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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
2. Type Up Daily Itineraries The My Disney Experience app is great for storing all of your trip information, but sometimes, there is nothing like documenting the information yourself to solidify it. Personally, I always type up an itinerary just to keep in my park bag or hotel room. This document includes all of the necessary high-level information like: flight reservation numbers, meal times, and
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
1. Lastly, Pack an Emergency Bag With all of your trip plans in place, I would suggest that you then take time to pack an emergency/necessities bag. These necessities include extra sunblock, several pairs of walking shoes, band aids, over-the-counter medications, lip balm, water bottles, ponchos, hoodies, portable smartphone chargers and anything else you may need to survive (and enjoy) a week in
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
4. Use Gift Cards While WDW trips (including the dining plan) must be paid for in advance, you should be prepared for other expenses. Said expenses will include additional snacks and any souvenirs you may purchase on the trip. To prevent exceeding your miscellaneous budget, decide how much money you will spend and purchase a gift card for that amount. If you can have the strength to not spend beyo
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
8. Use My Disney Experience After you decide on a tentative itinerary, you’ll want to do two things. Create a My Disney Experience account and download the My Disney Experience app to your smartphone device. This is where you will manage your vacation booking and all other corresponding reservations. If anything needs to be adjusted before or even during your trip, fret no more. Through this tool,
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
7. Keep Yourself Organized As the details fall into place, you may feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things to keep track of. To avoid this, we would suggest keeping a WDW-related folder (and subfolders) in your personal email account. For example, my own trip folders always include subfolders for travel, accommodations, dining reservations, FastPasses, and other special events. This is a gr
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
6. Buy the Dining Plan While this is an expensive option, it can take a lot of pressure off during the actual trip. Depending on which plan you buy, most of your meals and snacks will be purchased beforehand. Then when you arrive, you will rarely pull out your wallet for food. You will only have to alert the cast members that you have purchased the plan. Again, the bad news is that this plan is pr
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
5. Map Out FastPasses Depending on whether or not you stay on property, you will be able to make FastPass reservations in advance to ride attractions, see shows, and meet beloved characters. Unless you’re travelling in a part of two, it can be hard to shove everyone into one itinerary. Instead of trying to plan a “one size fits all” list, make a list of “must-do” attractions for each party member
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
Planning a successful Walt Disney World vacation can’t be done on a whim. A detailed battle plan must be in place that includes: selecting park tickets, choosing a resort, and even deciding which attractions you’ll visit. Luckily, if you’re a newbie, there are endless resources that can help you with this mammoth task. Listed here are some tips (from actual Disney pros) that will help you plan the
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
10. Use an Authorized Vacation Planner As soon as you start daydreaming about a Disney trip, it’s time to contact an Authorized Vacation Planner. These folks are travel agents that specialize in Disney Destinations and (best of all) there is noadditional cost for this service! While these agents work for a variety of third-party companies, their commission comes directly from the Mouse himself. (H
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10 Ways to Streamline Your Disney Vacation Planning
9. Draft Your Schedule Once you have selected a travel agent, you’ll want to write up an “in-progress” schedule. For example, figuring out how many days you’d like to visit and which/how many parks you’d like to see will give you a great head start. At the very least, having an idea of whether you’d like to visit the Magic Kingdom twice or if you want to plan a day off-property, will make it much
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