Getaway Gal- Britt Payton

06/24/2022

🏰 Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party is back! 🎄🎅

The parties will be held on select nights November 8 - December 22.

Tickets go on sale June 30 for onsite guests and July 7 for everybody else.

The cost this year is $149-199/person.

04/28/2022

🚨 breaking news 🚨

Fan- favorite returning this fall 🎃 👻 🏰 - MICKEYS NOT SO SCARY HALLOWEEN PARTY (an absolute fave in our house).
🎃This epic party 🎉 will feature the Sanderson sisters 🧙🏼🧙🏼🧙🏼, devilish decorations, villains, fireworks 🎇 , stage shows and the amazing parades!
🎃The castle 🏰 will be lit in a themed glow with an array of ghoulish lighting and music! 👻🎇
🎃In honor of the 50th anniversary celebration 💫, there is sure to be extra tricks and treats in store!!

The dates are set for August 12th- October 31st.
Tickets go on sale May 18th.

If you are ready to book your Halloween trip, let’s talk! It’s free to use my service (that’s right DISNEY PAYS ME) and I’m here to help ease all the stress and hassle of planning. 💁🏼‍♀️🏰🖤💫

04/28/2022

Ummmm okkk! We see you Elon! 👀😂

All joking aside we have news about one of these items coming up at 10am! Stay tuned!

04/19/2022

🚨 Lots of news to share for this week:: 🚨

💫 As of yesterday, meet and greets officially began returning. Hugs, high fives, and autographs are now back with some of your faves!
💫 NEW DISCOUNT dropped for Disney Visa card members for stays most nights August 28 through Sept. 19, 2022!
💫 TSA is no longer enforcing mask on public transportation and their hubs- including air travel!!!

Be sure you are following 👍🏽 along, there’s sure to be more great news 📰 coming through the year!

☀️If you are thinking about a trip ➡️ I would love to help ease the stress and hassle of booking and planning & it’s free to use our service (Disney pays us 😉😍😇) -

(Side note: we also book Universal Studios, Sandals, RIU, Carnival, Royal Caribbean and soooo much more. So if you’re just wanting to plan a tropical trip, cruise or some other vacation destination, we would love to be there for you)
🏝🚢🏨🏔

Your Getaway Gals! 👯‍♀️✈️🧳🏰
B & A

04/05/2022

Applying discounts to already booked trips and ready to take on your trip with this awesome discount!!!

Make sure you get in on this deal!!!

Message me if you’re ready to book!
🏰🧳💫❤️🖤🐭

Are you a Disney+ subscriber? For the first time, you can save on a Walt Disney World Resort stay select nights July 8-Sept. 30, 2022! ✨ 🏰 Read more: http://spr.ly/6184Kxt8y

03/31/2022

April 18th is the day that character hugs and close up meet and greets return in phases!!!

This has been highly anticipated and is super exciting!!!! 🏰💫❤️🐭

If you’re thinking of going to Disney, I would love to help you plan! I’ll plan out all the details, and all you have to do is get excited! Message me and we will get right to it! 📧📱🧳

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2022/03/disney-character-greetings-returning-to-u-s-sites-this-spring/?fbclid=IwAR0J9OGjcKb9e5dDCh8IcYe1APjv7Dn583sBhrg5QeYokK4tJvOrh6Wi-2o #

As early as April 18, we will start reintroducing traditional character greetings at Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts, as well as aboard Disney Cruise Line and at Aulani Resort in Hawaii.

03/31/2022

The EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival presented by CORKCICLE returns to Walt Disney World Resort July 14th through Nov. 19th. 🌶🥖🧀🥘🧆🥗🫔🍷🥂🍾

The best team of Disney chefs, mixologists and sommeliers have been testing, tasting and collaborating to create an array of culinary delicates. Prepare the taste buds to go on an epic journey to discovering new concepts and menu items at more than 25 Global Marketplaces located throughout EPCOT. 🤤😋

There are some returning favorites that will include The Swanky Saucy Swine, Appleseed Orchard, Hops & Barley, Earth Eats hosted by Impossible and Shimmering Sips hosted by CORKCICLE. Some Global Marketplaces will open later to keep the tasty 4-month event spicy.

Also returning, The Eat to the Beat Concert Series presented by Florida Blue Medicare returns this year with internationally recognized artists as well as local bands offering fun tunes on the America Gardens Theatre stage!
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Stay tuned for more details as they release!!! 📰 🚨

03/24/2022

🚨 Minnie Vans will return to Walt Disney World this summer!

I don’t have very many details, including an official start date. As always, I will keep you in the loop.

03/05/2022

A 30th spent at Disney’s 50th is sure to be EPICCC!!!!! So excited for my client! 🙌🏽☀️✈️🏰🧳

03/04/2022

Spring 2022 is upon us- the beach is calling our names!!!! ✈️ 🏝👙🍹
☀️ ton of destination options and some amazing weekly deals!
☀️Book air and stay
☀️Each destination has multiple restaurants, pools, excursions, amenities, activities and it’s guaranteed fun!

📅 Book your all-inclusive trip to a RIU destination with me!

01/08/2022

Running from Jan. 14 through Feb. 21, 2022 – 🎭 🖼 🎨
The festival, which is featured in the midst of the 18-month-long Walt Disney World Resort 5️⃣0️⃣th Anniversary Celebration, will showcase visual, culinary and performing arts from across the world. ✨For 2022, the chefs and mixologists have crafted items that aren’t just delicious, but truly works of art.

If you’re a food lover like me, these beautiful treats will be interesting to you too!

Also releasing is the new popcorn bucket, Figment!!!! (There may or may not have a been a squeal when I found this out 🙌🏽😬😍)

08/19/2021

🤭🥰😍🙌🏽 this is BIGGG!!!

We’re almost ready to let Disney Genie out of the lamp! Coming this fall to Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort, Disney Genie is a complimentary and convenient new digital service designed to create your best Disney day.

08/13/2021

😱😱😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🎄🎅⛄️🏰

08/10/2021

From Aug. 10 to Oct. 31, 2021, the fall season is in full swing on Main Street, U.S.A. at Magic Kingdom! 🍁🎃👻🏰

08/08/2021

Magic Kingdom is a whole mood this am!!!!!
🎃👻🏰

07/15/2021

Fireworks last night at MK!!!! 🎇 🏰 🎆

This makes me soooooo happy!!!!! ☺️🙃🥰

07/14/2021

Fireworks Cruises Are Back! 🎆 🚢 🎇

Drop anchor for world-class fireworks during an ever-enchanting nighttime cruise!
Fun for all ages, nighttime cruises provide the perfect opportunity to watch Happily Ever After or Epcot Forever right from the water. These brilliant fireworks spectaculars add an amazing wow factor to your cruise!
From the comfort of a chartered boat, your party will set sail for International Gateway near World Showcase Lagoon to watch the skies light up over Epcot. Or, embark on the waters of Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake cruises to Magic Kingdom park—with synchronized audio onboard to fully immerse you in the moment. It’s an incredible finale to the festivities!
Departure Locations

What’s Included:
Each cruise is accompanied by a captain, and includes assorted snacks and soft drinks. Festive banners and balloons are also included in the cost—and can be requested at the time of booking.

Pricing:
Enjoy a fireworks cruise aboard a 25-foot boat starting at $399 plus tax. This boat seats up to 10 Guests. Pricing may vary based on time of day and is subject to change.

07/01/2021

✨Early Admission, Extended Evening Hours, AND Dining?!🎢🍽

Keep Reading for the Details 🗞

EARLY ENTRY- on Oct. 1, Disney will be rolling out a new early theme park entry benefit for Disney Resort hotel guests and guests of other select hotels, giving them the first chance to enjoy select attractions at EVERY theme park, EVERY day. These guests will also be among the first each day to see the dazzling decorations and EARidescent excitement. Guests will need a valid ticket or pass and a theme park reservation for the same park on the same date for early theme park entry.

EXTENDED EVENING HOURS- guests staying at one of the Deluxe or Deluxe Villa Disney Resort hotels will also be able to enjoy extended evening hours on select nights in select theme parks. Extended evening hours will begin in early October with specific dates and parks to be shared at a later time. Please note that guests will need a valid ticket or pass and a theme park reservation for the same park on the same day to experience extended evening hours. Or, guests may visit with a ticket or Annual Pass with the Park Hopper option as long as they entered their first park where they made their reservation earlier in the day.

DINING- straight from Disney: “While we’re not quite ready to share an update on timing, we are planning to bring this guest-favorite option back at a later date. We will also continue to reopen more Resort offerings, including restaurants like ‘Ohana (with the noodles!).”

06/22/2021

Fresh new deets about the 50th anniversary celebration coming up October 1st.

06/17/2021

The gates have officially parted! 🔑

✨Disneyland Paris reopens today ushering in new magic with Cars ROAD TRIP
✨the June 21 opening of Disney’s Hotel New York ✨The Art of Marvel at Disneyland Paris
✨anticipated debut of Disney Junior Dream Factory.

Welcome back! 🏰🌹✨

06/16/2021

Anyone else??? Or just me??? ESP A DISNEY TRIP! 🤣🤣

06/15/2021

Tickets are officially on sale to the public!!! 🎃 🏰 🎃

06/11/2021

🚨 As promised, here is the BIG NEWS 🚨

My Disney bestie and I have launched our new, concierge level service, travel agency! 🧳 📅 ✈️

This took a lot of prayer 🙏🏼 and consideration, but ultimately we made the personal and professional decisions to terminate our contracted services with our previous company. We are so excited to bring more adventures for you, your family, and friends

We understand that travel is much more than just theme parks, so we have already registered with multiple suppliers to bring you more adventure!

These include:
✨Sandals and Beaches
✨RIU
✨Carnival
✨Royal Caribbean
✨Celebrity
✨Expedia
✨VRBO
✨and MANY MORE!

➡️Don't worry, we are also, OFFICALLY (as of this week) 🏰Authorized Disney and Universal🏰 agents!

These options allow us to offer you a higher level of service and meet ALL of your travel needs! Here are just a few new offerings for our VIT’s (Very Important Travelers):
• Dedicated Client Portal to see real time information for all of your trips booked, including secure credit card payment portals, resort & flight information, plus bucket list future planning!•Exclusive partner discounts and offerings to bring more value to your trips
• We are experienced agents and have been certified in everything we offer
•Our exclusive Facebook groups which will have all of the great content we were providing previously, plus SO MUCH MORE!!!

➡️What does this mean for booked clients? Any clients that are booked under the Smart Moms Travel agency will still be serviced by us under the previous brand (including their swag, etc.). For newly booked trips, you will be under the new agency (and exploring those amazing client portals), and get our new agency swag.

We could not be more thrilled for this new chapter and journey.
Sooo without further ado,

WELCOME TO GETAWAY GALS TRAVEL!

With all our love,
Britt and Amanda

06/11/2021

It’s still time for to bring on the bold and get back to deeper discoveries. You need to make up for lost downtime ! With Royal Caribbean, cruises from the U.S. are back starting this July, and right now you can enjoy this incredible deal on adventure.

Here’s the details!

🚢 THE WAIT IS OVER
You’ll enjoy up to $450 off when booking a cruise departing on or after July 10, 2021.

👯‍♀️ BRING A BUDDY
You’ll save 60% off your second guest.

✨ DOUBLE POINTS
Valued Crown & Anchor Society members will earn double points toward their status.

⚓️CRUISE WITH CONFIDENCE
You will appreciate the reassurance that you can cancel your cruise vacation up to 48-hours prior to the sail date in exchange for a Future Cruise Credit, as well as the ability to take advantage of the Best Price Guarantee.

06/08/2021

🏰 Disney Dining Updates! You WANT to read this! 🍽

✨ ‘Ohana, Tusker House, and Sebastian’s Bistro are all opening ✨

Here’s the official details:

Sebastian’s Bistro at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort (Opening June 24 with nightly walk-in availability through July 4; booking available June 10 for reservations starting July 5)

Disney Skyliner conveniently stops at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort, making it an easy (and fun!) trip for Guests to dine at Sebastian’s Bistro, which will reopen with delicious tastes of the Caribbean and a new family-style meal at dinner.

Sebastian’s signature buttery house-baked pull-apart rolls will get Guests started, and the entire table will enjoy the Taste of the Caribbean platter featuring oven-roasted citrus chicken, slow-cooked mojo pork with mango sambal, and grilled flank steak with mojito relish. This hearty platter comes with sides of cilantro rice and beans, vegetable curry, and grilled broccolini. Coconut shrimp can also be ordered as an add-on to the meal. The best part? Guests finish with the ultimate sweet treat – the popular coconut-pineapple bread pudding!


‘Ohana at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort (Opening July 9; booking available June 10)

With the backdrop of tropical greenery, ‘Ohana will again offer their fabulous all-you-care-to-enjoy breakfast and dinner offerings when they reopen. Although Disney characters will not be hosting breakfast, a strolling musician will entertain Guests for dinner.

For breakfast, Guests can start with pineapple-coconut breakfast bread, move on to Stitch and Mickey Mouse waffles, then dig into “eggs”cellent breakfast skillets with ham, sausage, and breakfast potatoes.

The ‘Ohana dinner features all-you-care-to-enjoy platters of grilled beef steak, roasted chicken, sausage, and island shrimp casserole served with fried rice and roasted broccolini. And yes, ‘Ohana pot stickers, crispy soy chicken wings, and the signature ‘Ohana bread pudding served warm with caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream are back! Yippee!

Tusker House Restaurant, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park (Opening June 20; booking now available)

Donald Duck and his Disney friends are welcoming Guests back to this lively Harambe marketplace. At Tusker House Restaurant, Guests can graze on a bountiful family-style menu brimming with African-inspired flavors while snapping photos of favorite Disney characters. For breakfast, Guests can start their adventure with Mickey and Simba waffles, Durban chicken and egg curry with jasmine rice, and much more. Lunch and dinner offerings include Moroccan-spiced beef, Berber-marinated pork, spit-roasted herb chicken, and Cape Malay green curry shrimp.

Here are additional quick-service locations at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park now open:

Terra Treats (serving pizza slices)
Isle of Java (serving fresh-brewed espresso, cappuccino, and sweet treats)
Trilo-Bites (service DOLE Whip orange)
Drinkwallah Snacks & Frozen Beverages

BoardWalk Ice Cream Shop, Disney’s BoardWalk

Craving a frozen sweet treat? Guests can take a stroll around Crescent Lake on Disney’s BoardWalk and visit BoardWalk Ice Cream Shop. Featuring scoops and sundaes to go, Guests can satisfy their craving with a good old-fashioned sundae plus brownie and strawberry splash shortcake a la modes, and of course, the kid-favorite, Mickey Mouse Sundaes!

06/08/2021

Special Early Booking Starts Today for Disney After Hours Boo Bash! 🎃🦇👻


A Ghostly Good Time at Magic Kingdom® Park
Something fun is brewing during your stay: Disney After Hours Boo Bash!, a hauntingly fun-filled three-hour event that begins when the Park closes. With Halloween-theme cavalcades and Character sightings, the ghouls are coming out to play!

As a Disney Resort hotel Guest, starting June 8 you have early access to book before tickets go on sale to the general public June 15!

🦇 Cavalcades and Character sightings throughout the Park!

🎃Trick-or-treating and complimentary snacks!

👻Fewer people and lower wait times for favorite attractions!

05/31/2021

Tickets go on sale in June!!!!

If you’re interested in a trip or maybe just tickets for boo bash, let’s do this! I’ll be so happy to help you plan!

05/28/2021

And they are bringing back the Fourth of July fireworks 🎇 display at Universal!!!! 🎢 🏰 😷 🚫

Will Disney 🏰 be next ⁉️⁉️ 🤔🤨

be sure to stay tuned, I’ll drop all the news as I get the news!!!!

✨Also, big things coming soon for Payton’s Plan Magic, soooo keep your eyes 👀 peeled for those deets! ✨