Tips & Tricks Archive
New Year’s Eve is one of the busiest days of the year at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, as guests crowd the parks to ring in 2024. This guide shares our tips & tricks for enjoying the NYE parties in the parks, watching the fireworks, and avoiding the pitfalls. (Updated December 27, 2023.) Let’s start
Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is Magic Kingdom’s holiday special event in November & December 2024 at Walt Disney World. This info guide offers tips, strategy, photos, likely dates & ticket prices, and our review of whether it’s worth the money based upon attending MVMCP annually for 15 years. In terms of basics, Mickey’s Very
Our guide to the 2024 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party offers tips & info for Magic Kingdom’s fall special event at Walt Disney World. This includes available & sold out dates, ticket prices & discounts, schedule & strategy for seeing the parade, fireworks, and characters, plus our review of MNSSHP and whether it’s worth
Candlelight Processional at EPCOT will occur from late November to December 2024 at Walt Disney World. This covers the normal narrator lineup, celebrity appearance dates, whether the dining package is worth the money, and our review of this Christmas-time show. For those unfamiliar with it, Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World is the telling of
Disneyland’s Candlelight Processional occurs twice nightly in early December. This post offers predicted 2024 dates & times for the show, viewing tips, celebrity narrator info, our review and history of the event, which is held at the Main Street USA Train Station during Christmas. In contrast to Epcot’s Candlelight Processional performances that are held dozens
Fourth of July is summer vacation time at Walt Disney World, which means high crowds and hot weather, plus fireworks and entertainment. This guide to July 4, 2024 covers what to expect for Independence Day Weekend at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and beyond. In general, the first thing to expect on July 4th is added crowds
Irritated by the commercialism of Christmas at Walt Disney World? Distracted by all that tinsel? Realized there has to be another way while raining blows upon another guest fighting over the last pair of Baby Yoda socks? Does celebrating a new holiday scratch you right where you itch? If you answered “yes” or “what?” to
PIN or unique offer codes are among Walt Disney World’s best hotel discounts. In this post, we’ll offer info about how to receive these targeted resort savings & improving your odds of scoring them, what they look like, steps for redeeming, current 2024 deal dates, and more. (Updated December 20, 2023.) If you’ve never heard
Walt Disney World has extended hours with earlier openings and later closings for the peak season dates around Christmas and New Year’s Eve. More importantly, this post shares strategy from our recent experiences doing midnight at Magic Kingdom–plus tips & tricks for beating 10/10 crowd levels and accomplishing a ton during those late nights. (Updated
Parents planning their child’s first trip to Walt Disney World often have a lot of questions, as visiting Walt Disney World with kids is uncharted territory that can be intimidating. This guide answers some of those questions with helpful advice to avoid mistakes and common planning pitfalls. (Updated December 17, 2023.) Let’s start with the
Walt Disney World fans might tell you that crowds only go in one direction: UP! While not technically true, the sentiment sounds about right. In the past several years, this trend has included Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, which became progressively busier both in objectively measurable ways (wait times) and subjective assessments (congestion). We’ve been discussing this
