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Aronda Parks loves Walt Disney World! In fact, she recently moved to the central Florida area so she could visit more often. Now, Aronda and members of her Memories Team visit WDW every chance they get, usually at least once each week. These folks are serious WDW fans! Through the years, and their hundreds of visits to the Resort, Aronda and her team have come to know a great deal about all things Disney.

In addition to maintaining this website, Aronda also publishes Making Walt Disney World Vacation Memories, which is the definitive WDW travel guidebook. Now in its 4th edition, Making Memories has helped thousands of WDW Resort guests to plan their vacations. When you read it yourself, we believe that you'll find it to be not only packed with practical info you can really use to make your vacation the best it can be, but also fun-to-read--extra info and anecdotes create a pleasant tone, and the writing style is consistently friendly and conversational.

Whether you're a first-time WDW visitor planning your upcoming vacation or you're a "regular" visitor who comes several times a year, there's plenty in this book for you! We can't emphasize it enough...
Don't go to Walt Disney World

without  

Making Memories

Right now, you're invited to place an advance order for your copy of the Winter/Spring 2007 edition of Making Memories for the incredible low price of just $16.95 including shipping to US addresses! That's 25% off the cover price of $22.95! You'll be among the very first to get your hands on this brand new edition--delivered to your home for just $16.95. Add a Prep Pad* for just $3.95 more, shipping included. Check out the offer details at the bottom of this page.

In addition, you'll also receive one of your choice of Aronda's Walt Disney World Vacation "Home Movies" DVDs! You'll pick from "Happy Holidays 2005," a look into the holiday festivities at WDW last year; "Dog Daze of Disney," detailing the warmer aspects of an August visit to the Resort (with a supplemental Halloween segment added); or "Expedition Everest," exploring Disney's Animal Kingdom's recent addition!

If you place your advance order now, you'll receive the brand new edition of Making Memories, your choice of Aronda's WDW "Home Movies" DVDs, and free shipping to US addresses, all for only $16.95! See below for details on how to order.

*What's a Prep Pad? See below for more info on both Making Memories and Aronda's Walt Disney World Vacation Prep Pad!


 

 

 

 


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The all-new Making Memories is like nothing you've ever seen before--you're going to love it!

The 2007 edition of the highly praised Making Walt Disney World Vacation Memories comes to you with a multitude of new features. The uniquely candid Disneyphile, Aronda Parks, serves up the most thorough, most entertaining, and most well-written of the Walt Disney World vacation planners on the market.

New Feature Number One: Since Walt Disney World makes frequent changes in its parks, much guidebook coverage becomes obsolete before the year ends. Aronda’s solution? Two updates every yearone in the winter, and another in the summer.

New Feature Number Two: Walt Disney took advantage of the development of color for his motion picture and television ventures. Why can’t guidebooks use dramatic, full-color photos? Well, Aronda canand does. Feast your eyes!

New Feature Number Three: It’s hard to plan your vacations using a guidebook whose pages don’t lie flat. Aronda’s convenient spiral binding makes it easy for you and your family and friends to plan your Disney vacation together.

And now that Aronda and her team have moved to Central Floridaless than thirty minutes from Walt Disney Worldyou know you’re getting the most up-to-date vacation planning information possible in Making Memories and the accompanying Web site.

Aronda has been an avid Walt Disney World traveler since 1972. During 34 years of following Mickey Mouse’s exploits, she has learned a great deal about what it takes to plan and execute the best Disney vacation possiblewithout missing the best, and without wearing yourself out in the process.

Let Aronda be your guide. You’ll be glad you did.

When you begin to plan your next Walt Disney World vacation, keep these numbers in mind:

  • 24 (the number of hotels on property)
  • 250 (the number of rides, shows, and other attractions on property)
  • 225 (the number of restaurants on property)
  • 125 (the number of merchandise retail shops on property)
  • 75,000-125,000 (the number of other guests on property on any given day)

Needless to say, you'll have a hard time fitting it all into your trip, unless you're staying for two or three months! 

Now let's look at a few more numbers that should play into your planning. Suppose you're a party of three (2 adults and one child age 3-9 years), traveling to WDW for a 7-day, 6-night stay. You're staying at one of Disney's moderate resorts (nicer than a value, but not as extravagant as a deluxe), where the pricing ranges from $139 to $215 per night, plus tax. We'll assume the minimum rack rate for this calculation. You'll be using 7-day "premium" Magic Your Way park tickets (the premium feature includes the ability to visit more than one park each day--"park-hopping"--and allows for visits to the water parks, Pleasure Island, and a few other nice add-ons), and as a smart shopper, you're buying the tickets in advance by telephone to save a few dollars off the on-site prices. Those park tickets are $268 each for adults, and $231 for children. You're budgeting for one full service meal (estimated cost of $25 per meal per adult and $15 per meal for the child) and one counter service meal each day (estimated cost of $11 per meal per adult and $5 per meal for the child) for six days. Here's the breakdown:

  • Hotel: $154 per night; $924 for your stay (including tax)
  • Tickets $268 per adult, $231 for the child; $767 for all three tickets
  • Meals $25 per adult and $15 for the child (full service), $11 per adult and $5 for the child (counter service); $552 for two full meals

...for a grand total of $2243 for your stay

 Looking at it another way, that's...

  • $320 per day for seven days
  • $23 per hour, assuming 14-hour days

And remember, the $2243 doesn't include souvenirs, drinks and snacks besides the two meals, transportation from home to WDW and back, or any extras to make your vacation more special.

Wow! That's a major outlay, and your actual vacation is likely to be even more expensive. You may choose a hotel upgrade, one or more of the many elegant--and higher priced--restaurants, a separately-priced guided tour, a special event, souvenirs, cocktails by the pool...the list goes on and on and the price goes higher and higher!

But make no mistake: WDW is Worth The Price!!!

Of course, with so much to see and do, so many rides and attractions to experience, so much dining to choose from, so many stores and shops to browse, you can easily get lost in Mickey's maze. To make the most of your visit, you need to plan. Plan well in advance. Plan thoroughly. Don't be like so many visitors, riding the monorail back to the hotel on the last day, lamenting that there's so much they didn't get to do, so much they didn't find out about until it was too late, that they went here when they should've gone there

So, what's the best way to make sure you'll stay at the hotel that's best for your taste (and your budget), take in all the attractions you'll want to do while bypassing any that don't suit your interests, eat at restaurants that serve the foods you love, and browse the right shops for souvenirs that you want to take home with you?

The answer is simple.

 Read
Making Walt Disney World Vacation Memories

This incredible WDW vacation planning guide contains 500 pages of current information about the central Florida Resort, all arranged in a convenient, reader-friendly format that makes finding the information you need quick and easy--and makes Making Memories interesting, exciting and fun to read.

You're probably aware of many of the Walt Disney World travel guides on the market today. Perhaps you're wondering how Making Memories compares to the others. 

When creating Making Memories, author Aronda Parks knew what she'd like to see covered in a guidebook. Many available guidebooks focus on one or two strong points--such features as detailed hotel room layouts, color photos within the pages, blanks useful for planning a vacation, or comprehensive coverage of theme parks and attractions beyond WDW. All of these are nice, but it seems that most guides emphasize one or two features, while neglecting so many other important matters.

For example, you may have seen guidebooks with detailed touring itineraries. Aronda believes that the best vacation for you is one that you've planned yourself, based on your own interests and activity level. For this reason, she created the Prep Pad (you'll find out more about this shortly) that you'll use with Making Memories to create your own touring schedules. No one knows your vacation priorities better than you, so why let someone else do your planning? Don't buy someone else's idea of the "perfect" WDW vacation--design one of your own that's perfect for you!

Making Memories is an invaluable resource for planning a WDW vacation. It focuses exclusively on the Walt Disney World Resort with in-depth coverage of each of the four major theme parks and Downtown Disney, as well as the water parks, and Disney's Wide World of Sports. Additionally, it includes chapters detailing dining (in the parks and at the hotels), shopping (Aronda's book was the first WDW travel guide to cover shopping as a separate subject), the hotels--even a chapter covering vacation "enhancers" like backstage tours, special services, special events, and more. Additionally, extra chapters are included to help you manage your vacation wisely--such subjects as VABs (Vacation Burnout Syndrome), romance at WDW, traveling with children, fitness and sporting opportunities, and more are included. In all, seventeen chapters guide you through all phases of vacation planning--making you a well-informed visitor indeed!

To help you keep your vacation plans organized--from the earliest planning stages all the way through your trip--Aronda has developed a handy pocket-sized planning workbook called Aronda's Walt Disney World Vacation Prep Pad. The Prep Pad is designed with plenty of blank spaces so that you can organize your visit day by day. You'll decide which attractions, stores, restaurants, and other activities you'd like to experience, then add them to your Prep Pad, along with reservation information, notes, and whatever else you need to remember to make your trip go smoothly--so you can relax and just have fun. The Prep Pad is specially designed for planning--from its convenient layout to its lay-flat binding. Its small size makes it easy to carry right into the parks with you in your pocket, fanny-pack, or wherever you want to keep it. Even in the parks, you'll continue to keep track of your spending by using the expenditures section, check off attractions you've experienced and stores you've shopped--and see at a glance which ones you still need to visit. You even keep your receipts and FASTPASSes in the pockets in the back! The Prep Pad is like having your own personal secretary right there in the parks with you!

When you decided to vacation at Walt Disney World, you made a great decision! Now it's time for your next great decision. Make sure your vacation will be one of the best you'll ever have...read Making Memories!

 We've arranged a very special offer just for visitors to our website. Making Memories lists for $22.95, but you'll pay only $16.95! If you place your advance order now, we'll throw in free standard shipping to US addresses--your total cost is only $16.95 delivered to your door! Additionally, you'll pick one of three of Aronda's WDW "Home Movies" DVDs as a gift with your book. You'll get the brand new spring 2007 Making Memories, the "Home Movies" DVD, and shipping to US addresses, all for only $16.95. If you'd like to add a Prep Pad, you'll pay only $3.95 more, for a total of only $19.90.

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