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Day 6 Trip Report✨ Our Magical Bonus Day! With no park tickets and a flight out at 7:40 PM, we initially planned a relax...
26/10/2024

Day 6 Trip Report

✨ Our Magical Bonus Day! With no park tickets and a flight out at 7:40 PM, we initially planned a relaxing day at Disney Springs and resort hopping. Well, fate had a different plan! 🎒 We bought our Christmas lounge fly at the parks two years ago and barely wore it, so we were surprised when the straps started ripping by the second day. I decided to ask the concierge if they could help—and they worked their magic! ✨ They called the Emporium at Magic Kingdom and agreed to exchange the bag. Mentioning we didn’t have park tickets, they loaded 1-day park hopper tickets for the girls and me. BONUS day!!! We pivoted and decided to hit up all 4 parks, doing something new at each. We only made it to 3 parks but it was still an unforgettable day!

Stats:
* Multi Pass Lightning Lanes: 0 🚫
* Steps Taken: 21.4K 🚶‍♂️
* Miles Covered: 8.9 🏃‍♀️
* Parks Visited: 3 🎢

Trip Report:
* 8:30 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast in the Club Lounge ☕🥐
* 9:15 AM: Boat to Magic Kingdom 🚤🏰
* 9:30 - 10:00 AM: Traded our Loungefly 🎒
* 10:30 AM: Carousel of Progress! 🎠
* 11:00 AM: Monorail to Epcot 🚝✨
* 11:30 - 1:30 PM: Visited all 11 Kidcot stations 🌍✈️
* 1:30 - 1:50 PM: Skyliner to Hollywood Studios 🚡🎥
* 2:00 - 4:30 PM: Explored A Galaxy’s Edge; Girls rode single rider Smugglers Run 4x; I did the MagicBand+ Bounty Hunter Quest (which I’ve never done) 🌌🚀
* 5:00 - 5:30 PM: Club Level Dinner 🍽️✨
* 5:30 - 6:00 PM: Ride to the Airport 🚗✈️
* 7:40 PM: Flight HOME! 🛫🏠

What a magical bonus day! 🌟🚀🎢

Day 4 Trip Report🌟 The Jamusakas’ Last Day Adventure! With one last must-do on their list—Remy at Epcot—we pivoted to ro...
24/10/2024

Day 4 Trip Report

🌟 The Jamusakas’ Last Day Adventure! With one last must-do on their list—Remy at Epcot—we pivoted to rope drop Remy before heading to Magic Kingdom for a day packed with magic!

Original Lightning Lanes:
1. Buzz Lightyear: 9:10 - 10:10 AM 🌌
2. Haunted Mansion: 10:10 - 11:10 AM 👻
3. Tiana’s Bayou: 12:10 - 1:10 PM 🐸

Stats:
* Multi Pass Lightning Lanes: 6 🔥
* Time Saved with Lightning Lanes: 215 minutes ⏳
* Steps Taken: 28.2K 🚶‍♂️
* Miles Covered: 12 🏃‍♀️
* Parks Visited: 4 (Epcot 2x)🎢

Trip Report:
* 7:45 - 8:15 AM: Early Entry line at Epcot 🌅
* 8:15 AM: Remy (Walk-on; Posted Wait at 8:30 AM: 60 min) 🐭
* 8:30 - 9:00 AM: Walked to Beach Club and took a bus to Magic Kingdom 🚍🏰
* 9:10 AM: Buzz Lightyear (Posted Wait: 20 min; LL Wait 5 min; Booked Space Mountain 12 - 1 PM; Modified Haunted Mansion for Rock n Roller Coaster)—Raffi got GALACTIC HERO! 🌟
* 9:30 AM: People Mover (walked on) 🚀
* 10:00 AM: Enchanted Tales with Belle (Posted Wait: 15 min; Actual Wait: 15 min) 🌹
* 10:45 AM: Sleepy Hollow Chicken and Waffles! 🍗
* 11:15 - 12 PM: Seven Dwarfs Mine Train (Posted Wait: 30 min; Actual Wait: 40 min) 🌋
* 12:15 PM: Tiana’s Bayou (Guesstimate for Standby Wait: 60 min; LL Wait 5 min; Booked Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railroad) 🐸
* 1:40 PM: Space Mountain (Posted Wait: 45 min; LL Wait 5 min; Booked Smugglers Run) 🌌
* 2:00 - 5:30 PM: Check-in at Wilderness Lodge Club Level and enjoyed the lounge! 🏕️✨
* 6:50 PM: Rock n Roller Coaster (Posted Wait: 60 min; LL Wait 10 min) 🎸
* 7:25 PM: Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railroad (Posted Wait: 50 min; LL Wait 10 min) 🚂
* 8:10 PM: Smugglers Run (Posted Wait: 25 min; LL Wait 5 min) 🚀
* 8:35 PM: Toy Story Mania (Posted Wait: 15 min; Standby Wait 5 min) 🎯
* 8:45 - 9:15 PM: Bus to Epcot for the Extended Evening Theme Park Hours for Deluxe Resort Guests (9 - 11 PM) 🚍✨
* 9:00 - 11:00 PM: Lines averaged 30-40 min wait, which is below average, but we still didn’t feel like waiting. 🎢
* 9:50 PM: Girls ended up pin trading with people parked outside the Pin Traders and collected some GREAT pins! 📍✨

A fantastic conclusion to an unforgettable day! 🌟🚀

Day 3 Trip Report🎢 Rope drop is always the way to go! We opted not to purchase the Flight of Passage Single Pass, so we ...
23/10/2024

Day 3 Trip Report

🎢 Rope drop is always the way to go! We opted not to purchase the Flight of Passage Single Pass, so we had to put our morning game face on! The park opened at 7:30 AM for Early Resort Guest Entry, so we aimed to be at the park by 6:45 AM and were one of the first in line. They let individuals in around 7:15 AM—arriving early pays off!

Original Lightning Lanes:
1. Navi: 8:05 - 9:05 AM 🌿
2. Kilimanjaro Safari: 9:05 - 10:05 AM 🦒
3. Expedition Everest: 9:45 - 10:45 AM 🏔️

Stats:
* Multi Pass Lightning Lanes: 7 🔥
* Time Saved with Lightning Lanes: 205 minutes ⏳
* Steps Taken: 25.9K 🚶‍♂️
* Miles Covered: 10.81 🏃‍♀️
* Parks Visited: 2 🎢

Trip Report:
* 7:30 AM: Flight Of Passage (Walked-on; when we got off the ride, it was a 90-minute standby wait) 🐉
* 8:00 AM: Navi (Posted Wait: 15 min; LL Wait: 5 min; Booked DINOSAUR 10:35-11:35 AM) 🌿
* 9:00 AM: Kilimanjaro Safari (Posted Wait: 55 min; LL Wait: 5 min; Booked Peter Pan 7:20-8:30 PM) 🦒
* 9:45 AM: Expedition Everest (Posted Wait: 20 min; LL Wait 5 min; Booked Big Thunder Mountain 6:35-7:35 PM) 🏔️
* 10:30 AM: DINOSAUR (Posted Wait: 30 min; LL Wait 5 min) 🦖
* 12 - 4 PM: Pool & rest 🏊‍♂️
* 4:30 PM: Guardians of the Galaxy Virtual Queue (Standby Wait: 45 min—our longest wait) 🌌
* 5:30 - 7:00 PM: Food & Wine Festival, ate around the world! 🌍🍽️
* 7:00-7:45 PM: Roasted FREE marshmallows by Beach Club fire pit 🔥
* 7:45-8:15 PM: Bus to Magic Kingdom (from Beach Club) 🚌✨
* 8:30 PM: Happily Ever After Fireworks at Magic Kingdom 🎆💫
* 9:15 PM: Space Mountain (Posted Wait: 45 min; LL Wait 10 min) 🌌
* 9:45 PM: Peter Pan (Posted Wait: 45 min; LL Wait 5 min—scanned in 2 hours late; no issues) 🧚‍♂️
* 10:00 PM: it’s a small world (Walked-on) 🌍
* 10:15-10:35 PM: Rapunzel Lantern Photopass shot! Worth the wait! 🎈📸
* 10:45 PM: Big Thunder Mountain (Posted Wait: 35 min; LL Wait 5 min; scanned 3 hours late, explained our issues to a cast member who graciously let us on) 🌄
* 10:59 PM: Ran to Seven Dwarfs Mine Train to jump into line before the park closed, but it was a 45-minute wait, and my inner-Dirk kicked in—we decided to leave the park. 🧙‍♂️

Day 1 Trip Report🌪️ Despite Hurricane Milton pushing our trip back by 2 days, we made the most of every moment! 🍋Origina...
22/10/2024

Day 1 Trip Report
🌪️ Despite Hurricane Milton pushing our trip back by 2 days, we made the most of every moment! 🍋

Original Lightning Lanes:
1. Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin: 11:40 - 12:40 PM 🚀
2. Haunted Mansion: 12:35 PM - 1:35 PM 👻
3. Tiana’s Bayou: 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM 🐸

Stats:
* Multi Pass Lightning Lanes: 6 🔥
* Time Saved with Lightning Lanes: 185 minutes ⏳
* Steps Taken: 22.4K 🚶‍♂️
* Miles Covered: 9.3 🏃‍♀️
* Parks Visited: 3 🎢

Trip Report:
* 7:00 AM - 9:20 AM: Dropped off by “Daddy Uber” and caught the sunrise from the air ✈️ on our flight to Orlando
* 10:20 AM: Arrived at Boardwalk Hotel, headed straight to Magic Kingdom! 🏰
* 11:10 AM: Mickey’s Meet and Greet (Standby 10 min wait) 🐭
* 11:45 AM: Buzz Lightyear (Standby 20 min wait, LL 5 min wait; Booked Space Mountain 12-1 PM) 🌌
* 11:55 AM: Space Mountain (Standby 25 min wait, LL 10 min wait; Booked Big Thunder Mountain 1:35-2:35 PM) 🪐
* 12:20 PM: Tron (LL Single Pass 10 min wait) ⚡
* 2:00 PM: Tiana’s Bayou (LL 10 min wait; Best guess for Virtual Queue wait ~ 45 minutes; Booked Navi for Park Hop) 🌿
* 2:30 PM: Big Thunder Mountain (Standby 50 min wait, LL 10 min wait) 🌄
* 3:00 PM: Haunted Mansion (45 min standby wait, LL 5 min wait; scanned in 1.5 hours late with no issue) 🏚️
* 4:00 PM: Monorail to Epcot—we had every intention of stopping by the hotel but needed to get to our dining reservation! 🚝 Virtual Queue 10 min wait for Guardians of the Galaxy (Booked at 7 AM) 🌌
* 6:00 PM: Tiffins Reservation (delicious food!) 🍽️
* 8:00 PM: Navi (Standby 45 min wait, LL 5 min wait) 🌍

* 8 - 11 PM: Extended Evening Hours for Deluxe Guests 🌠
* 9:00 PM: Meet Favorite Disney Pals at Adventures Outpost (walk-on) 👫
* 9:30 PM: Expedition Everest (walk-on) 🏔️
* 10:15 PM: Flight of Passage (walk-on; debated for 5 minutes if we should go again, but realized we’ve been up since 5 AM and should call it a night) 🛌 This is what happens when Daddy doesn’t come on our trip!!

We made every moment count, and despite the unexpected delay, our Disney adventure was truly magical! 🎢✨

16/10/2024

Just experienced the most enchanting evening from our balcony at Wilderness Lodge! 🏞️ Watching the Magic Kingdom fireworks light up the sky was absolutely breathtaking. 🎆✨

To top it off, it's just a convenient boat ride away to the heart of Magic Kingdom, making it easy to dive back into the park magic whenever we want. 🚤🏰

Feeling incredibly grateful for this unforgettable moment. 💖

🌟 **Day 2 Trip Report** 🌟 Another epic day in the books!🌞 **Early Entry**- 8:30 AM: Early Morning Hour start, arrived at...
13/10/2024

🌟 **Day 2 Trip Report** 🌟 Another epic day in the books!

🌞 **Early Entry**
- 8:30 AM: Early Morning Hour start, arrived at 7:55 AM, let in at 8:00 AM
- 8:20 AM: Rise of Resistance (walk on)
- 8:40 AM: Smugglers Run (posted wait: 5 min wait)
- 9:00 AM: Toy Story Mania (posted wait: 5 min wait)
- 9:10 AM: Toy Story Mania (LL: 5 min wait)

🎢 **Mid-Morning Thrills**
- 10:30 AM: Tower of Terror (posted wait: 45 min wait, actual standby wait: 15 min wait)

🍴 **Lunch Break**
- 11:30 AM: Docking Bay 7
- 12:15 PM: Oga’s Cantina

🚀 **Afternoon Adventures**
- 1:10 PM: Smugglers Run (posted wait: 35 min wait, LL: 5 min wait)
- 1:30 PM: Slinky Dog Dash (LL from original 3 LL)
- 2:00 PM: Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster (posted wait: 45 min wait, LL: 5 min wait)
- 2:30 PM: Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway (posted wait: 50 min wait, LL: 10 min wait)

🏊 **Hotel/Pool Break**
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM

🌌 **Evening Delights**
- 5:30 PM: Space 220 Lounge
- 7:00 PM: Finding Nemo (walk on: 5 min wait)
- 7:20 PM: Spaceship Earth (got stuck for 20 min)
- 8:00 PM: Soarin’ (posted wait: 15 min wait, walk on with LL)
- 8:40 PM: Frozen (posted wait: 30 min wait, LL: 5 min wait)

🎆 **Nightcap**
- 9:00 PM: Fireworks

Total 7 Lightning Lanes for tier 1 or highly popular tier 2 attractions, thanks to tapping early and modifying immediately. Busy but fruitful day!

Living the dream, one magical moment at a time! ✨

✨NEW EXPERIENCES COMING TO   I’m most excited about the first ever suspended coaster in the new Monsters Inc Land coming...
13/08/2024

✨NEW EXPERIENCES COMING TO

I’m most excited about the first ever suspended coaster in the new Monsters Inc Land coming to Hollywood Studios!

What are you most excited about?!?! Drop a line and let’s start planning your next Disney trip!

The food!!! Nothing short of food on the   I’m on a detox at the moment. My body doesn’t know what to do without my 3 co...
26/07/2024

The food!!! Nothing short of food on the I’m on a detox at the moment. My body doesn’t know what to do without my 3 course meals! What do you mean I don’t have dessert after every meal?

The Mickey Churros were to die for! My daughter had steak every night! I miss my made to order omelets every morning.

We are looking forward to our family vacation on the next January 2025!

Planning for backpacking on the   in Hawaii was surprisingly similar to planning for Disney.  An extra bonus is that my ...
13/07/2024

Planning for backpacking on the in Hawaii was surprisingly similar to planning for Disney. An extra bonus is that my husband did the heavy lifting.

📆 Permits secured 3 months in advance at 5am (midnight Hawaii time) - similar to booking dining reservations 2 months in advance at 6am!

⛺️Gear carefully selected and obtained; items weighed to the oz - similar to preselecting matching outfits to ears!

🥨 Food calculated for optimal calorie density - similar to all the yummy snack vendors we carefully mapped out…. It just so happens that lots of the Disney snacks pack on those calories

👟Walked 11 mile days - while I can easy do 11-15 mile days at Disney, this trail is a whole other ballpark! 1 mile on this hike equated to about 5-10 normal miles.

Not to mention the feeling you can plunge down the cliff to your death at any given moment. There is a 1-2 mile stretch called “crawlers ledge” and the name tells it all.

📸 We made amazing memories! - of course this always happens at Disney as well

💣Right when you think you know how to do Disney, they change things up!  Genie+ is being replaced by Lightning Lane Mult...
04/07/2024

💣Right when you think you know how to do Disney, they change things up!
Genie+ is being replaced by Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass on July 24!

New Changes = New Strategies for saving time in line!

Scroll through to learn more about the changes and how this will affect your future Walt Disney World vacation.

When you miss  , just make your own   shots!     Real life Crush!
10/06/2024

When you miss , just make your own shots!

Real life Crush!

24/05/2024

When your mom is a Disney/Universal travel planner and you reap the benefits from family trips for “hands on experience” in Orlando! She came home with this poem and it brought a smile to my face. I’m adding my personal mom decoder!

Great seeing the   in San Diego even if I wasn’t sailing on it.   Disney Wonder was the second ship to join the Disney F...
29/04/2024

Great seeing the in San Diego even if I wasn’t sailing on it. Disney Wonder was the second ship to join the Disney Fleet back in 1999 as they embarked into the cruising business and demonstrated time and time again how the Disney Magic is real.

🚢 Sailings in Australia, Honolulu, Alaska depending on the time of year.
🤞Hoping to book an Alaskan Cruise for my family soon ! I book Disney cruises and other cruise lines as well!

See you soon Disney Wonder!!!

I feel lucky to combine my love of travel and planning into a second profession.  I had a great time catching up with fe...
07/04/2024

I feel lucky to combine my love of travel and planning into a second profession. I had a great time catching up with fellow Mouse Counselors at our local Universal Regional training and met our BDM Amanda.

I love training and staying up to date on all the changes (especially the new Universal Epic theme park coming in 2025) to bring the best experiences to you! Not to mention first hand experience!

Heading to Universal in May for my youngest daughter’s Mommy Companion Pass trip 2024!!

Follow along for more updates and find my client intake form in my bio if you are interested in getting started on planning your next trip.

It pays to read the fine print!  Happy to find that Valentine’s Day is one of 4 days to offer a free alcoholic beverage ...
14/02/2024

It pays to read the fine print! Happy to find that Valentine’s Day is one of 4 days to offer a free alcoholic beverage on all Southwest flights! Enjoying my complimentary margarita 30k miles up in the air!

Disneyland here we come! First of four “Mommy Companion Pass Tour” stops!

Disney just released two amazing promotions for the new year, if you've been on the fence about booking a trip, now is t...
04/01/2024

Disney just released two amazing promotions for the new year, if you've been on the fence about booking a trip, now is the perfect time to take advantage of these two promotions without all the stress and hassle of planning. Leverage my expertise to maximize your time for a seamless magical vacation.

1️⃣FREE Dining is back!
For arrivals most nights from July 1 to September 30, Disney+ Subscribers enjoy a FREE dining plan when you purchase a non discounted 4-night, 4-day Walt Disney Travel Company package that includes a room at select Disney Resort hotel and a theme park ticket with a Park Hopper option.

Indulge in all the amazing food at Disney.

2️⃣Save up to 35% on Rooms at Select Disney Resort Hotels
Offer is valid for stays most nights from July 8 to October 3, 2024 and March 25 to July 7, 2024.

Why not save more?

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Would anyone like to take a guess as to where this use to be?  Bonus question, what attraction took over? Also, can I ad...
28/12/2023

Would anyone like to take a guess as to where this use to be? Bonus question, what attraction took over? Also, can I add that I was ahead of the fashion curve with my Fannie pack. You can call it a “belt bag” or “hip pouch” all you want, but we all know what it really is.

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