Passporter's Open Mouse for Walt Disney World and the Disney Cruise Line: Easy Access Vacations for Travelers with Extra Challenges

by Debra Martin Koma and Deb Wills

With this invaluable guide, vacationers with special challenges such as size, mobility, ADHD, pregnancy, cognitive disabilities, and hearing and visual impairments can travel with confidence. Detailed descriptions of all Disney hotels, restaurants, rides, and attractions cover 28 health, accessibility, and suitability categories. Room layouts and maps of hotel grounds ensure travelers feel safe and comfortable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158771048X
• ISBN13: 9781587710483
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Passporter Travel Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Vegetarians with small kids including an infant

We bought this book to find tips about where the best places to stay and eat at WDW with a 4 month old, 2 and 4 year olds and which places could best accommodate a vegetarian family. We found the information in the book to be very helpful from everything from which rides the older kids can ride, where I could go to breast feed my infant, where special dietary requests can be handled and which places to stay that would be quite and comfortable for the entire family.

a wonderful book !

I got this book and was so impressed with it my sister got it to. its one of the best books you can have for WDW. I give it 10 stars.

excellent resource for Disney travelers!

Although we have visited Walt Disney World many times, the information available in this book was genuinely helpful. We're also looking into the cruise/park vacation packages, and there seemed to be a lot of information there, too.

Covers a broad range of "Special Needs"-Highly recommended

We discovered valuable information in this book each time we looked up a ride, show, eating area of the WDW complex during our recent trip to WDW. We used this guide every day of our trip. Our group included multiple members with a variety of special needs and we found that each recommendation in the book was "right on". The book offered great recommendations for essentially everything one might come across in WDW. This is a fantastic book for anyone who might have a special concern about dealing with any aspect of your WDW vacation. The best elements of this book are: 1) Its organization: The book is organized so that one can look up information and suggestions either by the attraction or the "special need". 2) The broad range of "needs" covered: Whether you are concerned about easy fatigability, size, child related (and adult related problems) such as ADD/ADHD, Torrette's, autism-spectrum disorders, pregnancy (and fertility issues!), physical or emotional limitations, sun-sensitivity, chronic health problems or basically any area of concern that might affect you or your traveling group- you will find information here. 3) A large number of contributing authors with personal experience with each of the conditions. 4) Included information on the roughness or "scary factor" of the rides or shows- which will be helpful to anyone, not just people who identify themselves as having special needs. 5) Information of where to rent equipment: scooters, wheelchairs, vehicles capable of transporting scooters or wheelchairs, etc...and not just listing the places inside the park. We found that we were not the only people who rented from outside the park...no wonder- this saved the major hassle of tracking down equipment each day. 6) PRE-trip recommendations: Buy this book before you make reservations at WDW. Great suggestions on the accessibility of the various "resorts" and even hotels outside of the park are invaluable. For example, if a "zero entry" (wheelchair accessible) pool is important to you...the few resorts that have these are clearly noted. The places to stay that are on the Monorail line or closest to the area of WDW (eg. Magic Kingdom vs Epcot vs...) are clearly noted. Staying in lodging that best visits the needs of the members of your family or group is a "make it or break it" deal for your vacation! 7) The usual awesome "PassPorter" style of the book...with all the typical features found in this series. Given the vast diversity of the population who visits Walt Disney World, and the number of people we saw using wheelchairs, scooter, special strollers, etc.- it is very likely that most visiting groups will find useful information in this book. Plus- the link to the PassPorter website gives even more helpful information. Be sure to buy this book when planning your vacation! But even if your reservations are "locked in" you will find the book extremely helpful!

Open mouse

This book is great for anyone who may have special needs. I used it to help plan a trip with a senior "at large" with special dietary needs, another less mobile senior, three young adults and a toddler, all in one group. There were also sections for other disabilities as well. It made the headache of planning into a much better experience.