With the brand new Wizarding World of Harry Potter, we know alot of guests visiting Disney World are taking a day to visit this new park.  It can cost you from $80-150 in transportation costs to get from your Disney Resort hotel to Universal's Islands of Adventure to visit this new island.  We have a great ticket option to help with this cost.  Universal Studios offers the 1-Day/2-Park Pass with free shuttles from the Disney Resort hotels to Universal Studios.  This ticket allows you one day to both Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure.  The Islands of Adventure Park has the Wizarding World of Harry Potter island.  So, this ticket allows you admission to both parks.  You can even hop between parks on the same day.

The huge value is the free transportation.  With this ticket, you get free shuttle service.  You get picked up at your Disney Resort hotel and dropped off at Universal Studios.  You actually schedule your pick up time, so it is planned just for you and your family.  When you are done playing at the Universal Parks, you call to schedule the time to be picked up and head back to your Disney Resort hotel.  It is an excellent service and for no additional cost, it is a huge value for your Orlando vacation.

Take advantage of the free transportation with the 1-Day/2-Park Pass from your Disney Resort hotel to the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

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Best Time to Visit Disney World

by admin on August 26, 2010

Today's guest blogger is Dave!  Dave is mostly a business strategist, problem solver, and consultant.  In his spare time, he is the author and webmaster of the Walt Disney World Instruction Manual, which has been called "the most valuable Disney World site on the web."  This website is designed for first time visitors to Disney World, and is built to make decisions about your trip as simple and fast as they can be including helping you decide when is the best time to visit Disney World.  However, its guidance and material apply and appeal to people on the fifth visit as much as those on their first!  Everyone wants to know when it's the best time to visit Disney!

In this post, he is going to talk about the his  2011 Week Picker—a tool to suggest the best times to visit Disney World based on your family preferences about crowds, prices, and weather.  Thank you to Dave for being our guest blogger - be sure to visit his website.  Here's Dave...

Those who have seen my first two guest posts--Best Times to Visit Disney World During Spring Break and When to Visit Disney World—know that I give a lot of advice on when to go to Walt Disney World.  Most of this advice is for the “average family”—a family that wants to avoid crowds, higher prices, the peak of the hurricane season, and such.   But your family may be different than the “average family.”  You may wish desperately to avoid winter, you may not care about prices, you may be less concerned about crowds.

While my site gives all the material you need to work out for yourself the best weeks to visit Disney World for your family—including a Disney World crowd calendar and extensive material on weather—you may not want to dig through all this to figure out the best time for your family visit to Walt Disney World.

For families like this, I have just published the 2011 Week Picker. Modeled on my 2010 Week Picker (which more than 10,000 people have already used), the 2011 Week Picker asks you a few simple questions about crowds, prices, and weather, and then, based on your answers, presents the best weeks of 2011 for your family visit to Disney World!

Intrigued?  Take it out for a test drive and let me know what you think!

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Disney Dooney & Bourke Purses – Get a Disney World Purse Shipped to You

August 25, 2010

If you love the new Disney World Dooney & Bourke purses (featured in Vogue), you can purchase a purse and have it shipped right to your door!  The Disney Dooney & Bourke bags, purses and wallets have become super popular since being released a few months ago. Based on this popularity, Disney [...]

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Disney’s Magical Express Tip

August 24, 2010

You’re always told to carry your expensive electronics — cameras, computers, DVD players, iPods, iPads, and so on with you on the plane to protect them during the journey.  What happens, though, if the airlines lose your luggage?  Or, what if you use Disney’s Magical Express on your Disney vacation?
For the [...]

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Try a Disney Vacation in Hawaii

August 23, 2010

Last week, we got a glimpse of one of the most anticipated new Disney Vacation Club properties, Aulani in Ko Olina, Hawaii opening Fall 2011.  The Disney Hawaii Resort called Aulani is already booking guests for the opening in August of 2011.  You can already start booking rooms and villas at this new DVC resort [...]

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Disney World Kennels – Give Your Pet a Disney Vacation!

August 18, 2010

Did you know Disney World has kennels?  That’s right!  You can let Fido have a vacation of his own right along with Pluto and the gang.  Each of the 4 Disney World theme parks has a kennel near the front entrance, with an exception at Magic Kingdom where the kennels are [...]

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Epcot Food & Wine Festival Concerts

August 16, 2010

The concert series that coincides with the Epcot Food & Wine Festival, Eat to the Beat, has recently announced the schedule of entertainers for the event.  The Eat to the Beat Concert Series includes:
Oct. 1-3 – Taylor Dayne
Oct. 4-5 – Kool & The Gang
Oct. 6-8 – Sugar Ray
Oct. 9-10 – Taylor Hicks
Oct. 11-12 [...]

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New Epcot Disney World Restaurant

August 12, 2010

The newest Epcot Disney World Restaurant is having a soft opening this week and the Grand Opening on August 5.  This new restaurant is in Italy and is called Via Napoli.  We got to enjoy a sneak peek of this new Epcot Disney World Restaurant.  Enjoy our picture tour!

This is the front entrance of Via [...]

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When to Visit Disney World

August 11, 2010

I tried to do two special things on my site http://yourfirstvisit.net/: to focus on first time visitors to Walt Disney World, especially those unsure if they will ever return, and to make planning a Disney World trip as easy as possible.  The key to making planning easy is the site’s home page—it tells first time [...]

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Discovery Shark Week – Swim with Sharks at Disney World

August 5, 2010

This week is Discovery Shark Week!  When spending a week visiting Florida, many guests are apprehensive about swimming in the ocean, because of sharks that are known to haunt the waters along the coast. Since Jaws came out in the late 70’s the ocean waters have never been quite the same to people swimming in [...]

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