In my time as an Authorized Disney Travel Planner I have had the pleasure of helping many, many families to create some incredible vacation experiences and memories. Several of those families have traveled to the Disney theme parks with children, friends and other family members who were in need of special assistance in order to fully enjoy all of the magic a Disney vacation has to offer. In light of the recent announcement regarding the changes to the Guest Assistance {Read More}
Princess Half-3 Reasons to Run!
Registration for Disney’s 2014 Princess Half Marathon Weekend begins at 12:00 p.m. EST today! This year’s race weekend includes yet another way to pack in even more race-punch, the Glass Slipper Challenge, in which participants run the Enchanted 10k on Saturday followed by the Princess Half Marathon on Sunday earning them a bit more race bling with a Glass Slipper Challenge medal. The weekend is full of fun for the whole family including kids’ races on Friday and Saturday and {Read More}
Ready for a Swinging Summer?
The sparkling lights twinkle down from above while the sound of syncopated swing and burning brass fills the summer air. As dancers jump, jitter and lindy across the floor to the strains of some of Southern California’s swinging-est big bands, couples stroll outside to catch a quick evening breeze. Sounds like a great way to spend a summer date night, doesn’t it? Disney recently announced that Saturday, June 15th will mark the first Jump, Jive, Boogie Swing Party of {Read More}
Disney’s Newest App Tells Your Story
Struggling to manage the hundreds of pictures and videos on your iPhone’s camera roll? Me, too! Fortunately, for all of us who love to digitally capture the little (and big!) moments of our lives with our phones, Disney has come to the rescue with a fabulous new app that can transform those moments into a story. On May 8th, Disney launched a free, new app called Story for the iPhone (availibility for other platforms is in the works) that makes {Read More}
24-Hours of Disney Parks Magic!
Disney’s Monstrous summer kicks off bright and early tomorrow morning as three theme parks open their turnstiles at 6:00 a.m. at the start of 24-straight hours of Disney magic. The last time Disney hosted an all-nighter was with it’s “One More Disney Day” celebration on February 29, 2012 in honor of leap year. After Disneyland closed to capacity during that event, Disney decided to extend the Monstrous Summer party to Disney’s California Adventure park as a way to spread out {Read More}
Disneyland’s Dazzling New Musical
With the Princesses comfortably settled into their new home at Fantasy Faire, Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland is scheduled to reopen with a spectacular new show on May 25th! Since it first opened at Disneyland in 1985 (under the name Videopolis), the newly refurbished Fantasyland Theater has hosted a huge array of performances, the most recent being Snow White-An Enchanting Musical which closed in 2006 when the Princesses moved in. Since that time, live theater at Disneyland has been greatly missed, {Read More}
Disney’s Monstrous Summer!
Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort will kick off a Monstrous Summer by keeping three theme parks open for 24 hours nonstop on Memorial Day Weekend, the traditional start of the family travel season. The Magic Kingdom Park in Florida and Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park in California will stay open from 6 a.m., May 24 to 6 a.m., May 25, 2013, local time* marking the beginning of a summer of fun inspired by the upcoming Disney•Pixar {Read More}
MNSSHP & MVMCP on Sale Now!
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Tickets for Mickey’s Not so Scary Halloween Party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party are now available for purchase! If you have never been to one of these events, they are a great way to add some magic to your Disney vacation. Both parties are “hard ticket” events which means that a separate ticket for the party must be purchased for each guest. However, if you enter the Magic Kingdom after 4 p.m. on the day of the party, you {Read More}
Animal Kingdom Turns 15!
Jambo Everyone! Today we celebrate the 15th anniversary of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park! Disney has lots of fun in store for today’s “Party for the Planet” including special guest speakers when the park opens, commemorative anniversary merchandise, special maps and postcards, and visits with characters like Lilo & Stitch, Flik and Princess Atta, and Thumper and Miss Bunny. Guest speakers opened the park today at a special ceremony at the Tree of Life and included: Josh D’Amaro, Vice President {Read More}
No Disneynature Film for 2013?
Every spring since 2009, Disneynature, a division of Walt Disney Studios, has released a nature documentary to celebrate Earth Day. With films such as ‘Earth’ (2009), ‘Oceans’ (2010), ‘African Cats’ (2011) and ‘Chimpanzee’ (2012), Disneynature combines spectacular footage and documentary filmmaking with a philanthropic twist by donating a portion of each films’ opening week ticket sales to a relevant charity. Fans of the division’s previous films waiting to hear about this year’s release learned that Earth Day 2013 would not {Read More}
