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Family youth have always bought each highly anticipated Harry Potter book on the first release date (usually at midnight the night before and then stayed up all night reading)

For the upcoming book release this summer, we'll be leaving Cancun and flying back to US. I definitely need to get this book while in Cancun to have a happy trip home.

Suggestions on what to do? I suppose the Cancun WalMarts will have them? Is the release date even the same?

You could always pose your question regarding foreign release dates directly to the publisher. Regardless of release dates there's no guarantee a copy of the book will be avaiable at "midnight the night before".

If it's so important that your family cannot wait until after your return to purchase the book perhaps you could ask a friend to purchase a copy for you and Fed-Ex it to you at your resort in Cancun.

Or, call Barnes and Noble and see if you can pre-order (I did), and have them ship directly to you at your hotel via overnight fed ex.

You can pre-order at B&N online, choose the overnight option and the hotel address as the shipping address.

Those are good ideas.

I'm wary of shipping it to the resort because we check out on release day and have a mid-morning flight.

Any more thoughts?

yes - wait till you get home.

this is reminding me of the scene in the Devil Wears Prada where she instructs her 'girl' to find her a copy asap for her kids for their train trip even if she has to get an advanced copy..... too funny -

if you do not trust the overnight option to your hotel, since you leave on release day itself, then your only remaining option is to overnight it to your house where it can be waiting for them -

I feel for you, wsoxrebel! We rescheduled a raft trip by a few days because so many of us wanted to be able to get the book on July 21st.

I do feel rather "devilish" in this quest. I know it seems silly, but it is a family tradition and this is supposed to be the last book.

If it's released the day you leave, how is having them waiting for you when you get home any different?

MikeT, we are readers. We read piles of books while traveling. Add to that the anticipation of this final HP release.

To read any other book besides the new HP book on that day seems wrong.

"To read any other book besides the new HP book on that day seems wrong."

Oh dear. Maybe you should just cancel the whole vacation if it will cause such trauma.

I'd imagine most bookstores in Cancun--including Wal Mart and Hypermart--would have HP in Spanish if they have it at all.

No ideas, sorry....but I have the same issue. We will be in Budapest on release day, and DD is already stressing about how she will get a copy

While waiting until the morning may not be as fun as getting it midnight, you probably will be able to get copies at the airport bookstore, assuming the Mexican release date is the same as it will be in English speaking countries.

What language would it be in if available in Mex either at Cancun or cancun airport?

see if they have a Barnes and Noble down there, you can reserve your copy and pick it up there?

And it is going to be significantly more expensive.

You're a parent (grandparent?), not a miracle-worker. Why don't you explain the options to the children and let them choose? (At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old 29-year old, I'd think this would be a great opportunity to empower the kids to make their own decisions and to learn that sometimes you have to choose between two mutually exclusive things you want.)

If the Mexican release date is the same, you can go and buy the book on the release date in Cancun, running the risk that the only version available will be in Spanish. Then, once they get home, their reward will be the book in English.

I looked at mugglenet.com (or something like that), and it says the release date for US/UK/English-speaking countries is 7/21. Sounds like the book won't be available in Mexican stores, and you wouldn't want it in Spanish anyway. (Would publishers ship English copies to an Amercanized resort town like Cancun? Who knows?) And since you're checking out on the day it would have to arrive from Barnes and Noble or Amazon, I think you're out of choices here. I mean, unless you have a working magic wand.

kgh, I didn't want to go there, but I agree with you.