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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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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How I Ended Up Leaving Big Law and Moving to Disney World
“Just put a date on the calendar. I don’t care if it’s two weeks from now or two years from now. Just put it down. And then spend whatever span of time exists between now and then wrapping your head around this. Because it’s going to be hard.” It ended up being just about 6…
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Eat This: The Grand Floridian Cafe
Occasionally I find myself having run a good, healthy, calorie burning distance on property and, as such, famished beyond all pretensions of self control and within reach of some very excellent food. It’s a dangerous combination. Such was the case a week or so ago as I stumbled into the Grand Floridian after a long…
