Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2000: Expert Advice from the Inside Source - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786884835 ISBN 13: 9780786884834

Publisher: Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), 1999

Synopsis

This commemorative Millennium edition comes complete with sample schedules to help you get the most out of a visit to the park, a colorful two-page chart offering the best selections for the perfect Walt Disney World Resort, as well as all the information you have come to expect from the world`s leading travel guide, including prices, insider tips, coupons, and much, much more. And if that isn`t enough, find out about the extravagant shows and events themed to the Millennium, and the latest additions to Disney`s Animal Kingdom, including the opening of Asia.

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Review:

Cinderella's Castle, Epcot Center, Mickey Mouse, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, and lines, lines, lines. A vacation at Walt Disney World shouldn't be spent waiting to enjoy the attractions you traveled so far and spent so much to visit. With that thought in mind, Birnbaum's editors have traveled, toured, and tested every attraction and worked with the folks behind the scenes to compile Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2000 to help you get the biggest possible bang out of your vacation buck. This colorful guide, which is liberally illustrated with photographs and full-color renderings of Disney notables, begins with the logical "Getting Ready to Go" advice (hotels, transportation, when to go), moves swiftly into lengthy descriptions of each of the major theme parks--Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, Disney-MGM Studios, and Animal Kingdom--and then gives the scoop on other sights and activities in the Orlando area. The most useful information is found in the "Hot Tip" boxes sprinkled throughout the text--sit on the right side of the tram when going through MGM's Catastrophe Canyon if you want to stay dry, for example--and in the descriptions of the rides. Notes at the end of the write-ups call out height requirements or special considerations for those who are pregnant or who have heart conditions (Splash Mountain's "five-story drop into an aqueous briar patch" comes to mind). The guide predicts which attractions are busiest and when, and offers suggestions on where to go when the lines do, indeed, get too long. People who don't have the time to map out itineraries can follow the one- to six-day routes provided by the folks at Birnbaum's. Be warned, though: the plans are ambitious and assume that you will have plenty of energy to make the rounds from morning 'til close. If your true quest is not to see and do everything, but to find and photograph Pooh, Ariel, or Captain Hook, look for the colored boxes that point out the best places to find your favorite characters. Whatever your Disney fantasy, Walt Disney World 2000 is sure to have you singing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" by the end of your trip. --Heidi Robinson

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0786884835
• ISBN 13: 9780786884834
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Birnbaum Travel Guides