The easy Guide Update: Chapters One to Three
By Dave Shute
Josh and I published an updated version of The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit last week, and as promised, here I’m both going into a little more detail on the update and also introducing the book overall to those who aren’t familiar with it. This post focuses on the first three chapters of the book.
First, on the book itself—my co-author Josh of easyWDW is the world’s leading authority on the Disney World parks and how to maximize the value of your time within them, and I have the same world-beating insight into the Disney World resorts.
We each know a whole lot about a lot of other stuff too—like when to go and where to eat in particular—and as a result, the Disney World guidebook series we have written has received more than 95% five star reviews. You simply won’t find a better reviewed Disney World guidebook.
Chapter 1 both introduces and summarizes the rest of the book. It is inspired by the home page of this site, and like it, it lets you—if you are willing to be guided—make all the key decisions in planning a Walt Disney Word trip quickly.
The rest of the book gives you much more detail on all the topics covered in Chapter 1, so that first timers can make their own decisions if they wish to, and returning visitors can make nuanced choices based on the “when to go” material, and the resort, ride, and dining reviews in the rest of the book.
The only major change in Chapter 1 was that we have pulled the Wilderness Lodge from our list of recommended resorts, based on the more extensive refurb happening there than we had thought when we originally published.
Chapter 2 covers a topic that surprises some first timers with it importance—how old and tall your kids should be. This is an important issue if you can afford to go only once. If first-timers can return, it matters less. And returning visitors will already have internalized the issues about maturity and height. Changes here were quite minor.
Chapter 3 covers a topic related to that of Chapter 2—how long to stay. Our recommendations in this chapter vary by whether or not you can return, and how old you kids are.
Changes here were also minor—we stopped using Soarin as an example while it is down for refurb, and we updated some observations about the value of longer trips after Disney World’s latest ticket price increase—where the price to add ticket days five to seven went up from around $11/person/day to $16/person/day.
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