Park Hopping

The plan, when it started out, was pretty straightforward: on the last full day of our trip we were going to go to Animal Kingdom in the morning, and then head on over to Magic Kingdom. Plans change, though. One thing leads to another and before you know it you’re traveling all over Walt Disney…

Adding More Magic To Our Bands

Update, January 2017: With the new MagicBand 2.0, which has a different form factor than the original iteration used in this post, some of this information (like the template we used) will be out of date. However, the basic techniques–using temporary tattoo paper–should still work regardless. You’ll just have to modify your designs to take…

New Adventures

When I was growing up, my family went to Walt Disney World a lot (they took me, too. It wasn’t just them). My grandparents lived not far from the parks, so we would pack up the car a few times a year and head on down. I was an annual pass holder before I hit…

Change Of Plans

Let’s say you were planning a trip to Paris. Having never been there before, you’re excited to see all of the big tourist attractions: the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, mimes, et cetera. When you get there, though, you find out that the Louvre is closed. You’d be pretty disappointed, if that’s something…

Trip Planning Made Easier

According to science, there are 999 decisions to be made when planning a Walt Disney World vacation, and that’s before you even leave your home. Well… I’m sure it would be according to science, if scientists weren’t so focused on going into space and building robots and stuff. If they weren’t busy with their space robots,…

Fastpass+ (or -)

I can recall an age long past, an ancient time… before Fastpasses. As hard as it may be for you whippersnappers to believe now, there was once a time at Walt Disney World where the only option was to wait in a line in order to go on a ride. Sometimes the lines were long,…