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The Complete Guide to Walt Disney World 2008 (Complete Guide to Walt Disney World) by: Julie Neal, Mike Neal List Price: $24.95 City Travel Guides Price: $16.47 You Save: $8.48 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 917 EAN: 9780970959690 ISBN: 0970959699 Label: Coconut Press Manufacturer: Coconut Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: December 15, 2007 Publisher: Coconut Press Studio: Coconut Press Sales Rank: 9065 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: 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. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Love this Book!When ever I go to WDW I have to buy at least 2-3 different "guidebooks" and stumbled on this book during my search and had not purchased in the past. I sometimes find that they put in way too much information and not enough photos, this book however has alot of colorful photos and I found that it had different information than other books that I have bought in the past and also for my current trip to WDW in December I also purchased the 2008 Birnbaum book (always have to have this one) and I currently have the 2007 unofficial guidebook which will do for this year as well and it is huge! I absolutely love The Complete Guide to Walt Disney World 2008!! Rating:  - Beautifully IllustratedI have to say I have many books on Disney but this has to be the most beautiful and informative. It has so many added features that others do not. A must buy for any disney guide book collector or anyone planning a trip to the World. Rating: - Good InformationThis book was helpful in planning our trip but was not as comprehensive as the Unoffical Guide also sold here. If you are looking to get only one book I would suggest the Unofficial Guide. This book did however have alot of great photos of things we would see so my children preferred this book! Rating: - Tour WDW while at home...Julie and Mike Neal have achieved the impossible; they have summarized Walt Disney World in 336 pages with maps, tables and hundreds of photos. It would take at least a month to do everything at Walt Disney World. There are four major theme parks, a sports complex, two water parks, 27 themed hotels and a shopping and nightclub district spread over 47 square miles. About 100,000 guests are served daily by 54,000 cast members. Walt Disney World is big. BIG. The Complete Walt Disney World 2008 is a concise, up-to-date reference that allows me to `walk through' tour plans while at home. The phone directory is conveniently located on the back page--this book is designed for use while visiting Walt Disney World. For more complete information ... Read More: Rating: - Like three books in oneThis book is like three books in one. It's a travel guide, a picture book and a trivia book. We tried to buy it at Borders but they were out, so I got it here. Great information and fun to read. |
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