Erica Smith: Friend Like Me Travel Co.

04/09/2024

DREAMING OF MY NEXT DISNEY CRUISE 💭

Disney Destiny cruise Itineraries open for booking in just a couple of days!! Bookings will open Sept. 6 (Pearl Castaway) through Sept. 12 (First time sailors).

This BRAND NEW Disney Cruise Line ship will kick off its inaugural season NEXT November, Nov. 20, 2025 to be exact! It sets sail from Ft. Lauderdale and will visit one of, or both of, Disney’s private destinations.

The Disney Destiny will feature:

🦸 HERO & VILLAIN THEMING
🦁 LION KING DINNER SHOW
🕷️ MARVEL DINING EXPERIENCE
🏴‍☠️ PIRATE THEMED PUB
🍦 EDNA MODE THEMED SWEET SHOP
💪🏼 HERCULES STAGE SHOW
❄️ FROZEN STAGE SHOW
🐾 CRUELLA DE VIL PIANO BAR
👻 HAUNTED MANSION PARLOR
🍸 DR. STRANGE SANCTUM LOUNGE
And so much more!

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I’m a certified travel advisor who specializes in Disney destinations, Universal, and Cruise Line Vacations! If you are interested in planning a custom tailored vacation for your family then send me a message

30/08/2024

Every time I look at this photo I can’t help but laugh and smile! 😂😂

Fun Fact: I was breast pumping during this photo and my friend Taylor hilariously jumped in the photo with me so it was not noticeable!

I took this trip 7 months after my son was born. He was exclusively breastfed and I was 1,235 miles away from him for 4 days. That didn’t stop me from enjoying my Disneyland vacation but it did add another step of planning!

Mommas I’ve got all the tips and tricks for nursing and pumping in the parks! Having done both, I want to encourage you and help you plan!

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28/08/2024

While I LOVE (and specialize in) traveling with littles, I think everyone deserves a GIRLS TRIP!

Don’t listen to the people who say Disney Parks are only for kids. Some of my best trips have been adult only vacations.

Have you taken an adult only Disney vacation? If not, what’s stopping you?

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21/08/2024

Dreaming of the ✨HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH✨

YOU can too now that 2025 DISNEYLAND VACATION PACKAGES ARE OPEN!!

Disneyland Resort is so special and a MUST visit for Disney fans! Some reasons I love the Disneyland Resort include

🍦 SNACKS are superior at the west coast parks
🐭 CHARACTERS are free roaming and all over
🏰 2 PARKS that are walkable distance between them
🎡 DISNEY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE PARK (that’s it)
✨NOSTALGIA of walking where Walt walked
👑FANTASYLAND is enchanting and beautiful
🦸‍♀️AVENGERS CAMPUS and superheroes galore!

While my heart belongs to Walt Disney World Resort, I truly appreciate and love Disneyland Resort! It is nostalgic, timeless, and packed with fun in a small amount of square footage! This is what makes it perfect with those with younger travelers.

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18/08/2024

It’s been 2 years since I’ve been to the west coast for spooky season!!

I cannot wait to be back this year for Halloween week. I’m most looking forward to all the Halloween decorations in Cars Land, the Halloween snacks, and smelling gingerbread on Haunted Mansion Holiday!

🎃 When is your favorite time to visit Disneyland Resort? 👻

13/08/2024

Change is HARD!

So much change is coming to my favorite park and changing her in BIG ways. Anyone that knows me knows how much I am in mourning. Dr. Seeker, I’ll remember you forever 😔😢

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park is not the only park expecting lots of changes. The thumbprint of all US Disney parks are changing significantly by 2027. I’m expecting amazing lands and great attractions. I also know it will shake up my park rankings significantly.

With that said, I want to get in writing before all the change, what ranks the parks stand in for me in 2024!

1. Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park
2. Disney California Adventure Park
3. EPCOT
4. Disneyland Park
5. Disney’s Hollywood Studios
6. Magic Kingdom park

Let’s see how much this shakes up in the coming years! Though I am mourning some long time favorites, I’m so ready for fresh experiences!

10/08/2024

With Parks Panel tonight, I feel like we are all sitting on edge awaiting to hear the fate of the parks! There are so many solid predictions in the Disney community already. Here’s some of what I’m hoping for!

Magic Kingdom park
What is beyond Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. This blue sky expansion was previously teased and I’m hoping we get solidified (non blue sky) information on the expansion!

EPCOT
Honestly I feel like EPCOT needs lots of good news! The recent refurbs to Communicore Hall have not met expectations. I’d love to hear more on Test Track 3.0, that they are refurbishing Figment and bringing back DreamFinder. I’d even LOVE to have another attraction brought to the World Showcase.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios
The thing most of us want to know is what is happening with the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser building. I would love some character dining in Batuu or anything more accessible for the vast majority of families. I also have an inkling that MAYBE Disney has found a way to bring Marvel to the east coast parks and it just seems right that they would end up in this park.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park
What I want is for them to abandon alllllll plans of demolishing DinoLand USA but I know that will not happen. Instead I would just love to know what is to come for my favorite park.

30/07/2024

On the search for my fellow Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park lovers!

I feel very passionate about my favorite Disney theme park and I want nothing more than for other people to love it too!

If you are traveling with littles then here are things I especially love about it

🦒 Kilimanjaro Safari
🦁 Festival of the Lion King show
🐠 Finding Nemo: The Big Blue… and Beyond!
🦍 Various animal trails
🚩Wilderness Explorer activities
🖊️ Rafiki’s Planet Watch
🥘 Unique and large kids meal offerings

26/06/2024

QUICK guide on what I know of Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass after my webinar from Disney Parks on the topic!

Like and Save this post to reference as you prepare for your next trip!

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18/06/2024

Captain Mickey is calling!! You should answer it!

Disney Cruise Line has released itineraries through May 2026. Remember that booking the EARLIEST as possible gets you the most affordable rate. BONUS is that it also give you the most time to pay off your vacation!

🚨 Booking Windows are below ⬇️ 🚨
Pearl Castaway Club: June 24
Platinum Castaway Club: June 25
Golden Oak Members: June 25
Gold Castaway Club: June 26
Silver Castaway Club: June 27
Disney Vacation Club Owners: June 27
GENERAL PUBLIC (first time sailors): June 28

06/06/2024

Happy National Churro Day!

Unless they are churros from Nomad Lounge, I ONLY want my churros coming from the Disneyland Resort… please and thank you!

Do you agree? What are your favorite churros to get?

03/06/2024

Avengers Campus is one reason enough to hurry over to

So let me know, what’s your favorite thing in Avengers Campus? Mine would have to be Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout

30/05/2024

Today is Thursday which means it was podcast episode drop day!!

If you haven’t yet, you should follow our podcast, wherever you listen to podcasts! This podcast is a great tool to use in tangent to my travel agent services.

This week we talked all about the resort options at Walt Disney World Resort!

‎Show Mickey with Littles, Ep Ep13: Resort Tiers - May 30, 2024

30/05/2024

There’s so many new faces around here so I thought I’d say HIYA PALS!

My name is Erica. I am a mom of 1 (soon to be 2), a wife, and a lover of ALLLL things Disney! I have been going to Walt Disney World annually, sometimes two or three times a year, since I was 6 years old. I am also a travel agent specializing in Disney, Universal, and Cruise Vacations. I am also a host of the Mickey With Littles podcast 🩵

Some of my Disney favorites and things I can go on and on about are:
•Figment
•Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park
•Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
•Tower of Terror

29/05/2024

NEW SUMMER DISNEYLAND TICKET PROMOTION!

Select dates from June through September

3-Day Standard Children’s (ages 3-9) Ticket starting as low as $50/day

3-Day Standard Adult’s (10 and up) Ticket starting as low as $83/day

Some summer promotions on Disneyland Resort Hotels also dropped today and can be combined with the ticket promotion!

24/05/2024

Beating the Heat at Walt Disney World is the topic of conversation this time of year!

One of my FAVORITE ways to do this is to head to Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Waterpark! This is one of Disney’s TWO water parks at

Typhoon Lagoon is themed after an Island Tropical Paradise and is open this summer (while Disney’s Blizzard Beach is closed). This water park has an amazing surf wave pool that happens to be the LARGEST in North America! It also has water slides, raft rides, a water coaster and a lazy river. You can expect to have character interactions from your favorite Disney friends and enjoy delicious foods.

Have you visited the water parks? What’s your favorite thing about them?

22/05/2024

I always post a lot about Walt Disney World Resort, but don’t think my heart doesn’t long for the Disneyland Resort sometimes! The roaming characters, the nostalgia, the SNACKS!

Fun Fact: My 2nd Favorite park is Disney California Adventure Park!

I love this park at Disneyland so much. Avengers campus and Cars Land are two of the most amazing and immersive lands Disney Parks has built in the US!

What do you love most from Disneyland Resort?

18/05/2024

Dreaming of a day in the BEST park at Walt Disney World!

Reasons I LOVE Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park:

•ATMOSPHERE: The music and entertainment throughout the park always leave me dancing. With the trees, flowers, and animals, there is always something to look at

•FOOD: The food options in this park are unique and delicious. I love the contrast to the typical theme park fried foods.

•COFFEE: The coffee in this park tastes way better. It’s a fact!

•RIDES: Kilimanjaro Safari, Flight of Passage and Dinosaur all rank near the top of my Walt Disney World Resort ride list and they all happen to be in this park.

🦒 Do you love Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park? Tell me why below! 🐘

15/05/2024

Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party tickets went on sale THIS MORNING!

This is my favorite event of the year at Walt Disney World Resort! A ticket to the Halloween party includes the following:

•Not So Spooky Spectacular Fireworks hosted by Jack Skellington
•Boo to You Halloween Parade
•Hocus Pocus Villain Spectacular stage show
•Rare character meet and greets
•Access to Magic Kingdom attractions (park entrance at 4pm)
•Unlimited Trick or Treating
•Some Halloween overlays on specific attractions

Find Party Dates below:
🎃 August 9 ($$)
🎃 August 13 ($)
🎃 August 16 ($)
🎃August 20 ($)
🎃August 23 ($)
🎃 August 27 ($)
🎃 August 30 ($)
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14/05/2024

I am still floating down from Cloud 9 after this last trip to the Walt Disney World Resort!

My long time dream resort has been Disney’s Beach Club Resort. I stayed at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort last summer (and was disappointed 😬) and felt like it was close enough, so I changed my dream resort to Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa!

Now I get to mark this resort off my list too. Looks like I have to pick a new dream resort! I think I know my top 3

Help me out! What is your dream resort to stay at OR what resort do you love the most? Tell me below ⬇️

09/05/2024

I just met you, and I love you 🐾 🐶

Meeting Dug was so fun. Character stops are truly a way to bring joy to any park day and elevate your in park experience even further! I can confidently say, I have never regretted spending time on a character meet🥰

07/05/2024

VIP TOUR 🧞‍♂️ What a whole new world this experience was. Feeling so grateful!

✨Magic Kingdom Park & Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park
🫙Bottled Waters
🍦 Mickey-Shaped Snacks
☕️ Starbucks
💁‍♀️JOELLE!!
💥 Private Fireworks Viewing Location
🎢 15 attractions

04/05/2024

Dreaming of a galaxy far, far away on this May the 4th day 🌑💫🪐

03/05/2024

Prince Ali, fabulous he, Ali Ababwa! 🧞‍♂️ 🕌

Breakfast at 1900 Park Fare was a wish come true! The food was delicious. The characters were lively. The service was wonderful!

30/04/2024

💭✨A DREAM💭 ✨

The phrase I will be repeating to myself the rest of this week! This trip is truly that from a dream and it hasn’t even started. If you see me CRYING around the parks….don’t worry I’m fine😂

There are so many highlights coming up and I cannot wait to share!

22/04/2024

HAPPY EARTH DAY BIRTHDAY TO DISNEY’S ANIMAL KINGDOM THEME PARK 🐒🐆🐘🦓🦍

26 years ago the BEST PARK at Walt Disney World Resort opened to the public! The park is dedicated to the natural environment and animal conservation.

It is truly unique and offers such an original experience you cannot get from any other park! Here of some of the things that make it my favorite

🥘It has the best food and drinks out of any of the parks! The snacks are tasty and the flavors are unique. Also it is without a doubt the best place to find coffee on property.

🦒 The animals are amazing and guests have the opportunity to see them in such beautiful environments. The Safari is truly one of my favorite rides in any Disney park. The walking trails are also phenomenal and educational and allow for up close looks at various species.

🦁 The shows is in the park are high quality! Festival of the Lion King and Finding Nemo: The Big Blue….and Beyond are high quality shows. They rival shows on Broadway and provide quality indoor entertainment throughout the park.

🌳 The dedication the park stands for is the top reason to love it. Disney ensured that in the building of the theme park, that devotion to animals would be top priority. Over the years the Disney Conservation Fund has raised well over $125 million (as of 2023)

21/04/2024

In celebration of Dapper Day yesterday, here’s a throwback to Dapper Day 2022 at the Disneyland Resort

11/04/2024

We talked snacks over on the Mickey with Littles Podcast this week! This amazing milkshake from Hollywood Scoops did not get mentioned but it truly deserves a shout-out. One of my favorites in Disney’s Hollywood Studios WAS talked about and now I NEED to know…

Do you consider a Ronto Wrap a snack? Or is this something you consider a quick service meal?

Let me know!

10/04/2024

So excited!

09/04/2024

NEW DISNEY PROMOTIONS DROPPED TODAY!!!

-Save up to 30% on stays 5 nights or longer (most nights July through beginning of October)

-Save up to 25% on stays 1 to 4 nights (most nights July through beginning of October)

-Disney Visa Card Members get FREE dining with select check-in dates (all of July, September 1st - 7th, and December 9th-21st)