Tips & Tricks Archive
There are a number of Disney deals for Prime Day. What’s Prime Day? Basically, Black Friday for people who are too lazy to leave the house. Amazon, you get me. 😉 In this post, I’ve aggregated a bunch of the best deals, available today-only, for Disney fans. Some of these are Disney-specific items (like this
The Behind the Seeds at Epcot is a guided one-hour tour through The Land pavilion greenhouses that house the Living with the Land attraction at Epcot. In this post, we’ll share photos from our experience doing the Behind the Seeds at Epcot tour and share whether we think it was worth the time and money.
Looking for money-saving tips for visiting Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea? This post provides ways to do Tokyo Disney Resort on a tighter budget, while saving money on hotel, food, airfare, and other costs. We want to note from the outset that tighter budget above is relative. Traveling to Japan is not cheap, nor is
This guide offers our tips for visiting Knott’s Berry Farm, which is a regional theme park in Southern California. It’s incredibly close to Anaheim, so if you’re already planning a vacation to Disneyland, Knott’s is an easy day trip as it’s only about 15 minutes from Disneyland. In this Knott’s Berry Farm guide, we’ll cover
Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT also brought with it the Summer of Heroes at Disney California Adventure, and in this post, we’ll offer tips for seeing all of the special entertainment, as well as minimizing waits on the popular new attraction. Disneyland Resort is describing this ‘event’ as a “blockbuster season of heroic
Meeting Disney World characters at breakfasts and other meals, as well as at character meet & greet locations, can be a fun experience for both kids and adults who visit Walt Disney World. Character meet & greets have gone from unorganized mob scenes in the 1980s and 1990s to highly thought out experiences that continue
Over the years, some readers who have found the blog helpful have asked if we have any ways they can donate or give back to the site. Up until now, we have not. Given this blog’s emphasis on money-saving tips for Disney vacations, it seems sort of ‘off-message’ to ask for your money in return.
Recently, the #1 question asked by readers has shifted from “when will Free Dining be announced?” to “will Avatar Land have soft openings on ____?” We probably brought this on ourselves, predicting that soft openings would occur for Pandora: World of Avatar before its official opening date of May 27, 2017. (We also have confirmed
Our Shanghai Disneyland ride guide reviews every attraction in Disney’s newest theme park, with tips for doing everything efficiently, and our numerical scores for each attraction, show, and other experiences. (All presented in a spoiler-free fashion.) We cover which attractions are cloned from other parks, which are unique to China, language barrier issues, and which
We recently had the chance to try out the San Francisco Long Weekend itinerary offered by Adventures by Disney. In this post, we’ll offer some thoughts on the experience. Additionally, we’ll focus on the pros and cons of Adventures by Disney based on our experience, and some itineraries we’d rather do. Adventures by Disney has
During the Christmas season, the IllumiNations fireworks at Epcot run as normal, but from mid-November until December 30, 2017, it concludes with a pyro-heavy “Peace on Earth” tag after the grand finale of the normal show. This post covers info and our tips for viewing the holiday version of IllumiNations: Peace on Earth (also known
