Product Description

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®:

1. Every attraction ranked and rated for each age group, based on interviews and surveys of more than 7,500 families
2. When and where to go: the best times of the year and the best days of the week for each park
3. All the Disneyland-area hotels ranked and rated for value and quality of rooms
4. Field tested itineraries for adults and families with children that can save more than three hours of waiting in line
5. Complete coverage of Disney's California Adventure® theme park and Universal Studios Hollywood

Sample Rating

Soarin'

Appeal by age Preschool — Grade school Teens Young adults Over 30 Seniors

What it is Flight simulation ride. Scope and scale Super headliner. When to go First 30 minutes the park is open or use FASTPASS. Special comments Entrance on the lower level of The Land pavilion. May induce motion sickness; 40" minimum-height requirement; switching off available (see pages 266–268). Author's rating Exciting and mellow at the same time; ......5. Not to be missed. Duration of ride 4 minutes. Loading speed Moderate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278458 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
Find out how to beat the queues, which rides to avoid, where to shop and dine, and how to cut costs."  (Junior, February 2008)

From the Back Cover
"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
—Chicago Sun-Times

"Indispensable"
—The New York Times

Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide:

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

2. New dining chapter with detailed reviews of over 50 restaurants including all full-service restaurants at the Disney hotels, theme parks, and Downtown Disney

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

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

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

About the Author
Bob Sehlinger is the publisher of Menasha Ridge Press and the author of numerous Unofficial Guides, including the Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas and the best-selling Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World.

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Guide - Well Worth The Money
I am veteran of Disneyland, having been there many, many times throughout the years. I purchased this guide primarily because it gives a lot of guidance on Hotels in the area and that is something I'm always looking to improve. What I didn't expect and was incredibly pleased to find is great guidance for inside the park's, something I didn't think I needed since I've been so many times. I found it to be incredibly useful, especially the advice about seeing the Finding Nemo ride (Something I'm glad I didn't wait in line to see - it was worth a five minute wait...not any more than that.) and other park tour guides. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book for first time visitors, and would even recommend it for veteran's of the park such as myself. Buy this book - you won't regret it.

One Stop Disneyland guide
Consider this a confession from a travel book junkie. Having read multiple Disneyland guides, I give The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2008 my full endorsement. I found the book well organized and suggestions in the book were useful. There are countless websites and blogs which provide information a book simply can't. The material becomes stale the day before publication. What's great about this selection is that its most important feature is "stale proof".

That most helpful feature is the park navigation system. The reader is provided with a systematized plan of attack; what to ride, when to ride it, and how to maximize your time. There are plenty of plans and guides of what to ride and when. This plan was the most straightforward and easiest to follow. If you just want one book to take with you to Disneyland, this is it.

A useful and mostly accurate guide
This guide was recommended to me by a friend and it ended up really helping me prepare for our Disneyland trip. There is information in here you probably won't be able to find in other guides. The best part about this book were the reviews and ratings on each ride. It includes a rating for several different age groups so we knew which rides our children would enjoy the most. My only complaint was that some of his price information was out of date. For instance, the prices at Ariel's Grotto were quite a bit higher in reality than in the guide. Also, stroller prices have gone up. The author's opinions differed from my own from time to time, but overall, the guide gave me a good idea of what to expect, where to go, when to go, and even which line to get into.