Bring your own instant Quaker Oats, disposable bowls and use the hot water from your in-room coffee maker. Save more money! Also, if you stay at All Star Sports, Mc Donald's is within walking distance, or hop an All Star Sports bus from park and pick up food there, and ride back to your resort!
The cards are just a collectable there are 4 for busses 12 for monorails and the rest for the most part are watercraft. There are a total of 27 in the current series. They all have a picture on one side with the bus or boat etc. that also has a hidden Mickey, the flip side has interesting fun facts/trivia . Not all transportation cast members have them it is optional, much like how some cast members choose to have pins. I do carry cards with me all the time the kids get a kick out of them. Another item I carry is the lesser known safety cards.
We did this one morning on our way to our Crystal Palace breakfast. So much fun. This was back when the older Good Morning show still took place above the train station. We rode up Main Street and I got great video of it all!
You are correct! And they still run them in the mornings at opening
I think it would be great if a few days a year they had stroller free days. If your kid can't walk, maybe you should wait until next year.
Love the hoedown and was excited to see Clarabell & Brer Rabbit!!!! JUst be careful when you join in the dance, you will be reprimanded if you grab hold of the characters arms!
Marceline to Magic Kingdom was a great tour too! It was suggested when my daughter was too young for the Keys tour. I think she was 15? Anyway, fantastic Haunted Mansion info. Just beware, once seen it cannot be unseen. This tour is also less pricey.
Well not so secret, but here are my tips. Water is free in the parks. Don’t pay for the overpriced Dasani. I really guzzle the free water (available by the cup full at any quick service place) and live in fear that one day, they’ll decide not to hand it out. I asked for a free cup of water at DL once and they were actually rude about it. A simple “no” would have sufficed. The cups/sizes have gotten smaller thru the years. Do not haul a bunch of stuff into the parks. No need to bring water or containers. Try it. You’ll thank me!
You can get Lady & the Tramps paw prints stamped in your autograph book at Tony’s on Main Street in MK. You need to ask politely at the front desk. A CM will take your book back for you. No reservation needed.
Here is a really great one, although not a secret any longer (and again, not sure how long this will last): you can get a Disney gift card that is the equivalent of $10 per night of your stay just for opting not to use Mousekeeping services. We did this last March (2018). We had actually done online checkin and since we bypassed the front desk at Pop and headed straight to our room, I gave them a call. They sent the ecard to me via my email/iPhone and I used it to purchase a $60 Pandora charm at Uptown Jewelers in MK!! Not shabby. Hope they don’t begin to apply exclusions to what you can use gift card for. This made for a fantastic souvenir and I didn’t have to feel so guilty about it. You can still ask front desk to send someone to empty your waste bins and bring you clean towels.
Please don’t put your trash bins outside your door or pile your dirty towels up outside.
I have more, but can’t think of them all.
Good restrooms...sssshhhh! The one to the right of Figment ride is big and usually empty.
The new ones in Norway are massive and nicely themed.
Ride the boat from Epcot International Gateway to HS. Not sure how the whole new Skyway thing will interfere with this. That back entry to Epcot has always been nice and low key. Not truly a secret, but we never have a long wait, or many people riding. We sit outside at the back of the boat. Beautiful, relaxing ride.
Les Halles (Epcot France)makes fabulous ham and cheese baguettes. They’ll Warm them for you and you can take them to go.
Go do the Chip N Dale campire sing a long. It is fun and it is free.
Do Pandora/AK both day and night. If you wait to ride either Na’vi before park closing, the lines are not bad.
Take the train over to Rafiki’s Planet Watch at AK.
Love Disney
Lets see... my best known Disney Secrets (Not the Vacation Club!)
Magic Kingdom: A amazing restaurant is hidden in Main Street USA called the Plaza Restaurant - It's a Sandwich place that has really high quality food. They take reservations, but a lot of people don't know about it, so walk ins are usual available. To get to it you take a right immediately past the bakery, as if you were cutting through to Tomorrowland and there it is.
EPCOT: One of the best places to get rare pins is here. Of course it depends on who is working the PIN Station near the Fountain, but the cast members there always have amazing or rare pins on their lanyards.
Another helpful hit - There are only 3-4 visible public bathrooms in Future World, but there are way more than that.
Bathrooms that are always busy:
East and West Blocks in Future world - East Block is that locations ONLY bathroom. No really. Only one bathroom for Test Track, Missions: Space, and Universe of Energy.
West Block used to be never used much, but Soarin' came and changed that.
The two bathrooms near Spaceship Earth - Always busy due to traffic walking through.
Some unused bathrooms:
Behind Journey into Imagination - There's one sign, just one showing it's back there. No
Electric Umbrella (This isn't used very much, trust me.)
The Living Seas Bathroom (Not used much either, people don't even know they have some inside either.)
The Corel Reef - This is a public restroom that anyone can get to as it's in the lobby.
Hollywood Studios:
To be honest - I don't know much about this park. It's been changing so much and it's the park I visit the least.
Animal Kingdom:
A lot of people don't know that there is a Single Rider line for Expedition: Everest. If you don't mind sitting away from your friends, it cuts the wait in line by 90% in my opinion.
This will allow people to get on Kilimanjaro's Safari early in the morning and not have to worry about using a fast pass on EE as well.
Keep in mind though, sometimes the Single Rider line is not open however.
