Interesting,useful planning tool!

This book makes interesting reading and I'm sure it will be invaluable for our holiday planning!

Lovely and colourful

I'm pleased with the map and so is my 5 year daughter who is very inquisitive about the world around her.

a winner

It's got maps, pictures and stickers, as far as my niece is concerned it's perfect.

Handy modern atlas

I wanted an up to date world atlas that would show the general layout of countries without too much detail and at a reasonable price.<br />The Collins atlas did just that. Very pleased.

Collins World Atlas

An excellent publication, full of interesting facts and figures. Superb maps and the best value for money I have seen. It is hard to imagine how much this Atlas cost to produce, thoroughly recommended.

A fine replacement for our 1980s edition

This is a very substantial tome. It is ideal for our library where the old Times atlas was finally coming to pieces after 20 years constant use. It was a good bargain too.<br />I'm not sure I would suggest this for the average living room bookshelf, but it is extremely comprehensive, including my home town, so I'm happy!

atlas

My 6 year old nephew absolutely loves this atlas and takes it everywhere with him, even to sports camp! Highly recommended.

An excellent reference book

When I first bought this book I thought it would just take space on the shelf but it prooved to be a real treasure packed with information on various issues such as geography, geology, world population,astronomy etc. It is very well illustrated with clear pictures, accurate and informative maps. Its size, or rather its weight, has not put me off flipping through its pages. It's a book for people who want to explore and familiarise themselves with the World we live in.

fab

got this map for my 5year old son and he loves it each time he looks at it he finds something new and intresting i would recommend this to all children even my nephew is wanting one and hes 10yrs old

Wonderful!

My father-in-law lives in America and was desperate for an atlas for his teenage son. I ordered this and it is a great hit - has absolutely everything F-i-l wanted. I noticed yesterday a huge pile of these in my sons school so they must be fabulous.

superb service

Ordered from the Netherlands, chosen the"slow" delivery, and received after 3 days. Great service and I enjoy my Atlas. Piet

Lovely map - my children love it

My 4 year old son spends ages every day studying this map on his bedroom wall. Even my 2 year old loves to point out all the turtles.

Great size- a clear map

I like the size of the map and the fact that it is already a pinboard! Colours are fun, and the names of the countries are clear. Good purchase.

Fantastic, colourful Guide. The Official Guide!

This is an"Official" Walt Disney World Guide. On the down side this may mean that it is not as objective as other guides out there (with no connection with the Walt Disney Company), HOWEVER I have given this guide 5 stars as from what is missed out in impartiality is more than made up in the plus points.<br /><br />This is probably the most colourful and simple to use guide out there. I have purchased this guide over the last 4 years, whether I am going to Disney or not. This is a really exciting guide, that just makes you want to me at WDW - now! The same publishers publish excellent food guide and"adults without kids" guide - both of which are highly recommended. There are also a number of vouchers within the book that can be used during the trip. This guide is perfect to give to a child before embarking on that magical trip.<br /><br />I would recommend getting this with the Brits Guide which offers a more rounded view, and covers the rest of the Orlando area.<br /><br />This is a US published book and so quite hard to get hold of in book stores - and if you can they are not at the fantastic amazon price!

Not delivered

This item must have gotten lost in the post over Christmas. When we re-ordered in early Jan, the courier company attempted delivery twice while we were out at work. They requested to pick parcel up from their depot which is a 10minute drive by car and there was no possiblity to get in contact with them over the phone to arrange another delivery. Very bad service!!!

Item has not arrived yet!!

I know the item is very good as this is a second order going to the same address, but whilst the first arrived in a couple of weeks, this one has still not been received. Please could you chase up for me?<br /><br /><br />Kevin

my favourite disney guide book

this guide book is a must have for anyone visiting the magic as not only is it an excellent guide book but it also becomes a fabulous momento of your holiday to walt disney world. All the way through you can write in details of your own holiday and planning and then at the back are pockets and a day to day record for you to record your holiday memories.

Great information!

Planning a trip to Orlando and this is exactly the book I needed! Goes through all the major parks in great detail with specific information on the most popular rides, such as height restrictions and waiting times. Gives good information on how to plan and what to do outside of Disney.

An Essential Guide to Walt Disney World

Before we went on holdiay to Disney World in 2008, I spent ages sifting through all the different guide books available.<br /><br />I ended up buying this one and the other one in the series which is a general guide. <br /><br />I found while on holiday that you don't need both!<br /><br />Brilliant guide book, lots of 'seasoned visitor' tips which helped us get the most of our time there.<br /><br />My only negative comment would be that it's quite chunky and when you're walking round in the Florida heat it's not something you want to weigh you down.<br /><br />Good book though, should form the basis for any planning you might do before you go.<br /><br />

Beck and all

A timely update to the first edition in 2003 with a new Zone 6 listing all the latest and proposed subway systems around the world. The extra Zone now includes hybrids like tram-trains, monorail or light rail and they all need maps. The other five Zones in the original have had their contents revised also.<br /><br />I think the beauty of the book is in looking at the way various transit companies have approached the problem of communicating (sometimes complex) information in a simple way for passengers yet each map has its unique points. The book's authors rightly trace the origins of the modern designed transit map to London Transport's Harry Beck. His genius was to discard the geographic location of stations and have route lines as either vertical, horizontal or at forty-five degrees. It's amazing to see how many maps of the dozens in the book still follow this general principal. <br /><br />However, creating a map that might look graphically stunning is not always enough. New York's MTA got Massimo Vignelli to design their map and it looks a visual treat but passengers weren't impressed and found it confusing so the MTA revised it. Vignelli's 1979 map and the latest 2007 MTA one are shown together on a spread in the book, two maps with the same information yet looking so different.<br /><br />This update has a few more train and station photos to fill the space that was frequently left blank in the first edition and there is a nice touch with a spread near the back that includes some fantasy maps. If I have a fault with the book it is that in the new Zone 6 section many of the maps are so small that I don't think they were worth including.<br /><br />I thinks it's worth pointing out that Transit Maps is not designed as a reference guide for travelers to cities around the world but as a celebration of the beauty that is inherent in these colourful diagrams.<br />