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I resisted for many years... but decided to try with my first post-pandemic visit. I stuffed it so full! Looking forward to packing less for my next trip in May.

I've been afraid they would do this once I saw posted park hours are limited. it wreaks havoc with required advance dining reservations! Suddenly the park is open later and you have to cancel a reservation if you want to stay in the park and find an alternate dinner - which is unlikely so you...

Changing buses at AK is likely the fastest, as that is the shortest total route. Changing at Disney Springs is next fastest based on distances. But a delay in a bus could throw that for a loop. Hopefully you have working monitors to show you bus arrivals! Coming back, you could be after AK...

Making my first drive from Western NY in 5 years due to the pandemic. 19-20 hours of driving. I'm the only driver, have adult daughter to keep me awake and navigate. Plan to take long nap breaks and avoid hotel unless it feels impossible. I take I-79, US19 and I-77 rather than US15 and deal...

I love stopping at the parking area next to the bridge on my drives. There are not a lot of hotels nearby - south there are two low end motels. North there are a few places including a Hampton in Summerville - I would choose that if rates were acceptable. Go further south to Bradley/Beckley and...

I wanted GE but the wait was months and required travel to a TSA interview location. PreCheck was a local interview scheduled the week after I applied, and I had my KTN later that day. Super fast and easy. Now if we can stop Precheck for families with 2 strollers and 4 kids who do not know...

If I am on annual passes: and flying: I try to make it a 10 day trip with 8 or 9 park days. and driving: it takes 2 days so we make it a 2 week trip and 12 park days (possibly a day at beach or Universal too). If not on annual passes, I only fly, and it will be 6 or 7 park days. It's mostly...

I was actually pleased by this show, far better than the previous 2 and you don't have to be at a railing to enjoy it, most of it is visible above people's heads. I watched from 3 places last week, one at the rail, two standing back. I found plenty of original music and story, and less Disney...

I am disturbed by the "elephant in the room" being discussed here as DAS abuse. Nobody here can know, or even conjecture at what constitutes abuse or how much there could be, and certainly not by counting blue vs. green lights at the lightning lane. The elephant in the room is the idea that...

Thought I would start a topic on Turo, the "AirBnb" for cars. I used this for my trip December 9-20, 2023. You are renting a person's personal car, through an Agency that adds administration and payment handling, uses a required smartphone app, and provides a choice of insurance levels. I found...

Agreed. Disney was prone to the mad scramble for limited FP+ and now for VQ and LL. At Universal, if you plan ahead you can always get Express pass. Just maybe not day of. Disney has never found a balance between people willing to (grudgingly lol) plan their days to every minute, and those...

My starting queue # was about 950, but I was up at 11:11am EST. Will be my first MM. Only DVC events ever held during my vacations were the Atlantic Dance Hall sales pitches.

FP+ wasn't broken. It was released without adequate testing and performance but it got refined. I had many years using it with success. The change to Genie+/LL and ILL is quite simply a money grab. And by splitting those, it's an aggregious money grab. And too complicated for the average...

In June: When I could get on Rise, the wait was always significantly shorter than posted. 3 days I wanted to rope drop Rise, and it was down at the start of the day all 3 days. They make you walk away from the entrance area when it is down. Waited over an hour, no good. Went on Smugglers single...

Someone reported they used cash lanes but the transponder pinged and they were double charged. So get a receipt... and be prepared to go through the hassle of demanding a refund of toll AND fees.

I have rented from Budget, Sixt, Hertz and one other off-brand I can't recall in the last few years. I had one car with a transponder fastened with clear tape and it could not be removed. Agencies response was "don't drive on toll roads." The others had a removable one but I didn't have a bag...

BUT you need a car company that will remove their transponder. Some won't, they are permanent. If you go through with two transponders they may BOTH ping, one ping, or the other can ping. It's random. Then you have a 3-way problem. Toll authority, rental company, and you. You have to show...

"Charge rage" is becoming a thing. People arriving and wanting to charge and angry that others are at a station and not monitoring their charge and moving when done. We have a serious lack of charging stations and small number of spots at stations. That includes Interstates in my area. people...

Yea, watch out for the exits from 417 that require a transponder or coins to exit...unmapped. Also don't use the express lanes on I-4 through the Orlando area without a transponder. You can bring your E-Zpass from another state now (and a small roll of packing tape to fix it to the window) If...

Varies by time of day and expected load of reserved passengers. In June I was at Saratoga Springs. We stopped at 2 others before SS: CBR and OKW. On the way back we stopped at CBR then airport. Time on bus is almost always between 30 and 60 minutes.