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Each day we’d throw our snacks and a few water bottles into the backpack. We purchased granola bars, fruit, water bottles and individual powdered drink packets. All Walt Disney World rooms have small refrigerators, so we took advantage and made a quick trip to the grocery before checking in. Pack drinks and snacks.ĭisney allows guest to bring in water bottles and small snacks. Unless, of course, your best memories include everyone being mad at everyone else. Just because you’re on a family vacation doesn’t mean you have to do everything together all the time in order to make the best memories. He could care less, so he wandered with the kids and let me take my time. Split up and take the big kids on the thrill rides and let the little ones visit characters. This is especially true if you have a big age range among kids in your family, but it also holds true if you have people with different ride preferences or different ideas on what they want out of each park. All week long it held our tickets, room keys, FASTPASS and Disney Photo ID cards. I bought this Bungee Card Case specifically for this purpose. The last thing you want to do is rifle through each purse, backpack and pocket to find what you need. I know that Disney is rolling out a wristband system, but until that is fully implemented I would suggest keeping everything together. Keep all your tickets and room keys in one place. In less than 5 minutes we had a new ticket and were on our magical way. I made a paper copy to keep in our backpack and I also took a photo of each ticket and stored it on my phone. No copy? Prepare to be done touring or fork over the cash for a new ticket. If you have a copy of the ticket, Disney Guest Services will replace your ticket for free. We lost one of our park tickets -it’s not that hard to do. If there is only one tip that you take away from this post, let it be this one. Be sure to check out their prices for other area attractions as well – we also purchased our Universal tickets there at a significant discount. We saved over $100 by purchasing our tickets through them – and I priced them against buying through Disney and AAA.

#MOUSESAVERS UNDERCOVER TOURIST FREE#

We found significant savings by purchasing our tickets ahead of time through Undercover Tourist. We planned our visits around this information and crowds were never an issue. You can plug in the time of your visit and it will give you both a crowd predictor and suggestions for which park to visit and which to avoid for a particular day. Plan around a crowd calendar.Īgain, I’m back to the wonderful resource at Touring Plans. My favorites were Mousesavers, Touring Plans and WDW Prep School. I also bookmarked a few websites to read during the few months leading up to our trip. These touring plans are the surest way to tailor a plan of attack so you get the most out of each park with the least amount of waiting. Even if you don’t care to read anything about Disney beforehand, I’d at least buy a subscription to their website in order to access the more than 140 touring plans they’ve developed. But I guarantee that you will find information in there you won’t find anywhere else – information that will save you time, money and make your trip more pleasurable. Yes, it’s enormous and yes, it will set you back a few bucks. I know without a doubt that both of our Disney trips were successes because of the pre-trip reading I did in The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World.

Here are 10 tips I found to help us hold it together at Disney World and have a wonderful trip. With some research and preparation beforehand, you can make sure the fun outweighs the potential headaches and I-wish-I-would’ve-knowns. Our photos from the trip can be found on my flickr page.Įveryone goes to Disney World with the intent to have fun and make some magical memories. You can read about our trip (including visits to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and LEGOLand here, as well as Day, Day 2, and Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5. This is a roundup of tips I gleaned from planning a trip to Disney World with my 10 and 5-year-old.

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