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Here’s What a Day at Disney World Can Look Like if You Aren’t Prepared

If you love visiting the parks at Walt Disney World in Florida as much as I do, you probably can’t fathom a wrong way to experience the parks. Neither can I. The only mistake you could make when it comes to vacationing at the Disney World Resort is not vacationing at the Disney World Resort—denying yourself the most magical vacation exper

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

1. Save Time by Eating While You Wait When you’re in Disney World, time is of the essence. You probably want to see and do as much as possible, which means that unless your meal will be a cool experience—such as a character meal or themed restaurant—it doesn’t make any sense to waste time eating. Instead, grab your meal to go and eat whil

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

2. Resort Food Courts Can Be Busy In the mornings, resort food courts are an absolute madhouse. Save yourself time, money, and stress by bringing breakfast foods from home to eat in your room. If you’re flying into Orlando or if you just don't want to carry food from home, you can have groceries delivered through Garden Grocer.

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

3. Discounted Starbucks Cards are a Great Investment Each of the four main theme parks in Disney World has a Starbucks. While these Starbucks locations cannot redeem rewards on the Starbucks app, they can accept gift cards. (Also, drink purchases do still add stars to your account.) Since you’re probably going to want coffee throughout yo

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

4. Some Quick-Service Locations Offer Soda Refills Does your family enjoy soda? If so, you’ll learn pretty quickly that the stuff is pricy on Disney property. Still, there are ways to save on sweet drinks. Perhaps the best option is to find one of the few quick-service locations that offer free refills, order a drink, and refill the cup a

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

5. Bringing Food from Home is Allowed Have you ever peeked at Disney World food prices? For some, paying those prices for every meal simply isn't an option.   While we still firmly believe in having at least a few Disney World restaurant meals during your trip, we also think that taking sandwiches to the parks for some meals is perfectly

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

6. Kids Under 3 Eat Free at Buffets If you have a toddler who is a big eater, buffets could be an awesome idea for your family. You see, kids under three eat for free at buffets, meaning your tiny little garbage disposal can eat to their heart’s content and you won’t pay a dime.

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

7. The Dining Plan Isn’t Always the Best Deal Many guests who are new to Disney World simply assume that the Disney Dining Plan is the best deal out there. However, this isn't the always the case. Depending on how your family eats, the dining plan may not be a good deal at all, so be sure to do some research on this as well, and only purc

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

8. Some of the Best Restaurants Aren’t in the Parks While it might seem silly to travel to a hotel to try out a restaurant, the Disney resort hotels offer some of the best dining options on-property. Therefore, we highly recommend doing some research beforehand just in case there is an eatery hidden away in a hotel that you might want to

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Top 10 Tips Rookies Should Know About Dining At Disney World Resort

9. You Will NEED Reservations It might be tempting to head into your vacation without making reservations. We get it, tying yourself down to a specific time and place can seem so regimented for a vacation. However, because the parks get so busy, and because many of the restaurants are so popular, you are going to need to make dining reser

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