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4 out of 5 mice
Reviewed Feb 18, 2011

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Developer:
MediaLAB, Inc.

Age rating: 4+

Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

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Disneyland iGuide - Walkee®Current Version: 1.41

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Going to Disneyland? Let Walkee® iGuide to Disneyland help you find your way around, reduce your line wait times and save you money, too. You’ll know exactly where to find what you’re looking for, what the weather will be, where to dine and much, much more! Click “...More” to learn why you should download this App.

Buy Walkee® today and receive version 1.5 FREE!

Included in this version:

★ Stunning maps for Disneyland Park, California Adventure AND Downtown Disney

★ Set Text Alerts to return to a ride location by a specific time

★ Disneyland themed eCards - email, tweet or post them to your wall

★ Parade schedules and show times for "World of Color" and Fantasmic!

★ The MOST ACCURATE wait times directly on the maps AND scrollable list

★ You will have the exclusive mobile ability to purchase discount attraction tickets through WelcometoSoCal.com, a trusted name in online travel

★★★★★
Saved the day!
“Finally, no need to carry around a map and schedule guide. (...) I was able to hop around the park with ease and avoid the really long lines”
- neoGreatFox

★★★★★
A must for Disneyland & Calif Adventure!
“I used this App for 5 days and loved it! It allowed us to keep track of where we were in the park and where to go next and gave us some clue as to wait times. I also loved being able to pull up info on the restaurants and food carts with complete menu lists! Best App on Disney (and I used others) in my book.”
- Halomama

You and the kids have been dreaming about this vacation - Mickey, Goofy, princesses, rides, shows and food - you can’t wait to throw yourself into the Disneyland experience. Entering the gates, you take in all of the wonderful sights and sounds and can’t help but grin. Everywhere around you people are having fun. You’re ready to join in but where do you start? Disneyland covers more than 500 acres!

Relax, Walkee® iGuide to Disneyland will get you around, show you where to find the shops and attractions, tell you how long the ride wait times are and more. There is so much help and information in this app that it won’t all fit on this page.

Want to save a little time and plan your day ahead? That’s easy with Walkee®! Just mark on one of the maps which attractions you want to take in and you’ll be able to make your way to each area in the shortest possible time.

This app can help you plan for the weather, find other interesting venues in southern California and save you money on attraction tickets too. Walkee® iGuide to Disneyland is a jam-packed and feature rich resource that you don’t want to leave home without.

Some of the dozens of features you get in Walkee® iGuide to Disneyland:

★ Helps you maximize your time at Disneyland
★ Automatically updated line wait times
★ Beautiful maps for Disneyland, California Adventure and Downtown Disney
★ Historical facts about attractions
★ Shopping and dining icons to help you plan your day
★ Add fun pictures to over 150 Detail pages
★ Built-in notepad
★ Create an itinerary
★ Clock for checking parade and show times
★ Dining menus for all park restaurants
★ One tap phone for calling any Downtown Disney restaurant or shop
★ Add your picture to an eCard, email, tweet or post to your Wall
★ GPS guides you through Disneyland park
★ “Set Fastpass and Family meet-ups” text reminders
★ SoCal Mobile feature gives you tons of information about southern California and all things Disney
★ Exclusively Walkee® gives you expanded Disney info and customization features

Walkee® iGuide to Disneyland has been featured on CBS, KCAL, KTLA, TUAW.com, OC Register and AppCraver.

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Disneyland iGuide - Walkee® Review

Mobile guide is a great planning tool for trips to Disneyland

by Dan Frakes, Macworld.com

Before you head off to the Magic Kingdom, Disneyland iGuide — Walkee is a great place to turn to for planning your amusement park adventure. The $4 app from MediaLab can help you decide what you want to see and ride before you even set foot in the park.

Guide Me: Its interface is a bit cluttered, but Disneyland iGuide — Walkee packs a lot of information about the Anaheim, Calif., theme park into a single app.

Walkee’s map of Disneyland shows an icon for each attraction; tap on that icon to get the attraction’s name. Tap the more-info arrow, and you see a brief description of the attraction and its history; for rides, this screen also inclues a Tummy Tester advisory (for those with weak stomachs), any height requirements, the length of the ride, and a section on typical wait times for the ride (based on historical data). There’s also a Schedule feature that shows hours, events, and closures for the days you’ll be at the park.

Using this information, you can mark as favorites each of those things you want to see or ride. When I took my family to Disneyland, I found Walkee useful for helping to figure out which rides would be appropriate for my toddler.

What’s especially useful is that Walkee lets you customize its map to display only the info you want to see. For instance, my wife and I opted to show favorites, character meets, and restrooms; once we got to the park, we could easily see which attractions we wanted to visit without being distracted by everything else on the map. (Though I wish the app provided an option to remove items from the map once you’d marked them as completed.) We also knew where to go for the kids to take photos with Disney characters, and where to quickly find the nearest restroom—which, as any parent with small children can tell you, was a welcome option, as kids at Disneyland have a tendency to claim they don’t need to use the facilities until about 30 seconds before it’s too late.

Walkee’s interface is a little cluttered, and its map—while pretty—is cartoonish and not great for actually navigating the park. (For that, I turned to Disneyland Maps.) And while Walkee can give you almost-live updates of ride wait times, the interface for this feature isn’t very helpful: You can see all wait times in a single list, sorted alphabetically, or you can tap a ride on the main map to view just that ride’s wait time. Disneyland Maps shows the wait times for all rides in a single map view, making it easy to both compare wait times and view locations.

That said, Disneyland iGuide — Walkee is a solid planning tool that helps make any visit to the Happiest Place on Earth that much happier.

[Dan Frakes is a senior editor for Macworld.]

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