Disney, Universal & Other Theme Parks

If you go to Walt Disney World (WDW), you can expect to spend a whole lot of money. Their hotels are expensive, their food is expensive, their souvenirs are expensive, …

Staying at Walt Disney World isn’t cheap and one way to lower your costs is to use the Marriott Free Nights Certificate, good at any room costing 50,000 points per …

If you’ve ever been to Walt Disney World or Disneyland (or even the Disney parks in Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong or Shanghai, for that matter), you may have noticed how …

The cost of a Walt Disney World (WDW) vacation has increased exponentially over the years. Although “being in the Disney bubble” and staying at a Disney-owned hotel on property is …

Walt Disney World covers 43 square miles. To put that into perspective, it’s roughly the size of San Francisco, or about twice the size of Manhattan. It’s a good thing …

The charges to park at Walt Disney World’s theme parks have gone up every year (sometimes more than once a year) for just about as long as WDW has been …

If you’ve been to Walt Disney World over the past 20 years or so, chances are you may have used a FastPass or two. The system was introduced in 1999 …

The beginning of a new year is a chance to look back and remember all of the things that have happened in the last 365 days. Sharon and I were …

For some people, Walt Disney World is a magical place where nothing can go wrong. As long as they stay within the fantasized “Disney bubble,” they’ll have the best vacation …

I worked on planning our trip to Austria and Germany for close to a year. I found award flights, picked out hotels, and even started to research some about the …