Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
- Published by: Coconut Press December 15, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0970959699
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0970959690
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Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
Should leave fans of Mickey smiling from ear to ear.
-- Chicago TribuneA thorough overview, with inside tips, facts and quizzes. With more than 400 color photos, it also makes a nice souvenir.
-- Boston GlobeMay be the most colorful, visually stunning and deeply researched guidebook on the market. A warm, loving portrait of Disney World, for people who want to love Disney World.
-- Orlando SentinelEndless tips and trivia.
-- Knoxville News-SentinelThere are dozens of guides to Disney World, but I like this one by a husband-and-wife team who visited Disney World more than 700 times. They're not affiliated with Disney, but received much inside access by the company to provide very detailed descriptions of each ride, show and attraction. Among the gems are fun facts, suggested itineraries and little things to look for.
-- Florida Times Union Offers an in-depth history of the attractions and the parks themselves and the most in-depth run-down of the two Disney water parks.
-- Budget Travel Book Description The best-looking Disney World guidebook, The Complete Guide to Walt Disney World 2008 is also the most interesting. Its spectacular photography grabs your eye, then its fantastic wealth of information keeps you glued to its pages. Every aspect of Disney World becomes easy to understand, as color-coded chapters lay out everything one subject at a time, and gorgeous full-color images bring it all to life. Packed with details you just can't find anywhere else, every chapter is so helpful you'll find yourself sticking post-it notes everywhere.
The Planning Your Trip chapter offers a seven-step process to organizing your vacation, then a gold mine of practical information. As for theme parks, each ride or show gets its own article, many of which run several pages. Water parks are covered the same way, which makes the book the only real guide to Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon. Even diversions such as parasailing, stock-car driving and surfing lessons are fully described and illustrated.
A new restaurant chapter is a collection of 88 reviews. The accounts are descriptive and honest, and include useful details such as which character meals can usually take walk-ins. The accommodations chapter covers each Disney resort with a photo-packed article as well as a comprehensive At a Glance sidebar. The combination gives you a nice overview of each complex, but also makes it easy to scan them all by price, amenities, location, or other criteria.
Supplemental Material Like the most complete DVD set, the book is packed with bonus features. The best are the background articles on Disney's theme park attractions. For example, three side stories describe the history, science and set design of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Other columns cover the histories of Space Mountain and It's a Small World. An animal guide describes the odd behaviors you can witness at Animal Kingdom, from the forearm-licking of the park's kangaroos to the stick-sharing rituals of its exotic birds. Breezy feature articles cover the wacky histories of the Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella fairy tales.
The result is a hugely entertaining book, but one that doesn't flinch from the frustrating realities of a Disney trip. It acknowledges the long lines, the challenge of getting key restaurant reservations, the cluelessness you have on how to get a front-row seat to the High School Musical street show and provides the magical solutions. Tip bars run across the bottom of most pages.
Fitting the visual beauty of its subject, The Complete Guide to Walt Disney World 2008 is printed on gloss paper in full color. The book is fully updated, with the latest park and resort information and current prices and policies.
Reader ReviewsIf you liked the first edition of this guide, you will love the second! We had the opportunity to spend last week at Walt Disney World and found this 2008 edition at the Orlando airport. It was a lifesaver! We learned how to see the High School Musical show from the front row (it's easy to do if you have this book), which my kids are still talking about! I was excited to see a number of changes that made the guide even better. The restaurants reviews go into lots of depth and all the detailed information about the resorts is extremely useful. We go down to Disney at least twice a year and this guide is a wonderful tool for picking out exactly where to go and what to do. 5 stars at least!
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