Hello and welcome to Disney Tourist Blog! We’re Sarah & Tom Bricker, and we founded this website over a decade ago as a place to assemble our reviews, recommendations, tips & tricks, and guide for doing Walt Disney World and Disneyland like pros. We strive to provide informative and unbiased advice to fans and first-timers alike planning trips to the Disney Parks around the globe.
Since being founded in 2011, Disney Tourist Blog has helped hundreds of millions of readers save money, time, and reduce stress in preparing for truly magical vacations. Our site and expertise have been featured by several prominent publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Forbes, NBC News, The Hill, Travel & Leisure, Business Insider, USA Today, and more. Our charitable efforts have also been highlighted on several television news outlets, including the Today Show and local broadcasts in Central Florida and Southern California.
We created Disney Tourist Blog after graduating from college and law school initially as a place to share daily photos and trip reports from our visits to the parks. We resided in the Midwest at the time, and this blog was a good outlet in between trips. In the years since, DTB has grown beyond our wildest expectations.
We’ve relocated on multiple occasions to be closer to the parks to gain a fresh perspective as locals. We’ve lived less than 30 minutes from Disneyland (twice!) and under 10 minutes from Walt Disney World (we could see the Magic Kingdom fireworks from our bedroom window) for over 4 years. We’ve made these moves in order to intimately understand the ins and outs of Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
While the primary perspective of this blog remains one of tourists–to help you plan memorable vacations–living near the parks offered invaluable experience as locals. We’re current Annual Passholders on both coasts, as well as Universal’s parks in Orlando and Hollywood. We’re past Annual Passholders at Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Universal Studios Japan.
To that end, we continue to visit Disneyland on a weekly basis and make monthly research trips to Walt Disney World. During those visits, we field test new strategies, put our plans through the paces, conduct hotel stays and restaurant reviews, and more to ensure that our guidance is up-to-date and accurate. On-the-ground field testing to produce planning guides is critically important to us; that along with Disney news & rumors and analysis thereof have become DTB’s primary focus.
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Disney Tourist Blog remains owned and operated solely by Sarah & Tom Bricker. While our family has grown in recent years to include our daughter, Megatron (real name not used here for privacy), the team behind the website has not. It’s just us. You will never find a guest post on DTB, because we strive for this blog to have a singular voice and consistent, high-quality research and planning recommendations.
We take seriously being objective and critical, but we still enjoy the parks a lot. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t visit the Disney parks so regularly or have a blog devoted to the subject. Our goal is to present a frank and candid assessment of all things Disney. You will seldom meaningless fluff words like “magical” here, and this blog most certainly is not “sprinkled with pixie dust.” This is written by real people trying to offer unbiased advice based on actual experiences visiting the Disney theme parks.
In addition to Disney Tourist Blog, we also own and operate a sister site, TravelCaffeine.com, that revolves around our non-Disney trips. That mostly focuses on California, U.S. National Parks, Japan, and a handful of international cities (mostly ones with a Disney presence, conveniently enough). In addition to bouncing between residing in Florida and California, we also took two “gap years” (or whatever you call it when you’re already established adults), put our stuff into storage, and spent extensive time living as digital nomads in Tokyo, Kyoto, Paris, etc.
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FINALLY a Disney website/blog that tells it like it is!
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Hi guys. I always enjoyed getting your updates but in early May they stopped coming to my email. Please resubscribe me to the list. I enjoy the content and you do a great job. Thanks!!
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I unsubscribed after our last trip 3 years ago, and we are finally going back.
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You have so many helpful articles! Is there an index we can browse to find the ones we need to read?
Do you have a list of “motion sickness” rides and does Disney accomodate people who tend to motion sickness by allowing them to experience part of the attraction then leave via an “early out” exit?
Also, my husband is 85 and I will be several months past knee replacement surgery when we go to WDW with our children and their spouses (no actual children in the party). We are strongly considering renting a motorized cart so we old folks can take turns during the day. Does Disney still make accomodations in the queues for people with carts and, if so, would that extend to the rest of our family?
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Awesome!! Hope to make use of your site in the months to come!!
Please subscribe me to your list. Your always provide very valuable and unbiased information. We planned a trip to Disney World this April after the spring break with our grandchildren. Planning a vacation to Disney was so much easier when my children were young. We called and mailed a check to reserve our hotel, we made reservations or just showed up at restaurants and we paid admission at the park entrance. We casually enjoyed the whole park , waiting on line at some attractions. Planning now seems so stressful. What happened?
Thank you for your great information!
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Just want to thank you for an older article you wrote about capturing the ‘Firefall’ at Yosemite. We are heading there next Friday and hoping to witness the phenomenon and capture it. My husband will be using a zoom lens similar to the one you describe in the article. We secured a reservation at Yosemite Valley lodge and plan to arrive early for parking g and settling in place for the sunset Thanks, Tom
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