ASD’s visits to Disney’s Parks and Resorts
Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawai’i Since I moved to Central Florida in 2014, I’ve started using my Disney Vacation Club membership to visit Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawai’i. Since I haven’t been regularly updating this site, there is …
Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawai’i [more on the post]
Over the years I’ve been reporting for MousePlanet.com, I’ve been hosted by Disney Cruise Line aboard voyages to Disney’s private island in the Bahamas, Castaway Cay, on Disney Dream, Disney Magic, Disney Wish, and Disney Treasure. The family beach provides excellent views of the Disney ships, and I’ve photographed the …
Disney Cruise Line Ships at Disney’s Castaway Cay [more on the post]
A driving trip to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for a three night stay in a 2 bedroom at Disney’s Hilton Head Resort (a Disney Vacation Club property) which opened in 1996, plus a visit to Savannah, Georgia. On the driving trip home, a stop at Buc-Ee’s in St. Augustine, FL. November 18-21, 2024.
In 2022, as international travel to Canada and cruise travel became increasingly possible again in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to use my Disney Vacation Club membership to sail Disney Cruise Line from Vancouver, B.C. to the Alaska inside passage from September 5-12, 2022. It was …
Disney Wonder: Alaska Inside Passage Cruise 2022 [more on the post]
I was invited by Disney Cruise Line to Port Canaveral to experience a land-based media preview of a Star Wars Day at Sea aboard Disney Fantasy. February 3, 2018.
2017 Tour de Turtles at Disney’s Vero Beach Resort, a Disney Vacation Club Resort on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.
Photos taken in February, 2017. The all-new Epcot International Festival of the Arts continues and preparations get underway for the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival, the NFL Super Bowl champion is saluted at Magic Kingdom, Rivers of Light debuts at Animal Kingdom and lots of other stuff around the “World.”
I was invited to visit Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Wonder to see Frozen: A Musical Spectacular, to have lunch in the new Tiana’s Place, and to take a tour of the ship. (Except for tolls and gas, Disney Cruise Line issued me and a guest Media credentials and covered all of the expenses of the visit.) The ship is as impressive as its twin, Disney Magic that I toured last year. The show is broadway-caliber with a good cast, with very impressive special effects and an on-stage costume change that got a round of applause. Tiana’s Place (the restaurant) is drawn from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, down to the menu — with top-notch service and a live jazz band (introduced by Tiana, of course). Like last year’s tour of Disney Magic at Port Canaveral, in addition to the ship, I got a nice photo of NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at neighboring Kennedy Space Center. With the rest of the media, was escorted off the ship before its sailing that afternoon.
Photos taken in January, 2017. A New Year! Photos from all around Walt Disney World.
Photos taken in December, 2016.
Photos from all around Walt Disney World” holiday decor, shows, more Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM! at Disney’s Hollywood Studios which is rejoined by Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular, more Star Wars stuff too, while over at Epcot, Spaceship Earth is briefly turned into the Death Star, more Candlelight Processionals, and….finally, New Year’s Eve at Epcot.