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7 Disney World Park Experiences For Your Bucket List

3. Pre-Rope Drop Admission We love getting into parks before they officially open!  The only way for guests to sneak in the park before rope drop would be to have a breakfast reservation.  We’ve been lucky to get into both Animal and Magic Kingdoms using this method.  We love seeing the park with very few guests and having our pictures taken via the PhotoPass photographers!  

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7 Disney World Park Experiences For Your Bucket List

4. Shut Down a Park We love staying late into the evenings at the parks and closing down the park.  There is something magical in exploring the parks during the nighttime hours and being one of the last people wandering the paths of the theme parks.  Guests staying late at the Magic Kingdom can even witness the Kiss Goodnight which happens between thirty minutes and an hour after the official park

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7 Disney World Park Experiences For Your Bucket List

5.  runDisney Race one of our new favorite pastimes at the parks are participating in runDisney races! The best part of doing these races are being able to run through the parks and get to see behind the scenes!  We have some great photos of us running through the various parks – running down Hollywood Boulevard with the neon lights on, running past the Tree of Life in Animal Kingdom, and passing

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7 Disney World Park Experiences For Your Bucket List

6. Impromptu Character Meeting This is probably the hardest experience to have since you cannot control when they are offered, but at various times, guests may be able to run into characters not listed on the Times Guide.  We’ve encountered Brer Fox at Port Orleans Riverside, as well as many characters near the World Showcase Special Events Pavilion.  These may be characters in training, but just

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10 Amazingly Beautiful “Secret” Spots Around Disney World

1. Contemporary Resort Grand Concourse Balcony/Bay Lake Tower Sky Way Bridge There’s a lot going on at this 4th floor Contemporary Resort hotspot from food to shopping to a fun arcade. With the addition of Bay Lake Tower in 2009, a bridge was built to connect the two resorts along with an outdoor patio/balcony on the north end of the Grand Concourse. Though the view from this outdoor patio doesn’t

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10 Amazingly Beautiful “Secret” Spots Around Disney World

2. Tom Sawyer Island-Aunt Polly’s Gazebo, Magic Kingdom Tom Sawyer Island is a rustic hideaway that can oftentimes feel uninhabited. Getting “lost” amongst the dark caves, exploring the forts, and navigating the playgrounds remains a wonderfully vivid childhood memory for me. Despite the passing of time, much of Tom Sawyer Island remains untouched and unchanged, allowing for the nostalgia to come

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10 Amazingly Beautiful “Secret” Spots Around Disney World

3. Boardwalk’s Belle Vue Lounge Balcony This is one of those locations that you would swear nobody knows about. I’ve never had to share this space with other people (other than my husband and/or friends) and have many a time enjoyed a drink or two while looking over the Boardwalk’s beautiful and meticulously landscaped courtyard. This often overlooked lounge which is tucked away down the hall from

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10 Amazingly Beautiful “Secret” Spots Around Disney World

4. Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground Beach and Trails The forest awaits you at Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground, beckoning you to put on your walking shoes and explore. The truly neat thing about this resort is that it seems so far removed from the often chaotic pace of the Disney Parks, when in actuality it’s a short boat ride away from Magic Kingdom. Among these tree-lined trails and pa

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10 Amazingly Beautiful “Secret” Spots Around Disney World

5. Magic Kingdom Walkway Connecting Storybook Circus to Space Mountain It’s often all too easy to follow right along with the crowds of park goers, taking the most obvious, wide open routes set before you to get from point A to point B. Heeding the poetic words of Robert Frost we’d learn, however, that taking the road less traveled sometimes makes all the difference. If you do a bit of exploring a

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10 Amazingly Beautiful “Secret” Spots Around Disney World

6. United Kingdom Pavilion Gardens, Epcot There is a lovely English garden with beautiful flora and a hedge maze located behind the buildings and shops at the United Kingdom Pavilion in Epcot. During select hours of the day, a cover band can be found playing chart-topping British retro hits of the ‘60s on a small stage off to the garden’s edge. When the band isn’t performing, however, this seclude

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