Category — p. News and Changes

In case you missed it, you can now book a family of five into Caribbean Beach rooms.

Some refurbed rooms at Caribbean Beach have had two queen beds and a fifth 30″ by 64″ Murphy Bed since the summer, but were not bookable for five until late November.

I did three test bookings for 2014 and 2015 arrival dates, and five person rooms are now on offer!

For more on Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort and its refurbed rooms, see this.

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THE EASY GUIDE IS AVAILABLE ON KINDLE

The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit 2015 is available both as a paperback and as a Kindle book.

(You don’t by the way, need a Kindle to buy and read Kindle books–you can get Kindle readers for phones, tablets, and laptops.)

Kindles are wonderful objects for traveling readers, and having a Kindle app on your phone means you can do a quick reference to The easy Guide without having to, for example, tear out the cheat sheets and stick them in your pocket.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that. [Read more →]

As noted here in the overall introduction to the 2015 edition of The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit, Jim Korkis, the dean of Disney historians, has joined The easy Guide team, along with me and Josh as authors, and editor/publisher Bob McLain of Theme Park Press.

Jim Korkis is best known as an author (my favorite among his works is the The Vault of Walt) and MousePlanet.com columnist (see a list of his columns here). His focus is lesser-known Disney history. Before his writing career he was a cast member whose jobs included teaching animation and researching and teaching Disney history to cast members and others. [Read more →]

Annual Disney World guidebooks—like ours, The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit 2015 —are only rarely rewritten from scratch.

Rather, stuff that’s still valid is left as is, and changes occur around it.

• Minor changes like updated prices are added to sections that remain largely the same, and other areas see material deleted and added to reflect the ebb and flow of changes in the parks and hotels.
• Moreover, there’s always errors and typos to correct—no matter how hard we try to be perfect the first time.
• Plus, too many of the images in the 2014 edition were hard to read (and did that lead us on a journey)
• And it’s also always easy to see places where we can add helpful info, and hard to restrain ourselves.

We purposely designed The easy Guide to be both the least lengthy and largest point-size major Disney World guidebook.

Even so, we saw enough critical material to add to increase the length of the heart of the 2015 edition (that is, excluding “About the Authors” and other stuff that no one cares about) from the 2014 edition’s 269 pages to 281 pages (this process, spread over the years, is how some guidebooks get to be 800 pages long…we promise to not do that).

So with that as background, here’s some of what’s new in The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit for 2015. [Read more →]

Update: This sales goes through 12/1!!!

As co-author Josh notes here, Amazon has a site-wide 30% off sale on any printed book through Sunday.  Just input the discount code HOLIDAY30 in the spot indicated by the red circle:

So it’s the perfect time to get your copy of the brand-new The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit 2015!

The easy Guide 2015 is based on the amazing start of the 2014 edition–the best reviewed Disney World Guidebook in history.  For more on The easy Guide, see this!

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Well, we’ve gone and created another “collector’s edition…” [Read more →]