The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2010 (Unofficial Guides) [Paperback]

Bob Sehlinger (Author)

Book Description

Series: Unofficial Guides | Publication Date: September 28, 2009

• With nearly 13 million visitors in 2008, the original Disneyland park still ranks as one of America's Top 25 Visited Sites according to Forbes Traveler.?
• Disneyland Park? continues to expand with new attractions based on the successful?Pixar films- adding in 2009 the?Finding Nemo Submarine Ride and planning a large expansion?in the coming years based on the Pixar film Cars. ?

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

For Travelers Who Want More Than the Official Line!

The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland® 2010

The Series with More than Million Copies Sold!

Hotels & attractions, ranked and rated

Insider tips that save you time & money

Bob Sehlinger with Len Testa

"Best Travel Series of the Year" —Booklist

From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide® to Walt Disney World ®

"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
—Chicago Sun-Times

"Indispensable"
—The New York Times

Five Great Features and Benefits

offered Only by The Unofficial Guide ®:

• Revolutionary, field-tested Touring Plans that can save four hours of standing in line in a single day

• Dining chapter with detailed reviews of over 50 restaurants including all full-service restaurants at the Disney hotels, theme parks, and Downtown Disney®

• Almost 100 Disneyland Resort and Anaheim hotels rated and ranked, plus proven strategies for getting the best rate

• Tips and stories from real families about their experiences at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure®

• Each attraction described in detail and rated by age group based on a survey of over 8,000 families

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 5 edition (September 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047046030X
• ISBN-13: 978-0470460306
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Priceless book for surviving DisneyLand with kids, February 18, 2010

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D. Whitney (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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Several friends recommended older versions of this book, but I was going to pass on it since I'd been to DL a few times in my life. I bought it anyway and I am forever grateful. The difference between frustration and joy at DisneyLand can be a fine line when traveling with kids, and this book kept us firmly on the joy side the whole way.

The descriptions of how each ride might be received by various age kids was great. Having a reasonable idea of what rides my 8 and 11 year olds would like before getting there saved us lots of time, and you cannot spend too much time in lines for rides you wont like at DisneyLand and enjoy the day. Lines can vary from 5 min to over an hour throughout the day, and optimizing your trip (while it sounds mechanical) makes it much more fun. The MouseWait iPhone app was also priceless in this regard, often more accurate than Disney's own line length estimates(!)

If for no other reason, the tips on getting selected for Jedi Academy was worth the price alone. Extra bonus for the Universal Studios section which again saved us lots of time even though our first attempt at Universal was turned back by a power outage at the park.

Is this the best guide? It didn't tell us where to find a gallon of milk, but that's about it as far as we were concerned. It was well worth it for us.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Seams starting to show., June 12, 2010

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John Tebbel (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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The fine Unofficial series by the Sehlinger organization begins to let us down in this volume. It's still essential but at the rate these parks change these days they need to put more attention into culling obsolete bits and making sure their indexes are complete and up to date. For example, unless you know the excellent "Turtle Talk with Crush" is part of the Disney Animation Building, you'll never find it; it's not in the index. They could probably condense some of their philosophical boilerplate, too; we're probably quicker learners than they think we are, ten years into the new millennium.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Useful DL Guide, March 1, 2010

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dcreader (Washington DC area) - See all my reviews
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We found this book to be the most helpful of several on Disneyland (DL), including the Official Guide.

It is far more comprehensive, and contains much more than the short official versions of DL rides and attractions. It rates each ride by age group, so you know what is most attractive and least, depending in your party's composition, and does not hesitate to reprint dissenting opinions they've received from their readers when helpful, which really impressed me about their honesty and openness.

The main gripe about this book is that it tells the truth. DL can be very busy and simply wondering about and "exploring" will likely reduce greatly the number of rides you can get to. That's not the author's fault. We followed a version of their plan modified to our needs and covered far more of DL in 6 hours with three toddlers than I ever expected we could.

The book contains a lot of advice geared toward those with very young children, which was very helpful. A couple hours skimming this on the plane provided a great deal of insight that made our 3.5 year old son's first trip to Disney a memorable, happy experience, when it could have been anything but.