Mousejunkies!: Tips, Tales, and
Tricks for a Disney World Fix: All You
Need to Know for a Perfect Vacation
(Travelers Tales) by Bill Burke
Refreshingly Different
Far more than one obsessed travel writer’s take on Walt Disney World,
Mousejunkies! is a collection of amusing travelogues and savvy insider’s
tips gleaned from a group of seemingly rational adults who find themselves
inexplicably drawn to the Magic Kingdom. It covers all the essential topics
— when to go, where to say, what to do, and where to eat — as well as
experiences not found in other guides. Readers learn how to indulge in an
all-day beer and football orgy at the resort, how to extract the family from
Fantasmic with sanity intact, where to catch a mid-afternoon catnap, and
how a Disney cruise can go very, very wrong. Packed with useful
information, from touring plans to restroom reviews, these funny,

affectionate personal accounts paint a vivid portrait of a creatively
engineered world where unexpected surprises create lasting memories.
Personal Review: Mousejunkies!: Tips, Tales, and Tricks for a
Disney World Fix: All You Need to Know for a Perfect Vacation
(Travelers Tales) by Bill Burke
First I should start off by saying that I am not a "Mousejunkie". I have only
been to Disney World once and it was so long ago I can barely remember
it. What I am, however, is a Guidebook Junkie. I don't go anywhere on
holiday without buying at least one guidebook first. I figure that this may
be my one and only chance to visit each of these destinations, I may as
well do them right the first time.
With this in mind, I initially regarded this book with quite a heavy dose of
skepticism. It was actually a very last minute decision to take `The
Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World out of my Amazon' shopping cart and
replace it with this wildcard. For starters, I couldn't actually work out what
Mousejunkies was supposed to be; a reference book, a journal, an advice
column??? (It is in fact aspects of all three). But also I was worried that I
would find the book biased and cheesy. After all it was put together by a
man who visits Disney World so many times he has titled himself a
`Mousejunkie'. What I was to discover was that yes, the book is
somewhat cheesy (particularly the first and last chapters) and yes, it is
sometimes biased. However, it also turned out to be perhaps the most
refreshing and enjoyable guidebook I have ever read. Why? Because it
was different.
This is not your conventional guidebook. If you know nothing at all about
Walt Disney World then this is perhaps not the best place to start.
Because Mousejunkies is largely full of personal stories and anecdotes, it
does not have the space or time to make mention of every single
hotel/ride/restaurant etc in all of Disney World. Rather, the book maintains
a personal feel and places are only mentioned if they hold some sort of
significance - good or bad - to the author and his friends. Likewise the
book contains no photographs or maps that might help a person plan their
upcoming trip. If you are after a conventional guidebook that allows you to
flip to the index, look up Splash Mountain, and then flip to the page that
tells you about it's wait times and height restrictions, then buy another
guidebook instead. Or better yet, buy another guidebook as well as this
book. Along with Mousejunkies, I also bought The Complete Walt Disney
World. The Complete Guide tells me about absolutely everything that I can
do at Disney World, while Mousejunkies gives me a sense of what it's
going to feel like being there.
Mousejunkies is put together in such a relaxed, easy-to-read way, reading
it is like being immersed in a good novel. You don't really flick through it
like most guidebooks, but instead you start at the beginning and find
yourself reading every page in order right through to the end. I got so
engrossed that I finished the whole book in one weekend.
I enjoyed the largely adult-perspective of the book and the way the author
put about as much emphasis on Disney's food and hotels as he did on the
rides and the attractions. I also appreciated that despite his obvious love

of Disney World, he wasn't afraid to criticize the things he thought were
truly unworthy of people's time.
Like I said at the start, I might not a Mousejunkie but I am a Guidebook
Junkie, and this is one guidebook that I really rate.
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