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And how much do they pay them? This is just embarrassing. (Screenshot from my own phone, just now.)

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...

My family visited WDW from August 12-18, 2023. (Despite what you're about to read, it was an absolutely beautiful week, and we had a truly wonderful time!) This was our first visit after the introduction of G+, and although I'd resolved ahead of time not to try it, the rest of the family felt...

We recently returned from a week at WDW. Although I'm not planning on doing a full trip report, I wanted to share thoughts on a couple of specific things, one of them being dining. Rather than post a bunch of individual reviews, or a standalone bunch of numbers, I thought it might be helpful...

[Note to the mods: I didn't know where to put this. If it belongs in the general parks discussion thread, please move it.] During our Disney vacation a week ago, I purchased an item at Memento Mori in the MK that was oversized, and opted to pay a few extra dollars to have it shipped back to...

We booked a Fantasmic! dining package for our upcoming visit in August (despite 5 or 6 Disney World trips, we've actually never seen the WDW version!), but I'm having second thoughts. I know from experience that August can be a very stormy/rainy month, and of course, if WDW cancels the show for...

I was reading some complaints on a GF Facebook board about the laundry room in Big Pine Key, where we'll be staying in August, and where I will rather desperately need to do laundry on the day we check in (for the second half of a split stay). The problem seems to be that there are only 2...

This is just a light-hearted curiosity question. Yesterday, I realized that with the recent departure of the Lobster Thermidor Burger from the menus at the Grand Floridian Cafe, I was no longer interested in eating there at all. It occurs to me that in many cases, my family's ADR choices are...

The Discover 5% cashback bonus for April-June includes purchases at restaurants, and at wholesale clubs such as BJ's. (Be sure to log into your Discover account each quarter, to check the cash back calendar and "activate" your bonus.) That means, if you use your Discover card to purchase Disney...

I just watched/read the several "blogger" reviews, both written and video, that are available for Narcoosses's so far. I feel, to paraphrase the school principal in Billy Madison, that I am now "dumber" for having done so. I'm not a particularly sophisticated diner, and I appreciate that these...

Hopefully the title says it all. We're headed back to Orlando in August, for a 6-night split stay. The second 3 nights will be in a Grand Floridian Resort Studio on rented DVC points. We wanted to do a Crescent Lake Resort for 3 nights first, but are torn between Yacht Club and Boardwalk...

FWIW, a new room discount offer came out today for Disney VISA cardholders. (I called to apply it to my existing reservation, and saved 25% on our upcoming 3-night stay at Yacht Club in August.) The "catch" is that you need to use your Disney VISA to pay the deposit, so if like me you're trying...

So, I was playing around with Genie (just for fun - I won't really be relying on it as a day planning tool) and noticed that for our August trip, daily park hours are: 9-7 for MK (daily, not just potential MNSSHP days), 9-7 for HS, 9-5 for AK, and 9-9 for Epcot, with daily "EMH" starting at 2pm...

Perhaps this is old news or was reported elsewhere, but a travel agent friend of mine just posted this glimpse of the CBR refurb. This is in the former "pirate rooms" section, although some sources suggest that this will be the new look property-wide. I think the colors look pretty and...

Hello, all! Our next flight to MCO will be on JetBlue, which uses the new Terminal C. I've been staring at the "wayfinding" diagram and am having trouble making heads or tails of it. I swear, I'm not a totally inexperienced traveler, but for some reason I'm just not "getting" what I am seeing...

I was spitballing the idea of upgrading our Yacht Club booking for August 2023 (currently Standard Room, Garden View) to Club Level, in hopes that a 20% or better discount will be offered for it eventually (one typically is, for the end of August). I figured if there's no discount, we'll simply...

We last visited WDW in August 2021 in the last blessed days of standby-only lines, and honestly, my family isn't champing at the bit to hurry back given the added complexities of Genie+ and the effect of lightning lanes on wait times, etc. but we have some "souvenirs" we want to use before our...

Ran across these today, from our first WDW visit, during April 1982 when I was 6 years old. Ah, the days when parking was a dollar, Epcot Center was yet to open, Disney Springs was going by its first name of "WDW Village" - I believe it's now on its fourth moniker - and you could borrow a...

FWIW, if you've been watching for the long-overdue extension to the Universal Annual Passholder hotel discounts -- which had been released only through 2/17, with no updates for a few months -- they were extended as of 7am this morning through at least the first week in April.

My family and I had a Boo Bash debacle this past August that resulted in our being given 2-day parkhopper tickets, to be used for a future visit (no expiration). As we'd already planned to be at Universal over February break, it seemed like a no-brainer to use them then, with an eye toward at...