My family’s decision to become Disney Vacation Club (DVC) members was a long one, six years in the making in fact. We first took a DVC tour (Disney makes it incredibly easy) in 2001. We liked what we heard. We love Walt Disney World. We didn’t purchase. Why? Finances and uncertainty about our future vacation plans. We...

I hate to start by saying It Depends but when we, as Seniors, travel to Walt Disney World we have the flexibility and the luxury to make that vacation exactly what we want it to be so long as we are traveling by ourselves or with like minded seniors.

Not everyone out there can always afford to get the mack daddy Disney Deluxe Dining plan. I can’t tell you how many trips we have taken over the years we we didn’t do any Dining Plan at all. Most times it was when we would rent a vacation home or stay off site with a kitchen. With our economy just starting to show...

We have been pretty honest about our lack of Disney merchandise on this blog, pretty much since our first post. We aren't into plush, or picture frames, or calendars...or what ever people buy on vacation. But as I was slumming around the house on Monday (because it always rains on my days off from work) I realized. Holy Moley! Disney threw up all over our house!

Great advice from John Frost about steps we can all take to be more environmentally-friendly when we go to Disney World.

We’re pretty geeky around here at TouringPlans.com HQ. Over the past few years, we’ve spent a lot of time building up a big database of Disney attraction, hotel, and dining information, and a lot more (we even started predicting park hours last week). Because we’re big geeks, we also love APIs — ways for 3rd-party web and app developers to access data (we talked about Disney APIs on the latest Betamouse episode).

Food is perhaps one of the greatest parts of visiting Walt Disney World. Just think about all the effort we put into making our dining reservations when that 180 day window kicks in. Much of our vacation planning goes into not just where we’ll eat, but also toward what we’ll eat. There are foods we want to try, foods we want to avoid, and some foods we just want to get a good long look at...

On our first trip to Walt Disney World, we wanted to do everything! So my wife and I booked 15 nights at Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort and we commenced visiting every attraction and show the Parks had to offer. We didn’t care what we did first because we were going to do it all!

We travel to Walt Disney World as much for the foods as we do for the attractions. This is part of the experience. And it's the snacks all over the "World" that we seek out with every park and resort. Cara Goldsbury highlights some of her favorites (ironically that also match much of mine). A WORLD VIEW.