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Your Ticket to a Magical Family Vacation!
Inside this new edition is all the information you need to have the family vacation of a lifetime at the Orlando theme parks. Up-to-date and written with the help of more than 500 families, this guide is packed with details on all the attractions at Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and SeaWorld. It's user-friendly, fun, and designed for at-a-glance reference. And it will help you and your family plan the vacation each of you wants.
Inside you'll find:
• Time- and money-saving tips, insider’s secrets, and scare factors for every ride and venue
• Clear, easy-to-read maps
• Full restaurant and hotel descriptions, with star ratings
• Quick Guides, Don’t Miss Lists, and favorite attractions by age group
• Updates on Disney’s Fastpass system and Universal’s Express system
• Know-how for Disney cruises
Inside this new edition is all the information you need to have the family vacation of a lifetime at the Orlando theme parks. Up-to-date and written with the help of more than 500 families, this guide is packed with details on all the attractions at Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and SeaWorld. It's user-friendly, fun, and designed for at-a-glance reference. And it will help you and your family plan the vacation each of you wants.
Inside you'll find:
• Time- and money-saving tips, insider’s secrets, and scare factors for every ride and venue
• Clear, easy-to-read maps
• Full restaurant and hotel descriptions, with star ratings
• Quick Guides, Don’t Miss Lists, and favorite attractions by age group
• Updates on Disney’s Fastpass system and Universal’s Express system
• Know-how for Disney cruises
About the Author
Kim Wright Wiley---mother of two, Lowell Thomas Gold Award recipient, and novelist---wrote the first edition of Walt Disney World with Kids in 1989. More than 20 editions later she's exceeded 50 visits to the parks, a statistic that stuns even her. Her Disney favorites? The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, the character Eeyore, and the California Grill. When she's not at the theme parks, she's at home in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Wonderful resource for the non-Disney obsessed family., Nov 7 2011
By M. Hertzler - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fodor's Walt Disney World with Kids 2012: with Universal Orlando, SeaWorld & Aquatica (Paperback)
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Planning a trip to Walt Disney World can make you insane. I now know this first hand. Planning since July, I have just returned from a whirlwind 5 day adventure with my husband, 2 children (5 and 8), my sister and mother. I was so pleased to receive this book and start my research until I opened the box and saw its thickness. Is there really that much to know? Yes. But the good and the bad is that you can pick it up at points along your planning and then honestly use this as a 'day before' guide book.Chapters 1-4 cover the first stages of planning; answer questions about where to stay, to get a dining plan or not?, transportation, and things you need to do before you leave like make reservations for certain special events and meals with characters. Then, put the book down. Walk away and let yourself absorb that section. Go read some websites, call Disney and pick their brain. Then, back to the book.
The next chapters are more about each park. This is so very helpful when you are ready to go. I would sit in bed the night before our visit and read the chapter on whatever park we were heading to the next day. Having a 5 and 8 year old, I found rating the rides by scariness and height requirements helped immensely. After reviewing the chapter, I was the most informed in my group as to how best approach the park, the rides we had to go to first and planning places to eat. I also was lucky to have the insider knowledge on each ride to gauge whether or not it was appropriate for each member of my party.
The maps are limited and not very in depth, but that's ok when you are just getting an overview.
The only con to this book is that it isn't something to carry around with you while you are actually INSIDE the parks. Its just too big for that. However, I am sure there are better guides put out by Disney themselves with more minute by minute information.
All in all, I found this book very helpful and not too overwhelming.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Nice Planning Tool, Jan 19 2012
By K. Fontenot "Prairie Cajun Regenerated!" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fodor's Walt Disney World with Kids 2012: with Universal Orlando, SeaWorld & Aquatica (Paperback)
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Having used both "Unofficial Guides" and "Birnbaum's" books as guides to get me through my first two trips to Walt Disney World, I can say that I'm familiar with two of the most used and/or referenced books on the matter of visiting Mickey's place in Orlando, FL. When given the opportunity to review Fodor's "Walt Disney World With Kids 2012" guide, I jumped at the chance to see how author Kim Wright Wiley would tackle the park and all of its wonders.What I got was a book that takes the vacation planner's hand and guides them along on every step of the planning process. The book opens with a comprehensive list of helpful phone numbers, websites, and other references that can help any person get a good idea as to what they are getting themselves into. From there, the book's first four chapters gives the reader tips and suggestions on how to do everything from planning and booking the trip to discussing how much time can be spent in each park or at each attraction. These chapters also give hints on how to save time and money during this first stage of the vacation process.
From there, Wiley focuses on each Kingdom, giving each one a chapter. In each chapter, she gives helpful hints on how to plan out your time at the park, a quick guide to the attractions, explanations of attractions (including attraction tips on things such as "Scare Factors" and "Hidden Mickeys"), "Don't Miss" lists, and a "Last Hour" guide.
She follows this up with a dining guide for all of the full-service restaurants in each Kingdom and includes tips on making reservations, whether your children will enjoy the atmosphere of the different establishments, and a price guide. She also addresses the dining packages available in the park in the early chapters and briefly in the dining chapter.
Wiley also tackles spending time in the park in the evening, with and without the kids. There is also a chapter on the Disney Cruise Line. The book finishes with a brief look into Orlando's other theme parks, and gives a nice nod to the "low stress experience" of SeaWorld when compared to all of the other parks. Although I've never been to SeaWorld in Orlando, I have visited the park in San Antonio and can say that it is a much calmer park to visit.
Overall, this book is packed with great tips for everything from funds to food, and also places the focus on family fun. If you've never been to Disney World, I highly recommend it. I also recommend this book to you, even if you don't have children.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good for the first Disney initiate, Sep 28 2011
By Christopher Powell "Christopher" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fodor's Walt Disney World with Kids 2012: with Universal Orlando, SeaWorld & Aquatica (Paperback)
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I've never been to Disney world.. ok... maybe that's incorrect, I've been there when I was so small I only remember the Dumbo ride.Nevertheless, now I have rugrats of my own and it's time to take them for their first visit to Walt's mecca. I like how the guide has general trip planning and expectations for people that have never made the trip, and yet is current with all of the up to date disneys options and park technology. This is a trip that I'm looking forward to and a little intimidated of the size of the place, but this guidebook definitely is giving me more confidence on how to approach our park visit and what to approach for my kids age and limitations. no reason to walk them to rides they can't get on. Must have for your Disney Vacation with kids.
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