Trip Reports Archive
After a few months away, we return to Walt Disney World for the reopening of the Deluxe Villa Resorts, using our DVC points for a stay at the BoardWalk Villas plus meals at Topolino’s Terrace. In this quasi-trip report, we’ll share photos, what it was like to be back, and why we would not recommend planning a
This look at our recent experience tent camping at Fort Wilderness concludes the series of “final” activities we did at Walt Disney World BC. We previously shared our last night in Magic Kingdom at the Moonlight Magic Party and our last great meal at Epcot’s nicest restaurant. Both were incredibly memorable experiences that we savored.
Our last night at Magic Kingdom “BC” was pretty special and memorable. We attended a private DVC party with virtually no crowds, saw a special fireworks show, met the Fab Five characters in royal attire, devoured a Fantastic Frankfurter Feast at Casey’s Corner, and wandered around soaking up the atmosphere. This was actually a couple
It’s been over 7 months since Walt Disney World revealed plans to build a walkway from Grand Floridian Resort to Magic Kingdom. I’m confident of this because we immediately began trying to book a DVC stay when our window opened for the Villas at Grand Floridian. Surely the new walkway would be open by Christmas,
We return to Hollywood Studios for another attempt at experiencing Walt Disney World’s most popular new attraction, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. This time with a twist: we attempt to Park Hop between DHS and Epcot while making strategic use of FastPass+ for the most efficient day possible. In last week’s Star Wars: Rise
Since our last visit to Galaxy’s Edge, a few things have changed with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. Namely, Hollywood Studios has moved to a later opening time. In this report, we share our latest experience with Walt Disney World’s new flagship attraction, plus recent rockiness and unreliability with the ride. While we knew
It’s been two weeks since our last visit to Hollywood Studios. Not long in the grand scheme of things, but a veritable eternity when it comes to Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance protocol and policies. In this report, we revisit the new Walt Disney World blockbuster attraction, and test out strategy we refined over the
This recaps Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance’s first week of operations at Disneyland, picking up where our Opening Day Ride Report left off and offering further crowd predictions, best & worst days to visit between now and March 2020, thoughts about our recent trip to Disneyland & DCA, and more. Basically, it’s an anecdotal
This spoiler-free Disneyland Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance ride report covers our experiences with opening weekend in California. This also offers plus some preliminary strategy for arriving, using the virtual queue, and crowds, while we work on putting together our comprehensive guide to the DLR version of the attraction. We made the decision to
In this Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance report & strategy guide, we share our firsthand experiences with the virtual queue, what time boarding groups are running out, when Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been opening each morning, crowds, and more. (This is also spoiler-free, which means a bunch of random Galaxy’s Edge and Christmas photos,
This rainy day report offers a recap of our experience at the first 2019 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. In it, we share commentary and dozens of new photos from this year’s holiday party at Walt Disney World. Before we even get started, we’ll preface this by saying it was an incredibly wet night–a downright
