The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2010
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- ISBN13: 9780470460269
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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- In 2008, combined Walt Disney World Resort© theme park attendance reached over 51 million, with the Magic Kingdom alone drawing over 17 million visitors. (Orlando Convention and Visitor Bureau)
- Despite signifcant downturns in the economy, Disney theme parks have maintained attendance excise and made gains in attendance at some parks.
- Walt Disney World Resort theme parks are rated best in the world. earning high inscription for things outside of the traditional theme park experience. Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival, which takes place for six weeks every fall and showcases food from twenty-five countries, was rated by Forbes Traveler as one of the Best U.S. Food and Wine Festivals.
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Amazon-exclusive content from leader Bob Sehlinger 1. Select the time of year for your visit: Walt Disney World is busiest Christmas Day through New Year’s Day. Prayer weekend, the week of Washington’s birthday, the first full week of November, spring break for colleges, and the two weeks around Easter are also times when visitation can peak at 92,000 visitors in a single day. The park is far less crowded during the off season, but be advised that the parks regularly open late and close early during that time. You can find detailed charts and info on the best times to visit in The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World. 2. Shape up: Visiting Disney World requires levels of industry and stamina more regularly linked with running marathons. As you plot your time at Disney World, consider your physical limitations. It’s exhausting to rise at dawn and run around a theme park for 8 to 12 hours day after day. Every Disney World trip itinerary should include days when you don’t go to a theme park and days when you sleep in and take the morning off. Plot these to follow unusually long and arduous days. 3. Formulate your park plot: First-time visitors should see Epcot first; you’ll be able to delight in it lacking having been preconditioned to reflect of Disney entertainment as only fantasy or adventure. See Animal Kingdom second. Like Epcot, it’s educational, but its live animals provide a change of pace. Next, see Disney’s Hollywood Studios, which helps transition from the educational Epcot and Animal Kingdom to the fanciful Magic Kingdom. Also, because DHS is smaller, you won’t walk as much or stay as long. Save the Magic Kingdom for last; it’s the park that epitomizes Disney World for most visitors. 4. Make your touring plot: Which rides and attractions appeal most to you? What are you willing to decline? Preparation your day in advance can save you up to four hours of waiting time in line. We have developed a hierarchy of categories that will help you evaluate each ride and plot the best way to delight in them all. For example, SUPER-HEADLINERS are the best attractions the theme park has to offer – and they usually have the longest lines. MINOR ATTRACTIONS are midway-type rides, tiny “dark” rides (cars on a track, zigzagging through the dark) and walk-through attractions—which can be a lot of fun, lacking the long wait. Remember that larger and more elaborate doesn’t permanently mean better. See examples of touring plans (and make your own) in The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World. 5. Getting hungry?: There are three lessons to learn before you dine in the parks. One: Theme-park restaurants rush their customers in order to make room for the next group of diners. If you want to linger over your expensive meal, don’t order your entire dinner at once. Order drinks. Study the menu while you sip, then order appetizers. Tell the waiter you need more time to choose among entrees. Order your main course only after appetizers have been served. Dawdle over dessert. Two: If you’re dining in a theme park and cost is an issue, make lunch your main meal. Entrees are similar to persons on the dinner menu, but prices are significantly lower. Three: Disney adds a surcharge of $4 per adult and $2 per child to certain well loved restaurants during weeks of peak attendance, including Easter, Prayer, and Christmas, and in 2009 every day from Memorial Day through July 4.
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I’m preparation our first trip to Walt Disney World this year and am a total planner. So naturally I’ve ongoing brushing up with a bunch of Disney books, podcasts, websites, etc. This book is absolutely the most comprehensive must have book I’ve establish. It will really answer any question you may have regarding the details of any trip. There is a page dedicated to each of the resort hotels (and some of the major hotels and trip homes just outside the park), there are restaurant guides (including some outside of WDW), and information on some not Disney day trips. I mention these specifically because most additional Disney books I’ve establish limit their information to only Disney owned resorts and attractions. This was a fantastic bonus! I like the customer feedback quotes/opinions they include – it gives both pros and cons for most things. I can only imagine the time and effort that goes in to preparing such a detailed preparation guide!
I absolutely recommend this if you are a newbie like me and looking for some fantastic information about the park. I also recommend The Perfect Walt Disney World 2009 (Perfect Walt Disney World) (Perfect Guide to Walt Disney World) which give some nice tips and pictures. The Perfect Guide is the book my son is most excited about because he likes looking at all the rides pictures and height supplies (he’s hoping to be tall enough for the coasters by the time we go). This is the book we read before bed every night. Finally, check out PassPorter’s Walt Disney World 2009: The Unique Travel Guide, Planner, Organizer, Journal, and Keepsake! (2010 version should be coming out in a few months).
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is the second edition we bought (first in 1998). It is very helpful for me (I need to know everything about a place before I go to really delight in the trip) to read about all the small details and hints that the Official Guide skips over. (I bought the 2010 edition of the Birnbaum’s Official Guide as well for my spouse, who gets into the trip better with the Disney feel and color photographs, which the Unofficial Guide lacks.)
The Unofficial Guide has information about the additional Orlando area attractions, which is helpful since we usually take one day off from WDW. It also gives detailed descriptions and ratings of hotels in the area, which is nice, even though I permanently stay on the WDW property.
Anyone who really enjoys preparation their trip would delight in this book!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t like to gush about things, but this is the best guide book to Walt Disney World (WDW) I have ever seen. It has enough information to make your trip to WDW the best. And even if you don’t use their park touring plans, there is enough information for the preparation stages to make sure you get the best deals, the best hotels, and the best whatever else you are interested it!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic guide. There is a lot of information. The best part of the book is that it is an Unofficial guide, so the book is unbiased. It also takes into consideration past visits from people like you and me. Do not be surprised by the thickness of the book. It looks huge, but it is also divided up into readable sections. Everything you need and want to know about Disneyworld is in this book. I have two kids and this book is better than The Unofficial Guide to Disneyworld with Kids. Buy it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this book in preparation for an upcoming trip in May 2010. I chose this book over the plethora of additional WDW guide books primarily due to the subscription to the corresponding website [...] that the previous editions have included.
Sorry to say, the popularity of the website has caused this model to no longer be financially viable. Purchasers of the new edition are as a replacement for agreed a special rate of around five bucks to join. The major foul that has occurred is that the very first printing states that certain aspects of the site, in particular the online crowd calendar, would remain free for purchasers of the book. This is not the case. This was an honest mistake, and hopefully it will be corrected in future printings.
Like any additional tour guide, information and reviews are agreed for hotels, restaurants, and attractions. Reviews are agreed for establishments both on and off Walt Disney World property, though more emphasis is agreed to persons on-property. Within the parks, the authors go as far as rating each attraction for point age groups, which I thought was a nice touch. A handful of the excise stated reflect 2009 prices rather than 2010, but that is to be expected since the new excise were unrestricted only a few weeks before the guide went on sale.
The main draw that this book has over others is the inclusion of a handful of touring plans: these are point orderings of attractions designed to minimize the amount of time spent waiting in line. The authors have invested a lot of time and research into these plans, and they seem to be rather effective. But, these plans are pretty hard-core, so if you don’t have a type a personality or have no desire to be at the parks right when they open, these might not be as useful. Additionally, a much larger collection of these plans are available at their website, so a subscription there may be a better option if this is the only reason you would buy the book.
Plenty of maps and diagrams are included throughout the book, but only a limited number of photographs are included at the very beginning. I personally didn’t find this to be a huge deal, but it may be to others.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5