A New Approach to California

Welcome! All of us here at CaliforniaGuidebook.com are committed to ensuring you have the best and most well-informed Southern California vacation. We’re passionate about the theme parks, about the experiences, about the memories that make a vacation magical. Our editorial team has over 25 years experience gaining knowledge of and exploring the theme parks. We’re now set on taking that information and using it in a way that completely revolutionizes the guidebook approach to theme parks and vacations.

That passion is a key reason for the development of this site and our guidebook. Most guidebooks only feature brief snippets of info on Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure; other Disney-specific guidebooks will cover all the rides, but the information is often covered in less than 30% of the actual pages. Other guide sites will give you listings or paragraphs describing each attraction, but none come close to presenting the information we’ve collected for you. Not only do we cover every attraction, show, shop and restaurant in both Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure, but we also do the same for the other seven theme parks in the area: Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios Hollywood, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Sea World San Diego, Legoland California, San Diego Zoo and The San Diego Wild Animal Park.

Our reviews are completely independent and free of constrains placed on other guidebooks by the theme parks. In each review, we’ll cover detailed information about the attractions, but we’ll also tell you when the best time is to ride, how it rates with the family, where it’s located, and even what type of ride it is. We’ll tell you how to save time and money, so you won’t wind up broke at the end of the day and tired of standing in line.

You can find our guidebook online for free at this site, or you can even purchase a hard copy to take with you on the trip. We’ve crafted these different outlets because we know everyone absorbs information differently. Because our guidebook is accompanied by this site, we can update you immediately on the latest news and information pertinent to your trip, such as attraction closures – no other guidebook can do that.

We hope you’ll find both CaliforniaGuidebook.com and PackFlat’s California Guidebook 2011 as handy and useful as we tried to make it. Happy vacationing!

Sincerely,

William J. Nash-McAdam

Editor, CaliforniaGuidebook.com