PassPorter's Walt Disney World 2013: The Unique Travel Guide, Planner, Organizer, Journal, and Keepsake! Spiral-bound – Sticker Book, March 12, 2013

This is the second PassPorter I bought. We used one for our first trip to Disney World in 2006. My niece and I spent hours planning out the trip watching videos and going through guide books. Only partly to have a plan of attack but mostly for the fun of anticipating the trip. The PassPorter is pretty good for planning, but also works out great to create a scrap book to remember you trip.It is too big to carry around the park with you unless you're going to lug a backpack or have a stroller so its use on site may be limited to morning planning and evening note taking sessions. About a quarter of the book is about lodging and resort areas so for the fullest value you need to have the book before you start planning. If you don't stay on site, the book can still help since there are some nice restaurants and other experiences at the different resorts you can find out about.Another quarter are "file" pages with pockets and places for notes and some stickers to get your "scrap booking" started. On this year's trip we are taking a niece from the first trip and one of her cousins that has never been there. Both are 18 but excided about going. I bought the book for the cousin that has never been. I put printouts of the flight, hotel, restaurant reservations, and daily hours in the pockets and sent the book to her and she is enjoying the growing anticipation for the trip. A folded 8.5x11 sheet fits easily into the file page pockets.The rest of the book has descriptions of all the entertainment, rides, and restaurants along with interesting other items about the park like how to use fast passes and what hidden mickys are. There is so much to cover that the descriptions are not highly detailed but gives you an idea of what to expect.For me the best part is the day planning guide that suggests what order to visit rides to get the shortest lines for the types of rides your group is likely to want. That can give you a basic starting plan that you adjust to your own preference.This book is excellent for the first time visitor, or if it's been a while since your last visit. The secondary purpose is to be a memory book with places for notes, tickets, pictures and such. There are pages for character autographs but again the book is a little large to carry in the park. If you want to know everything about everything you will probably need another book to go along with this one (I like the Unofficial Guide series) and also spend a lot of time on the Disney World web site.

The PassPorter's Walt Disney World any year is fabulous!! If you are planning your first trip or your tenth trip, this planner is perfect. There are tips along the way, honest reviews of everything, and in the back a place to track and keep things. When the new guide arrives in my household, we grab our highlighters and comb through together, highlighting everything we are going to do. From which WDW property we will select to where will we eat and when. This book gets everyone in the house excited about our trip. Each person gets to choose what they want to do, we negotiate and share so everyone has a voice. This has proved helpful while on vacation because it eliminates the stress of decision making when tired, hot, hungry, etc. Everyone knows in advance the itinerary and takes pride in the knowledge that they helped make it happen. After our trip, the planner looks like a smash book. It's filled with handwritten notes, highlighter markings, post-it flags and new memories that were made. I cannot say thank you enough to Jennifer Marx for making my planning over the years so much smoother and enjoyable by using her book. Outstanding!

I ordered this guide for our up coming "first time to Disney" trip. I scanned it while still at Borders, but found it cheaper on Amazon. I truly fell in love after reading it cover to cover. I will, of course, update after our trip is completed. I feel I am more prepared, and feel less anxiety about planning this trip for our entire family (grandparents, parents and children). I love the maps with the "Touring with adults and/or kids" on the back of the maps. I appreciated the 3 rating for each attraction/dining from different points of view. I think I will use the travel information pockets (in per day format) although I wish they came out, so I didn't have to bring the book (weight), but we will see :-)

We bought our first PassPorter for our first visit to Disney World around five years ago and it was and still is loaded with great tips to help maximize the experience while there. The Marx family has done an incredible job and this book is handy, well-researched, very nicely illustrated, and filled with loads of convenient, helpful features. Now, having said that, what takes the publisher so long in getting it to press? I've seen others make this comment and I agree- the last time we went to the World we ended up cancelling our order for the updated edition because we wouldn't have received it in time. This time we did, but the print deadline kept getting pushed out and made us nervous. That aside, this is a great guide book and is of VERY good quality.

I love the maps included in the book. They are color maps and clearly labeled. They also give you an idea of how far attractions are from each other. I also like that they included the author's opinions as well as reader opinions so you get ratings from several points of view when evaluating attractions and restaurants.The pocketed sections in the back were perfect for me to store additional info and memories from our trip. We just returned from Disney World, and I filled in the itinerary sections of the book so that I can go back and review everything we did.I plan to purchase another book to give to a friend who is planning a trip to Disney. I highly recommend this book.

This is my third edition of the Passporter Guide. I decided after my first one that I would buy one for each year we go to WDW. I couldn't wait to get the 2013 and then read front to back. It did not disappoint. This is simply the best guide book out there. I bought a different one I didn't like as much and have perused through yet another one that I did not buy. The Passporter, to me, is the most comprehensive guide you can get. From the parks to the resorts to the food to all there is to do along with information on traveling and their great, great tips, you just can't go wrong planning a vacation with this book. And it also makes a wonderful keepsake after your trip.

Everything you need for a trip to Disneyworld, information practical and up date. Great for the kids they can use it to keep the memories as its a little intreractive you can write about the attractions you are visiting,restaurants, there are plastic pockets to put keepsakes tickets photos etc. when the winter sets in its great to flick through and raise the memories

今年の年末にDWDに行く計画を立てて購入しました。英語で書かれていますがそんなにネイティブでなくてもなんとなくわかります。詳しく知りたいところは自動翻訳したりしてｗ使い方次第ではいいガイドブックです。万人向きではないかもです。