| The Complete Guide to Walt Disney World 2008 (Complete Guide to Walt Disney World) | 
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Sales Rank: 1583
Category: Book
Authors: Julie Neal, Mike Neal
Publisher: Coconut Press
Studio: Coconut Press
Manufacturer: Coconut Press
Label: Coconut Press
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0970959699
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9780970959690
ASIN: 0970959699
Publication Date: December 15, 2007
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Product Description
Should leave fans of Mickey smiling from ear to ear. -- Chicago Tribune
A thorough overview, with inside tips, facts and quizzes. With more than 400 color photos, it also makes a nice souvenir. -- Boston Globe
May 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 Sentinel
Endless tips and trivia. -- Knoxville News-Sentinel
There 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 The best Disney guide book ever! June 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a true Disney fanatic. I have more than a dozen books that review the World, but this one has so many interesting details and yes, as it states, great pictures too. It is worth the cost and is very entertaining. It doesn't have the same information that you find in most of the other books out there, but new interesting info and a history of where most of the attractions and what inspired them came from. I highly recommend this guide to anyone who enjoys Disney!
Impressive! June 23, 2008
I am so impressed with this colorful, helpful guidebook! I got it for my family so we could plan a trip to Disney World, and we all love it. All the hundreds of photos helped immensely to help us "get our bearings" before leaving for our vacation. The pictures helped the kids pick out their favorite rides for us to go on.
The Accommodations chapter helped us pick out where to stay during our trip. We didn't realize there were actual animals at Animal Kingdom Lodge! We stayed there, and had a ball.
The writing is so smart and funny! I actually laughed out loud when I read the Hall of Presidents article, about when the Abe Lincoln character kept malfunctioning and hitting itself in the head. It was also fun to read about The Simpson's parody of the attraction. There is interesting and unusual information throughout the book, more than any other guidebook I've ever seen.
I'm very glad I decided to get this book! Enthusiastically recommended!
 Look, if this is the best advice you can offer.... June 19, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Really, the only thing you need to know about this book is that includes tips on the best attractions in which to breast feed your child.
I thought it was some sort of bizarre cosmic joke.
It wasn't.
Apparently, the writers don't subscribe to the belief that if your child is young enough to require that sort of service, you'd all be better off not going to a theme park.
Also, in my opinion, the writers tend to be extremely whiney, and have a sense of entitlement the size of Texas. They might as well call this book "Tax Dodge". Reading about how the characters made breakfast unpleasant because the writer took a laptop to a character breakfast....It's like Alice in Wonderland meets the Travel Guide section, but without the possibility that it's all a dream.
You are far better off sticking to Birnbaum's. They may be corporate shills, but the phrase "breast feeding" has never crossed their copy.
Awesome guidebook! Bravo! June 17, 2008
I love this book! Not only are the articles great fun to read, but the PHOTOS are gorgeous and full of color. This makes me want to go back to Disney on my next vacation.
I've bought other Disney World guidebooks before but this one is different. It's so full of info! And I can't overemphasize the beauty of the pages -- you have to look inside this one to see what I mean.
I keep reading it; it's so interesting! I love the histories of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, and the background to the Yeti next to the Expedition Everest attraction writing.
Bravo!
The best Disney World guide June 17, 2008
Buying this book will save you so much time and money it's a real bargain. We weren't able to go to the water parks, so I can't vouch for that chapter, but everything else is so helpful. Simply put, the guide has EVERYTHING you could ever want to know about EVERYTHING at Disney! All the inside information helped us plan our trip in ways such as knowing what restaurant reservations to make ahead of time and what rides were too scary for our kids. I looked at all the top Disney guides at a bookstore before choosing, and this one is absolutely the best one out there.
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