birnbaum’s 2025 walt disney world: the official vacation guide

For everyone planning their next vacation to the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida--this is the only official Walt Disney World guidebook.

This special Birnbaum guide offers honest advice and reviews from first-hand research and insider tips; coupons; sample budgets and schedules; and colorful photographs, illustrations, and maps.

Prepare for your Walt Disney World vacation with the one and only official, up-to-the-minute insider’s guide to America’s most popular travel destination!

Updated annually with expert advice and reviews, coupons, and more!

Trust Birnbaum as your 2024-2025 guide for:

• insider tips for budgeting, scheduling, and navigating the theme parks and resorts
• money-saving strategies and more than ＄400 worth of coupons
• detailed descriptions of all the attractions, resorts, and eateries
• colorful maps, photos, Disney character illustrations, and more

When Steve Birnbaum launched this guide in 1981, he made it clear what was expected of anyone who worked on it: The book would be meticulously revised each year, leaving no attraction untested, no snack or meal untasted, no hotel untried. First-hand experiences like these, accumulated over the years, make this book the most authoritative guide to Walt Disney World.
Our expertise, however, is not achieved by being escorted through back doors of attractions (although we would enjoy that). Instead, we wait in lines with everyone else, always hoping to have a Disney experience like that of any other guest. While Walt Disney World has vastly expanded, and so has our knowledge of the most popular vacation destinations on the planet. We believe the best way to gather useful advice for a Disney park guest is to be one. Over and over again!
--Jill Safro, editor