Real World Travel:

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Girl At Sea by Maureen Johnson

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann
Brashares

The Maximum Ride series (The Angel Experiment, Schools Out Forever, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports,
The Final Warning) by James Patterson

Daughters of Destiny series: Keeper of the Winds by Jenna Solitaire, If you enjoyed the first one check out the next three books in the series. Keeper of the Waters, Keeper of the Flames and Keeper of the Earth.

Fantasy/Other world travel:

Neil Gaiman is an amazing author!

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Abarat by Clive Barker, Make sue you get the hardcover version though!!! If you liked the first one be sure to check out the next book in the series Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War.

The Abhorsen Trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen) by Garth Nix

His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle
Knife and The Amber Spyglass) by James Patterson

The Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Around The World In 80 Days” by Jules Verne. It’s a classic. It’s actually very good, and funny…

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well ialso have gone there many times and every time we go i learn two things
1. its a amazing fun happy place
2. the magic of disney is in your wallet =)

“Long Pilgrimage,” John G. Bennett.
“Psychonavigation,” John Perkins.
“The Long Walk,” Slavomir Rawicz.
“In a Sunburned Country,” Bill Bryson.
“Around the World in Eighty Days,” Verne.

“The Road to McCarthy” is pretty funny. “I should have stayed home” is ironically inspirational.

The previous reponder’s advice about not having a step-by-step plan is wrong! The worst thing you can do is stand around in the middle a park holding a map and argue with your family about where to go and what to do next. That causes stress!

Me, my wife, and 2 sons aged 10 and 9, had our first Disney World vaction in July, ‘08.

With having to spend that kind of money for something we probably won’t get to do again for several more years, I researched and planned almost to a fault. We bought the airline tickets 9 months in advance and the park tickets 6 months in advance. In the months leading up to the trip, I spent countless hours researching the internet on Disney’s website, allears.net, yahooanswers.com, and anywhere else I could find Disney information. I bought “The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2008″ and studied the attractions available, places to eat, and anything else that looked like fun.

Finally, to create the final itenerary, I went to the Disney website to see what days each park had extra magic hours. Since we were not staying on property, I scheduled to AVOID those days. We used the touring plans in the guide book at each park. The boys were instructed that after we finished the plans, they were free to go back and ride their favorite rides, but we were finishing the plan first! I estimated where we might be around lunch time in each park and looked for the highest rated restaurants in each park.

By the way, the guidebook we bought is the absolute best money I spent in preparation for our trip. Using the touring plans we never waited more than 15 minutes for any ride! Yes, even during July! If you’ve never used it, go buy it now. You won’t be disappointed.

Not all plans are absolutely perfect. We had a few hiccups. Our flight out to Orlando was moved up to a 7:00 a.m. departure, and our return flight was cancelled all together! We stayed in a hotel the night before near the airport so we could park-and-fly out and had to find another hotel in Orlando the night before coming back since we had to schedule a return flight the day after we originally planned on coming back. I did not take my own advice and went to Hollywood Studios on an extra magic hours evening so my wife could watch Fantasmic on her birthday. While we loved the show, we won’t ever go to a park on extra magic hours again because it was so crowded in the evening you literally had trouble moving around the park!

Anyway, I may have overplanned a bit, but I wanted everything to be as perfect as possible. I think I did a good job, because as we were leaving, by boys asked when we could come back. Anyway, with realistic expectations and planning, any trip to Disney will be memorable.

The best advice I can give anyone going to WDW:
1. Find out which rides are the most popular and go and do them or get fastpasses for them (or both!) right away
2. Make reservations for dinner if you want to eat in popular places
3. Don’t have a step-by-step plan. It just causes stress and it’s just not worth it.

Enjoy your trip. We just booked yesterday for a trip at the new Bay Lake Towers for December!

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle. Great book, references to a lot of old things but hopefully you are a big girl.

Me and my family rent a house in Kissimmee every February break, we stay for 7 days and we go to disney 3 days and sometime universal one day. We always eat at a restaurant or quick food service in disney world. We swim in our own pool and have a fabulous time.

go in mid-end of September
get Disney’s magical express
buy Disney’s basic dining plan which is a +++
stay at a Value resort (Pop Century)
~we don’t get park hopper tickets – we spend a whole day at each park and see their special night show!!
we go to Downtown Disney for icecream
basically we just have FUN!