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11. Never Use Snack Credits on Water Bottled water is another popular snack credit option, but we’d urge you to resist. Almost every food stand and restaurant can give you complimentary cups of water. On the other hand, we’ve yet to see any cast members pass out complimentary turkey legs… 12. Don’t Buy Additional Snacks With each plan offering two ...

6. Avoid Two Credit Establishments And this brings us to our next point, as a thrifty guest, avoid the Signature establishments! By using two table-service credits for one meal, you are paying double in point value. Plus, you will likely be paying for another meal out of pocket to supplement the additional credits used. Enjoying one of the opulent two-credit ...

Hailed by some Walt Disney World regulars as the most convenient add-on to a Disney vacation, using a dining plan requires some savvy. If you can purchase a dining package beforehand, you can (theoretically) never have to take out your wallet to purchase food or beverages. All you have to do is scan that oh-so-luxurious MagicBand. Depending on the plan ...

Let’s Recap! 1. Start planning early! 2. Remember that you are the only one to decide whether your kids are old enough. 3. Download the MyDisneyExperience app. It will save your life. 4. Choose your mode of transportation. 5. Book your resort hotel as early as possible. 6. Book your dining reservations. 7. Buy your tickets from Disney World or ...

16. Take breaks. Because the parks are open from morning till night—Magic Kingdom alone is often open sometimes for 13 to 15 hours in a day—you may find that the vacation of a lifetime is making you and your family members exhausted. Don’t let this happen to you since exhaustion never makes friendly faces and attitudes among most people. You ...

11. Make your Disney World bucket list. Remember those discussions you had with your children about your upcoming trip? Now it’s time to take the information you gathered from those talks and write out a bucket list of all your family hopes to experience during your trip. It can be a show someone hopes to see, a dessert someone hopes ...

6. Book your dining reservations. Dining reservations at Disney World can also be made in advance—180 days in advance. And because so many of Disney’s dining venues are wildly popular among Guests, if there’s a dining experience you’re really hoping to have, it’s vital to make your reservation 180 days in advance. For example, restaurants like Cinderella’s Royal Table and ...

A magical vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida promises the most fun and excitement any family can have on any trip. Because of all there is to do at Disney, planning a trip to the parks is no small undertaking. But the work you put into planning your trip will pay off exponentially once you’re finally there! ...

Let’s Recap! 1. Be Our Guest (Magic Kingdom) – Why you’ll love it:Be Our Guest offers visitors the chance to dine in the Beast’s castle. 2. Crystal Palace (Magic Kingdom) – Why you’ll love it:This character meal gives you an opportunity to meet several of the characters from Winnie the Poohwithout waiting in any lines at all. 3. Skipper’s Canteen ...

9. Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater (Hollywood Studios) Why you’ll love it: Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater is set up to look exactly like a drive-in theater, complete with “car” tables, a night sky, and a big screen playing clips from old movies. It’s a blast from the past that’s super fun for people of all ages.  What you should know: The clips being ...