By Jane Jones What to do, what to do…you’ve hit the parks for a few days straight and you just need a day off. How about a day of golf? You don’t golf? Well, read on…and you might find you’re a golfer at Disney. Both Fantasia Gardens and Winter Summerland contain two courses with eighteen…

Contracts and Room Blocks By Amy Moorby (formerly Amy Clauss) So, it’s been over a year since I wrote part one of this series. I guess I’ve been enjoying being a newlywed too much to think back about all the thousands of details involved in planning the wedding! But, it’s time for me to fondly…

By Brad K We’ve had some questions about just how Disney’s PhotoPass works. So we cornered Brad K, who knows the ins and outs of PhotoPass. Here’s what he shared. Q. Can you tell me what PhotoPass is? A. In a nutshell, the service is a network of photographers spread all over the four main…

By Jane Jones Ahhhhh…”Vero Beach“… Those are the two most relaxing words in my vocabulary. This summer my family went on the most amazing adventure: we went on the Disney Mediterranean cruise! What, you might ask, does that have to do with Vero Beach? Everything. The Mediterranean cruise was a dream come true, but we…

By Theresa Heppner I love living in Denver, Colorado! Denver was chosen as the perfect place for The Little Mermaid to make its pre-Broadway run this summer. This isn’t the first time the Denver Center Performing Arts Complex (DCPAC) and the folks at the Walt Disney Company have teamed up. The Lion King made its touring debut…

By Jane Jones The Disney Pirate and Princess Party (similar to Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party) was originally held for the first time in the beginning months of 2007. Being seasoned partygoers, we opted not to attend this event as we thought, “What else could Disney possibly do?” Sure, we love the Halloween event and even…

By Deb Niarhos Walt Disney’s dream for Disney World included a self-contained town, E.P.C.O.T, where people could work, live, shop and play. Although his dream was not achieved as envisioned, the Walt Disney World we know today has come pretty close. You can shop, dine and play throughout the resort. But, in Downtown Disney (DTD)…

By Jane Jones It’s an interesting thing to live 20 minutes from the Magic Kingdom. As many of you Disney fans would guess, we basically never get tired of “Disney” and go to the resort often. So you’d think we would have done it all. What I have found, instead, is that we have become…

Doorway to Dreams By Erica Colmenares Here in the wilds of Wisconsin, there’s not much Disney. We’re over 1300 miles from Lake Buena Vista, and almost 2000 miles from Anaheim. Our Disney Store closed earlier this year (without letting me know, by the way). There was that time that Disney on Ice came to town. That was big!…

By Kate Abbott The Disney Gallery, tucked above Pirates of the Caribbean in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square. View of the Gallery above Pirates. The banner on the lamppost advertises the Gallery’s current and seemingly final show, “Inspired by Disneyland.” Visiting the Disney Gallery, and especially its balcony overlooking the Rivers of America, has calmed me…

By Teresa Pitman Walt Disney’s love for the “Iron Horse” – the train – is well-known, and there’s evidence of that affection in the trains we enjoy riding at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom.  But Walt also loved real flesh-and-blood horses – he was a skilled rider and an enthusiastic polo player – and evidence…

By Erica Colmenares Most people look back on the past year on the first of January. Since we’ve been parents, I tend to be more introspective in the summer. The kid’s passed another grade (whew!) and a new school year beckons. Recently, I had the opportunity to also look back on the mountain of writing…