Alright, sorry for the radio silence for… what… a year and a half ?! Is that possible? Yikes. Well it finally wasn’t for depressing reasons (usually I don’t post much when embroiled in a custody battle/wedding cancellation shenanigan), but in a crazy plot twist, I had baby #2 with on-again baby-daddy-wedding-canceller this past year and [...]
Category: Disney Trip Planning
Extended Park Hours for Guests of Deluxe Resorts = Amazing
Edit: effective early December, Ratatouille has been added to the Epcot extended hours in the evenings. This is a total game changer given how challenging it is to get on that ride. Wish we were there for that! Whew, we did the extended hours in Magic Kingdom last night and it honestly felt like a [...]
Why Genie+ and Lightning Lane Disappointed this Disney Mom
Man, I was the biggest advocate for this darn service as soon as I wrapped my head around the BS of adding $45+ per day for our 3 person party (which is really honestly an absolute knife to the heart given that we manage to afford our trips because we have annual passes with DVC [...]
Best Wait Times in Hollywood Studios
Update: by the end of our trip we rode Slinky Dog 4 times, never waiting more than 15 minutes, MMRR twice (20 minutes once, walk on another), ROTR twice (both under 5 minutes), and TSM 4 times as well (typically walking on, although we had one long wait when we tried during the early entry [...]
Giving Lightning Lane and Genie+ a Try
Woohoo! We are back in Disney for our weeklong trip (if you haven’t come in mid-November, do it. Perfect weather, Christmas decorations up, moderate crowds). This is my first experience with the new paid Genie+ system and the paid individual lightning lanes as well, so I figure throughout the week I’ll write up some feedback/reviews. [...]
Next Week’s Trip Status Would Give Some People a Panic Attack
Whew it’s been a lot of radio silence for awhile as life as been a bit exhausting, but more posts are on the horizon as we head to Disney next week from 11/12-11/20 for our big trip of the year. I just wanted to memorialize the state of plans as of 11/5 though so I [...]
Slight Change to Member Services’ Process for Merging Reservations
For those other DVC members that are like me and like to grab nights as they become available and worry about merging them into one reservation later, or those who just happen to have two stays booked separately for whatever reason and need them merged, the process has changed slightly as of this past week [...]
New annual passes 9/8
I haven’t had a chance to peruse the internet this morning, but the recording when you call DVC Member Services was updated to say “new annual pass sales will resume September 8th” this morning. Seems like big news, so I imagine it has been announced elsewhere as well, but in case it hasn’t, there ya [...]
Tickets for “Disney’s Very Merriest After Hours”
Update: see screenshots at the end for prices and dates. Today I received an unexpected email announcing that I would be able to purchase tickets for something called "Disney's Very Merriest After Hours" starting August 17th. This purchase date seems to be based on the fact that I have a resort reservation during the holiday [...]
Booking System Issues and Sudden Availability
This morning (8/9/21) there was a surprising flood of availability for hard-to-get dates at nearly every DVC resort. When poking around just before 7am, instead of seeing the typical 1 or 2 nights available in a studio across any resort for the months of November and December, I saw full availability for weeks like “Jersey [...]