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We once had the whole shebang at once: seated in the middle of the boat with our fifteen-year-old daughter, with a man in front of us who held up his camera up in front of our faces to take non-stop videos and flash photos for the entire ride, and two adult men behind us, loudly discussing...

My church once did a training module for ushers and other public-facing volunteers called, "Every Sunday Is Somebody's First Sunday." (The point was that we need to treat all guests and visitors like it's their first time in church, being sensitive to the fact that unfamiliar religious verbiage...

My whole family ordered simple pasta dishes like spaghetti or chicken parm. (*Footnote: I also ordered the Spicy Poblano Margarita, which turned out to be the most God-awful cocktail I've ever had in my life. It tasted like bathtub tequila in which a very dirty human being had taken an actual...

Sorry I caused you offense: I wasn't making a blanket statement about all passholders or regulars -- only a few bad apples.

It's terrible. The worst was when we took our kids for the first time, and some of their big "first rides" were spoiled by loud, rude guests who were more interested in hearing their own voices than the attraction audio. I think it's getting worse, gradually. The worst offenders in my...

Bhaktapur duck is my son's all-time favorite, and I second @networkpro on the recommendation to try something from the seasonal specials menu, which has never led us astray. DH and I always start with the Ahi Tuna Nachos (which are enormous), so I'd say that's my favorite "dinner" item, since...

Is this what you're talking about? https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/genie/photopass-lenses/

Off-topic, but when the time comes, I find this tool to be very handy if you want to save as much as possible on your ticket purchase. (One of its many features is that it will price tickets with different start dates -- all valid during the dates you actually want to visit the parks, of course...

Agreed! Or at least, it deserved better than _this_ retheme. Whether PaTF was a stellar IP or just a very good one, they took a movie with magic and romance and villainy and voodoo and life-and-death stakes and even a nod to the stumbling block of entrenched racism... and decided that what...

I've stayed at all of them (except CL), and you can't go wrong no matter what you choose. In my view, they all have comparable pluses and minuses. If you want a luxe feel in a shiny new room, go with GF. (Yes, there's a walking path, but it's not short: the monorail is more of a draw.) If you...

They're both great. I think Hagrid's has the edge as far as great storytelling and top notch practical effects (plus, it's actually accessible to all park ticketholders, and not hidden behind a paywall or VQ system), but I consider both to be "must do" attractions.

Maybe we were there on an off night, but the Lightning Lanes were in constant use throughout EEH, and the slowdown effect was particularly noticeable at EPCOT. Obviously I wasn't asking people if they were DAS, but since G+ wasn't available during EEH, I can't imagine any other explanation. I...

Sorry as it's off-topic, but you are so right! When I was minutes away from delivering my eldest child, having taken not so much as a Tylenol, the delivery room nurse asked me to rate my pain on a scale of 1 to 10. All I could think to myself was, "as much as this hurts, it would hurt a lot more...

The Dolphin Hotel gives you Starbucks K-cups, which was my first experience with the brand. It was good, but for me, no better than the McDonald's coffee I sometimes grab on the way to work for 99 cents. Still, variety is the spice of life, and if Disney economics has taught me anything, it's...

Yes, but the OP might be trying to plan park itineraries, nighttime entertainment plans, and dining reservations around extra evening hours, so it's good for them to know what to expect, day-by-day. That's what I did when planning our trip last August, anyway. Not that the extra evening hours...

With a visit length of over a week, you can absolutely forego G+/LL and get everything you want to done, plus revisit favorites. FWIW, our last visit was 7 days (6 nights) in length, but with only 5 days in the parks (parkhopper tickets). We bought no ILLs, and invested in G+ only on the days...

This precious bit of ephemera was found in one of my late mother's old purses over the holidays. I remember it well: I was around 8 years old (the ticket shows a printing date of 1982 on the bottom, but our first visit to WDW was in 1984) and we were spending Easter break at Fort Wilderness...

President's Day week is going to be packed from start to finish. I wouldn't say that either end of that week is better than the other in terms of mere crowd level, although as others said, visiting during a marathon is particularly inconvenient, especially if you're trying to get to a park in...

Same with our school. The band kids used to do WDW every other year: now they do Busch Gardens instead, for a small fraction of what even a "bare bones" (e.g., value hotel, limited tickets, food from offsite) trip to WDW would cost for the group now. They sent a questionnaire to parents last...

It's funny -- I said Raglan Road when I answered above. Since then, we visited WDW and dined at both Raglan Road and The Boathouse, the latter for the first time. If I had to answer again, now I'd say The Boathouse. The fact that we had an amazing amphicar cruise before dinner nudged the...