The one and only official up-to-the-minute insider's guide to the Happiest Place on Earth! Includes updated park-hopping strategies; tips to help guests stretch their holiday dollars; and fresh insights for families visiting Mickey and pals with small children. Also gives the inside scoop on stage shows, parades and night time spectaculars; prices and ticket options; customised travel tips for teenagers, international travellers and guests with disabilities; and a comprehensive character meal chart to help guests pick the best eats!

This updated edition of Birnbaum’s Disneyland Resort, the most respected and well-known name in Disney guides, takes readers through Walt Disney’s first theme park with ease and flair. Since our guide is the only guide that’s official, this book includes the most accurate and current information on prices and attractions. This edition includes details on some big changes brewing at Disney’s California Adventure (including an entire new "land" themed to the hit Disney•Pixar film Cars!), and we give readers the whole scoop. Other updates include an insider's look at the expansion of Disney’s Grand Californian Resort and Spa, tips on how to catch the "Wildcat fever" at the peppy new show: "High School Musical 2—School’s Out!", expanded coverage of the popular "Pirates Lair on Tom Sawyer Island", and descriptions of all the latest happenings at Downtown Disney District Our guide is also the only one allowed to feature Disney characters. And Birnbaum’s Disneyland Resort is the most comprehensive guidebook, offering complete information on the Magic Kingdom, Disney’s California Adventure, and Downtown Disney, as well as details about Anaheim area attractions, things to do in Los Angeles, and special driving routes around Southern California. This is the only guide to Disneyland that readers need, entirely updated every year.

From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide® to Walt Disney World® "A Tourist's Best Friend!" —Chicago Sun-Times "Indispensable" —The New York Times Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide®: Every attraction ranked and rated for each age group, based on interviews and surveys of more than 7,500 families When and where to go: the best times of the year and the best days of the week for each park All the Disneyland-area hotels ranked and rated for value and quality of rooms Field tested itineraries for adults and families with children that can save more than three hours of waiting in line Complete coverage of Disney's California Adventure® theme park and Universal Studios Hollywood Sample Rating Soarin' Appeal by age Preschool — Grade school Teens Young adults Over 30 Seniors What it is Flight simulation ride. Scope and scale Super headliner. When to go First 30 minutes the park is open or use FASTPASS. Special comments Entrance on the lower level of The Land pavilion. May induce motion sickness; 40" minimum-height requirement; switching off available (see pages 266–268). Author's rating Exciting and mellow at the same time; ......5. Not to be missed. Duration of ride 4 minutes. Loading speed Moderate.

Official guide to the Disneyland Resort for the year 2006. Contains up-to-the-minute information on all new attractions, plus updated listings for the established favourites. Because Birnbaum is the only syndicated guide to the Walt Disney theme parks and resorts, it is the only one guaranteed to take note of last minute price changes and altered information. Includes tips and tricks for stretching every pound to its full potential, extensive entries grouped by area of the resort and sample itineraries for trips out in Orlando and surrounding areas.

Birnbaum's Disneyland Resort, the most respected and well-known name in Disney guides, takes readers through Walt Disney's first theme park with ease and flair. Since our guide is the only guide that's official, this book includes the most accurate and current information on prices and attractions.

Birnbaum's Walt Disney World, the most respected and well-known name in travel guides, takes readers to the world's most popular tourist attraction. Since ours is the only guidebook that's official, this book includes the most accurate information on prices, changes, and new attractions for 2008. Highlights include the scoop on "Magical Beginnings," Walt Disney World's specially tailored, money-saving vacation plan for families with pre-schoolers, and updates on Pleasure Island's new venues, eateries, and shopping opportunities. This new edition also includes info on the Magic Kingdom's Pirate and Princess parties-the park's new special-ticket interactive family adventures, complete with fireworks. We've also got more money-saving tips than ever before! Other updates include all the insider info about stage shows, parades, and nighttime spectaculars, prices and ticket options, customized travel tips for teenagers, international travelers, guests with disabilities, and a comprehensive character meal chart to help guests pick their favorite dining spots.

The Disneyland Book of Lists offers a new way to explore six decades of Disneyland® history. Hundreds of fascinating lists cover the past and present and feature everything from the park’s famous attractions, shops, restaurants, parades, and live shows to the creative artists, designers, characters, and performers who have made Disneyland® the world’s most beloved theme park. Inside the pages of this fun- and fact-filled book you will find: • 13 of Walt Disney’s Disneyland® Favorites • 32 Signs and Structures Reminding of Disneyland’s® Past • A Dozen Scary Moments on Disneyland® Attractions • 47 Disneyland® Parades • 18 Secrets in the Haunted Mansion • 30 Jokes from the Jungle Cruise • 25 Special Events You May Not Have Heard Of • 15 Urban Legends • 123 Celebrity Guests • 26 Attractions and Exhibits with the Longest Names • 11 Movies Based on Disneyland® Attractions • A Dozen World Records Set at Disneyland® In addition to lists created by author Chris Strodder (The Disneyland® Encyclopedia), the book will include lists from celebrities, Disneyland® experts and historians, Disneyland® Imagineers and designers, and other current and former Disneyland® employees. People have been making lists since Biblical times (think Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, compiled 2,100 years ago), and to this day various top tens, hit parades, and bucket lists chronicle every aspect of our lives. But until now, no book has used lists to categorize all the diverse elements in Disneyland®. Fun, fascinating, factual, and sixty years in the making, The Disneyland® Book of Lists is the only Disneyland® book of its kind.