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10 Things You Can Do on the My Disney Experience App

10. Buy theme park tickets. You can login to the app and use it to purchase new theme park tickets. Simply click “Buy Tickets” under the Park Info & Entry heading. Click on the number of days you’ll be in the parks and then click on the number of adult tickets and child tickets you’ll need. You can simply use your credit card to pay for t

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10 Things You Can Do on the My Disney Experience App

Perhaps the single most valuable and effective tool for planning and coordinating a visit to Walt Disney World is the newly-updated My Disney Experienceapp. It’s free to download on your Apple or Android smartphone, and not only does it serve as a one-stop planning tool, but it’s also a wealth of information once you are in the parks. Her

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5 Tips to Scoring the Best Dining Reservations

1. Check Last Minute Disney has begun enforcing a $10 per person cancellation fee if guests fail to show up or timely cancel dining reservations.  Due to this, guests may have some good luck finding last minute dining reservations in the week or even the day before the desired reservation. Our family has had particular success using this

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5 Tips to Scoring the Best Dining Reservations

2. Try a Travel Agent A lot of travel agents are fee-free, meaning that you don’t pay them, but Disney does.  These travel professionals can be a great option to get the best reservations since they are constantly dealing with reservations and can always check to see if there are any additional openings to get your family the reservation

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5 Tips to Scoring the Best Dining Reservations

3. Eat at Non-Traditional Meal Times When most people think of lunchtime, we think noon. Dinner is generally somewhere between 5 and 7 PM, but at Disney both lunch and dinner have different meanings. Lunch begins as early as 11 AM and can extend to almost 3 PM, while dinner starts shortly afterwards at 3:30 PM and can go as late as 11 PM.

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5 Tips to Scoring the Best Dining Reservations

4. Break Up Large Parties Depending on the size of your family, you may want to consider breaking up larger parties to try and get smaller tables.  Rather than a party of eight, you may want to see if you can find two tables of four.  Generally, you’ll be able to find that with reservations times either identical or close to one another. 

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5 Tips to Scoring the Best Dining Reservations

5. Reserve Early Disney is very clear that guests may begin making advance dining reservations 180 days before their arrival on property.  Disney also gives guests an additional 10 days on top of that meaning you don’t have to wait 180 days for each day of your vacation.  We recommend making your advanced dining reservations as close to t

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5 Tips to Scoring the Best Dining Reservations

With the increasing popularity of Disney vacations, guests are no longer able to walk into a restaurant and find a table. Prior to embarking on their Disney vacations, guests must sit down and figure out advanced dining reservations, FastPass+ reservations, in addition to resort reservations.  However, there are tips to help score the bes

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10 Things You’ll Definitely Want To Do At The All New Toy Story Land At Disney’s Hollywood Studios

4. Recharge Your Batteries at Woody’s Lunch Box As Toy Story Land is Andy’s toy-filled backyard, it only makes sense that his lunchbox can be found here, too. At Woody’s Lunch Box you can enjoy rootin’ tootin’ grub in the form of Toy Story-themed dishes, whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner. Best to keep Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head away,

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10 Things You’ll Definitely Want To Do At The All New Toy Story Land At Disney’s Hollywood Studios

7. Stretch Your Imagination with Slinky Dog Dash While Toy Story Land stretches your imagination to infinity and beyond, family-friendly roller coaster ride Slinky Dog Dash will stretch poor Slinky’s midriff – and he’ll even swerve and curve as he goes. Andy has assembled his Mega Coaster Play Kit to build this track, so as you careen alo

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