Episode 21
In-depth Series - Our guide to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
This episode of the Foreign Wishes podcast dives deep into the Magic Kingdom, providing listeners with a comprehensive guide to navigating one of Orlando's most iconic theme parks. Hosts Tony Desiere and Lauren Mallard share invaluable tips and strategies for both first-time visitors and seasoned park-goers, highlighting the park's attractions, dining options, and historic features. They discuss the significance of each land within the Magic Kingdom, from the nostalgia of Main Street USA to the adventurous vibes of Adventureland. The hosts also touch upon the importance of planning your visit around popular attractions, offering insights on which rides to prioritize and how to manage wait times effectively. Listeners will find a wealth of information that will enhance their experience at the Magic Kingdom, ensuring they make the most of their magical adventure.
Takeaways:
- Magic Kingdom is a vast park that can easily require two days to explore fully.
- Utilizing the Lightning Lane can significantly enhance your experience at Magic Kingdom.
- Main Street USA is designed to create a nostalgic feeling, evoking Walt Disney's childhood.
- Adventureland features iconic attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Jungle Cruise.
- Planning ahead is essential for popular attractions; consider timing and crowd levels.
- The transition from Main Street to the lands is designed to enhance the magical experience.
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Walt Disney World
- Magic Kingdom
- Adventureland
- Fantasy Land
- Liberty Square
- Frontier Land
- Tomorow Land
Transcript
Foreign Wishes podcast.
Tony Desiri:Thanks for joining us.
Tony Desiri:I'm Tony Desiri along with Lauren Mallard of all the magic Travel.
Tony Desiri:So this episode is going to be entitled In Depth the Magic Kingdom and it's going to be a kind of a multi part series.
Tony Desiri:We're going to go over the theme parks at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios, give you a primer for if you haven't been to the parks in a while or even if you've been to the parks a number of times, giving you some of our strategy tips to navigate your way around the parks.
Tony Desiri:And I know for a lot of you out there, you've been to the parks many times.
Tony Desiri:So there are some of you haven't been in a long time.
Tony Desiri:I know we meet people who haven't gone in like 10 years and a lot has changed.
Tony Desiri:And some of you may need a little bit of a guide to how to get the best out of your trip to Magic Kingdom or Epcot or Islands of Adventure or whatnot.
Tony Desiri:So this in the next couple of weeks is going to be our primer series, an in depth primer series on the parks.
Tony Desiri: agic Kingdom, which opened in: Tony Desiri:Unfortunately, Walt Disney did not get to see the opening of Walt Disney World.
Tony Desiri:But nevertheless, some of the themes of that park and some of the ideas behind that park certainly resonate within as you walk through the Magic Kingdom.
Tony Desiri:So that's what we decided to do today.
Tony Desiri:Go over all the lands, some of the places to eat, the rides, attractions, the shows, things that you need and plus some of those strategy tips that can help you navigate around Magic Kingdom.
Tony Desiri:Because it can be very busy and it can be very hectic and especially haven't been in a while.
Tony Desiri:There are some new things to navigate through, through.
Tony Desiri:So we decided to start with the Magic Kingdom.
Tony Desiri:How are you, Lauren?
Lauren Mallard:I am good.
Lauren Mallard:How are you, Tony?
Tony Desiri:Great.
Tony Desiri:Glad to be back and on track and getting, getting started once again with this series because I, I meet people all the time that say, well, I haven't been since I was a kid, I haven't been in 10 years or whatnot, want to take the kids or want to get back there.
Tony Desiri:And I thought to myself, you know, because we go a lot, it's something we've sort of adjusted our strategy and, and now I'm like, well, let's put together something that gives people an idea of how to really navigate these parks.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah, I think it's awesome because so many times, just Disney World overall, I have clients that will say, hey, I need a lot of hand holding.
Lauren Mallard:And that's what I'm good at.
Lauren Mallard:I'm good at helping navigate the parks.
Lauren Mallard:Almost like I'm there with them.
Lauren Mallard:And so having this in depth look at each one of the parks is really going to be helpful, I think, for somebody that's kind of new to vacationing at Disney.
Tony Desiri: is a park that's opened up in: Tony Desiri:Very different, obviously with the changes.
Tony Desiri:And that's what Walt Disney wanted with this parks always to change through the climb, the time.
Tony Desiri:But a lot of stuff stays the same, right?
Tony Desiri:Main Street USA stays the same.
Tony Desiri:It is that, that, that iconic idea of the, of the town Walt Disney grew up in and giving you that old feel.
Tony Desiri:Now the stores have certainly changed.
Tony Desiri:They used to be a magic shop, they used to be a Photoshop.
Tony Desiri:There was all sorts of different types of shops, different kinds.
Tony Desiri:And now it's a lot more, you know, one emporium that kind of encompasses that area and whatnot.
Tony Desiri:But there's still that amazing magic feeling of getting to that.
Tony Desiri:That entrance.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Lauren Mallard:And you know, I was told a long time ago, and I'm not sure if there's truth to this or not, but as you're coming in Main or Magic Kingdom, Main street is designed where it looks like it's longer when you come in and then when you exit, it's designed to where it looks like it's shorter.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, that forced perspective.
Lauren Mallard:Yes.
Lauren Mallard:And so it's.
Lauren Mallard:Every little bit of Main street was designed with, with so many things in mind.
Lauren Mallard:And I'll give one little fun fact while we're on Main street, if it's hot or if it's raining or if it's just crowded.
Lauren Mallard:Did you know that you can walk in the door down at Casey's Corner and you can walk all the way down to the other end of Main Street?
Lauren Mallard:It's one of those things to go outside.
Tony Desiri:It's one of those things.
Tony Desiri:I know, but I never execute.
Lauren Mallard:Oh, I do it all the time.
Tony Desiri:You do it all the time.
Tony Desiri:That's.
Tony Desiri:It's a great way to do that because you're right, all of it is sort interconnected all the way down into the main, like oval of the sort of entrance of the park.
Tony Desiri:Exactly.
Tony Desiri:This is the one thing that I still get a lot of working with people from around the country, especially people I've worked with in broadcasting, they're from California.
Tony Desiri:I've never been to Orlando is when I tell them you don't just pull up and go to the park.
Tony Desiri:You got to take a boat or experience.
Tony Desiri:It's incredibly wild.
Tony Desiri:And for many people who've never done it or have gone to Disneyland, where it's right there in town, like you're driving down the street and there it is, this is such a different experience to say, oh no, once you get to the parking, you, you're not done yet.
Tony Desiri:You, you have to pick which way you want to go to the park, monorail or boat.
Tony Desiri:And I think one of the things that I love about that is just knowing the history of why Walt or the, or the people at, who were designing it with Walt at the time before his death wanted to say, look, we, we, we built Disneyland, but we didn't buy enough land around Disneyland.
Tony Desiri:And so you go to Disneyland in Southern California and right across the street is like a Denny's or Right.
Tony Desiri:Different hotels and restaurants right there in real world Southern California.
Tony Desiri:And the idea of just going so far into Central Florida, so even much further than where you parked your car.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, that is, that is the park.
Tony Desiri:That's the only park that does that.
Tony Desiri:And it's still really, really magical to this.
Tony Desiri:Like you're actually going on an extended trip to Magic Kingdom.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah, absolutely.
Tony Desiri:When your clients talk to you about how many, how much can they see?
Tony Desiri:When I was, when I was younger, we went to Florida and my father did one of those tours where it's like they, you're gonna do Magic Kingdom and then Sea World and then you can have a free day and then.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:And Magic Kingdom was two days.
Tony Desiri:Is it still a two day part given all of the advancements and Lightning Lane and all that other kind of stuff?
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:So typically what I will tell clients is if they have, if they have five days to spend in the parks, if they're just doing Walt Disney World, that's ideal.
Lauren Mallard:Because I do still say that Magic Kingdom is a two day park regardless of the age of your kids or regardless if it's just adults, because there is so much to see and do there.
Lauren Mallard:I tell people that the Lightning Lane option there is the most valuable.
Lauren Mallard:It is the most, the, the priciest one, but it's the most valuable because there's the most attractions there.
Lauren Mallard:You're also going to see the most in regards to shows, nighttime spectaculars, different things that are going to fill up the day more than just the attractions that are there.
Lauren Mallard:So if the, if you have two days to spend.
Lauren Mallard:I have a particular way that I like to kind of tour it and do those two so that you're not seeing the same lands twice if you don't want.
Tony Desiri:We were advised again this when I was a little kid.
Tony Desiri:So this is early 80s.
Tony Desiri:Like do Adventureland and Fantasy Land in Liberty Square and hang out there one day and then the next day swing over.
Tony Desiri:Do you bounce around over the two days or do you, do you, do you say concentrate on getting as much of these lands as possible per day and then.
Tony Desiri:And switch over?
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:So I have a couple different ways of doing it.
Lauren Mallard:I have one plan where I'll say I'll kind of give the highlights of each land and then on that second day go back and do your favorites or do the things that you haven't hit or the other.
Lauren Mallard:Another way that I like to do it is I like to start in Tomorrowland and do Tomorrowland and Fantasyland and Liberty Square and then do Adventureland and Frontierland on the second day.
Lauren Mallard:And now with Big Thunder Mountain being closed, that takes away a really big attraction obviously in Frontierland.
Lauren Mallard:So that kind of kind of moves things around a little bit in that perspective.
Lauren Mallard:But.
Lauren Mallard:But yeah, I mean regardless of how you plan to do it, it can definitely be a two day park.
Tony Desiri:All right, so when you enter the park we, we talked about this is, there's, there's the Main Street USA Marceline, Missouri.
Tony Desiri:It's supposed to give you this sort of a tribute to Wal childhood.
Tony Desiri:And again the stores is a big emporium store for, for shopping for souvenirs.
Tony Desiri:There's Casey's Corner.
Tony Desiri:There's a beautiful crystal store, Crystal Arts which I, I like seeing.
Tony Desiri:I just kind of like that stuff.
Tony Desiri:There's a snack shop.
Tony Desiri:This is the kind of stuff that again you'll be seeing a lot of this on your way out.
Tony Desiri:You'll probably want to stop on your way out to get the souvenirs rather than carrying them around.
Tony Desiri:But it allows you to get up to have that walk to the castle which I think people I've always enjoyed get your picture taken.
Tony Desiri:But then because the way the park is designed, this is a spoken wheel design.
Tony Desiri:So everything sort of extends out of the center which is the castle.
Tony Desiri:The big question is which way do you go?
Tony Desiri:Yeah, and there are people who love to go to the right and there are people who go to the, go to the left.
Tony Desiri:Now I don't know if it's as big a deal as like people at Epcot and they say, which way should you do the world?
Lauren Mallard:I definitely don't think it's as polarizing.
Tony Desiri:Right.
Tony Desiri:Like, if you start in Canada, people will fight you.
Lauren Mallard:No, but I don't think that there's a right or wrong way.
Tony Desiri:If somebody said I go to.
Tony Desiri:I go to Tomorrowland first, I don't think.
Tony Desiri:Hear.
Tony Desiri:Hear a lot of argument or I cut right through and go to Fantasy Land first.
Tony Desiri:I don't think you hear a lot of arguments.
Tony Desiri: rth, you can go, you know, to: Tony Desiri:Whichever way you want to go.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:And, you know, I think another good point about Magic Kingdom is while it does have the most attractions, it's by far.
Lauren Mallard:I.
Lauren Mallard:I don't know if it's.
Lauren Mallard:I don't guess it's the smallest park.
Lauren Mallard:I guess Hollywood Studios would be the smallest park.
Lauren Mallard:But it's not a huge park.
Tony Desiri:No, it is not.
Lauren Mallard:So if you're on one side of the park and need to get to the clear the other side, then it's not a huge endeavor where it is at Epcot or Animal Kingdom.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:And there is a perspective because every park is sort of designed to not see the other park.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:So the way they've sort of angled the buildings and the angle the attractions, I mean, obviously there's some parts where you can sort of peek over and see some things, but they weigh.
Tony Desiri:You're supposed to be enclosed in every area of the park without really blending it into the other parks, but.
Tony Desiri:So it feels a little bigger than it actually is.
Lauren Mallard:You're right.
Tony Desiri:You can boogie from Big Thunderbound Railroad all the way to Carousel of Progress in a relatively short amount of time if you're walking straight through.
Tony Desiri:All right, well, let's go to the left and let's go to Adventureland first as people naturally sort of lean to the left as they walk.
Tony Desiri:So if they're going to that, this is a land where you're going to see.
Tony Desiri:You're going to find the Jungle Cruise, you're going to find Pirates of the Caribbean.
Tony Desiri:You're also going to find Dole Whip.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:If you're big on Dole Whip, this is where you're going to find it.
Tony Desiri:But you're also going to find rides like Aladdin's, the Aladdin Carpets, Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse, if in.
Tony Desiri:In Tiki and Tiki Room, some people say The Tiki Room is more nostalgic than it is anything else.
Tony Desiri:Is there.
Tony Desiri:Do you find any of these attractions not worth it?
Tony Desiri:Like, skip this one, move on, get.
Tony Desiri:Or do it later.
Tony Desiri:Do it after you've seen a lot of stuff and want to kind of check some things off your list.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:So I am one to skip the tree house.
Lauren Mallard:Obviously.
Tony Desiri:I don't think I've done the treehouse.
Lauren Mallard:In 20 years, so my kids wanted to do it one time, and we were climbing and climbing and climbing and climbing, and it's.
Lauren Mallard:You just.
Lauren Mallard:There's not really a whole lot to see.
Lauren Mallard:And so by the time we got up and came back down, they realized what it was, and it was just kind of one of those things like, oh, okay, well, we did that.
Lauren Mallard:We'll never have to do it again.
Lauren Mallard:So that's one that we skip.
Lauren Mallard:We almost always do the carpets just because Cora's.
Lauren Mallard:She's four, so she's still gonna enjoy that.
Lauren Mallard:That's still another filler ride that we can do.
Lauren Mallard:We're kind of hit or miss on the Tiki Room.
Lauren Mallard:I kind of think it's fun to go in there every once in a while, but it is certainly not an every trip.
Lauren Mallard:Must do.
Tony Desiri:Absolutely.
Tony Desiri:And.
Tony Desiri:And Pirates of the Caribbean and Jungle Cruise are.
Tony Desiri:These are.
Tony Desiri:These are absolute must do attractions.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:If you are going for the first time, these are the things you want to see, you should be seeing.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Tony Desiri:Jungle Cruise still stands the test of time.
Tony Desiri:Even though all the jokes are corny and are very predictable, it's still one of the more fantastic sort of Disney experiences.
Tony Desiri:The animatronics are old, but yet they still work a little magic when you're on the Jungle Cruise.
Tony Desiri:Pirates, I think is.
Tony Desiri:Has a very interesting history at Disney World because it wasn't included in the original plan.
Tony Desiri:People who were designing it didn't think people in Florida would want a Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
Tony Desiri:They thought that, oh, you get enough of that down here anyway.
Tony Desiri:Right.
Tony Desiri:There's the Gasparilla Parade down in Tampa.
Tony Desiri:What do you want this for?
Tony Desiri:But there was a real outcry of people going, wait, I went all the way to this park and there was no pirates ride.
Tony Desiri:And then they put the pirates ride in.
Tony Desiri:So Pirates of the Caribbean.
Tony Desiri:And that's changed a little bit, but it's still.
Tony Desiri:It still holds its.
Tony Desiri:Its own as one of the classic attractions.
Tony Desiri:And I.
Tony Desiri:I don't know if it ruins the magic a little bit, but I watched a.
Tony Desiri:Almost one of those Disney plus shows that, like, how they make the attractions and they kind of learned how they did the fire.
Tony Desiri:And I was like, oh, that was pretty basic and it sounded easy.
Tony Desiri:I wanted a little bit more.
Lauren Mallard:But interesting.
Tony Desiri:It's.
Tony Desiri:It's really well designed and, and ton of fun.
Tony Desiri:This.
Tony Desiri:I told you when I went to Christmas, I never saw the line outside the building ever.
Tony Desiri:And the line was outside the building and we got to go through the back end and sweep around and there were a couple of little cue items like skeletons and whatnot that I've never saw before because the ride, the weight never took me to that part of the building.
Lauren Mallard:So Crazy.
Lauren Mallard:So I have a little off topic question to ask you.
Tony Desiri:Yes.
Lauren Mallard:That.
Lauren Mallard:Speaking about pirates.
Lauren Mallard:So I always have wondered, if you're in the park after dark and you were stuck inside a ride by yourself, would it be more scary to be stuck inside Pirates of the Caribbean or Haunted Mansion?
Tony Desiri:Oh, that's a great question.
Tony Desiri:I would say Haunted Mansion.
Tony Desiri:I would say Haunted Mansion.
Tony Desiri:That was.
Tony Desiri:But, but I'm with you on both of them.
Lauren Mallard:You know, there's the really creepy aspect to parts of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, exactly.
Tony Desiri:Haunted Mansion is, is still one of those that even as I've gotten older, the one guy that's kind of screaming, let me out of here.
Tony Desiri:Let me out of here.
Tony Desiri:I'm always like, what's he doing there?
Tony Desiri:How long has he been there?
Lauren Mallard:Why?
Tony Desiri:Why can't.
Tony Desiri:Why can't he get out?
Tony Desiri:Why is the Haunted Mansion trapped him in this ghoulish place?
Tony Desiri:But.
Tony Desiri:But again, Adventureland, it's not big.
Tony Desiri:It's not big, but it's, it's.
Tony Desiri:You can quickly check off a lot of things in that land, but Dole Whip is where you're going to get it.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Tony Desiri:The cheeseburger spring rolls are also where you're going to get that if it's open.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:So now we're going to move up to Frontierland.
Tony Desiri:Now I have to admit, I think I've eaten at Pecos Bills once and that's it.
Tony Desiri:I.
Tony Desiri:This is not a place I stop for food.
Tony Desiri:I usually don't play the other.
Tony Desiri:Play the entertainment stuff.
Tony Desiri:I never.
Tony Desiri:I don't remember doing the shooting gallery when it was up and running, but it does have Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
Tony Desiri:It used to have the Splash Mountain.
Tony Desiri:Now Tiana's Adventure.
Tony Desiri:And I think Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is one of the best themed roller coasters out there.
Lauren Mallard:I agree.
Tony Desiri:It's sad that it's gone for a whole year, so.
Tony Desiri:Because I think it's, it's one of the rides that just the queue and going into a gold mine and all of those things.
Tony Desiri:It's still just got a great story behind it.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:With, with the loss of Big Thunder Mountain this year, there's a lot, a lot missing from Frontierland in general.
Lauren Mallard:You still have, you have the redo of the Country Bears, which we, we don't stop in the Country Bears anymore.
Lauren Mallard:And we're like you, we don't go to Peco Spills.
Lauren Mallard:So there's not as much in Frontierland that's going to draw us over there.
Lauren Mallard:Now we're going to do Tiana's Bayou Adventure Time and then usually just jump on the train to get back over to Fantasyland.
Lauren Mallard:But other than that, I can't think of anything that I'm really going to spend a lot of time in Frontierland.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, exactly.
Tony Desiri:They used to have a McDonald's fry cart.
Lauren Mallard:What?
Tony Desiri:They're years and years.
Tony Desiri:Oh, you know what?
Lauren Mallard:I think I do remember that a.
Tony Desiri:Long time ago, but McDonald's had a deal and they used to just sell fries.
Tony Desiri:That was it.
Tony Desiri:Like a box of french fries.
Tony Desiri:That's how you used to get a little stand was right, right there.
Tony Desiri:So Frontierland has got two.
Tony Desiri:We've got to show the country Bear Jamborees like Adventureland, the Tiki Room.
Tony Desiri:You can go in there, cool off, sort of relax a little bit, take some time away, get off your feet.
Tony Desiri:And now we're going to a lamb that is very small and in a blink of an eye you can miss it.
Tony Desiri:It's got a ride, it's got a show, it's got one of the more least probably used attraction.
Tony Desiri:But it is Liberty Square.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:So with Liberty Square, it's one of those that sometimes can kind of get lumped into Frontierland or Adventureland just because it's right there.
Lauren Mallard:But you've got the Haunted Mansion, which is one of the most classic rides in all of Magic Kingdom.
Lauren Mallard:So you do not want to miss this area of the park.
Lauren Mallard:You've got a quick service restaurant called Columbia Harbor House that is really.
Lauren Mallard:It's one of those that I think is kind of a hidden gem that if you're looking for something that's a little more what you would feel like, sit down.
Lauren Mallard:But also fast casual.
Lauren Mallard:You can go in there, you can sit upstairs, you can look down over the.
Lauren Mallard:The road that's kind of leading towards It's a Small World right there and have a meal that feels a little bit, a little bit more substantial.
Lauren Mallard:Than say like a hot dog at Casey's Corner.
Lauren Mallard:And then you have one of the more famous sit down restaurants in Magic Kingdom, Liberty Tree Tavern.
Tony Desiri: we ate at Liberty Tree Tavern: Tony Desiri:My daughter was, it was like her birthday, but it wasn't her birthday.
Tony Desiri:And it was kind of cool.
Tony Desiri:We were like gonna eat there and I.
Tony Desiri:They had these mugs and on the mugs have Mickey, Donald and Goofy in a kind of a patriotic theme.
Tony Desiri:And it said Liberty True traveling on it.
Tony Desiri:And I said, oh, these mugs are so great.
Tony Desiri:They're glass solid.
Tony Desiri:And I said I'm gonna, I wanna ask if they sell these mugs.
Tony Desiri:And the lady said, yeah, we sell them.
Tony Desiri:And I went to ask the lady how much they were and I don't know if she made a mistake.
Tony Desiri:I think she made a mistake because she said $5.
Tony Desiri:These are glass mugs with Disney characters.
Tony Desiri:I bought four.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, I said $5.
Tony Desiri:I was like, I don't think my soda was $5.
Tony Desiri:The soda that was in it.
Lauren Mallard:That's the deal of the century.
Tony Desiri:I, I keep them in my freezer and I break them out for frosted mug drinks.
Tony Desiri:And that' I thought it was great.
Tony Desiri:What?
Tony Desiri:It was a good meal too.
Lauren Mallard:That's fantastic.
Lauren Mallard:It's a really good meal.
Lauren Mallard:It's probably one of my favorite spots to eat at if I'm looking for a sit down meal.
Lauren Mallard:And it's.
Lauren Mallard:The atmosphere is interesting there because it's obviously set to be like in early colonial days.
Lauren Mallard:And it's just, it's an experience that I think is fun for all ages.
Tony Desiri:And you brought up the Haunted Mansion and again a very iconic ride.
Tony Desiri:It's the exact replica.
Tony Desiri:Not now because they've changed it up a little bit, but it used to be an exact replica of what they built at Disneyland.
Tony Desiri:And this was one of Walt Disney's of his favorite things to come up with.
Tony Desiri:Back at Back in Anaheim was really had a whole bunch of ideas on what he wanted the Haunted Mansion to be.
Tony Desiri:New world of weird, all of that.
Tony Desiri:It's a great history.
Tony Desiri:If you're a Disney historian and you want to know about Raleigh Crump and, and how they all came about it.
Tony Desiri:I highly recommend diving deep into the Haunted Mansion.
Tony Desiri:But it was a balance between a haunted house, a really scary haunted house and sort of goofy fun.
Tony Desiri:Let's laugh and have a good time.
Tony Desiri:Time.
Tony Desiri:But that means there's a balance.
Tony Desiri:There's a balance of being scary and there's a balance of being Kind of fun and whimsical.
Tony Desiri:How do we guide people who have little kids on what exactly this Haunted Mansion is?
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:So a lot of people will shy away from that when I ask about when we're, when we're talking about Lightning Lanes in particular, because Haunted Mansion is one of those that I think is a really good choice that still falls into that tier two or tier three category.
Lauren Mallard:But I'm actually finding more and more that families with kids don't want to go to Haunted Mansion.
Lauren Mallard:And it's surprising to me because I think that I always just drug my kids through there, regardless of how old they were.
Tony Desiri:Right.
Lauren Mallard:But now I would say it's probably still one that is not a favorite for my kids.
Lauren Mallard:But I always tell people, hey, you're not going.
Lauren Mallard:Nobody's going to jump out and scare you or try to, like, touch you or anything in there.
Lauren Mallard:It's.
Lauren Mallard:It's literally a slow, dark ride that's supposed to be somewhat fun.
Lauren Mallard:So just give it a try if you can.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:And I, I.
Tony Desiri:It's my favorite attraction in the park.
Tony Desiri:I try to ride it twice during the day and then at night I try to catch it twice when I'm there there.
Tony Desiri:But I do understand because again, the beginning is a little.
Tony Desiri:There's a guy playing the piano and you see his justice shadow.
Tony Desiri:And again, like I mentioned earlier, there's a guy asking to get out.
Tony Desiri:And you see the, the candles and no one's holding the candles.
Tony Desiri:The hat box ghost is now there.
Tony Desiri:He can be pretty freaky.
Tony Desiri:And then it gets very whimsical and it gets a little bit more fun.
Tony Desiri:I do have a tip for people.
Tony Desiri:I, I don't know if I should give this away, because it's actually a really good tip.
Tony Desiri:Some of you know this, but this is for newbies.
Tony Desiri:If you are in the stretching room and you want to get.
Tony Desiri:Be the first one out, stand underneath the girl with the umbrella.
Tony Desiri:Yes, that's where the door is.
Tony Desiri:That both of them.
Tony Desiri:So Lori and I did this last time because I told her, I said, stand with the girl.
Tony Desiri:As soon as we get in, go to the girl at the door, do with the umbrella.
Tony Desiri:And she said, why?
Tony Desiri:And I said, because that's where the door is.
Tony Desiri:And we were the first couple out of.
Tony Desiri:And I don't think I've ever been the first couple out of that melee that has.
Tony Desiri:That has you going.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Lauren Mallard:Listen, you gotta save every second that you can.
Tony Desiri:That's right.
Tony Desiri:So that just.
Lauren Mallard:We were.
Tony Desiri:Walk to the ride she goes, this is actually cool.
Tony Desiri:I go, yeah, it's really cool.
Tony Desiri:We're leading the parade to the doom buggies.
Tony Desiri:But they do have a shop, Memento Mori.
Tony Desiri:You can go there and get your Haunted Mansion souvenirs.
Tony Desiri:But like I said, very small.
Tony Desiri:It does have an attraction.
Tony Desiri:And that's the hall of Presidents.
Lauren Mallard:Yes.
Tony Desiri:Another place to relax and sit down and take a nap.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Tony Desiri:Which is what everybody says about the hall of Presidents is where you can go to get 20 minutes of Z time.
Lauren Mallard:Hey, that's absolutely right.
Lauren Mallard:And you know, I think that it's one of those.
Lauren Mallard:I don't think we've ever made our kids sit through it, but because we're out of the nap phase with our kids.
Lauren Mallard:But, but yes, it's absolutely a perfect spot for a nap.
Lauren Mallard:It's nice and cool and dark.
Lauren Mallard:So.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri: Do you think in: Tony Desiri:Not worn off.
Tony Desiri:But it's not as impressive.
Lauren Mallard:Yes, I, I get that for sure because I can think back to the first time that I saw it, probably in the early ninet.
Lauren Mallard:It was really, really cool to see that because these, these animatronics looked so lifelike.
Lauren Mallard:And I think we're so used to seeing that now that it's, it's a little lost.
Lauren Mallard:A little.
Tony Desiri:It's a wild show because you'll see like when they're introducing the presidents and like Franklin Pierce has mentioned, you'll see like Thomas Jefferson turn his head and nod and then just.
Tony Desiri:And then you can watch all of the animatronics doing something.
Lauren Mallard:They're like interacting with each other.
Tony Desiri:And you're thinking, this is wild.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:But as you said, as we've gotten more and more used to this, as more and more parks are using animatronics, as less impressive as it was, let's say 20, 25, 40 years ago.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:And.
Tony Desiri:But still it's, it's again, it's air conditioning.
Tony Desiri:It's 20 something minutes long.
Lauren Mallard:I also like that we've kept it.
Tony Desiri:I think I do too.
Lauren Mallard:It's a nice thing that we've kept a real quick.
Tony Desiri:One last thing on Liberty Square.
Tony Desiri:It's also a place where you get.
Tony Desiri:There's a Christmas tree shop, a Christmas shop that's in there that's really cool to go visit.
Tony Desiri:If you even.
Tony Desiri:No matter what time of year you go, you can get some really cool Christmas.
Lauren Mallard:Don't forget the waffle with.
Tony Desiri:And the waffle.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, the Sleepy Hollow.
Tony Desiri:That's right.
Tony Desiri:All right, now here we go to Fantasy Land.
Tony Desiri:So we're going to go up right in the corner.
Tony Desiri:We're going to go right into Fantasy Land.
Tony Desiri:Now, there's people.
Tony Desiri:Some people divide this new Fantasy Land, old Fantasy Land, all of its Fantasy land.
Tony Desiri:I just call it all Fantasy Land because it's basically incorporates so many of the, you know, the fantasy elements.
Tony Desiri:But if you were to say, give me the land that really makes Disney World.
Tony Desiri:Disney World.
Lauren Mallard:This is the Fantasy Land.
Tony Desiri:This is it.
Tony Desiri:This is the place.
Tony Desiri:Because this is where if you grew up watching Wonderful World of Disney or you had Disney storybooks when you're a kid, this is where you're going to.
Tony Desiri:Or the VHS tapes now, DVD tapes.
Tony Desiri:This is where you're going to find the attractions.
Tony Desiri:This is where you're going to see Peter Pan.
Tony Desiri:This is where you used to see Snow White.
Tony Desiri:This is where you see Winnie the Pooh.
Tony Desiri:Now you do with the seven doors.
Tony Desiri:Mime train, but they used to be an actual ride.
Tony Desiri:This is where you're going to see all those characters.
Tony Desiri:Dumbo.
Tony Desiri:This is where you're going to see them all.
Lauren Mallard:Yes.
Lauren Mallard:This is what's going to really feel like magic when you are walking through the Magic Kingdom.
Lauren Mallard:No matter what part of Fantasy Land you're in, like you mentioned, some people will argue, a lot of people will argue, actually, that this is where the best bathroom is in the Magic Kingdom.
Lauren Mallard:So if you.
Lauren Mallard:If you're coming up past the Haunted Mansion and going into Fantasyland from there, if you go over to your left, you'll see kind of a little twinkling area.
Lauren Mallard:These are the Tangled bathrooms.
Lauren Mallard:This is where the Rapunzel bathrooms are.
Lauren Mallard:They're more themed than any other bathroom in the park.
Lauren Mallard:And you think we're funny for.
Lauren Mallard:For saying that, but no, if you can find the better bathroom in the park, then it's a good thing.
Tony Desiri:Yes.
Lauren Mallard:And so you've got that.
Lauren Mallard:And.
Lauren Mallard:And It's a Small World is one of those that everybody's like, do we really have to do this?
Lauren Mallard:But yes, it's another classic.
Lauren Mallard:It's what makes Disney Disney.
Lauren Mallard:It's what makes the Magic Kingdom the Magic Kingdom.
Lauren Mallard:And then you've got your center of Fantasyland, which is the carousel.
Lauren Mallard:And I've spent so much time on the carousel lately, especially with Korra.
Lauren Mallard:But it's.
Lauren Mallard:It's a land where I think you can get so much done in a short period of time.
Lauren Mallard:It's a place that I tell clients to start with their early entry if they're there for early Entry because you can knock out so many things that are close together in just a short amount of time.
Tony Desiri:Exactly.
Tony Desiri:And Peter Pan is one of those rides.
Tony Desiri:It's not.
Tony Desiri:I think it's what, 90 seconds?
Tony Desiri:Minute.
Tony Desiri:Two minutes.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:Well, I mean, it's.
Tony Desiri:It's hardly anything at all.
Tony Desiri:But you'll wait an hour for it.
Lauren Mallard:Absolutely.
Tony Desiri:It's still.
Tony Desiri:It's one of those rides that still carries true in 20, 25 of people saying, this is what I got to do.
Tony Desiri:I want to fly to Neverland, I want to get in my boat, and I want to fly over London.
Tony Desiri:And I talk about this a lot, not to get totally sentimental on stuff, but one of the reasons I'm still a major Disney adult is so much of my memories of as a kid came from parents that like the parks, and we went to the parks a lot.
Tony Desiri:And every time I'm on Peter Pan, I am reminded.
Tony Desiri:My brother and I were in a boat and we were flying over the city of London, and my brother went, look, you can see cars moving, moving.
Tony Desiri:And it was those little lights.
Tony Desiri:And I never noticed it.
Tony Desiri:And then my brother pointed it out when we were like 12.
Lauren Mallard:And now, you see, every time I.
Tony Desiri:Go on it, I look down and I remember my brother saying, yeah, look there.
Tony Desiri:You can see cars.
Lauren Mallard:It's the little details.
Tony Desiri:It's those little details.
Tony Desiri:It's those little details that really stand out.
Tony Desiri:But I always tell people that get.
Tony Desiri:Get a lightning lane for Peter Pan.
Tony Desiri:It's a long way.
Tony Desiri:It's a cool cue.
Tony Desiri:It's a really great cue.
Tony Desiri:It's one of the better cues that you'll find.
Tony Desiri:But it's a long wait.
Tony Desiri:Again, small world World.
Tony Desiri:It's Winnie the Pooh.
Tony Desiri:Used to be Mr.
Tony Desiri:Toads.
Tony Desiri:Now they've got a whole area, a whole ride dedicated.
Tony Desiri:I think the Winnie the Pooh ride, so cute.
Tony Desiri:It's got a cool little poo shop.
Tony Desiri:We always.
Tony Desiri:My wife's a big Winnie the Pooh fan, so we always go there.
Tony Desiri:Seven Dwarves Mine train.
Tony Desiri:It's not the most thrilling roller coaster, but it is a pretty fun roller coaster.
Tony Desiri:It can sway back and forth because it's a minecart.
Tony Desiri:So you're going into the mines with the dwarves.
Lauren Mallard:It's a good one, too, that I always tell people this is a good starter roller coaster.
Lauren Mallard:If you're not sure if your kids are going to like roller coasters, Kids that are as young as three often are tall enough to ride this.
Lauren Mallard:And so even if you're.
Lauren Mallard:If you're talking about a Kid that's eight or nine that's never been on a roller coaster.
Lauren Mallard:Start them here because this will be a good gauge of whether or not they're going to like some of the bigger ones.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:And it's got, it's got.
Tony Desiri:Again, it's not overly thrilling in terms of the D, you know, the dips and, and whatnot.
Tony Desiri:But the swing is kind of cool.
Tony Desiri:The song is, you know, kind of cool.
Tony Desiri:It gives you that, that, that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feel.
Tony Desiri:But now go to Dumbo.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:I don't know why they didn't do this right away with Dumbo, which is just give you a queue area in the air conditioning, call you into the ride.
Tony Desiri:It used to be wait out in the blazing sun for an hour and a half to get on a 90 second Dumbo.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:And you used to only have one set of dumbos and now you have two.
Lauren Mallard:So it works a lot better now so that we don't really see just tremendously long waits in general.
Lauren Mallard:And then even while you're waiting that out, like you said, there's a really nice indoor little playground area that the kids can run off some steam and that you can kind of cool off while you're waiting.
Tony Desiri:And it's.
Tony Desiri:And again for, for Disney, Dumbo was.
Tony Desiri:Is one of those attractions like the carousel and like the teacups, which is.
Tony Desiri:It drives them crazy because it's a traditional cue which is stand around and wait till the ride is over and everybody loads and unloads and then we start it up again.
Tony Desiri:And then we wait till it's over and then we load.
Tony Desiri:None load.
Tony Desiri:And Dumbo.
Tony Desiri:Now it's not like that.
Tony Desiri:Now you got people going.
Tony Desiri:They got stuff to do while they wait.
Tony Desiri:There's another one going off while another one's going on.
Tony Desiri:So it's a perfect answer to a ride that they probably are like, we hate these.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:Like we don't.
Tony Desiri:This is, this is carnival.
Tony Desiri:Like we want to do something and get people moving through the lines, not spending all that time waiting.
Tony Desiri:So brilliant idea to get two Dumbo rides and a place to kind of hang out.
Tony Desiri:Other than that, in the back end is a lot of smaller kids stuff that I haven't done in a long time.
Tony Desiri:There's the barnstorming mini roller coaster.
Tony Desiri:And that's pretty much it.
Tony Desiri:It for me.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah, that's it.
Lauren Mallard:There's some characters that are back there under the big top we used to see.
Lauren Mallard:I think that they're the same that it's Donald Daisy, Goofy and Minnie back there, I think.
Lauren Mallard:Don't quote me on that.
Lauren Mallard:So you've got four characters that are back there under the big top.
Lauren Mallard:You've got enchanted tales with Bell, with Belle, which kind of gets lost sometimes, I think because it's back there.
Lauren Mallard:By Be Our Guest, you'll find some other princess meet and greets in Fantasy Land.
Lauren Mallard:This is where you'll also find the most popular restaurant in all of Magic Kingdom, which is Cinderella's royal T.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Lauren Mallard:And that's going to be found inside the castle.
Lauren Mallard:That's the.
Lauren Mallard:The priciest meal in all of Walt Disney World.
Lauren Mallard:And you're going to meet four to five princesses there, whether it's for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Lauren Mallard:You'll also find Be Our Guest, which is another restaurant in the back of Fantasyland where you can often meet the beast at dinner.
Lauren Mallard:And then other than that, in Fantasyland, there's a couple of quick service restaurants that I tend to look over because they're not any of my favorites.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:Pinocchio houses.
Tony Desiri:We.
Tony Desiri:We eat the flatbread there.
Lauren Mallard:Yes.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:And that's if you can get a seat overlooking.
Tony Desiri:Looking Small world coming through.
Tony Desiri:It's kind of cool.
Lauren Mallard:Absolutely.
Lauren Mallard:And wave at everybody.
Lauren Mallard:But.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:So that's kind of the overview of Fantasyland.
Tony Desiri:Yep, exactly.
Tony Desiri:I do recommend right at Cheshire Cat, the little stand right outside Winnie the Pooh, which has got really.
Tony Desiri:Some really cool treats.
Tony Desiri:You can go.
Tony Desiri:You can get some really cool treats there.
Tony Desiri:But there's also, as I mentioned, the teacups.
Tony Desiri:That's part of the kind of family Fantasy Land.
Tony Desiri:If you've been on teacups, any amusement park in the country, this is no different.
Tony Desiri:Except it's themed to the Alice in Wonderland theme.
Lauren Mallard:Right.
Tony Desiri:And if you are a magic band, plus go around and get the voices activated person, you can do mad chatter.
Tony Desiri:And Cheshire Cat there.
Tony Desiri:Oh, yes.
Lauren Mallard:Very cool.
Tony Desiri:It's a very cool thing.
Tony Desiri:But then it leads us into Tomorrowland.
Lauren Mallard:Yes.
Tony Desiri:Now, I got a confession again.
Tony Desiri:I'm old enough to remember Tomorrowland being the coolest land to go to because it was futuristic and it was kind of fun.
Tony Desiri:But you and I did a podcast a while back on our wishes for Disney World, what we'd like to see.
Tony Desiri:And one of mine was make Tomorrowland a little more Tomorrow.
Lauren Mallard:Yes, please.
Tony Desiri:I feel like it's got.
Tony Desiri:It's a little lacking in the Tomorrowlandish part of it.
Tony Desiri:And a lot of it is because technology goes so fast.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:That in a blink of an eye, things you thought would Be cool to have in the future you're having today or you've discarded that technology in the past.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah, yeah.
Tony Desiri:And, but, but again, going back to my youth, at least Buzz Lightyears in outer space that used to be if you had wings to talk about how cool it is to take an airplane somewhere.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:So Buzz Lightyear, speaking of that attraction, is one that I often overlook and I overlook it for my clients when I really.
Lauren Mallard:I don't mean to because I know so many people really do enjoy R.
Lauren Mallard:But it's one of those that, like you said, it feels so primitive now where they could make it so much better.
Tony Desiri:I think you can't even begin to put side by side the two act the sort of the virtual kind of arcade ish game with Toy Story Mania and Buzz Lightyear.
Tony Desiri:This is like a rotary telephone to your cellular phone you have in your pocket.
Tony Desiri:Yes, there are two.
Tony Desiri:I mean, the technologies are insanely.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:Different.
Tony Desiri:I mean, it's almost feels like it's 40 years apart.
Tony Desiri:And what you could do with a ride between what Buzz Lightyear is doing in terms of shooting little targets with a light to compare to what Toy Story Mania is doing with virtual video.
Lauren Mallard:Right.
Tony Desiri:Like, it's amazing.
Tony Desiri:But I think it's a wasted space with this, with Stitch not being.
Tony Desiri:And having any attraction there at all.
Tony Desiri:I don't know why we've waited this long.
Tony Desiri:If that ride got shut down years ago.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:And they haven't done anything with that.
Lauren Mallard:I kind of wonder what they're doing in there.
Lauren Mallard:It's like a conspiracy.
Lauren Mallard:It's like, okay, well like, are they using it for something else?
Lauren Mallard:Is that where they're like top secret missions or what's happening in there?
Lauren Mallard:But then, you know, then you've got Tomorrowland Speedway, which is another one that's the classic load and unload.
Lauren Mallard:And it takes forever.
Tony Desiri:That takes forever.
Lauren Mallard:Even a 15 minute wait can feel like it's 55 minutes.
Tony Desiri:Exactly.
Tony Desiri:And again, when that ride was in Disneyland, it was the age of the automobile.
Tony Desiri:You know, it was kind of.
Tony Desiri:Kind of cool.
Tony Desiri:It has no place in Tomorrowland whatsoever.
Lauren Mallard:But however, I will say it is one that is, we write it every trip because my kids think it's fun.
Lauren Mallard:Because where else can they drive a car?
Tony Desiri:That's right.
Tony Desiri:Exactly.
Tony Desiri:I wish it was a little, I don't know, more updated to something.
Tony Desiri:I mean, you and I talked about do something with the.
Tony Desiri:With the Wreck It Ralph.
Lauren Mallard:Yes.
Lauren Mallard:Oh, that'd be cool.
Tony Desiri:Like make it.
Tony Desiri:Make it so that you can see some Wreck It Ralph's.
Tony Desiri:Ralph stuff is driving because they.
Tony Desiri:That was all about racing.
Tony Desiri:Racing.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:Putting in the cars.
Tony Desiri:But they do have two of the major attractions that still kind of hold up to this day and.
Tony Desiri:Well, not this day because one of them is relatively new and that is Space Mountain and Tron.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:I think Tron is one of the more fantastic experiences at the park.
Lauren Mallard:It is.
Lauren Mallard:And you know, and it's.
Lauren Mallard:It's not one that I feel like it's takes forever because the pre show really ends up not even being a pre show.
Lauren Mallard:It's just once one little holding room and then you're off to the line for the.
Lauren Mallard:For the actual ride vehicle.
Lauren Mallard:And so in that regard, I feel like it's.
Lauren Mallard:It's better than something like Guardians of the Galaxy or Rise of the Resistance.
Lauren Mallard:If you're thinking about in terms of how long it's going to take, especially if you've got little ones where somebody is waiting out with the little one and then waiting for everybody else to get done.
Lauren Mallard:You can know that this is not going to be as long of a ride experience as some of the other ones.
Lauren Mallard:But it's still going to be super thrilling.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:And this again, this goes back to.
Tony Desiri:To something that when I was younger and the Tron movie came out, like to see them race in the game and I thought that was a really cool thing.
Tony Desiri:And now here I am in my 50s and they finally bring in some similar experience.
Lauren Mallard:Yes.
Tony Desiri:Into a theme park.
Tony Desiri:Space Mountain is one that's really interesting for people.
Tony Desiri:I.
Tony Desiri:This is a Space Mountain is a ride best described as messing with your perception.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:Because it's dark and you feel like you're going way faster than you actually are.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:If you were to ride this in the daytime, if they turned the lights on or they took the roof off, it would not be as intimidating.
Tony Desiri:But because the lights are out and things are flying around and you are not feel like you're out of space.
Tony Desiri:You go much faster than the 35 miles an hour that you actually are going.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Lauren Mallard:It would feel much more like Big Thunder Mountain, which feels a lot slower sometimes.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, exactly.
Tony Desiri:It's one.
Tony Desiri:It's like one of those mouse trap type of things.
Tony Desiri:You go up and then you kind of spin around with some dips.
Tony Desiri:That's basically all that is.
Tony Desiri:But it still holds true.
Tony Desiri:It's.
Tony Desiri:It's still.
Tony Desiri:We wrote it just recently on our Christmas trip.
Tony Desiri:And I still can remember that feeling of excitement walking in the plank and walking up and.
Tony Desiri:And just gearing up, being.
Tony Desiri:This is so.
Tony Desiri:It was so exciting as a kid to write something like this.
Tony Desiri:And still holds true.
Tony Desiri:I'm getting a little old, though, for the seating.
Lauren Mallard:Oh, gosh, me too.
Lauren Mallard:And then, like, when I get out of the vehicle, I just can feel it in my hips and everywhere else.
Tony Desiri:So I never want to hold up the line.
Tony Desiri:Like, I want to hold up the, like, get out.
Tony Desiri:And then we're going to move it on.
Tony Desiri:And I'm like, still.
Tony Desiri:Hold on.
Tony Desiri:I'm still.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, hold on.
Tony Desiri:Little, little.
Tony Desiri:Give me some time here.
Tony Desiri:We talked about a place to go in every single land to relax and get.
Tony Desiri:And just get away from everything.
Tony Desiri:Here's Carousel of Progress, another place to get a nap in for those of you who don't really appreciate the travel through time.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Tony Desiri:That Carousel of Progress can bring to you.
Lauren Mallard:Yes, the travel through.
Lauren Mallard:Not really a long period of time when.
Tony Desiri:When they.
Tony Desiri: he's playing a very old Atari: Tony Desiri:And they call that the future.
Tony Desiri:It's not really hitting well, but again, it's.
Tony Desiri:I think it's.
Tony Desiri:I like.
Tony Desiri:I like the music, I like the song, I like the animatronics.
Tony Desiri:It's one of the.
Tony Desiri:I'm one of those people that will ride it and love it, and my whole family is like, wake me up when this is over.
Tony Desiri:Like, tell me when we're at the Christmas scene.
Lauren Mallard:So funny.
Lauren Mallard:So.
Lauren Mallard:So for food in Tomorrowland, you've got cosmic rays, which is, again, cosmic rays.
Lauren Mallard:It's not going to be one that I go to because I've told you before a million times, I'm always going to eat at Casey's Corner.
Lauren Mallard:So cosmic rays is going to be your more traditional burgers, chicken sandwiches, things like that.
Lauren Mallard:It's a good spot to just be able to chill in, some air conditioning.
Lauren Mallard:There's also, I think that there's a spot where you can get a milkshake over in tomorrow.
Tony Desiri:I think so.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, exactly.
Tony Desiri:I think there is two.
Tony Desiri:Yeah.
Lauren Mallard:So that's a couple of things that are over there.
Lauren Mallard:And then, you know, you're kind of just making your way back towards Main street after that.
Tony Desiri:There is the two other rides that I want to mention.
Tony Desiri:The.
Tony Desiri:The People Mover.
Tony Desiri:I think it's a must do.
Tony Desiri:I think the People Mover is a must do.
Lauren Mallard:Oh, absolutely.
Tony Desiri:I think this is an.
Tony Desiri:It's a relaxing kind of trip high above Tomorrowland.
Tony Desiri:It's really cool.
Tony Desiri:If you've Never done it.
Tony Desiri:You know, if you, if you did it maybe years ago, nothing's really has changed.
Tony Desiri:It's going to take you into Space Mountain.
Tony Desiri:It's going to take you into some other places.
Tony Desiri:It goes indoors, outdoors.
Tony Desiri:It's really cool.
Tony Desiri:Listen for the, the kind of, the more famous.
Tony Desiri:Paging Mr.
Tony Desiri:Morrow, Mr.
Tony Desiri:Tom Morrow.
Tony Desiri:My kids miss it all the time and I keep telling them to pay attention.
Tony Desiri:They never do.
Tony Desiri:But then the other one is Monsters in Gl Floor.
Tony Desiri:Great for kids.
Tony Desiri:I'd skip it if I was going as an adult.
Tony Desiri:It's not necessary same, but it's got a very, a nice little walkway back into the center spoke.
Tony Desiri:But like you mentioned earlier, cosmic rays is really the only eery there.
Tony Desiri:There's some, there's places to get popcorn.
Tony Desiri:But that's really about it for your Tomorrowland experience.
Tony Desiri:Experience.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Tony Desiri:And there you go.
Tony Desiri:There's, there's the Magic Kingdom.
Tony Desiri:Now, as far as advice is navigating, as you mentioned earlier, it, I would, I think the excitement, if you're going to take your kids for the first time, there's going to be a lot of excitement if they kind of know or they've heard about certain rides.
Tony Desiri:That's the way I was when I was a kid.
Tony Desiri:Every kid in my elementary school was going to Disney World, coming back and telling me how awesome this was.
Tony Desiri:And that was.
Tony Desiri:And this was.
Tony Desiri:And that was.
Tony Desiri:But I would try to do a lot of that and then check off some things later on in your trip if you're going for, especially if you're going for a long period of time because you want to, you definitely want to get, get on Tron.
Tony Desiri:You definitely want to do Tiana's, you want to get that virtual queue down.
Lauren Mallard:Yeah.
Tony Desiri:Ride Haunted Mansion, ride Peter Pan, all of that.
Tony Desiri:But there are some things that if you don't do on that trip, don't worry about it.
Tony Desiri:You don't walk through Swiss and don't worry about it.
Tony Desiri:Yes, don't worry about it.
Lauren Mallard:And you know, we go back to Jungle Cruise being one of those and that this is a perfect example of what I tell clients.
Lauren Mallard:Do not stress out if you are not able to get a lightning lane for Jungle Cruise.
Lauren Mallard:If the line is over, I say 30 to 40 minutes for jungle Cruise.
Lauren Mallard:Don't wait for it.
Lauren Mallard:Because it's one of those that the line does not move quickly.
Lauren Mallard:And it's one of those that I think that can, can build frustration pretty quickly.
Lauren Mallard:So there's a few of those that I'll Kind of give tips on as far as how long I would wait in line versus not.
Lauren Mallard:But if it's your one trip, you know what?
Lauren Mallard:Absolutely.
Lauren Mallard:Make sure you have those two days and see everything you can.
Tony Desiri:Now, as far as parades, judge the DAT time you're going as to when you want to break away from your routine to get a good spot in the parade.
Tony Desiri:If you are going on.
Tony Desiri:It's a very, very busy day, you might want to go an hour before the parade starts and start planting yourself at a location on Main street or anywhere along the parade route to watch the parade.
Tony Desiri:If you are going on a light day and there's two parade showings, you don't necessarily have to do that.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, but I have.
Tony Desiri:I have been pulled away many times with an hour before the start to go.
Tony Desiri:We're right here.
Tony Desiri:This is where we're staying.
Tony Desiri:So I will stay here.
Tony Desiri:If you want to go somewhere else.
Lauren Mallard:Yes.
Tony Desiri:You know, and.
Tony Desiri:And go do that.
Tony Desiri:I got.
Tony Desiri:I went to.
Tony Desiri:I was waiting in line for a Mickey Mouse picture with my wife, and I wanted us to get a Mickey Mouse picture.
Tony Desiri:And my wife broke away from that line because she's like, I know I'm not missing the Christmas parade, and I'm gonna go sit on this corner.
Tony Desiri:So you're on.
Tony Desiri:You're on your own.
Tony Desiri:Now, I had two choices.
Tony Desiri:Do I want to be the old guy getting his picture taken with Mickey by myself, or do I want to get out in line and sit on the car?
Tony Desiri:I stayed and got my picture taken with Mickey by myself.
Lauren Mallard:It.
Tony Desiri:So she said no.
Tony Desiri:And we got.
Tony Desiri:We got great seats and great.
Tony Desiri:A great spot for the parade.
Tony Desiri:But I also warn people and I.
Tony Desiri:I tell this story.
Tony Desiri:So a couple of years ago, my wife and I were at.
Tony Desiri:I would say two years ago, we were at a parade, and there were two young girls sitting right on the curb.
Tony Desiri:And they were.
Tony Desiri:Had great seats for the parade, but they decided to leave to go get a picture in the center with.
Tony Desiri:With the castle.
Tony Desiri:And people took that spot and did not give it up.
Tony Desiri:And the kids came back.
Tony Desiri:We were sitting there.
Tony Desiri:No, it's.
Tony Desiri:It's over.
Tony Desiri:There's.
Tony Desiri:There's no court in the land is going to give you those.
Tony Desiri:That spot back.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Tony Desiri:So don't get up to go selfie or without somebody saving your spot because people will gobble up those spots.
Lauren Mallard:Yep.
Tony Desiri:All right.
Tony Desiri:And then on your way out of Disney World, get yourself that souvenir.
Tony Desiri:Walk through the emporium.
Tony Desiri:Enjoy your time.
Lauren Mallard:That's right.
Tony Desiri:And take it.
Tony Desiri:Do you have a particular way you like to go back to the parking lot or do you.
Tony Desiri:Do you don't.
Tony Desiri:Doesn't matter to you.
Lauren Mallard:So, you know, I try to take.
Tony Desiri:The boat back when sometimes I go.
Lauren Mallard:So, you know, Tony, I don't know that I've ever part.
Lauren Mallard:I'm sure when we were kids, we always would drive down to Disney World.
Tony Desiri:Oh, yeah, you have, you stay.
Lauren Mallard:I stay on property.
Lauren Mallard:So I'm always going back to the bus stop.
Lauren Mallard:Typically.
Lauren Mallard:That's right, the bus stop, wherever we're staying.
Lauren Mallard:But I would say if I were in the parking lot, I would probably take the monorail.
Tony Desiri:Yeah, monorail.
Tony Desiri:Very good.
Tony Desiri:All right, so that's gonna do it for a little bit of an in depth look on the Magic Kingdom.
Tony Desiri:Next week we'll do Epcot center and we will complete all four parks and the water parks of Walt Disney World.
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