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For a limited time–at least through the end of June, everyone who buys the paperback version of
The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit can get the Kindle edition–which we will update–for free!

Got yours yet?  Click here to buy!  And once you’ve gotten the paperback, see Josh’s post here on how to get the free Kindle version!

The Kindle version–besides being updated–is also handier in many ways, since it will travel with you not just on your Kindle but also on on your laptop, phone, etc.

On the other hand, you can’t get Anna and Elsa to sign your Kindle…

…and you will miss the strange romantic effect The easy Guide has in the parks–note this shot of its mysterious powers from the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train queue.

To get the paperback, click here, and for the Kindle, click here.

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OVERVIEW: JANUARY 2015 AT DISNEY WORLD

This page reviews January 2015 Walt Disney World crowds, prices, deals and discounts, weather, and operating hours; adds a few other notes; and ends with week by week summaries.

Early January 2015 will be dominated by holiday crowds and prices, but after the 3rd, most days will see low crowds and low prices–with upticks around the Marathon (weekend of the 1oth) and the Martin Luther King Day three day holiday weekend.

Late January has some of the lowest crowds and prices of the year at Walt Disney World.

Even so, January is not recommended for first-time visitors who may never return, because of ride closures.

New Year’s week–ending in 2015 around January 3–has among the highest crowds and prices of the year. Park closings to additional guests are common in this period, as are 8a openings and daily morning Extra Magic Hours.

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DISNEY WORLD NEXT WEEK: JUNE 21 TO JUNE 29, 2014

The material below details operating hours, Extra Magic Hours, parades, and fireworks.

The same stuff is in the image, but organized by park, not by topic.

For more on June 2014 at Walt Disney World, see this.

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Chapter 5 of The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit covers “Where to Stay.”

(I’ve previously published an introduction to the easy Guide, and discussed Chapter 1,  Chapter 2,  Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.)

Where to stay matters a lot.  The biggest issue is budget, but also you will spend more time in your hotel and its grounds than any other place during your Disney World visit, and another large use of your time is getting back and forth from your hotel to the parks.

The hotels vary tremendously in their prices, convenience, adult appeal, and kid appeal, and change all the time. As a result, hotels are the weak spot of most other guidebooks and Disney World websites and discussion boards, simply because it takes an enormous amount of effort to keep up with them. For example, just in the Disney-owned resorts there’s more than forty major variants among the standard rooms.

Between us we’ve got your Disney World hotel choices covered.  In the last two years or so I’ve stayed in every major room variant (including sixteen different rooms so far in 2014!), with almost every one of those room visits my third, fourth, fifth or tenth visit to that particular room type at that particular resort.

See the excerpt.  Our stuff on where to stay at Disney World is the best that you will find, anywhere.

Even Anna likes our book!

Check it out: The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit!

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Chapter 4 of The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit covers “When to Go.”

(I’ve previously published an introduction to the easy Guide, and discussed Chapter 1,  Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.)

When to go is the most important decision, as it determines the base level of crowds and prices you will face.  Advice on it is, I think, the first way both Josh and I became known.  Sad, that…we have so much more to offer…

See the excerpt.  Our stuff on when to go to Disney World is worth the whole price of the The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit!

But wait, there’s more!!  As Josh announced yesterday, not only will the Kindle edition be out soon–end of this week, we hope–but also those who buy the paperback in June will get the Kindle version for free as a “Kindle Matchbook.” We’ll be updating the Kindle version every now and then as stuff changes at WDW (and we find more typos…) so this is a really good deal!

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DISNEY WORLD NEXT WEEK: JUNE 14 TO JUNE 22, 2014

The material below details operating hours, Extra Magic Hours, parades, and fireworks.

The same stuff is in the image, but organized by park, not by topic.

For more on June 2014 at Walt Disney World, see this.

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