Disney Friends & Family – Tips and Tricks

70-80 round trip

I pre-arranged a car for about that price and paid another 1/2 for the same company to take me back to the airport at the end of the trip. The price included a stop at a very nice Publix! If you are interested I will try to find the name of the car service.

$41

Depending on day of the week and time of the day and size of vehicle! You can use Uber and Lyft estimate. I usually spend $30-$35 each way.

The app

That's the only official one. However, some restaurants are not owned by Disney. Many of those you can call directly as they don't release all availability to WDW☺️

In a normal year I would say you are in the midst of Spring Break and the start of Spring Training, so expect crowds. With COVID, it may not be as crowded but I would still anticipate lines and moderate crowds, and guests behaving badly.

We have gone several times including last year during that week and we have had great experiences. Low crowds and short wait times!

I'll be there that week. I'm hoping with Spring Break starting March 5th in Florida and people not wanting to travel from afar as much, it'll be less crowded.

January and February really are my favorite times to go to Disney! The Festival of the Arts is going on in EPCOT and it is such a fun festival to experience! I do find the crowds tend to be slightly lower and the weather to me is absolutely perfect!

It’s actually one of my favorite times to go! Particularly because of the weather, but also for the Festival of the Arts. I find that while there are still a lot of people there, it’s far less than in the Fall.

We will be there that week too.. during the week so I’m hoping it’s fairly low key.

Yes!! And weather is great too

We are there from the 20th to 28th as well. The key indicator is how much Disney has increased park hours for the week. Before this week they have added 2 or more hours a day to the parks. This week with the exception of Sat/Sun they only added 1 hour. Disney knows how many people will be there and in which parks due to the reservation system. Another indicator is room availability of which every resort on property has. Dinning is not as good an indicator as they have reduced capacity but even with that except for very popular restaurants you can still find reservations two weeks out. I am not expecting large crowds though with social distancing it may feel like a lot of people.

Yes but just know the weather is up and down. You may have 70 degrees one day and wake up to 40 the next.

Delivery for groceries will be cheaper from Walmart then a Uber

We used the dumpling app for groceries to be delivered the day we got to resort

Dumpling app? Never heard of that‼️

Oh heck yeah.

Good morning! Right now we don’t have any information from Disney on when BBB will reopen or if Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween party will be returning in some way. Magic Kingdom will be celebrating its 50th on 10/1/21 so I fully expect we will see some celebrations planned for that. Stay tuned on this page we always announce as soon as we get confirmation from Disney!

I have a close friend who is a Fairy Godmother in Training (those are the BBB ones who do the makeup and hair). She’s still furloughed with no end in sight right now.

With Universal having a modified Mardi Gras I’m hoping it may mean some sort of version is things to come at Universal and Disney.

My girls loved it

I had read on the Ear for Eachother facebook group (the group of furloughed and layed off CM's) that some of the furloughed fairy godmothers were doing makeovers that were princess themed. I think they can come to your room or you arrange to go to their home, I'm not positive of the details. Maybe you can look in that group and see if you can work something out with one of them. Its a great way to support these out of work CM's and get a magical experience for your daughter!