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11Mar 2024 by chicagocraftgal

Disney Dining Reservation System Major Update!

Blog, Disney, Planning, Travel, While You're There, While You're Waiting

The Disney Dining reservation system has received a major update. You can now search restaurants for up to 10 consecutive days for available dining at your desired restaurant. This is huge! (Especially for those who are annual pass holders and/or traveling with large groups like I do with my family of eight.) Break down of how the Disney Dining reservation system update works: From the Disney World page, select "Make Reservations" under the "Things to Do" tab. You are first prompted to select the number of people in your party, and the date you are interested in. Next, select what time of day you are interested in dining. At this point you’ll be able to see available times and locations for dining. Images captured from disneyworld.disney.com website Let’s say you…

25Aug 2019 by Tiffiny

Character Meals

Blog, Disney, Planning, Travel, While You're There

[caption id="attachment_1787" align="alignnone" width="735"] Child walking and dining with Mickey Mouse at a character meal[/caption] Character Meals-What are They? Character Meals are Disney Dining experiences where one of more characters come to your table while you are eating at a particular restaurant. It's one of our favorite ways to fill two needs with one activity--eating and character greeting. How Do I Get a Character Meal? Character meals like all other Disney table service meals require a reservation. You can make a reservation 180 days in advance. If you stay on Disney property, you can make the reservation 180 days out from the first day of your reservation. That means if you are staying for five days starting October 6, and your 180th day out is April 3, you actually can…

16May 2019 by Tiffiny

Disney Shirts

Blog, Craft Activities, Disney, Planning, While You're Waiting

Today's Throwback Thursday is a craft from 2011 and updated in 2013. While You are Waiting for Your Trip...One of the things I like to do while I wait for our trip date to draw near is make Disney-themed crafts. It's a bonus for us if they also will serve a purpose in the parks. I made matching shirts for our family. Originally I did it because I had seen the idea on social media and thought it would be really fun for us. Since then I have learned that dressing identically helps a lot in crowded locations. It makes it so much easier to spot each other. It also makes it easy when and if, despite my best efforts and constant head counting, one of my children wanders off…

07Mar 2019 by chicagocraftgal

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Opening Dates

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[caption id="attachment_1764" width="1280" height="720"]Artist rendering courtesy of Disney Parks Blog[/caption] Just in! Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opening dates announced! The Disneyland expansion will open on May 31 and Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studios expansion will open August 29! The Hollywood Studios date is a full two months before most people expected an opening (it was previously announced late fall). This is exciting, but also tempered by the fact they have divided the opening into phases. Phase II will still be late fall. No-cost reservations will be required in Disneyland May 31-June 23, 2019. No reservations are needed in Florida when it opens later in August. Additionally FastPass+ will not be an option for initial opening of Millenium Falcon: Smuggler's Run. That may change in the future. Stay tuned for future…