Recommended Websites
OVERVIEW
Welcome! This site is designed for first time family visitors to Walt Disney World who do not know if they will ever return.
It guarantees the best possible first family visit to Walt Disney World for the least possible time spent planning!
To use this site, begin by clicking Summary of Instructions.
Follow the instructions that you can, and where you can’t, click the links in Summary of Instructions for your next best options, ranked in order!
If you are looking for something very specific,
- For when to go, see this
- For next best dates, see this
- For best and worst times to visit, see this
- For 2010 weeks to visit, ranked in order, see this
- For the 2010 Week Picker App, see this
- For 2011 weeks to visit, ranked in order, see this
- For forecasting crowds at Walt Disney World, see this
- For seasonal pricing at Walt Disney World, see this
- For 2010 price seasons, see this
- For projected 2011 price seasons, see this
- For weather at Walt Disney World, see this
- For itinerary design goals and the basic December Itinerary, see this
- For itineraries covering all the other parts of the year, see this
- To design your own itinerary, see this
- For a comprehensive guide to rides and attractions, see this
This site is designed so that first time family visitors don’t need any more information than what it presents. But if you do, or are just curious, the websites below are wonderful.
BASICS FOR THE FIRST TIME FAMILY VISITOR
- The Walt Disney World Instruction Manual at yourfirstvisit.net. Everything you need in one easy and fast site
- disneyworld.com the official site…
- Official Walt Disney World Calendar page park hours, events, and Extra Magic Hours, next six months.
- It’s easier to work with the individual park calendars. To view a day–for example, to figure out if and when Fantasmic or Wishes is on that day–go to the individual park’s monthly calendar and click within the date you are curious about.
- Len Testa and Bob Sehlinger’s TouringPlans.com the unofficial site…tons of stuff, but especially good on daily crowd forecasts, and park touring plans
- TouringPlans.com has also released a way cool mobile app, Lines, for estimated this-second waiting times for all the rides and attractions at Walt Disney World. To learn more, see this see this post, or go here.
- Steve Soare’s Walt Disney World Live Entertainment show schedules for current week
- Deb Wills’s AllEars.Net tons of information on almost any Walt Disney World topic
- Mark Goldhaber’s weekly Walt Disney World Park Update on MousePlanet.com (see below) is mostly too geeky for first time visitors but in the middle of the page almost always has great information on upcoming ride closures, hotel renovations, and such.
- Mary Warings’s MouseSavers.com additional money saving ideas
- DISboards.com discussion board where you can get basic and advanced questions answered
- Orlando Visiting, at orlandoflorida.net, is an interesting, newer discussion board and resource
- A good site for resources and discounts for military families is MilitaryDisneyTips.com.
OTHER GREAT DISNEY WEBSITES
- MousePlanet.com Like AllEars.Net above, but with more news.
- Jim Hill’s jimhillmedia.com eclectic news about the world of Disney and related topics
- Lou Mongello’s disneyworldtrivia.com–great trivia, and lots more
- Re-Imagineering fascinating material from Disney insiders on what might be/have been
- Craig Miller’s Google Earth Community: The ULTIMATE Walt Disney World Collection is just what it looks like…Aerial photos of WDW with millions of tags.
- Google Earth 3D of Disney World: start here
- The official Disney Parks Blog
- WDWDailyNews.com–News and other material on all things Disney
- PassPorter.com’s Message Board Community
- The Daily Disney, a site hosted by the Orlando Sentinel
- Buzz2001’s Unofficial Coronado Springs Resort Website
OTHER SITES OF INTEREST
Hotel Boeken is dedicated to providing the best prices and the easiest and most accurate online bookings for hotels in Amsterdam and Holland.
LINKS FOR WHEN TO GO
- For when to go, see this
- For next best dates, see this
- For best and worst times to visit, see this
- For 2010 weeks to visit, ranked in order, see this
- For the 2010 Week Picker App, see this
- For 2011 weeks to visit, ranked in order, see this
- For forecasting crowds at Walt Disney World, see this
- For seasonal pricing at Walt Disney World, see this
- For 2010 price seasons, see this
- For projected 2011 price seasons, see this
- For weather at Walt Disney World, see this
This page presents recommended websites. For recommended guidebooks and books, see this.
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