Honey, I’m home. Just back from what might have been our best Disney World vacation ever. And I want to share it with you all. I contemplated how to share my trip . Do I write a day to day report or something more general, like park experiences only. After much consideration, and with the risk of oversharing, I decided to make it a day to day report. I know some days may be less interesting, but I still feel that even on the less eventful days there was something to share, and even some important information that may be useful for your next Orlando trip. So, please bare with me.

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Plan plan plan

Before I start, I feel like I have to say this: planning your trip is most highly recommended. We have done Disney trips in the past, and I planned them too, but never to the level of planning I did this time. The amount of research, and day to day planning, were worth it all. And I know I have already mentioned this, but this was the best trip ever!!!! So, my recommendation to you is, plan the trip properly. This doesn’t mean you won’t enjoy your vacation, but you will enjoy it more, and utilise your time better if you come prepared.

For tips and suggestions to help with your planning process, you can read some of my past posts.

Disney Magical Express

Where do I start? I think I will start with our arrival in Orlando. The trip from Melbourne was really long and tiring. All in all, it took us over 24 hours to get to Orlando  😱 . But to cut it short, OMG, we’re here!!!

First milestone – Disney Magical Express. Let the magic begin. At 11:30 pm, we step up to the Magical Express check-in point. Dead tired, after two flights, but who cares? We’re on our way to Disney World.

On the bus we go, and after a few minutes wait, we’re on our way. As tired as we are, not a wink, eyes pealed open, just waiting for the most exciting sign ever, the Entrance to Disney World sign. And it is just amazing. I don’t know what it is, but it gets me every time. A total surge of emotions. We are here. I have waited for this moment for 5 years.

Art of Animation

It’s 12:15 am when we drive up to the entrance of Art of Animation. Off the bus and into the lobby. We love this resort. The Disney Art work incorporated in the lobby is absolutely magnificent. As we arrived just after New Year’s Eve, on January 4th, all Christmas decorations were still in place, including a beautiful Christmas tree.

Arriving from overseas, we had to pick up our Magic bands at the front desk. So, while my dear husband and kids struggle with the luggage, I leave them and go to check-in to our room. Here’s where things get interesting, our Magic bands are nowhere to be found.

Now, as a reminder, this is happening at 12:30 am, after travelling for over 24 hours. Talk about buzz kill. It took them over 20 minutes to locate our bands, but finally we had them, and we were on our way to our room.

Even though I requested a specific room, we were given a different one. Can’t say I was extremely happy about that, but checking in that late, there really wasn’t much we could do, especially when the resort was fully booked. I was told that we could come in the next day and change a room, as many guests were checking out. The room we were assigned was in building 4, ground floor, right at the back of the building.

At 1:30 am, after unpacking and showering (thank god), we finally got to bed.

I was up and about at 5:30 am, after only 4 hours sleep. It must have been the excitement . Not to wake everyone up, I got dressed, and went for a brisk morning walk around the resort. Leaving the building, I realised that the work for the Gondola cable line was just outside our room. Can’t say I was happy with that.

Saying that, and fast forward a few days, we didn’t feel the work going on at all. So, at the end of the day, even though we didn’t get our requested room, we were quite happy where we were.

The resort is amazing. This is our second time here, and we will most likely return here in the future. The imagine-ring is out of this world. From the art work in the lobby to the different resort areas. It’s really hard for me to decide on a favourite, though I’m leaning towards Cars or The Little Mermaid. One of my favourite things is to walk towards ‘Finding Nemo’ to be greeted by ‘Mine Mine Mine’ cries. So much fun. Talking about being engulfed in the Disney atmosphere.

Our requested room was ‘Finding Nemo’ building 4, third floor, mid floor. We prefer ‘Finding Nemo’ mainly because of how close it is to Landscape of Flavours and the bus transportation. The room we actually stayed in was in that building, even though not on a higher floor. No biggie, at the end of the day.

Choosing your preferential area in the resort is really a very personal decision. It depends on what is really important to you. Do you want to be close to the dining or transportation? Do you want to be close to a big swimming pool? Is it important to you to be in your favourite resort area? Do you need a suit or a standard room? All these will effect your final decision. My recommendation, again, is do your homework. Research the resort you’re staying in, and see where you would prefer to stay. Then, prior to your arrival, notify them of your preference. Even if you don’t get your preferred room, chances are that you will be close by.

Day 1 – Disney Springs

We didn’t have that much planned for our first day. In the past we would be out and about, full gear, even on arrival day. But past experience taught me that when doing that, a couple of days into the trip, we are worn out. This time, I slotted into our plans some down time. Travelling for over 24 hours, we needed time to recover. So, the plan for today was, more or less, to take it easy. As we were on the dining plan for the first part of our Disney stay, we were going to pick up our refillable mugs and have a late breakfast at Landscapes of Flavours. The only other thing planned for the day was dinner at Homecomin’ at Disney Springs.

After breakfast, which, by the way, was really good, we decided to take an Uber to the Disney outlet warehouse at the Premium Outlet at Vineland, followed by a walkabout at Disney Springs. Last time we were there it was Disney Downtown. The changes made are amazing. It’s so beautiful. We visited the re-opened World of Disney store, and had a delightful afternoon just strolling around.

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Chef Art Smith’s Homecomin’ @ Disney Springs

We had an early dinner reservation at Homecomin’. This was something I was looking forward to.
It started pouring rain just as we walked into the restaurant. Talk about timing  😄. All in all, we had a great time at Homecomin’. Our server was absolutely amazing. Being on the dining plan, it seemed to us just too much food to eat 5 entrees (mains) and 5 desserts. Prior to our trip I asked around, on the different boards, if this was something possible with the dining plan. Most replied that it wasn’t, but some suggested we ask anyway, who knows.

We asked if we can replace 3 entrees for starters, and to our surprise, there was absolutely no problem. We ordered between us:Thigh High Chicken Biscuits, Bee Haven Bay Fried Green Tomatoes, Bunch of Puppies & a couple of fried chicken entrees. For dessert we shared the Pecan Pie, the Hummingbird cake and Auntie’s chocolate cake. The food was delicious, but my personal favourites were the Fried Green Tomatoes and the Hummingbird cake.

Leaving the restaurant in the evening it was pouring rain. We got absolutely drenched on our way to the Art of Animation bus stop. Luckily, this was the only actual rainy day throughout our whole vacation.

Worn out and suffering from Jet lag, we couldn’t wait to get back to our room and get some sleep. So, first day over, off to bed we go.

Next post – day two, our first day at Magic Kingdom.

There has been a major price hike at Disney World for the past few  weeks.  It’s been creeping on, starting with the change to the ticket pricing system, and continuing with merchandise, price of soft drinks, food and restaurant meals.   

As a whole, prices have gone up between 5% and up to a 20% rise, adding up to the largest price increase in years.   As an example see DFB’s story from October regarding price raise of beverages, snacks and more.

If you have a Disney World vacation planned, or are planning one in the near future, you will be paying more for just about everything.   This makes Disney World an even more expensive vacation destination than it already was.

With that in mind, I had to rethink my strategy this trip not to take the dining plan.  I had a sit down and crunched the numbers, re-adjusting my budget, taking into consideration the new food pricing. 

Just as a reminder, we are doing a split stay this trip.  And to save us a load of money, I attached all our park tickets to the Art of Animation package, instead of splitting them between the two resorts.   I attacked this issue in my post about our split stay.  Long story short, if I do want to go with the dining plan I have to do one of two options:  

Either split the tickets between the two resort stays, and book two separate packages with resort, tickets and dining; 

Or, add the dining plan to our existing package at first resort stay – at AOA.

There is an option to add the dining plan to our room only package, under certain circumstances.  For us it just wasn’t suitable.

Still, the new pricing really made a dent in our plan and budget.  

I decided to return to the drawing board.  I took all our dining plans for the first 7 nights (8 days), checked out the new pricing, and redid our approximate predicted dining expenses.  Then, I went online and found the new Disney World Promotion with dining.  With their promotion dining, during our first 7 night stay, would cost us just over $60 a day per person on the regular dining plan.  Not bad at all.  Working the numbers, it came to an approximate saving of $200 before the snacks.  Wow.  What a difference.  From saving money not doing the dining plan to the exact opposite.  Really quite unbelievable.  

Saying that, the thing that made the real difference was the discounted offer from Disney.  Without this discount the dining plan would still cost us more than paying ourselves for the dining.  This is a $500 difference in price.

I immediately contacted my travel agent, and to keep a long story short, added the dining plan to our package.  It actually fit right in with our ADR’s.  Only thing,  we most likely won’t be using up all of our quick service credits.-  It’s just too much food.  But even then, we will still end up saving money.  We will probably exchange our extra quick service credits for snack credits.  The plan is to use the left over snack credits for gifts (candy, rice crisps, cookies etc.).

In conclusion

It’s true.  The dining packages aren’t always the cheapest way to go.  Some would prefer to pay more just for some peace and quiet, not needing to deal with money and calculations while at Disney World.  For this trip, at start, we elected to pay our own way.  But then we were hit with the biggest price hike in years, and found the need to recalculate our figures.  That brought on a major change to our plans this time, adding on the dining plan to our package, for the first 7 nights of our Disney World stay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time flies when you are counting every single day – NOT 😊.  80 days to Disney World… OMG, I just can’t wait.  At this point I thought I owed you an 80 days to Disney World update on where things stand with our planning.

When I last left you, we had our dining reservations done (or so I thought), and two special events booked in – Wanyama Safari and Fantasmic! Dessert & VIP Viewing Experience.

If you may recall, I was planning to book another couple of dessert parties too –  the Star Wars dessert party at Hollywood Studios and Frozen ever after dessert party at Epcot.   

Since then, changes have been made to the Star Wars dessert party.  I took the time to read the DISboard’s thread for the event, and made an executive decision to forgo this event.   We are not  really hard core Star Wars fans.  There have been good changes, such as seating option during the party, but also not so good changes, especially changing most of the speciality desserts. After weighing in the cost for the event, I decided to leave this one for our next trip.  I mean, you always have to leave something to look forward to on your next trip. 😉

Links to the thread and the pics from the new event setting are below:

Official star wars galactic spectacular dessert party

New dessert party pics

As for the Frozen Ever After dessert party, well, this one isn’t one we want to miss out on.  I have literally been stalking the Disney World site, awaiting release of the January dates for the event.  We only have a couple of possible dates we can attend the event, so fingers crossed…  This is one of the more popular events, and tickets seem to run out pretty fast.  It’s a bit like securing your reservation for Be Our Guest dinner  – ‘You snooze – You loose’. 

Early Morning Magic Toy Story Land

In the meantime, I’ve been watching my Disney World Vlogs, and  discovered Disney launched a new event – Disney Early Morning Magic at Toy Story Land.  

What is this new event all about?

Early morning magic has been running for some time now at Magic Kingdom.  Now that Toy Story Land has opened, Disney saw an opportunity to cash in on the demand for the Land.  For $79 for adults and $69 for kids, you are let in to Toy Story Land, as part of a limited group. During the event you can enjoy the Land’s rides and meet with characters from 7:30 am until ninish.  Breakfast at ABC Commissary is also included. 

To start with, there were great reviews.  That changed slightly when Disney opened another time allocation for the event, doubling the number of people let in.  But even during the busier events, visitors were still able to ride all three Toy Story Land’s rides at least three to four times, including meeting some of the characters.   

I read the reviews, saw a couple of Vlogs, and as soon as it opened up for January bookings, I locked us in.  

California Grill

Meanwhile, I managed to make another couple of unplanned bookings. 

I’ve been eyeing the brunch at California Grill for weeks now.   It was something I discovered after locking in our dining reservations.  California Grill, as a whole, was a restaurant I didn’t really look at.  All our previous trips were on the dining plan, and we didn’t do signature dining.  But this time I wanted to experience something more.   Anyway, I read the trip reviews on Disboards, and decided to go for it. 

Set only on Sundays (we are in Orlando 3 Sundays all together), it is practically impossible to get a reservation for the brunch.  To start with, there was no availability.  I tried every day, several times, with no luck.  But after my past experience with Be Our Guest, I didn’t give up. And lo and behold, a couple of days ago, performing my daily check up, an opening appears, for 10:15.  Shocked me booked it as fast as I could.  Only problem,  that was the morning we were going to Ohana for breakfast.  Well, long story short, juggling a couple of resi’s around, we now have our coveted California Grill brunch reservation, and we still have a breakfast booked at Ohana.  I did have to cancel our Kona Cafe breakfast though.  

I don’t know if I mentioned this, but this trip is a very special trip for us.  One of the things we are celebrating is our 25th wedding anniversary.   So, my husband and I decided to give ourselves at least one night out, a special date to celebrate this event.   And what could be better than dinner at California Grill?  Good food and a romantic Happily Ever After special viewing, what more could we need? But reservations aren’t easy to come by, especially when there are only four months to go.  I was looking for a Sunday night reservation, during our Universal Studios stay.  Don’t know how, but I managed to get us a reservation on my first try.  Sheer luck, I suppose, knowing how popular this restaurant is.

What next?

At this point, the 80 day mark, there is really little left to do.  First, as mentioned, I am waiting for Frozen Ever After Dessert party to open up for booking in January.   And second, counting the days to the 60 day mark.   I’m dying to book our Fastpasses already.  I’m especially excited to book our Flight of Passage Fastpass.  

One more thing I plan to do at the two month mark is to make an order of water bottles, energy bars and a few other bits and bobs from the Garden Grocer, and have them delivered and waiting for us when we arrive at our resort – Art of Animation.

 

142 days to go, and finally our Disney World dining reservations are all done.  I’ve been wanting to share our ADR’s with you since the 180 day mark.  Saying that, I’ve done so much tweaking, changing and rearranging, that I decided to write this post once all is set and done.

There are still two dining experiences that haven’t been booked yet, awaiting release dates for the Star Wars dessert party and the Frozen ever after dessert party.

So, here we go, this was the process of making all of our dining reservations:

The 180 day mark

Saturday July 7th, 7:59 pm  (5:59 am Orlando time), one minute to the 180 day mark.  Sitting on the sofa, laptop on my knees, waiting to leap into action.  Truth be told, I was actually sitting there in that same position for at least an hour prior to that, but never mind that…

I wanted to book several ADR’s for our 14 night stay at Disney World.  Amongst them were a few that are known to be hard to get, such as Be Our Guest and Ohana, 

I also wanted to book the Wanyama Safari, now available not only to Animal Kingdom Lodge guests.

8 pm, and I go to work.  First thing first, I look for availability at Be Our Guest.  Success.  I book an ADR for 8:15 am. Yeah.

I keep on going, and everything is fitting right into plan.  No problem getting every single ADR I want.  And then I try to book Garden Grill.  No tables available.    I try again, still no table available.  How could that be?  I try the next day, and the next day, but nothing.  What’s going on?  At this point I’m pretty frustrated, because we really wanted to try this one.

So, I come to terms with it.  No Garden Grill for us.

Then I hit another obstacle.  Because of our split stay the system isn’t allowing me to  book our reservations for the second part of our stay.  So sad. I am actually really stressed out about it.

Now I have to wait, not very patiently, for next week to complete our reservations.   

In the meantime, I spoke with Stephanie, our Travel Agent, and enlisted her help with booking the Wanyama Safari.  Within minutes our Safari was booked. Thank you so much Stephanie for doing that for us.

While waiting for the next 180 day mark to open, I keep trying to look for availability for Garden Grill, and a couple of days in, their bookings open up.  What I later discovered was that although reservation booking opens at the 180 day mark, not all restaurants release availability at that point. 

The lesson learnt, which I  will repeat over and over in this post, is never to give up.  If you don’t succeed, try try again.

173 days to go

173 days to go, and 180 days to our split stay reservation.  8 pm, I’m on it to get all our preferable dining reservations.  Ohana (Breakfast) tick, Kona Cafe (Breakfast) tick, Yak & Yeti & The Wave (Breakfast) all done.  Amazing.  I feel so lucky, that I actually succeeded in getting all the dining reservations I planned to.

You may think that is the end of my story, but it isn’t.  

A few days go by, and I receive an email from Touring Plans.  Disney has changed park hours for January 7th and added Extra Magic Hours in the morning.  That was the morning Garden Grill was booked for breakfast, and we planned to take advantage of being allowed into the park before opening hours.  Bummer.  On that day we actually had two ADR’s – Garden Grill and Ohana for dinner.  The  next day we planned to visit Hollywood Studios with an ADR for 50’s Prime Cafe. 

Could I maybe swap the two days around?  50’s Prime Cafe and Ohana are pretty popular, so that may be a problem.  I decided I’ll give it a try, starting with Ohana.  Amazing, I managed to swap the two days, no problems at all. 

At this point I decided to review our reservations.  Were they really suitable for our plans?  Should any of them be cancelled?  As I was reviewing them, I started reading up about the new dinner menu for Be Our Guest. 

To start with, we weren’t interested in dinner reservations for Be Our Guest.  Our last experience there was not the best.  We loved the castle, and that is why we made the breakfast reservations, but the food at dinner was really nothing to write home about.  But now, it seems, they had made changed to the menu, and I really wanted to get to try it for myself. 

One little problem.  We are now approx. 150 days to go, and there is no chance under the sun that I can get us a dining reservation for Be Our Guest.  I tried to book dinner reservations for each and every day we are planning to be at Magic Kingdom.  No success.  I remind myself of the very good advice on the different forums – don’t give up.  Try, try again and again. 

And that I do.  Day after day, sometimes a few times a day.  That went on for at least a week.  But I didn’t give up.  And lo and behold, a dining reservation for 4:55 pm for 5 is available for one of our Magic Kingdom days.  I actually can’t believe it.  Even though we have a reservation for Trail’s End for that day, I quickly cancel it and make the reservation for Be Our Guest.  Woohoo, we actually managed to do it.  Swiping around a few more of the plans and reservations, and we are all set.  

As an end result, these are our reservations:

Homecoming – Dinner

Be Our Guest – Breakfast and Dinner

Crystal Palace – Dinner

Raglan Road – Lunch

Garden Grill – Breakfast

Ohana – Dinner and Breakfast

Kona Cafe – Breakfast

Tusker House – Lunch

Yak & Yeti – Dinner

Liberty Tree Tavern – Lunch

Trail’s End – Dinner

We are also booked in to the Wanyama Safari & Fantasmic! Dessert & VIP Viewing Experience, and waiting for dates to open up for Star Wars dessert party and Frozen Ever After dessert party – hoping to book at least one of them.

142 days to go.  Disney ADR’s booked.  Still have to get tickets for Sea World and Kennedy Space Centre, and of course, waiting for the 60 day mark for our fastpasses.

 

 

 

 

Hi everyone.  I think that before I get going on this post I owe you all an explanation and apology.   It’s been a while since my proper last post.  I apologise for that.  My mother passed away in December 2017, and I just couldn’t bring myself to write.    Then today I opened up My Disney Experience page and there it was … 222 days to go.     I felt that I just had to share it with you all.😊 

222 days to go

The last time I posted, I talked about split stays.  Since then so much has happened.  I actually started booking our vacation, yeah. 

Now, and this is important, even though I know my stuff, when it comes to my Disney vacation I prefer to make my actual booking through a travel agent.  And in this case, through a travel agent that specialises in Disney World bookings.  I know it is quite easy to book online , but with a travel agent, a good travel agent, you know that there is someone there for you.  A professional guiding hand.   Most specialised travel agents now days also help out with the ADR’s and any other specialised booking you may want to make.   Most of them also don’t charge you for their services.  They receive a commission from Disney.

They are constantly in touch with you and will also try to get you the best available deal.  If, for example, you book your resort and then Disney come out with a special discount that can save you money, your travel agent applies this to your booking.  The same can’t be told when you book independently.  Discounts are not applied automatically to your reservation.

 

Our booking

Being a follower of Dad’s Guide to WDW , and after I read many reviews, I decided to approach Destination to Travel, his Travel agency.  They are an authorised Disney vacation planner.  

So,  after doing all the research, I contacted the agency, and I have to tell you all that so far I’ve had an amazing experience.   My travel agent is Stephanie Walsh.  She is wonderful.  Apart from being a genuinely nice lady, she is simply a very professional agent.   I sent her my requests and immediately we started to move forward.   

Our plan is to stay at Disney World Resort for 10 nights on-site, split stay.  Then we will stay 5 nights in Orlando, preferably at a Sea World partner resort, and finally 7 nights at Hard Rock Hotel, Universal Studios Orlando.

So far, my Disney resorts have been booked, one at a time, as the second resort is a DVC resort and rooms weren’t open for booking yet.  Because we are going in January 2019, and packages haven’t been released just yet, we are waiting on the tickets.  But as soon as that comes through Stephanie will re-book our first resort (AOA) as  a package.   

We decided not to go for the dining plan this time and see how that goes.  Last visit we felt we were just eating too much.  I truly think that there is money to be saved there (especially as there is no free dining offered for that period of year 😞 ).

Stephanie has been constantly in touch with me about the Sea World package.  As of end of May 2018, Sea World has not yet published packages for 2019.  Very disappointing.  But I’m not stressing, because I know Stephanie is on it.   

Last, but not least, we have our Universal Studios package booked.  Stephanie actually managed to book us in for a price lower than the available booking price online.  😃 

I highly recommend Stephanie Walsh as a Disney Travel Specialist.  She can be contacted via email:  stephaniewalsh@d2travel.com.

What’s left to do

Well, there is still plenty left.  Funnily enough, we don’t have flights booked yet.  For some reason, prices are still way higher than what I expected.  I am pretty nervous about it, but I will wait a little longer to see if they do come down, even slightly.  But that is a big priority on my list.

Sea World, as I noted, is still to be booked.  ADR’s are coming up.  I also want to book a couple of dessert parties this time.  This will be a first for us.   

Let’s not forget the package to be updated (including park tickets).  On this one we are also swaying from our past visits.  We decided to go with the one park a day basic tickets.  They are a much cheaper option, and as we are going in January, we weren’t really thinking of visiting the water parks.  Limiting ourselves to one park a day wasn’t a big deal for us, and definitely worth the money saved.

We still need to rent a car for our Sea World stay, and purchase tickets for the Kennedy Space Station.  That is an experience I am really looking forward to.

With Universal we will probably also make dining reservations, but that can wait for the moment.

So much has been taken care of, and still so much to do still.  But OMG, 222 days to go.   I’ll keep you posted how things are coming together.  I promise. 😊 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I LOVE DISNEY WORLD

Howdy all, welcome to my blog.  This is my first post, and I wanted to tell you a bit about myself.

I was never what you would call a Disney child or a Disney Princess.

The first time I heard of Disney was at 11 years old.  My dad took me to see Snow White and Fantasia.  Both experiences were memorable.  I knew of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and some of the other characters, saw a couple of cartoons, but never more than that.

The real stepping stone was at 12.  That’s when we travelled to the US, and my parents decided to take me to Disney World. At the time there were only 2 parks, Magic Kingdom and Epcot.  I didn’t really know what to expect, but the minute I set foot into Magic Kingdom, well, it was like entering a world of dreams and fantasies.  The aw’s and ah’s.

My love affair with Disney had began.   

Is it the characters? Is it the atmosphere in the parks (complete positivity, hope, happiness, and all over magic)? Is it the disconnect from the out side world?  I don’t really know, maybe all of them combined.  What matters is that the minute you set foot in the parks, you’ve entered a magical world.  Even the most cynical person cannot stay indifferent.  

Ever since that day, I’ve been back to Orlando several  times (not an easy fete, considering I’m not a US resident).  Every visit longer than the previous, every time discovering new magic. I discovered other Orlando parks too – The Universal Studios resort (wow), and Sea World.  Every trip devoting more time to the planning, enjoying every second of it (almost as much as the trip itself – nah).

And when I became a mom, well… what do you think?  All three of my girls were raised on Disney.  That’s when I really got to know all , and I mean all of the Disney princesses, characters and movies.  I could recite Frozen to you off by heart lol.   So, when my eldest turned 12, and we gave her the choise:  Disney World Orlando or a party, her choice was obvious.-Off to Orlando we went.  Three generations.  My parents (who I love dearly and who introduced me to the world of Disney),  my three daughters , aged 12, 6 and 1 at the time, my husband and myself.

Being a mom experiencing Disney not only for myself, but through my daughters eyes, well, that’s amazing . To see your eldest’s face, a serious girl, not what you would typically call a Disney princess or fan, change in wonder, I mean, it was so heart warming.  Seeing the amazement, the aw, the magic engulfing this serious and slightly cynical girl (at 12, yeah!!!).  That in its self was worth it.  But, add to that the amazement and pure love and happiness of my middle one (a real Disney princess) – priceless.

In 2013 we were back again, this time for my middle daughters 12th (same choice given, no question as to what the decision would be).  This time my little one (6 at the time) joined our passion.        

                    

What’s to come?

So, it’s 2017.  It’s been almost 4 years since our last visit .  🙁   But, the great news is that my youngest’s 12th is coming up, so I get to start planning our next visit (yeah).  Secret be told, I’ve been planning it for the past year (we are talking about January 2019 (D;)).  In effect I have a full itinerary ready.  Including park days, resorts, planned restaurants and pricing (approx.) for our 21 day stay (OMG I’m so excited).

But why Never too old for Disney?

Well, I’m not too young – in my 40’s (and that’s all you’ll be getting from me on that subject 🙁 ).   And the older I get the more passionate I get on the subject.  Yes, you read it right.  I may not be a Disney princess, but as far as I’m concerned, you’re:

NEVER TOO OLD FOR DISNEY

That’s me in a nutshell.  Disney is my passion and I wish to share that with you .  I will be writing about Disney World, the parks, rides, shows, restaurants. I will include recommendations (mine personally or shared items from different platforms I follow).  I will also write about the Universal Studios Resort, and Sea World, as they also share a special place in my heart . Obviously, smaller than Disney, dah!!!.   I will also share with you my plans, and the different platforms I used to help me plan my visits.   

That’s all for now.  I hope that you will join me on my journey, and would love to hear your question, feedback and more.

See ya’ll soon,

Park Mama