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Summary: The Only Guide You'll Ever Need
Review: As a Disney World planner extraordinaire I was certain that this book wouldn't offer any new insights for me before our trip in Dec 2003. I was mistaken. It was the perfect tool for planning, organizing, and documenting our journey. It was so useful that I ordered the 2004 edition for our trip in Jan 2004. The new maps, stickers, PassPockets, and sheer volume of information makes it the only guide for the World we will ever need. There are pages for detailed planning as well as specific reviews of restaurants, parks, and rides that made our itinerary planning much easier. They are on top of changes with updates from their website and provide detailed information that will prove invaluable in planning the ultimate Walt Disney World vacation. Even for a "veteran" of 6 vacations, this is the ultimate Walt Disney World guidebook.
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Summary: The Only Guide You'll Ever Need
Review: As a Disney World planner extraordinaire I was certain that this book wouldn't offer any new insights for me before our trip in Dec 2003. I was mistaken. It was the perfect tool for planning, organizing, and documenting our journey. It was so useful that I ordered the 2004 edition for our trip in Jan 2004. The new maps, stickers, PassPockets, and sheer volume of information makes it the only guide for the World we will ever need. There are pages for detailed planning as well as specific reviews of restaurants, parks, and rides that made our itinerary planning much easier. They are on top of changes with updates from their website and provide detailed information that will prove invaluable in planning the ultimate Walt Disney World vacation. Even for a "veteran" of 6 vacations, this is the ultimate Walt Disney World guidebook.
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Summary: You've read the rest, now read the best
Review: As frequent visitors to Disney / Florida, we regularly get hold of the latest editions of the guide books to keep us in touch with what's changing. As a pure accident we came across the Passporter WDW Guide and ordered it just for the novelty of someone else's approach to our favourite places. And guess what - its compelling reading - it absolutely gets to the core of what WDW is about and told us things we didn't know (and believe me, we thought we could write a better guide book than the ones we have read over the years!)But the key thing is that is so well organised - leading you on almost as if in conversation, through the absolutely natural sequence of events that go from the planning to the visit. And the design as a journal is just so appropriate - gather the leaflets and ticket stubs and autographs and photographs all in one keepsake place - 'cos that's the other great thing about WDW - the memories, and that's where Passporter really excels. Whether you're a novice to WDW or a frequent cheeser, then this one grabs you in just the right places.
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Summary: THE BEST Trip Planning Guide to Walt Disney World!
Review: For years now I have been planning our family vacations with meticulous details, excel charts and lots and lots of research. In order to gather all the information I needed I would have to purchase several books and scour the internet. Now I only have to buy one book when I plan our trips, The Passporter! If I were to write a book, it would be like this one. It contains exactly the information needed to plan a well organized trip. The daily pockets in the back of the book are genius and store all tickets and printed confirmations. Even if you're not as detailed-oriented as I am, the Passporter provides information in a way that is clean and easy to read (and entertaining too). I am so glad I discovered this little gem! I have even purchased the Disney Cruise Line edition for my first cruise. So, if you are going to WDW for the first time or the thousandth, this is a great resource to ensure your vacation is smooth sailing!
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Summary: The Best Walt Disney World Organizer Out There!!
Review: I bought the 2003 edition for my first trip to WDW last November. I loved the descriptions of the rides and restaurants, as well as the price ranges for the eateries and resorts. The best part are the organizer pockets that are included at the back of the book. I was able to put my airline tickets, hotel and car rental confirmation letters in there, as well as guidemaps as a souvenir from the parks. There is even a place to write notes on what you enjoyed, what you didn't, and any reminders for the next visit.
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Summary: Excellent book on Walt Disney World!
Review: I can't believe I waited to buy this book. I've been to Disney World more than 10 times and read a lot online so I thought I knew almost everything I needed for my trip in July. But I kept finding new things while reading this book. It has space for all the things you need while planning your trip and terrific tips for your vacation. It has great up to date information and lists web sites. The biggest problem was that I quickly got a copy for my sister and some other items advertized in the book. Buy this book before you start to plan your trip!
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Summary: A Disney "MUST HAVE!"
Review: I confess. I am a control freak. I feel the need to have a written plan for everything I do. This said, I would recommend the Passporter for anyone traveling to Disneyworld, whether or not you are as obsessive a planner as me! The deluxe Passporter has the same text, planning sheets, maps, and storage envelopes as the spiral bound version, and it has the added benefit of being looseleaf. You can reorganize the book to fit your particular plans, remove sections that don't apply to your trip, and even take out your envelope for the day rather than carry the binder into the park. I found the planning pages and ride descriptions very helpful in choosing where to go and when. Since we can't possibly do everything in one week's time, we used the information given in the Passporter to line up our priorities and choose things we could live without. While my family thinks I'm insane to plan so carefully, I know that we will enjoy our trip more and get to do more of the "important" things with the help of the Passporter. I highly recommend the Passporter, and particularly the deluxe edition, to anyone planning a visit to Disneyworld.
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Summary: Fabulous Planner, Definitely Worth Buying!
Review: I confess. I am a control freak. I feel the need to have a written plan for everything I do. This said, I would recommend the Passporter for anyone traveling to Disneyworld, whether or not you are as obsessive a planner as me! The deluxe Passporter has the same text, planning sheets, maps, and storage envelopes as the spiral bound version, and it has the added benefit of being looseleaf. You can reorganize the book to fit your particular plans, remove sections that don't apply to your trip, and even take out your envelope for the day rather than carry the binder into the park. I found the planning pages and ride descriptions very helpful in choosing where to go and when. Since we can't possibly do everything in one week's time, we used the information given in the Passporter to line up our priorities and choose things we could live without. While my family thinks I'm insane to plan so carefully, I know that we will enjoy our trip more and get to do more of the "important" things with the help of the Passporter. I highly recommend the Passporter, and particularly the deluxe edition, to anyone planning a visit to Disneyworld.
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Summary: Planning a breeze with this all inclusive planner
Review: I have used this planner for 2 trips to Disney already. The pockets are perfect. I love the new upgrade to a 6 ring binder. Now, I can take out pages before my big trip and only take what I need. I can also take out the pockets and only carry them in the parks. This is the best book and I have read them all.
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Summary: A last-minute planner's life-jacket!
Review: I just returned from a week-long trip to Disney World with my entire family (parents, sister and her family, etc.) - that's seven adults and two children under five. Somehow, I was unanimously elected trip planner. (Maybe because I'm still single and childless, they all figured I'd have more time and energy to plan...grrrr) I was floored. Sure, it was no problem calling and making the actual reservations, getting airline fares, etc. The problem came when I needed to start actually scheduling meals, deciding which parks we would visit and on what days, where my brother-in-law could golf, which rides would be suitable for the kids and which ones would scare the stuffing out of them...I couldn't just keep surfing the Disney website, and there were just too many websites created by people who had already been to the park - information overload! Then, inspiration struck! A travel guide! I looked at some of the other manuals that were available - Frommer's, Birnbaum's, the guide for Dummies - all very informative and helpful, but not quite what I needed. Then I found the PassPorter. I don't want this to sound like one of those corny infomercial testimonials ("This product changed my life! I look and feel like a teenager again. And those pesky rings around my bathtub are gone, too!") but I can count on one hand the number of times I have come across a book that has so perfectly filled such an immediate need. The PassPorter starts out as a very helpful travel guide full of tips on planning transportation, what to pack, what times of year are busiest at WDW, that kind of thing. Then it moves on to very lengthy and insider-tip-filled sections on all of the Disney resort hotels, including layouts of the average room and a diagram of the resort. (I would have liked to have known the layout of every type of room, because I'm the kind of person who likes to know my options. This means I'll never truly be satisfied unless the hotel provides a full 3-D schematic of their lodgings. I'm pesky like that.) The most extensive sections of the guide are the park overviews. Here, the authors discuss each attraction in detail, including a series of ratings and a child's take on the ride or show in question. This proved to be indispensable when plotting our course through each park. We had a four-year-old who had a really hard time with most of the 3D attractions, and after trying one with no success, the guide helped steer us away from most of the other potentially frightening rides. (We just came back later after Grammy had the kids tucked in for their afternoon nap and rode or saw whatever we had missed.) The dining guide was incredibly helpful, and the priority seating worksheet sent me into paroxysms of joy. We were using a vacation plan that covered all of our meals, so price was no concern, it was just a question of narrowing our options. Again, the PassPorter proved beyond useful here. The last portion of the book is a series of heavy yellow envelope-style pages, each one specific to a part of your trip. There's one for recording transportation details, one for lodging, and more than a week's worth of day-planner envelopes, each with a blank time-sheet to help you schedule the meals and big events for the day. And on the back of each are prompts and places to record memories of each day, budget info, etc. Overall, the PassPorter proved to be an invaluable planning tool. What really makes it work for me, however, is the fact that it's such a personal piece of work when everything is over. I carried this book with me every day of vacation, and each night when we returned to the hotel, I spent a few minutes recording some of the day's special memories in the pages at the back. The PassPorter stored our meal receipts, our baggage claim tickets, our shuttle boarding passes, maps of each park, and our Fastpass ride tickets. I've been home three days now, and I'm already anticipating using the PassPorter as one of the major tools in making a scrapbook of our trip, something I've never done before for a single vacation in my life. If you're looking for a unique tool to help you plan your Disney vacation, something that offers a personal take on your vacation that goes beyond a rote listing of major lodging and attractions, order this book right away. I'm planning on getting the Deluxe edition the next time I want to go to Disney!
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