Tips & Tricks Archive
Our guide to Halloween Time 2024 at Disneyland, California Adventure & Downtown Disney features tips & tricks for the event, throughout September and October. Info includes Oogie Boogie Bash, decorations, food, Haunted Mansion Holiday, and more! Disney has released the Full 2024 Calendar of Events at Disneyland, which includes the dates for spook season. Halloween
With higher crowds & wait times, you need superior strategy for saving time waiting at Walt Disney World. That’s the purpose of this post, breaking down the best & worst options–Genie+, Lightning Lanes, extra hours & rope drop–to beat long lines at Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, EPCOT and Animal Kingdom. Our goal is to find
Walt Disney World wait times are usually inflated. The actual versus posted wait times disparity for rides at Walt Disney World has been a known issue for years and topic we’ve covered in the past. For the reasons discussed there, it’s usually a positive for guests that improves satisfaction. However, we’ve recently been getting complaints about
“EPCOT will always be in a state of becoming.” That’s an out-of-context Walt Disney quote about his utopian city of the future. It’s also what Walt Disney World now uses to justify change and sorta explain to tourists why the park is a hodgepodge of old and new, popular characters and classic dark rides, international
This explains how to use the most accurate crowd calendar for Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea in 2024. Using a Tokyo Disney Resort crowd calendar is important for choosing least busy days in the parks to avoid long wait times, congested viewing areas for parades, and more. We’ll also offer tips for avoiding crowds at
One threshold question many people ask before planning is “how much does it cost to go to Walt Disney World?” This answers that with updated 2024 pricing for park tickets, hotels, dining, transportation & more. It also covers a discounts that are available and how much you can reasonably expect to spend when all is
Festival of Holidays is Disney California Adventure’s special event during Christmas 2023 with seasonal snacks and multi-cultural entertainment. This guide has full food menus and recommendations for making the most of Disneyland Resort’s culinary celebration of Navidad, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Three Kings Day. Disney California Adventure’s 2023 Festival of Holidays runs from November 10,
Early Entry at Magic Kingdom offers on-site guests of Walt Disney World hotels a head-start on long lines, and the ability to accomplish attractions with lower wait times. This photo report shares my step-by-step morning on the busiest day of the week during Party Season in MK, plus a bit of zig when others zag strategy. We’re
There are a lot of complaints about Genie+ at Walt Disney World, with one of the biggest being that return times at Hollywood Studios are frequently in the afternoon and evening. With that in mind, I tested a DHS Park Hopping day to see how much I’d be able to accomplish using Lightning Lanes to
EPCOT’s International Festival of the Arts runs from mid-January through late February 2024 at Walt Disney World. This guide offers info, tips, food recommendations, and our must-see highlights of this annual winter special event, which is one of the best of the year at WDW! (Updated October 26, 2023.) Walt Disney World has now released
Hollywood Studios is the second-best park for buying Walt Disney World’s Genie+ service. Lightning Lane line-skipping access is available at 15 attractions in DHS, and many are headliners or popular thrill rides. This guide ranks all in terms of time-saved and how quickly they book up. (Updated October 22, 2023.) For our Late 2023 update
