Disney World tips

[Ticone4]

Originally Posted by Teens&Tots OK - heading to Disney for Halloween - will be there 10/29 - 11/4 - we are planning to do the Halloween special and wondered from anyone that has been there - should we shy away from going on the 30th? We are flexible and I wondered if that night would be CRAZY? Also, when we went in the spring, I just missed attending a time share presentation that would have netted us 10 day all hopper plus - blah blah for a GREAT price (dh wouldn't do it, not knowing ahead of time so we payed for our 3 day tickets what we would have paid for these 10 no exp lifetime passes + 90 minutes of time - and we are interested in a timeshare.....) so my question is, does anyone know of any reputable places, I think if I set it up ahead of time and the inlaws take the kids, we'd be all set.....any help would be appreciated greatly and repped;) thx thx thx

We went to the party once several years ago and it happened to fall on the last Friday prior to Halloween and it was pretty crowded and not at all as others had described (no lines for rides or candy, not many people, etc.). We had a great time but from what I can tell the closer you get to Halloween the busier the party gets so I would think the 30th would be pretty busy especially since the 31st is sold out and it falls on a Friday night so you will probably have a lot of Florida residents in addition to vacationers.

We just got back and we almost went to the party while we were there but decided it would be too much for our 20 month old. Plus we were a little tentative about it b/c when we went before a huge rain storm came up out of nowhere and we ended up only being able to spend about three and a half hours at the party. My son's candy bucket was full of water and there was literally water up to our ankles in some parts of the park when we were trying to make it to our resort bus. It was an absolute downpour so we felt like we didn't really get our money's worth out of it but that being said it was really cool to be there for a special event and we did have a really good time before the rain.

You probably already know this as well but a quick tip is if you have any interest in riding Toy Story Mania at Hollywood Studios you should sprint to that ride as soon as the park opens and try to get in line to ride it and then if you want to ride it again immediately get in the fastpass line. It was CRAZY trying to ride that while we were there. We had a character breakfast in the park so we were able to get in early and finished right as the park was opening and went right to it and it seemed like everyone came straight in and headed to that ride. Our server told us that the fastpasses are gone by noon everyday. When we came out of our ride the standby line wait time was up to 105 minutes!!! The same for Soarin' at Epcot. They seemed to be gone by lunch as well.

[joshmamabear]

Originally Posted by mars1990 We are going to Disney! I'm looking into PhotoPass and the review range seems to be either loveit or hate it. So, for my frugal friends, worth it or not? Would you care to share any deals or what you paid for what you got if you have tried it? Pros: I thinking about doing it becuase we will be a party of two and I would love to have pics w/ both if us in them. Cons: On the down side, many complain about the photographers being hard to find and very few at EPCOT (our fav park) I'd love your

the main disadvantage for me is photopass charges way too much!!!! We did that so I can compare later and also relied on the kindness of strangers to take our family photos and our pics turned out better than the photopass pics IMO, not worth paying that much and you're better off asking kind strangers to take your pics.

We had no problems finding photographers, they were all over the place. at AK, they were near the Tree of Life.

[Ticone4]

Originally Posted by mars1990 We are going to Disney! I'm looking into PhotoPass and the review range seems to be either loveit or hate it. So, for my frugal friends, worth it or not? Would you care to share any deals or what you paid for what you got if you have tried it? Pros: I thinking about doing it becuase we will be a party of two and I would love to have pics w/ both if us in them. Cons: On the down side, many complain about the photographers being hard to find and very few at EPCOT (our fav park) I'd love your

We always get a photopass just to have as a backup in case our camera card gets accidentally erased or something like that but actual ordered prints in my opinion are way too expensive. Also, the photopass photographers will take pictures of you with your camera as well. They just do theirs first and then you can give them yours. That's how we always get our family pics in front of the tree of life, with Mickey and Minnie at Toon Town Fair, etc. If it is a character greet then there is usually a photopass photographer and a cast member there so you can also ask the cast member to take pics while the photopass photographer takes their picture.

[434Teresa]

it is very costly and yes they are hard to find....

[couponfanatic]

Photopass prints are expensive. But depends on how long you go. We went for 10 days, and got the CD, which was like unlimited pics or something (if there was a limit we never hit it). It was about $100 I think. Flat fee for the CD. So for a long stay it's not so bad, but for a short stay, way too much.
We can print all we want from the CD, at home that is. Never tried having them printed.
And I think the pass itself is free, and the pics are available online til X days after your vacation, so why not go for it, have them also take pics w/ your camera, and if there's a shot or two from the pass you can't live without you can make the decision after you get home.

[Bradleylousie]

Disney world is really beautiful place of the world. Everybody want to visit it. Generally children are more excited to visit a Disney world. So in the next vacation i want to visit it with my cousin brother and his two children.

[ericderek]

WE are going Dec. 5-10. I am choking on the ticket prices (3 adults and 2 kids in the $1200-1400 range depending on hopper, etc). Is that right? It's from a discount ticket site.

We're staying at Orbit One Vacation VIllas in Kissimmee. Seems like they are 15 minutes away or so.

Any help on car rental (I need to drop it off in Palm Beach), tickets, and whether the kids can swim at the hotel pool would be appreciated.

[jwahlton]

If you go to Epcot, look for a roving photographer named Seth. That's my son and he takes AWESOME photos. He was just assigned to Bobby Flay a week or so ago to go all over the park with him and take his photo. Bobby invited Seth to eat with him and everything! He has black hair, good looking, and a great smile. Tell him his Momma told you to find him