Birnbaum's Walt Disney World Without Kids 2003: Expert Advice for Fun-Loving Adults (Paperback)

by Birnbaum (Author)

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Product Description
In Birnbaums Walt Disney World Without Kids, the most respected and well-known name in travel guides takes adult readers through the worlds most popular tourist attraction. This book includes the most accurate information on prices and attractions. Now information listed in this edition includes the lowdown on the festivities planned to honour a century of Disney Magic. This book focuses on the resorts, attractions, restaurants, and special places that adults will most enjoy and probably never realized existed. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Disney Editions; Revised edition (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786853719
• ISBN-13: 978-0786853717
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,498,390 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Birnbaum's WDW without Kids Comprehensive and Concise, March 12, 2002

By	"mcneil516" (NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Birnbaum's Walt Disney World Without Kids: Expert Advice for Fun-Loving Adults (Paperback)

If you're going to Walt Disney World during 2002, and you're not bringing children - no matter whether you're 21 or 61, this book will tell you all the ins and outs. Everything from where to go for a night at the clubs to where to rest you're weary feet at the parks. They even give you pointers to avoid the little curtain crawlers! You can tell that the writers LOVE Walt Disney World, but they're honest when it comes to what to pass on and even out and out avoid. I've been to Walt Disney World during the 100 Years Celebration, and other than the changes that took place after 9/11, that could not have been forseen in a book printed for an October 2001 Release date, I feel that this book serves it's purpose very well. Name it and they cover it - IF it doesn't include children.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete waste of money, terrible!, February 23, 2003

By	E. Norwig (Texas, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a regular visitor to WDW, I have been extolling the virtues of Birnbaum's guides to my friends for years. I am currently helping some friends plan their trip to WDW without kids, and recommended this guide; after they bought it, I went out and got one myself. Now I am so embarrassed I don't know what to say to them - this guide is terrible, nothing like the normal Birnbaum's guides, or the previous editions of this book.

There are many problems with this guide: just one example is the recommended tour of Epcot. They stress that "not to be missed" attractions in the World Showcase are Canada, France, the American Adventure; other countries' showcases are "not to be overlooked." I suppose if you assume that most purchasers of this book will be Americans with absolutely no sense of curiousity and adventure, and will only enjoy what they will feel "comfortable" with, then this is a good recommendation; however, most adults I know enjoy the many other countries represented in the World Showcase much more than these three "must sees," as they are more interesting and exotic. Also, they recommend making dinner reservations at Les Chefs de France, which is a perfectly good restaurant, but you can get French food in almost any city - why not the Moroccan or Norwegian restaurants? LCDF is also one of the most popular restaurants in Epcot, and difficult to get into - why set people up for disappointment?

This guide is also seriously lacking in graphics. Personally, I like a guide that shows me a photo of what they're trying to tell me about - and this guide has few. Just because it's a guide for adults doesn't mean that it has to be a novel. I could go on and on about what's wrong with this guide.

All in all, I have to give this book a big thumbs down. I will be purchasing another guide for my friends and delivering it post haste, as this one is just plain bad.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book Out there, September 5, 2003

By	DisneyFan "katydidbug1" (Boston. MA) - See all my reviews

I read some of the other reviews listed for this book. I can't believe that there are people who think that this is a waste of money, it is anything but...I go to Disney almost every year. The first thing I do every october is buy the newest version of this book. Don't get me wrong there are some other really good books out there, but this one has to be the very best by far. If you go to Disney often you realize that they are accurte about lines and times and a whole bunch of other stuff. So if you are looking for info but not to munch info. Get this book, or any of the other books they put out. I use this one and the general disney book as I am not traveling with kids.