versed, having read the Frommers guide which I had borrowed from the library earlier.

I did get a little advice out of the "touring plans" in the back of the Unnofical Guide. It worked as a rough guideline for us, so that we knew which section of the Magic Kingdom to hit first in the morning. But we did not need the book to plan the whole day. We enjoyed doing things at our own pace and -- oh yeah -- we had a great vacation.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Disney Guide
Comment: Great at covering all of the details you need to know to plan your trip to Disney World. One of the best vacation guides I've ever read. Also great if you have kids since it covers each ride and gives rating based on scary factor, etc. so that if you have a 2 year old (like we did) you can get a sense of what may be too much for them or not.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: THE BEST AND MOST NECESSARY DISNEY GUIDE
Comment: This book is amazing. There are many Disney guides out there and this one has all the info from all the others combined. Yes, it is a huge book and it does not have pictures. There are other books for pictures. This book is jam packed with all the info necessary from the beginning stages of planning your trip to every aspect imaginable at Disney World.

I used this book to plan a 10 day trip to Disney World staying at a Disney World resort. Their reviews of all the resorts, parks and restaurants are lengthy, informative and all right on. I was able to choose the restaurants I wanted to dine at by their indepth reviews and charts.

For Disney I always use two books. This one is the basis for all my research in planning the trip plus the Passporter Guide which also has excellent reviews and info plus is also a book that becomes a souvenier of all the things from your trip. A great combo.

Many praise the Birnbaum guide but for me that one is merely a large colorful brochure for Disney and does not provide helpful information. I can make my own colorful memories when in Disney.

I highly recommend this book but be prepared for the size of it and also the huge amount of info. All your travel questions will be answered here and then Disney will be that much better.

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