Disney World Resort Fun Runs: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet
The one comprehensive list of every resort fun run in Disney World.
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Free Disney: How I Spent a Perfect Evening in Disney and Never Opened My Wallet
We’ve all heard the jokes. We’ve all seen the sad dad trailing along in the “Most Expensive Day Ever” t-shirt. From snacks to balloons to souvenirs to resorts to parking, Disney generally ain’t cheap. So it’s always satisfying to have a great time around here without spending a mint. Last weekend we headed to Disney…
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Being a Foodie on DCL – Disney Wonder Alaska (June 18-25, 2018)
Cabanas, ooh na-na… Half of my heart is at Cabanas, ooh na-na… Oh. Sorry. I thought I was alone. I’ve been singing that to myself on a loop for like 3 weeks. I’ve been thinking a lot about the food experience on the Disney Wonder ever since the trip started a few weeks ago. And…
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Alaska on the Disney Wonder (June 18-25, 2018) … Or “The Trip That Left Me Speechless”
If you ever want to find yourself utterly unable to begin to know what to write, I highly, highly recommend taking a 7 night cruise to Alaska on a Disney ship with your family and 150+ of your closest friends. I’ve been trying to figure out where even to begin to talk about this trip…
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First Thoughts: Toy Story Land Soft Opening at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Confession: I wasn’t that excited about Toy Story Land in the months leading up to its opening. ::ducks for cover:: Don’t get me wrong, I was eager for another new space. And for life to return to Hollywood Studios. And to eat everything at Woody’s Lunchbox. And the Toy Story franchise is one of my…
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CastleRun: Top 7 Reasons to Run a runDisney 5K
If you’re anything like me and you’ve participated in a runDisney 5K, you have a little pang of “why why WHY did I sign up for this?” when your alarm goes off at around 2 a.m. so that you can go run 3.1 miles. There have been many mornings when I’ve reevaluated my life choices…
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Disney Parking: The Fly on the Wall
So yesterday Walt Disney World made the oh-so-earth-shattering announcement that resort guests will now generally be charged an overnight parking fee. The fine print can be found here – but the gist is that for reservations made on or after March 21 of this year, standard overnight parking for resort guests will cost $13/night for…
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Taking the Florida Plunge: Looking Back on Six Months as a Disney Local
We closed on our Florida home on August 11, 2017 – just 3 days before the kids were set to start at their new schools. The flurry of madness that preceded that day has, as these things do, settled into a barely remembered blur. And while I do still usually use my navigation system to…
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Eat This: Beaches and Cream Soda Shop at Disney’s Beach Club Resort
There once was a time when I set my alarm for dawn 180 days out from our trips to book all of the hard to get ADRs. Now, on park days, I wake up in the morning and browse the Disney app with the kids to pick our day’s plans. Yesterday morning was a lazy-ish…
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When Does It Become Home? Early thoughts on being a local…
If you’ve ever moved into a new-to-you house or condo or apartment or other space, you have at least an inkling of what this question means. How deep it runs. If you’ve ever moved to a place where you once vacationed (or just downright escaped to), you have probably also experienced the strange paths that…
