Beyond Disney: The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando ,SeaWorld and the Best of Central Florida (Unofficial Guides) Reviews

Beyond Disney: The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando ,SeaWorld and the Best of Central Florida (Unofficial Guides)

Seven Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by the Unofficial Guides: Practical tips on when to go and how to beat the crowds at 11 of Central Florida's best them parksFirsthand information on what's worthwhile and what's not at major attractionsT

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3 Responses to Beyond Disney: The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando ,SeaWorld and the Best of Central Florida (Unofficial Guides) Reviews

  1. Joseph Boone January 19, 2011 at 1:41 pm #
    23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Useful guide for Sea World & Busch Gardens, September 2, 2007
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    Joseph Boone (Irvine, CA United States) –
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    Beyond Disney is meant to be used as a second guide when planning a trip to Orlando. They assume that you have purchased The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2010 (Unofficial Guides) or something similar and are using this one for the other theme parks in the area. This is a good idea but there are some problems with it. First, the Universal Parks are already covered in the Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World and that material is largely dropped in here with no significant changes. So if you have the Unofficial WDW book, then you don’t need to see that again here.

    The main value in this book lies in the coverage of Sea World and Busch Gardens. Both are major theme parks and get full coverage here. I found the Busch Gardens information especially helpful. Busch has so many attractions that you can’t possibly enjoy every one in a single day and this guide will help you focus on what you might enjoy the most. This is the only book in the Unofficial Guide series where you’ll find material on Busch and Sea World, and many of the other publishers ignore those parks completely. If you are interested in attending either park, then I highly recommend Beyond Disney. If you plan to stick to WDW and/or the Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure area then you can safely skip this.

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  2. Baltimore Jack January 19, 2011 at 1:55 pm #
    8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars
    No touring plans! A ripoff because you have to buy a second book!, February 21, 2010
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    Baltimore Jack (Baltimore, MD) –
    This review is from: Beyond Disney: The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando ,SeaWorld and the Best of Central Florida (Unofficial Guides) (Paperback)

    The Unofficial Guide to Disney is fantastic, and well known for its great “touring plans” which give detailed park information about how to attack DWD theme parks. This book is supposed to be a guide to everything else outside of Disney World (i.e., Sea World and Universal). Yet this book does not include Touring Plans for Universal, SeaWorld or Islands of Adventure. Amazingly, these Touring Plans are in the Walt Disney World book, but not here. That is, people who buy a book on how to tour Disney get Touring Plans for Universal/SeaWorld, but the folks who buy a book on Universal and SeaWorld do not – makes no sense!

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  3. Amazon addict January 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm #
    11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Surfing Sea World, July 18, 2007
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    Amazon addict (Boston) –

    This book helped us navigate the Orlando experience minus Disney. the tips in the book let us breakfast at Sea World before it “officially” opened. We saw more of the shows and the animals because of the great directions in this book. I tore the pages for Sea World right out of my copy of the book, so I could have the information with me at the park without the problem of carrying the big book.

    Kudos to the author and his research!

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