What are the best guidebooks to bring/read

[stampinot]

besides Unofficial guide. I was hoping the new passporter would be out. Can anyone make some suggestions as to which ones are most helpful/easy to read?
Thanks
julie

 

[specialks]

I like the Birnbaum's Disneyland guide. It has some great maps, photos, and descriptions. I think this is considered the "official" guide and is sold at Disney stores.

 

[21yankees]

Print Hydroguy's tips. They will help you a great deal.

steph

 

[pixiewings71]

You probably don't need a guidebook so much, Hydroguys tips are free and they all covered in those books. I'd just read them and ask questions here. I've never had a guidebook to go to DL....

 

[disneynerd420]

guidebooks... I don't need no stinkin guidebooks.


Just kidding... In all seriousness. I recommend Birnbaums. I don't use it myself. But I have flipped through it before and it is well written.

 

[bumbershoot]

In order...

HydroGuy's tips.

Asking questions and reading threads on the Dis and the other two main disney message boards.

Any CURRENT, or most current you can find, guidebook from the library, including Birnbaums, Unofficial Guide, and Passporter. But take them all with some grains of salt, b/c even if you're reading a guidebook fresh off the press, your'e reading info that's likely 6 months old, or older.

 

[HydroGuy]

Print Hydroguy's tips. They will help you a great deal.

steph

There is a link to my tips in my signature line below.

All of the most common books are mentioned already. I would say that the print resources for DLR are not as strong as WDW because the demand is much less. 85% of WDW visitors come from outside the geographic area while only 30% do so at DLR. Plus DLR is smaller.

 

[PinkBudgie]

For fun reading I would recommned the Disneyland Encyclopedia. It has every attraction that ever existed at Disneyland since it opened. The only thing it is missing is the last couple attractions added after the book was published- Tinkerbell's area, for example. I read it straight through because I like that sort of thing, but you can also pick it and read random entries. It also lists Disney Legends and tells you where their windows are.

 

[Kayla's Mom]

For fun reading I would recommned the Disneyland Encyclopedia. It has every attraction that ever existed at Disneyland since it opened. The only thing it is missing is the last couple attractions added after the book was published- Tinkerbell's area, for example. I read it straight through because I like that sort of thing, but you can also pick it and read random entries. It also lists Disney Legends and tells you where their windows are.

I second Pink Budgie's suggestion! I am just about done with this book and I LOVE it! I am so sad that I am almost through with it. I have been reading it while on the ellipitical and it makes the time fly by! Now I just need to find a new Disney one to read.....

 

[oilergirl]

I like The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland the best, followed by Birnbaum's Disneyland Guide.

 

[PinkBudgie]

I second Pink Budgie's suggestion! I am just about done with this book and I LOVE it! I am so sad that I am almost through with it. I have been reading it while on the ellipitical and it makes the time fly by! Now I just need to find a new Disney one to read.....

At the park I bought Disneyland Then Now and Forever. It has lots of pictures of past attractions. Kind of like a scrapbook. It turns out that my DH worked with the guy who wrote DL Encyclopedia. He was a teacher at the same school last year but I didn't find that out until the school year was over and now he isn't there. I would have sent my book to school with him to autograph!

 

[Kayla's Mom]

At the park I bought Disneyland Then Now and Forever. It has lots of pictures of past attractions. Kind of like a scrapbook. It turns out that my DH worked with the guy who wrote DL Encyclopedia. He was a teacher at the same school last year but I didn't find that out until the school year was over and now he isn't there. I would have sent my book to school with him to autograph!

I will have to check that out. Did you get that there recently? I was assuming that maybe they weren't selling them anymore because there is one listed on Ebay for big $$$.

That is neat your hubby worked at the same school as the author!

 

[PinkBudgie]

Those books were everywhere at DLR this summer. Often they were by the registers. Mine says on it, updated version or something. It is neat because it has so many pictures of things past, even some of the costumes they used to wear.

 

[Kayla's Mom]

Those books were everywhere at DLR this summer. Often they were by the registers. Mine says on it, updated version or something. It is neat because it has so many pictures of things past, even some of the costumes they used to wear.

Great, thank you!