The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2010 (Unofficial Guides)
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: Revised edition
- Author: Bob Sehlinger
- Publisher: Wiley
- Release Date: August 2009
- ISBN-10: 0470460261
- ISBN-13: 9780470460269
- List Price: $19.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
Summary
Test Your Disney Smarts! Amazon-exclusive content from author Bob Sehlinger 1. Select the time of year for your visit: Walt Disney World is busiest Christmas Day through New Year’s Day. Thanksgiving 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 often 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 often associated with running marathons. As you plan 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 vacation itinerary should include days when you don’t go to a theme park and days when you sleep in and take the morning off. Plan these to follow unusually long and arduous days. 3. Formulate your park plan: First-time visitors should see Epcot first; you’ll be able to enjoy it without having been preconditioned to think of Disney entertainment as solely 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. Create your touring plan: Which rides and attractions appeal most to you? What are you willing to forgo? Planning 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 plan the best way to enjoy 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, small “dark” rides (cars on a track, zigzagging through the dark) and walk-through attractions—which can be a lot of fun, without the long wait. Remember that bigger and more elaborate doesn’t always mean better. See examples of touring plans (and create 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 decide 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 those on the dinner menu, but prices are significantly lower. Three: Disney adds a surcharge of $4 per adult and $2 per child to certain popular restaurants during weeks of peak attendance, including Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, and in 2009 every day from Memorial Day through July 4. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Great Guide
Rating:
Great 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.
One of the best Disney World guides.
Rating: 
If you want a guide that covers almost anything you can think of relating to Disney World this is the one for one. Keep in mind that information is the focal point of this guide. This guide is not pretty. There are very few photos. The guide does include some rough maps but even those are a little crude.
Where is guide excels is in its range of subjects. You will be hard pressed to find a Disney related subject that is not listed in this guide. Some subjects could stand to be expounded on but then you'd be looking at a foolishly large book. As it is you could do bicep curls with this guide.
There are also updates for this book you can get online [...]. That is a nice feature. It is nice to know that the publishers know it is nearly impossible to have a 100% accurate guide at the time of printing but they take steps to compensate that.
The only reason this book didn't get five stars is it's lack of photos and flashiness. If that doesn't bother you then you found the right guide.
Incredible advice on how to do as much at Disney without waiting in lines
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Just got back from a trip to Epcot. Used the Unofficial Guide to map out the 1-day visit and it worked PERFECT. Following author advice, we arrived 40 minutes early and between 9am and 11:30am we did every major ride in the park with less than 5 minutes of waiting per ride. I could not imagine doing Disney any other way. In fact, there were instances where we would come off a ride where we had waited less than 5 minutes and look back to see how a line for the same ride that was 30+ minutes in length.
Incredibly accurate and useful advice. It's important to note that the guidance is flexible, even though it shows step-by-step sequences for rides. For example, my family decided not to do the ride in Step #2 of the Epcot 1-day plan. We simply re-did the first ride 2-3 times each (since there was almost no waiting), then moved directly on to ride #3. Once we got to the Lunch Break step, we left the park, went back to the hotel for 4 hours and relaxed at the pool. This provided rest, better/cheaper lunch options and an escape from the crowds during the hottest part of the day. After returning to the park in the late afternoon, we did a few more things on the list and then just toured casually for the rest of the day.
I highly recommend this book to those with young children. Our kids (9-11) were amazed at the accuracy of the book and were thrilled to do so much without waiting in lines.
Missing pages.
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I would be giving this book 5 stars but I'm posting this review as a "heads up". I received my copy and discovered it was missing pages 179-242. I've got the 2009 version and use it often but the missing pages in the 2010 ed. dealt with Disney resorts we were looking to stay at. It's obviously a printing error but I'm holding off on a replacement until they've had time to correct it.
Excellent Book
Rating:
Ok, this is a good book but be warned, it has a lot of information. It is best to read in small doses. I am mostly focusing on the restaurant info.since I purchased the disney dining plan. I think some of the info.is probably unnecessary for me but it may help someone else out.
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