Birnbaum S Walt Disney World Without Kids 2003

Whether one is single, honeymooning, or just vacationing, this guide is designed specifically for adults traveling to Disney World without children and focuses on the resorts, restaurants, and attractions that most grown-ups will enjoy.

Real kids give honest advice for the most awesome vacation in the world. Includes expanded coverage of Disney's Animal Kingdom, River Country, Typhoon Lagoon, Pleasure Island, Discovery Island, and Downtown Disney.

Featuring price information, insider tips, and valuable coupons, this handbook is from one of the most respected and best-known names in travel guides. Highlights include the lowdown on Disney's latest blockbuster--Mission: SPACE--as well as the timesaving FastPass option.

Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside childish things. Nowadays, moms and dads skateboard alongside their kids and download the latest pop-song ringtones. Captains of industry pose for the cover of BusinessWeek holding Super Soakers. The average age of video game players is twenty-nine and rising. Top chefs develop recipes for Easy-Bake Ovens. Disney World is the world’s top adult vacation destination (that’s adults without kids). And young people delay marriage and childbirth longer than ever in part to keep family obligations from interfering with their fun fun fun. Christopher Noxon has coined a word for this new breed of grown-up: rejuveniles. And as a self-confessed rejuvenile, he’s a sympathetic yet critical guide to this bright and shiny world of people who see growing up as “winding down”—exchanging a life of playful flexibility for anxious days tending lawns and mutual funds. In Rejuvenile, Noxon explores the historical roots of today’s rejuveniles (hint: all roads lead to Peter Pan), the “toyification” of practical devices (car cuteness is at an all-time high), and the new gospel of play. He talks to parents who love cartoons more than their children do, twenty-somethings who live happily with their parents, and grown-ups who evangelize on behalf of all-ages tag and Legos. And he takes on the “Harrumphing Codgers,” who see the rejuvenile as a threat to the social order. Noxon tempers stories of his and others’ rejuvenile tendencies with cautionary notes about “lost souls whose taste for childish things is creepy at best.” (Exhibit A: Michael Jackson.) On balance, though, he sees rejuveniles as optimists and capital-R Romantics, people driven by a desire “to hold on to the part of ourselves that feels the most genuinely human. We believe in play, in make believe, in learning, in naps. And in a time of deep uncertainty, we trust that this deeper, more adaptable part of ourselves is our best tool of survival.” Fresh and delightfully contrarian, Rejuvenile makes hilarious sense of this seismic culture change. It’s essential reading not only for grown-ups who refuse to “act their age,” but for those who wish they would just grow up.

Whether you're single, honeymooning, or just taking a holiday for two, the number one resort for millions of children and their parents has quickly become the hottest getaway spot for adults too. Designed specifically for adults travelling without children, this new guide focuses on the resorts, attractions, restaurants and special areas that adults will enjoy most and which they may not have realised existed. Illustrated in colour throughout.

In Birnbaum's Walt Disney World Without Kids, the most respected and well-known name in travel guides takes adult readers through the world's most popular tourist attraction. Because our guide is the only guide that's official, this book includes the most accurate information on prices and attractions. None of the other guides have access to the information that our authors do. This book focuses on the resorts, attractions, restaurants, and special places that adults will most enjoy and probably never realized existed. This year's edition is packed with information on new attractions and tips and insights especially tailored for the young at heart, plus expanded coverage of Walt Disney World's quartet of spas, the lowdown on Downtown Disney Pleasure Island's ongoing transformation, and News for Night Owls: a listing of spots for those who, unlike Cinderella, can stay out past midnight. Other features include updated sample schedules, info on the newest restaurants, and a streamlined guide to Walt Disney World transportation, with more color photos than ever before.