October 31, 2008

Planning a Disney World Vacation - Early Tips

Filed under: Home, Travel — admin @ 6:14 pm
Before you even think about buying your Disney world theme tickets for your trip, you need to do some legwork to make sure that your family can get the most out of the vacation. No one wants to spend the kind of money you will spend for a Disney vacation only wait in line after line for a week. With the right planning, everyone can have a blast on a vacation to Orlando!

Get Some Help

The first place to go to get help planning your vacation is a travel agent who specializes in Walt Disney World vacations. These agents will be able help you locate the most affordable tickets. For instance, you can use a “Park Hopper” pass to see more than one of the four parks in the same day, but you may not know about this feature without the help of a specialized travel agent. You may even be able to save some money by booking a package that combines tickets, airfare, hotels, and even meals through your travel agent.

Deciding When to Go

When you visit the parks is important as you plan your Disney trip. Most people visit during the summer when the kids are out of school. This means the summer is the most crowded season at the parks, second only to Christmas. It is also the hottest time of year in Florida, which means that you will be hot and tired while waiting in extensive lines. If you can, try to plan a trip in the early spring or fall. These are slow times, and you will also enjoy the weather quite a bit more.

Choose the Right Park Ticket

Buying Walt Disney World tickets park is not as simple as you might think. The tickets are called ?Magic Your Way,? and this is because you can customize them with a variety of features. The basic ticket only allows you to visit one park per day for a set number of days, and you must use the tickets within 14 days of using it the first time. You can add a ?no expiration? feature for an additional fee. This will allow you to use the ticket at another trip to Orlando if you are, for some reason, unable to use all of the days you purchased on your first trip.

The “Park Hopper” addition allows you to travel from park to park in the same day. This is a great feature, especially when you realize that Animal Kingdom closes at 6 P.M., yet there is still plenty of time to see something else after 6. Finally, you can add the ‘Water Park Fun & More” feature to your tickets. This allows you to visit other Disney attractions like DisneyQuest, the water parks, the Wide World of Sports, and Pleasure Island.

Once You Arrive

There are many tips and tricks you can use to make your trip to Walt Disney World more enjoyable. Before you head out, pick up a guidebook that will help you plan out your trip to the parks. Each park has busy and slow days during the week, and these guidebooks will help you visit the parks on their slower days. They will also help you map ( triptiks ) out a route that avoids the crowds. For instance, if you hit some of the more popular rides during a parade, you will avoid the long lines.

Be sure to take advantage of Disney’s Fast Pass system. This allows you to get a ticket for a popular ride that has a time stamped on it. You carry the ticket with you while you ride other rides, and return to the popular attraction at the stamped time. You can then bypass the line and ride. You have basically spent your “waiting in line” time riding other rides! A good Disney guidebook will help you find all of these tips and tricks to make your family?s Disney trip the vacation of a lifetime!

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July 21, 2008

Finding a Family Resort in Canada

Filed under: Travel — admin @ 9:21 am

Introduction

Family vacations are a big industry in Canada, arguably more so than any other type of vacation. Canada has always been a family country and that is most definitely reflected in the types of vacations that tend to be taken within their borders. There are many different types of family vacations that can be taken, but the most popular are no doubt resort vacations. While these types of vacations predominate, a priority of most people trying to get a family vacation in Canada started would be to find a family resort to make that vacation possible. Well, if you know what you want in a family resort, there are many ways that you can begin your search.

Travel Agents

Without a doubt, the best place to start your search for a good family resort is travel agents. Now, travel agent is a very general term that can mean a number of different things. You can see an actual travel agent or you can talk to someone involved in the tourism industry. You can even consult tour guides that act in lieu of travel agents and all of these would be good ways to proceed. You are looking for someone with a good knowledge of the area you wish to travel to within Canada so that you can get them to recommend a good place for you to stay. Family resorts are all over the place and in general they will provide you with a good experience, but only someone familiar with the area can help you differentiate the good family resorts from the great ones.

Directories

If you do not have access to someone in the travel industry, then consulting a travel guide is a good idea as was mentioned above. Travel guides and travel directories are published on a regular basis both by government organizations as well as by experts in the tourism industry within Canada. These directories will contain lists of accommodations in different areas and of course those accommodations will have brief blurbs on them within the travel guide as well as contact information that you can use to get more information on the resorts and hotels that interest you.

Once you have made a list of potential candidates for your family resort, it is time to do some of your own investigative research. Contact each of the resorts that you find interesting and discuss the situation with them. See what they have to say about themselves, the tone that they use to convey the information and the rates that they offer. Then, take that information and weigh the pros and the cons of each specific resort. If you are able to narrow the resort list down to just one then you have found the resort your family will stay at.

If you still have more than one left, get more information from each of the remaining sources. Ask about facilities for children, arrangements for food and transportation and anything else that comes to mind as being potentially useful during your upcoming family vacation. Your goal is to get as much information as possible so that you can make an educated decision about which family resort your vacation will take place at.

Final Words

If you are at all squeamish or reluctant about gathering so much information on the different choices, just remember that if you have a family resort vacation, chances are pretty good that the majority of your vacation will take place there. You do not want the choice to end up being bad because if it is then it could ruin your entire vacation.