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Tokyo Disney Made Easy
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Manufacturer: Ultimate Orlando Press
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Binding: Perfect Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9780977375868
ISBN: 0977375862
Label: Ultimate Orlando Press
Manufacturer: Ultimate Orlando Press
Number Of Pages: 180
Publication Date: 2008-08-22
Publisher: Ultimate Orlando Press
Studio: Ultimate Orlando Press
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Want to visit the Tokyo Disney Resort but unsure how to do it? Don't know the customs? Worried about not speaking Japanese? This book provides explanations of likely situations. You'll learn where to go, what to say, and what to expect during every part of the trip, including the airport, transportation to the resort, hotels, and of course the parks themselves. Language and cultural differences no longer form an insurmountable hurdle. Visit the world's most exciting Disney parks in comfort and ease, confident you'll know what to do at each step.
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Summary: Tokyo Disney Distilled
Comment: Kevin Yee has managed to distill the information you need to travel to TDR in a clear concise book. As someone who has visited TDR in the past, I can tell you that I wished for a book like Tokyo Disney Made Easy. What took me several trips to learn, the author has captured in one place. The book includes additional insights that were beyond my travels. I look forward to my next trip armed with my copy of Tokyo Disney Made Easy.
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Summary: Some helpful information, but use other guidebooks also
Comment: I will say right off that I did get some helpful information from this book, most of which concerns interactions with clerks and such who may not speak English. The explanations of what happens during transactions involving food and merchandise is very useful for someone who doesn't speak Japanese. Beyond that, it is quite obvious that the author either doesn't travel abroad very much, if at all, and certainly has not been to Japan more than once or twice. Much of the information presented is at best based upon incorrect assumptions and at worst is down-right wrong. I'm not saying don't buy this book, but do be sure to consult "real" guide books about Japan such as those by Frommer's and Lonely Planet if you are venturing outside of the Tokyo Disneyland Resort. There is a lot of tedious information in the book that anyone who has ever left the house should be able to figure out for themselves, but I suppose someone may need a reminder to bring their tickets to the airport with them. I'd have much preferred the pages had been devoted to more in-depth information related to the subject of the book rather than educating people on how to travel in general. All-in-all, I did get enough good information from the book to justify the cost, but I'm very glad I had read other guide books first so I knew when I was being led astray by this one.
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Summary: Look on The Internet For Better TDR Information
Comment: I bought this book because it was the only Tokyo Disney Resort Guide book I could find. I should have kept on looking! This book was really not useful at all. More & better information can be found on Disney websites and message boards. Kevin Yee, it seems, has only been to Tokyo Disney once before and it shows. I don't understand how you can write a travel guide with only being at the destination once prior.
There was no information on staying in Tokyo and visiting the parks, little information on dining in the parks (That could not be found on the parks English website), no information on tours and no help in planning your day other than arrive early & grab a Fastpass for Pooh.
Planning a trip to Tokyo Disney seems like planning a trip to Mars for me, it's so foreign. So, a book called Tokyo Disney Made Easy should have made me feel better: it didn't! The only area this book was helpful was in the words & phrases we'd hear or need to know at the parks. Thanks Kevin for teaching me how to say 2 people and 3 people in Japanese!Tokyo Disney Made Easy
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Summary: Only English-lanuage guide book to Tokyo Disneyland
Comment: Being the only English guide book for Tokyo Disneyland, there isn't much competition. However, the book is full of useful information for the American thinking of visiting the Toyko Disney Resort and wondering of how to handle the difficulties of language, culture and customs. This book can help prepare you for an enjoyable trip.
Compared to the great guide books that are available for Walt Disney World, this book doesn't cover as much. But an American used to visiting WDW or Disneyland in California will find this book extremely useful.
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Summary: Useful But Not Perfect
Comment: By virtue of being the only English-language guidebook to the Tokyo Disney Resort, I expect that Kevin Yee's "Tokyo Disney Made Easy" would be useful for the first-time visitor. But at the same time, the coverage of TDR is not particularly deep - much of the book is devoted to general travel advice, and each attraction receives only a few lines of description, far less than the typical guide to the U.S. parks provides for each one. The guide appears to assume that the reader is already very familiar with Disney attractions (but if you're planning a trip to the Tokyo Disney Resort specifically, there's a good chance that you are?).
There are also some outright errors - such as a claim that transit passes for Tokyo subways and buses are valid on the Disney Resort Line monorail (true only for the now-discontinued Passnet system, and not the Pasmo and Suica cards, at least for now), and that the storyline behind the Tower of Terror involves "Lord Hightower" (the ride's in the American Waterfront section of the park - he's a millionaire, not nobility).
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