Disney Planning & Photos: Is Christmas a Good Time to Go to Disney World?

Disney Christmas decorations are amazingly beautiful, and it’s a magical time to be in Orlando. But is Christmas really the best time of year for you to visit Walt Disney World? From Christmas Day to New Years is the absolute busiest time of year at WDW. I’ve been multiple times

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Disney World App Review – Fireworks Photography Field Guide

We have all been there, taking in the awe-inspiring fireworks at the spectacular Disney Parks night shows but can’t seem to get a great picture. Sometimes blurry, or stringy, or just lacking clarity and focus.  Want to fix that no matter what camera you take with you to the parks?

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Disney Planning & Photos: Do You Have What it Takes to Walk Through The World?

What’s the number one planning tip I would give to anyone anticipating or planning a Disney trip? You need to start walking way before your feet ever hit Main Street, U.S.A, to run and grab a Fastpass at Space Mountain. Walt Disney World is comprised of 92 miles of theme parks, resorts, restaurants, shopping,

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Disney World’s Go Wild Sweepstakes – Win a trip to Disney World!

Enter Walt Disney World’s Go Wild Sweepstakes on Facebook for your chance to win a trip to Walt Disney World in Florida. If you find all ten of the Mickeys hidden around the site, you’ll receive a prize upgrade of a VIP tour guide while you’re at Disney World. Eligibility:

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Restaurant Schedule for Walt Disney World “One More Disney Day” Extended Hours!

By now I am sure you know that this Leap Day, February 29th, Disneyland Park and Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Park will be open for 24 hours straight as part of the “One More Disney Day” promotion. Over the last couple weeks little bits of information have been released

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Getting your hair cut at Walt Disney World

One of my daughters “official firsts” happened at Walt Disney World in the barber shop. Her first haircut. (Well, not technically her first, she cut her bangs herself, ugh) I’m fairly sure that my daughter is somehow related to Rapunzel. Her hair grows extremely fast, which we realized very early

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Please Refurbish this ride – “It’s Tough To Be a Bug” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom!

If you’ve been a reader of Chip and Company for a while, you’ll know that I wrote a piece about the show “It’s Tough To Be a Bug!” about 9 months ago.  So why I am writing another about it so soon, you ask?  Because instead of just upgrading it,

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Disney World Quick Tips – Ten FREE Things To Do At Disney World

Yes, there are quite a few things you can do while you are at Walt Disney World for free. Free is not generally a word associated with anything Disney but if you look, these  things are there at no cost!! Here is a quick outline of ten things that run

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Disney World Park Dining: Top 3 Character Meals

For those of you who have planned a trip to Walt Disney World before, you know how important it is to plan where you are going to eat, and to make your Advance Dining Reservations (or ADR’s). The hard part comes in trying to narrow down all the great places

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Chip & Company Week in Review, February 20, 2012

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Chip & Company Week in Review.  There have been a lot of stories to read about, so here are the stories that caught our eye last week: Continuing a Spring Training tradition, the Atlanta Braves will be making the ESPN Wide World of

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Top 5 Disney World Character Conundrums

Let’s face it…we’re all little kids when we’re at Walt Disney World and although we blame it on our children, we’re just as excited to see the characters as they are. Something inside of us still jumps when we see Mickey Mouse and we point and yell…and pretend we’re doing

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What is a Signature Restaurant?

There are 139 restaurants at Walt Disney World Resort. While many offer unique dining experiences featuring Character appearances and/or distinctively themed décor, only a handful are considered Signature Dining experiences. Signature Dining restaurants provide unparalleled cuisine in upscale, elegant surroundings, sampling only the finest fare Disney chefs can prepare. Each

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