Claire Wessels Travel

23/10/2024

New portals to next-level experiences opening May 2025 @ Universal Orlando’s EPIC UNIVERSE and Helios hotel!!!
✨Celestial Park
🍄Super Mario World
😈Dark Universe
🧙‍♀️The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Ministry of Magic
⛰️How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk

Packages now available! Contact me to get started - my services are free with every booking. 🤩

17/10/2024

Milestone birthday means a milestone trip! Disney Very Merrytime Cruise, here we come!! 🎄

14/10/2024

Slip a Walt Disney World vacation under your Christmas tree this year with ease by booking with an Academy Travel Agent! 🎅🏻✨We can help you make a Christmas morning memory you'll never forget! Tap HERE to get started & take advantage of 25% off select hotel rooms in 2025! 🙌🏻 🎁 https://apps.itams.com/AcademyCRM/form/waltdisney/AT

08/10/2024

Let us help you book your next dream vacation! There’s no question that your next vacation should be booked by one of our Academy Travel agents! Whether it’s booking your magical stay at Walt Disney World to planning an epic...Read More

31/07/2024

🏰 Prepare for Magic: Epic Universe's Ministry of Magic Revealed! 🧙‍♀️✨

Attention wizards and muggles! Universal Orlando's Epic Universe is bringing The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Ministry of Magic to life in 2025! 🎉

Highlights:

• Stroll through 1920s Paris in Place Cachée

• Witness magical beasts at Le Cirque Arcanus™

• Dine at charming French cafés

• Shop for wands and cast interactive spells

• Take a thrilling ride: Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry™

From jazz-age Paris to the British Ministry of Magic, immerse yourself in the wizarding world like never before. Join Harry and friends on an urgent mission to stop Dolores Umbridge™!

Video: https://youtu.be/IAI67O_MCoE?si=WK3hD7lYoEMLHg0U

Stay tuned for more magical details as we approach the grand opening!

Explore the wonders of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™ - Ministry of Magic™, one of five amazing worlds coming to Universal Epic Universe, opening 2025 ...

26/06/2024

🚨Genie has changed again…for the better!! To summarize, think of it kinda like if Genie+ and FastPass+ had a cute baby. 🧞‍♂️🎟️🤷🏼‍♀️

Get all the details here…
OR, hire me (I’m free!!) to guide you through the entire process of booking a Disney vacation! Think of me as your own personal concierge - lightning lane and so much more…like dining, tips and tricks, choosing the best resort, budgeting, extras, itinerary and touring plans — and so much more!!

Beginning July 24, Walt Disney World guests can plan in advance with Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass 📲: http://di.sn/6001glsuP

26/06/2024

Fans of the famous Ohana noods: Run, don’t walk, to Target for this Japanese BBQ sauce…it tastes EXACTLY like the sauce on the viral homemade ones you can get at the Polynesian! IYKYK 😋🌺

Grab a package of ramen, chuck the seasoning packet and just cook the noodles. Then drizzle some of this sauce with a little bit of pineapple juice onto the hot noodles, and voila! So delicious!! 🤤

25/06/2024

🎢 Universal Orlando: More Thrills, Less Bills! 🌟

Epic adventure awaits! Buy 3 days, get 2 FREE at Universal Orlando Resort. Choose 2 or 3 parks and enjoy until 4/16/25. Experience Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, and Volcano Bay (3-park option). Don't miss DreamWorks Land, Hogwarts Always, and more - all now open! Ready to make memories? Contact me for your Universal tickets or vacation package!



*Pricing and terms subject to change.

06/05/2024

Happy Check-in day to another CWT family!

I hope they enjoy my personal favorite: Disney's Beach Club Resort - a charming, New England-style resort hotel in Disney's Boardwalk area. This deluxe-level resort features exquisite dining, and the BEST pool on property: Stormalong Bay! Sharing many amenities with its more formal sister, Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, Disney’s Beach Club Resort is casually elegant and within walking distance to EPCOT and its the Skyliner station, and a convenient boat ride to Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Note: if you're planning to visit Disney next year, Stormalong Bay will be undergoing an extended refurbishment from January 2025 through June 2025.

04/05/2024

Today, we celebrate the Force with us all. Happy and !

30/01/2024

JUST ANNOUNCED: Five immersive worlds. One amazing theme park. Universal Epic Universe opens 2025 at Universal Orlando Resort.

✨ The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic
🐉 How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk
⚰️ Dark Universe
💫 Celestial Park
⭐️ Super Nintendo World

Some of the creative team behind Universal Epic Universe introduce details about this amazing new theme park, opening 2025 at Universal Orlando Resort. The f...

22/01/2024

Time for some fun! Since I just had a client experience my favorite ride for the first time - and LOVE it…let’s play the emoji guessing game!

(Mine will be the first comment!!)

17/01/2024

Another day, another certification! Did you know? I’ve stayed at 4 different Sandals resorts…Bahamas, St. Lucia, and 2 in Jamaica. I have lots of personal experience with the absolute best in class all-inclusive resort brand. 😎

Message me if you have Sandals (adult-only) or Beaches (families) on your bucket list!
☀️🩴🏖️

14/01/2024

This is why we are a , and why I do what I do. Couldn’t have said it better myself… 🥰

Being at Walt Disney World this week has caused me to think back to the first time my husband and I brought the girls to the resort. We had only been their foster parents for a few months when I had a conversation with the oldest child that sent a chill down my spine. Only nine years old, she looked into my eyes and, with sadness breaking through her voice, said “I don’t think I will ever feel joy.” She told me that living with us for the past few months had allowed her to feel safety, security and love but that she couldn’t imagine that she would ever know what it would feel like to experience joy. In that moment, watching a child I loved assume that joy was too far gone for her to grasp, I knew exactly what to do.
I booked a trip to the Walt Disney World Resort.
I made hotel and ticket reservations as fast as I could. I combed through the lists of rides in each of the theme parks and made a coordinating list of Disney films to have the girls “randomly” watch so that they would recognize characters that, at that time, were foreign to them. I stalked dining reservations until I finally secured breakfast with the princesses and booked two spots at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. Finally, one October evening with our video camera rolling, my husband and I handed them bags containing personalized t-shirts and Minnie Mouse ears and told them to put their shoes on because we had to catch the first flight of their young lives – to Walt Disney World.
The Magic Kingdom had the desired effect on my youngest daughter from the time we walked through the front gates. She looked like any other five year old girl experiencing Walt Disney World for the first time as she ran from ride to ride and gathered princess autographs. But my heart felt a little heavy as I watched our oldest daughter quietly walk down Main Street. I felt disappointed and silently chastised myself for believing that a theme park could be what brought this child the feeling of joy. She expressed gratefulness that we had brought her but she wasn’t overly animated or expressive as she watched the magic unfold around her.
What I didn’t know was that the magic wasn’t unfolding around her – it was unfolding inside of her.
I didn’t know it then, but joy was waiting for her when our log went flying down Splash Mountain. Joy was hiding behind the curtain that the princesses came out from; joy was in Elsa’s arms as she hugged her while cameras flashed. Joy was floating all around us when I leaned over to her during It’s A Small World and whispered that the ride looked the same as when I rode it as a little girl. Joy looked an awful lot like her first Mickey Mouse ice cream bar as it dripped down her hands. Joy chased her through Space Mountain and helped her score points with Buzz Lightyear’s help. Late that night, joy lit up the night sky much brighter than any fireworks ever could. As I watched her face in the glow of those fireworks I knew that, even if she didn’t know what word to assign to the emotion she was experiencing for the first time, I did.
After the fireworks ended, we made our way to the parking lot and took our place in line waiting for a bus back to our resort. We had been in line for a few minutes when I felt a tug at my shirt and turned to see her quietly crying next to me. I quickly bent down to her level and asked her what was wrong as I brushed the tears off her face only to hear her say words that made my heart soar:
“I think this is what joy must feel like.”
Critics might say that a parking lot is the unlikeliest of places for Disney magic to happen but they don’t know what you and I know – that the real magic of Disney isn’t found on Main Street or in a gift shop or even on any ride in the parks. The true magic of Disney is what happens inside of you when wonder and hope begin to take root and you start to believe that anything can happen with a little bit of magic.
Even joy.

03/01/2024

🚨Disney Promo Day!!🚨

Disney+ Subscribers: Enjoy a FREE dining plan when you purchase a nondiscounted minimum 4-night, 4-day Walt Disney Travel Company package that includes a room at a select Disney Resort hotel and a theme park ticket with a Park Hopper option—for arrivals most nights from July 1 to September 30, 2024.

02/01/2024

Happy New Year! Thanks to all of you and my wonderful clients, 2023 brought so much to be thankful for:

🎆Lots of Disney and Universal bookings.
🎆Added “the rest of the world” to my services - including cruises, all-inclusives, Europe, the Caribbean, and so much more!
🎆Became an Atlantis Ambassador.
🎆Met my booking goals thanks to my loyal clients, and their referrals!!

I look forward to all the trips and training in store for this year! 💕

31/12/2023

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Cheers to a fresh start! 💫 Celebrate the start of 2024 with new Disney Parks wallpapers now on the Disney Parks Blog for desktop, mobile and smartwatches! 🎆 ✨ bit.ly/3NFOx7y

31/12/2023

And with that the 2023 season comes to an end 😊 Looks like our Insiders especially love: room tours, giveaways, memes, Encanto, new rides & disney cruise line 🙌🏼 Stay connected with us in 2024…plenty of this + more being covered right here on TKI as well as on our website, in our newsletter and through social channel’s: Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and even LinkedIn. Happy New Year’s Eve 🎆🎊 Love, Kara, Kristin & Ashley