Category — The easy Guide

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 →]

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

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Josh and I between us have unmatched experience with the Disney World rides, parks, restaurants, and hotels, and tremendous tested judgment from our years of helping more than ten million visitors to our websites yourfirstvisit.net and easyWDW.com. [Read more →]