Walt Disney World with Kids, 2004: Including Disney Cruise Line, Universal Orlando, and Islands of Adventure

by Kim Wright Wiley

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761526285
• ISBN13: 9780761526285
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great resource!

The author really understands what it's like to travel with children. Great resource for anyone visiting Dinsey with kids to know how to make the most of your time there. Don't leave home with out reading this book. You'll know how to get the most out of it for your kids - and yourself!

extremely helpful

We found this book invaluable for our trip to WDW this summer! The tips are downright priceless, like using Goofy's Barnstormer roller coaster as a test to see if your child can handle Big Thunder Mountain. On the author's advice, we allowed ourselves to split up so that my older son and my husband rode Space Mountain and Splash Mountain first thing in the morning, while my daughter and I hung out in Toon Town and Fantasyland before the crowds were too bad. We saved a lot of time and avoided the super long lines of the afternoon.

The Best Yet!

There are many really great books out describing WDW, and this is certainly one of them. However, the reason I rank this one so highly is because it is the only one that is available for Universal Orlando. I have never been to Universal before and didn't have too much time to waste on my recent vacation. This guide allowed me to completely plan my visit so that I could maximize our time and not exhaust my family's energy or fun levels. We also visited WDW, and it was nice to have one book for two excellent vacation sites.

Wonderful

A wonderful book to use when traveling to WDW, especially when travling with small children. Wiley's time saving tips and advice on how to keep kids refreshed and ready for the rest of the day was invaluable. I will deffinatly use her book in the future!

Great advice for first time visitors

I recently went to Disney World with my three young children, m sister, and her two kids. We never would have made it without this guide. The author gives good tips on which resort to choose and this alone was worth a lot to us. Since the children on the trip ranged in age from 1 to 12 we also depended heavily on the ride ratings in terms of what age group each ride was geared to and how scary it was. I found the author's descriptions and advice to be accurate and she saved us from scaring the younger kids to death on some rides that are really better suited for those 8 and up.Finally, the advice on general touring was very helpful. You can tell that the writer has children of her own and is writing from the point of view of a mother. Our other guide was focused on an approach of "You can do it all" but if we had tried to folow their touring plans with 5 kids I think we would have been either dead from exhaustion or just miserable. This book has a realistic, sane approach on how to choose the best rides and shows for each family.