Tom Bricker Archive
Sometime in 2017, Disneyland will finally roll-out a digital FastPass service. It’s not what we were expecting, though, which was a modified rollout of FastPass+ (we’ve been detailing the progress of this, which has been testing for over a year now, in our Disneyland Trip Planning Guide). Instead, Disneyland is introducing MaxPass: a paid digital
We finally did dinner at Be Our Guest Restaurant in Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom! This review features photos of food, the restaurant when empty, and our thoughts on the experience and quality of eating here. You’re probably all familiar with Be Our Guest Restaurant by this point since it opened 4 years ago, but
Splitsville Luxury Lanes is a bowling alley and restaurant in Disney Springs at Walt Disney World. This review of their dining room features food photos, our take on the ambiance here, and whether it’s worth taking time from your vacation to try Splitsville. As basic planning info, the Splitsville dining room is a 1-credit table
China Voyager is a counter service restaurant in Adventureland at Tokyo Disneyland serving noodles and ramen. This Disney dining review features food photos, (over) analysis of the menu, thoughts on ambiance, and whether you should dine at China Voyager. In short, our answer to the last question is an emphatic YES. China Voyager is one
Grand Legacy at the Park is one of the closest hotels to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. This review features room photos, thoughts about our experience of staying here, and whether Grand Legacy is a good option for your Disneyland trip. If you’re a Disneyland fan but are unfamiliar with the name Grand Legacy at
In this trip report, we share hundreds of photos from Disneyland Paris and locations in Europe that inspired the original EPCOT Center. The first half of the trip report focuses on scenes featured in Impressions de France, an opening day EPCOT Center film in the France pavilion that is still shown today. This is one
Enough of you asked for it in response to our Disneyland Paris Half Marathon Report that I figured I’d put together a single trip report recap post of our adventures after we left France. It’s probably not actually a 3-hour finale, but since it’s impossible to measure words in units of time, let’s just call
The Australia Global Marketplace has been a staple of Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival for nearly 20 years, featuring cuisine from the Land Down Under (cue Men at Work). This post details the menu for the Australia booth. We’ve always found the lamb chop to be one of the definitive foods at Food &
Greenhouse Guru is a new booth at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, featuring greenhouse-grown products. This post covers this booth’s menu for this year, along with my thoughts on the menu options. This booth is sponsored by Village Farms, which claims it is a “premium” greenhouse grower. Their website hypes up their greenhouses
The Africa Global Marketplace at Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival dates to 1997, and has been a consistently solid choice, as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti. This post details the Africa marketplace booth’s menu. In terms of exotic cuisine, Africa is a probably more well known continent to Walt Disney
The Hawaii booth at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival is one of the first Global Marketplaces you’ll hit, thanks to its prominent location. This post covers the Hawaii booth menu for this year, along with my thoughts on Hawaii’s inclusion in Food & Wine Festival. Let’s start with that inclusion. There’s only one
