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48. Unique Planning Challenges: Odd Numbers, Thrill Seekers, & Solo Parenting the Disney Parks · Mom Street USA

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  Welcome everybody to Mom St. USA.
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  My name is Jackie AKA Wishes Mama, and joining me on location
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  at Disneyland is my Co host Kate, AKA the Disney Cicerone.
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  And together we are Mom St. USA.
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  Bringing you a kind of hodgepodge topic this evening.
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  We've got a couple little subtopics within our show
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  tonight. So we are going to talk a little
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  bit about solo parenting at the parks and give maybe some advice
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  for that. I'm also talking about traveling
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  in uneven numbers and thrill seekers and non thrill seekers
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  traveling together. So like I said little bit of
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  everything tonight, but we wanted to hit some of these
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  topics that our community has been asking about.
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  So we wanted to make sure that we kind of just included them
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  all. So Kate, how are you doing this
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  evening? I'm doing really great.
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  I've had a really nice trip so far at Disneyland, enjoying all
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  of the Christmassy things that are there.
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  It's been a very quick trip down here just to get a little bit of
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  content, do a little live streaming and and have a little
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  fun. So little, little bit of fun.
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  But it's so of course it's fun, right?
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  It's really fun to dig into those these topics because I
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  feel like they are ones that people ask us about a lot.
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  And so it's it's nice to be able to touch on kind of how to plan
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  when it's like it's a it's a weirder situation in your party.
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  So we'll plan to dig into this. Yeah, absolutely.
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  And some of these I like haven't thought about because I maybe
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  don't have experience doing them.
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  So it's good. We love it when our community
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  asks us these questions or says like hey, could you do this in a
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  in a show, Like I think it'd be really helpful, you know, that's
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  that's helpful to us to know what you guys are looking for as
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  far as information. So we're excited to hopefully
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  shed some light and bring you our advice, you know, and
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  hopefully it'll help somebody out.
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  Yeah. All righty.
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  Well, shall we dig in with our first topic of the night, which
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  would be the low parenting at the parks, which I I'm not a
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  solo parent because I I am married, but I have solo
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  parented at the park Bay only. Just me and my kiddo.
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  So I do. That experience at least, yeah.
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  And I think this could apply to lots of different situations,
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  whether it be, you know, Kate, I know you've done like one-on-one
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  trips with some of your kids before.
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  There are so many amazing solo parents out there that have
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  kids, you know, one kid, two kids, three kids, whoever, you
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  know, that might want to take be taking trips to the parks.
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  So we were asked this and just like I said, we want to try to
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  give some information regarding kind of what we suggest as
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  people who frequent the Disney parks that might help you out if
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  that's your situation. So the first thing that we will
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  always suggest, regardless of no matter who you are, who you're
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  traveling with, what your situation is, is you.
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  You've got to do your research, which will surprise no one, that
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  that is the top thing on our list, but it truly is.
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  So the first thing that is really important I think
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  whenever you you start doing your research is deciding where
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  you want to stay. And if you are solo parenting at
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  the parks, there are a few more things you might want to
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  consider. If.
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  That are different from when you might be traveling with other
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  adults in your party. The biggest thing is the
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  proximity and convenient access to the parks.
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  Because having to take one, even just one kid by yourself,
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  multiple kids by yourself, whatever your situation may be
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  thinking about, oh, do I want to try and brave the bus?
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  Do I have a stroller? If I'm if I've got maybe a
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  toddler with me, am I going to be on my own doing a stroller in
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  the bus versus the sky liner versus the monorail versus am I
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  minivan? Am I Uber?
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  Am I Lyft? You know, whatever your
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  situation may be, that is a huge thing to really consider.
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  Yeah, because getting around is, I think that's one of the
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  hardest parts, especially if you're traveling with Little
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  Littles, because you sometimes you have to carry them if they
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  get tired and all those kinds of things.
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  So know what you're capable of, what they're capable of, and
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  plan accordingly. Yeah, absolutely.
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  So thinking about, you know, budget friendly versus
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  convenient access to the parks is is a really big one to
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  consider. Obviously at Disney World you've
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  got a few more options that are more convenient access to the
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  parks. Disneyland, you've got to just
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  understand that unless you're really staying at a Disneyland
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  hotel, but even then, most of the time you're going to be
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  walking from wherever you're staying to get to the parks.
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  Yeah. Now you're saying I try to do
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  only one park because the transfer is tough alone.
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  So like rather than doing maybe a park hopper where you're going
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  park to park to park, maybe just be like we're just going to this
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  one park this one day and then back.
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  Not as applicable in Disneyland than Disney World.
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  Disneyland is really easy to park hop, but Disney World for
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  sure. It's a lot of energy and time to
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  get to a particular park and back so.
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  Right. And really considering the
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  biggest, the biggest thing I think with that is just the
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  stroller issue. If you're taking a bus, that
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  stroller has to be completely collapsed.
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  So you've got your stroller in one hand, the kid probably in
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  the other hand, either holding their hand or holding them.
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  But if you're taking them on a rail or the sky liner, you don't
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  necessarily have to fold up your stroller.
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  I will say the one thing about that is the sky liner, you
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  cannot have double wide strollers.
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  You have to do like if you've got a double stroller, if you're
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  doing two kids, you've got to do like the front to back ones.
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  But other than that, that's a little bit more convenient in my
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  personal opinion, because you don't have to fold up the
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  stroller and deal with all of that.
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  Yeah, and you know when you're once your kids are older, some
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  of the stuff isn't as hard to do.
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  You know, Like I didn't. I think I started taking my kids
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  on syllables when they were like 6 years old.
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  Was the like the youngest I would go and I wouldn't probably
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  go in younger than I, just for myself because I knew what I was
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  capable of at the time. Yeah, you can absolutely do it.
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  Just know what you're know, what you're capable of.
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  But that's when I started doing with my kids because I knew that
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  they could walk mostly by themselves and they can carry
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  their own like small bag and then I wouldn't have to manage
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  all of that. So it does get a little easier
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  as they get older and you can maybe add in some more park
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  hopping and stuff because they're just capable of more and
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  they can carry their own stuff. Like.
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  Yeah, that makes a huge difference.
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  I think also something to consider.
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  We talk a lot about making your priority list and you know,
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  planning out what attractions you want to go on.
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  But I think considering how many people you're traveling with and
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  we'll talk touch more on this a little bit later when we talk
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  about traveling and uneven parties.
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  But do the rides see two? Do they see three?
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  How many people are going to be able to fit in a sky liner with
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  you or how you know like thinking about logistics like
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  that too when you're traveling and when you're the sole adult
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  in the situation? Other things to consider and
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  like I said, we'll go through kind of a a list of two versus 3
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  versus more when it comes to brides here in a little bit.
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  Yeah, I have a question from Ryan, who I believe said he's
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  got him with a cool uncle that would take the kids.
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  I'm hearing that a lot is like uncles, aunts and grandparents,
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  solo grandparents and and you know, anybody who's going solo
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  with kids to the park. So that's how Ryan asked if
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  taking breaks, can we come and go into the park all day?
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  And absolutely you can. Both Disneyland and Disney
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  World. You can come and go as much as
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  you need to. The only caveat to that is maybe
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  on an extremely busy day like Christmas Day, if they reach
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  capacity then you can't get back in.
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  That is so rare really only maybe Thanksgiving or Christmas
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  or maybe New Year's Day like, but just those like New Year's
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  Eve, those are probably the only ones that will probably ever hit
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  capacity. So I wouldn't have to worry
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  about that on a normal day. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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  Another thing to consider when you're talking about looking at
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  rides for your trip are the height requirements and how
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  you're going to navigate those height requirements.
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  Just as general rule of thumb, Walt Disney World, the range and
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  height requirements is anywhere from 35 inches to 48 inches.
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  Now, not every ride has a height requirement, but you just want
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  to be be really mindful. If you've got kiddos that are
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  under 35 and under 44 and under 48, you know there's multiple
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  different kind of categories in there.
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  If all your kids are 48 and up, then you're good to go.
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  Like, you know, it's also something to consider if they're
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  mentally, emotionally ready to go on those rides as well.
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  Because, like, my kids started to be old enough for Tower of
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  Terror at four years old, but he was not ready emotionally.
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  I learned that the hard way. That was a big parenting fail.
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  But he was my first. And you learn as you go.
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  But yeah, those are also things to consider.
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  And there just might be some things that you just don't get
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  to go on on that trip if you're by yourself and you don't have
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  anybody else to watch a kiddo. And that's OK.
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  You'll just enjoy other things on that trip.
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  So manage your own expectations for that and it's OK.
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  Yeah, and I will mention Disneyland has ride height
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  requirements that range anywhere from 32 to 54.
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  So it was interesting as I was looking and comparing that
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  Disneyland has a little bit of a wider range of height
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  requirements for some of their rides.
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  So again, just look at the rides that you might think that your
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  kiddos want to do. If you need help with that,
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  reach out to somebody who can help you.
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  We are more than happy to help you with that.
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  I love doing itinerary, so send me a message.
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  Jackie's great at it too. It's fun, but yeah, considering
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  those things and then also considering age restrictions and
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  Kate was talking a little bit about this with, you know, are
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  they mentally, emotionally ready?
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  Even if they're tall enough, are they ready?
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  But then also, are they old enough to be able to ride Disney
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  World and Disneyland, Their regulations for solo riders,
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  Guests under the age of 14 must be accompanied by a guest 14 or
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  older to enter the theme park. So that's just getting into the
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  parks. So anyone 14 and under has to be
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  accompanied by someone older to board an attraction, children
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  under the age of seven must be accompanied by a person age 14
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  or older. Now that's Disney's rule when it
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  comes to that. However, it's really interesting
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  than that at that age. And I'm like.
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  That's my that's my oldest. Like my oldest is 7 and I cannot
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  fathom in my personal situation sending him on a ride.
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  Alone, alone. I know.
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  I I was thinking about it for my 8 year old, my daughter.
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  And I was just like, no, like, not for a few years.
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  Now my son who's 13, I'm like, Oh yeah, he could totally handle
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  that. And we could move up and he, I
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  could text him and it would be like, we could he's he knows how
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  to handle himself. He knows what to do if there's
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  an emergency. He's good.
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  But I'm like, you know so it is it is Disney's rule though and
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  everybody parents differently and everybody knows their kids.
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  So there are that feel comfortable with that And that's
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  where I'm There's no judgement. I know it just feels a little
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  surprising with a parent. Yeah, yeah.
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  But that also you that also plays into those conversations
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  about height requirements, you know, especially if you maybe
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  have a if you're solo parenting with maybe 2 kiddos and they've
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  got a fairly large age gap, that's something to consider
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  that maybe your older one if if they are, you know, 12/13/14,
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  you might feel comfortable saying like Yep, you go ahead on
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  this thrill ride, I'm going to hang back with the little
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  sibling and we'll wait for you to be done.
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  Right. Yeah, and like we did that with
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  my son who wanted to do single Rider for Space Mountain when we
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  were in Disneyland Paris, and that he wanted to go.
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  Nobody else really wanted to go again because that was ends over
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  there. And was like.
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  You have at it, son, like we'll be over here when you're done.
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  And it was great and that worked out well.
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  And I also say that this works out.
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  We can talk a little bit more about this later when we talk
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  about seating. But it does work out too, if you
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  have an an older kiddo and then a younger one.
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  But they can actually sit together too because you can't
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  have somebody who's under 7 sitting by themselves on the
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  ride. So that also helps if you have
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  an older sibling for that. Yeah, absolutely.
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  And I will just mention, as we're talking about age
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  restrictions, that something to know in Disneyland is that
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  anyone under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal
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  guardian between 10:00 PM and 5:00 AM in Downtown Disney.
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  Disney Springs doesn't seem to have any sort of regulation on
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  that that I could find on the website, which I thought was
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  interesting. There probably is something and
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  it just wasn't jumping out at me on the website.
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  But this is no nightlife over a Disney World to tell.
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  Everybody goes to bed early. It's a weird thing.
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  Like, that's true. You know?
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  It's like midnight when the park closed, so everybody's out late.
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  But yeah, 9:00 PM get in for the night at Disney World.
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  We're sleepy in Disney World. It's fine.
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  Not night owls. I get it.
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  Night owls go to Disneyland World.
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  Yeah, oh, Daylen is saying that's a local to Anaheim curfew
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  for Downtown Disney, which totally makes sense if that's
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  more of like an Anaheim regulation, but just keep that
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  in mind. Impact Disneyland like fireworks
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  and whatnot to so that makes sense, right?
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  But just really my my biggest thought about that is keep that
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  in mind. If you're traveling with
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  teenagers who are under 18, you can't like send them to grab
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  food in Downtown Disney without accompanying them.
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  So just like those types of situations, keep that in mind.
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  After 10:00 PM, they may be stopped and questioned.
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  I'll be sent back, yeah. Like, Nope, sorry.
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  All right, so Next up we have take photos of everything, which
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  is such a smart tip. I'm really glad that you put
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  this in here, Jackie. That's always something that we
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  always did at the beginning of the day is take a picture of our
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  kids outfit for the day, what they look like so that if they
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  get lost, so you can be like, here's what they look like today
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  because, you know, different days, different outfits,
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  different hairstyles, whatever. Like this is exactly what they
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  look like. Do you want to talk a little bit
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  more about that? Yeah, I just, this was something
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  that I I don't even know where I learned it from, but I learned
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  it on like right before we went with my son.
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  And it just gave me a a little bit of Peace of Mind because
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  Disney is crazy busy. There's so many people and so
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  many crowds depending on where you are and when you're going.
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  And if you've got kiddos especially that are really
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  independent and want to walk, if they're in the stroller or you
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  know, you can buckle them in, it's a little bit different.
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  But if you've got kiddos that are like, Nope, they refuse and
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  they just want to walk, having that photo of them could be
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  super helpful. If you get separated, if you
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  lose sight of them in the crowds, it happens again.
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  We never judge ever, because it happens.
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  But having that to show the cast members to be like this is, you
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  know, this is what I'm looking for.
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  This is what they look like today.
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  This is what they're wearing. Super duper helpful.
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  Yeah. For sure.
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  And I I think making a plan, if you are separated, like that's
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  something we always did when my kids were little.
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  I'd always show them that like cast member name tags.
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  Same. Yep.
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  What you look for when you're lost, if you get separated, if
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  you don't know what to do and you're scared whenever, you
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  know, like go find this, like these people know what to do.
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  Just look for this name tag. And so this I just printed out
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  like a picture of it. And so I don't just pull it up
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  on your phone now, because yeah. Well, we do it usually right
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  when we walk into the parks. It's like, whatever, you know,
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  after we're through the tap styles, you know, we don't stop
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  in the middle of the tap styles and be like look, this is what
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  it looks like, like once we're in the park a little.
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  Ways. But there are usually cast
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  members stationed. You know, if you're especially
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  like if you're on Main Street, they're all over the place,
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  especially early in the morning or wherever you are.
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  We. But the first cast member that I
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  see, I, you know, I usually stop and say like OK, this is what
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  their name tags look like. And then it gets a little tricky
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  when you go places like Galaxy's Edge, their name tags look a
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  little bit different, you know. So you just got to kind of be
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  aware of those types of things. But showing them like OK, if you
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  see somebody with this name tag, if you need help, they are a
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  safe person for you to be able to ask I think is super, super
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  important. And then, yeah, with older kids,
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  like set a meeting spot like you said, if you know you're sending
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  your kid off to do a single rider line or what?
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  Or go on something solo like, OK, when you're done, this is
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  where we're going to meet, you know, if you can't find me,
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  you've got your phone, I've got my phone.
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  Call me. Like just having a plan for for
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  meeting back up if you guys decide to go separate ways.
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  Yeah, and if you're not ready to do bones with your kids, 'cause
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  I as your kids get older, we also do like the Gab watch.
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  We have like the watches that can text but only the people
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  that you allow them to text and they don't have apps and stuff
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  on them. So those are really helpful
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  because they also have a location tracker on them so you
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  can easily find your kids. I know that other people have
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  also put air tags and stuff in their on their kids so that if
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  they can locate them that way. And then Catherine also
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  mentioned here they have those temp tattoos that you can put
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  and then it lost contact with your phone number.
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  We used those for years and I put them they wouldn't be in all
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  the photos because I was like I don't want those in my family
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  photos. I think like under their arm,
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  really them. But they weren't easy for them
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  to show somebody if they needed to, and those are really easy
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  because they'll they'll stay on for pretty much the whole trip
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  or at least half a bolt before you have to refresh it.
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  So that's helpful. Yeah, and if you put like a
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  liquid bandage over top of them, it helps them last even longer.
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  So, and again, you're probably going to need a couple even for
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  your trip, but they'll at least stay on for longer than a day.
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  Hopefully, yeah. And then Speaking of photos,
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  another thing that I suggest because I struggle with this is
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  if you are driving to the parks in your own vehicle and parking
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  at the parks, take photos of where you parked.
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  I am notorious for having no clue, like if I'm not with my
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  husband, all is lost. I am.
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  I am lost. Well, like putting the alarm
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  thing on and then like walking around.
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  I try not to. And sometimes you got to do what
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  you got to do, Kate. I literally took my daughter
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  with me to the mall the other day because we were looking for
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  a Christmas present for my son. And we got out of the car and my
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  daughter is starting to learn letters and numbers.
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  And so I I looked at her and I said, OK, you're my helper.
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  What? Let's look at the row that we
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  parked in. And it was like row B, entrance
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  three or something like that. And I was like, you're in charge
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  of helping Mommy, remember. And my kids know that I have a
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  terrible memory. Like, it's just awful.
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  And so we started to walk back out.
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  And my daughter was like, Mommy, I remember, here's where we
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  parked. I was like, thank you.
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  You're so helpful. That's good.
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  I love that. So you can take a picture but
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  also make it a memory. Thing and don't don't rely on
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  your five year old. I would not rely on my 5 year
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  old when I park at Disney as much as she would probably do
• 19:37
  fairly well remembering she's also five so.
• 19:40
  You don't want to put that on your kid like they can remember,
• 19:44
  but like kids always tried to remember like what floor we're
• 19:46
  on and what room we're in. You know, like and that is
• 19:48
  something I also highly encourage you is to teach your
• 19:51
  kids. I've mentioned this before,
• 19:52
  teach your kids your room number because you don't know if they.
• 19:56
  My kid, when he was little, downed his way outside the door
• 20:00
  while we were sleeping because he's that kind of kid.
• 20:04
  And we had forgotten to throw the latch because my grandma had
• 20:08
  left after while we were doing bath time and we didn't even
• 20:11
  like our brains and register like we need to throw the safety
• 20:14
  latch. So he had.
• 20:15
  Three. He was three, and he got out of
• 20:17
  our hotel room. And the only way that he came
• 20:19
  back to us was because I taught him what room we were in.
• 20:22
  So always teach your kids to memorize their room number, just
• 20:25
  in case, Yes. Yes, super smart.
• 20:30
  And then also like screenshots of plans in the app.
• 20:32
  If you've got kiddos that have phones and you want to share,
• 20:35
  you know, hey, this is like, especially if you're going
• 20:39
  multiple places, maybe like they're going off to do this,
• 20:41
  you're going off to do this. OK, we got to meet at this ride
• 20:44
  at this time. Here's the screenshot of what
• 20:45
  our plans are. Those types of things, if that
• 20:47
  works for your family or your situation, can be really smart,
• 20:51
  especially if you don't have, you know a lot of the times if
• 20:53
  you've got two adults, you can divide and conquer.
• 20:55
  Won't go this way, won't go that way.
• 20:56
  It's not necessarily possible if you're going by yourself and
• 20:58
  you've got older kiddos with you, right?
• 21:01
  Absolutely. And then again, like I said,
• 21:04
  share any of these photos with your older kiddos.
• 21:06
  So if you've got older kiddos that are responsible enough to
• 21:08
  help you and you want to, you know, share with them, OK,
• 21:11
  here's the photos of your siblings that we took this
• 21:13
  morning. So that way you have them too.
• 21:14
  Here's a photo of where our car is in case we get separated and
• 21:17
  we need to meet at the car. You know, you never know.
• 21:21
  And I try not to be paranoid, I try to be prepared, but you
• 21:24
  never know what might happen. So just being prepared and
• 21:28
  having that all on a hand I think can be helpful and
• 21:30
  hopefully you never need it. Yes, for sure.
• 21:33
  I hope none of you ever need it, but it's always good to be safe
• 21:36
  and sorry. Yes, this is something.
• 21:39
  The next thing is something we've talked about before, but
• 21:42
  utilizing those family restrooms and baby care centers.
• 21:45
  I think those are so important when you are traveling with
• 21:48
  Little Littles and you're by yourself because it really can,
• 21:51
  Especially the baby care centers because they have sometimes
• 21:55
  little movies on that they could maybe watch while you're maybe
• 21:58
  nursing or like whatever you're doing.
• 22:00
  You just need a few minutes to have them in a safe space where
• 22:05
  you can breathe and like sit down because it you know that
• 22:08
  always having to be hyper vigilant about where they are
• 22:11
  and if they're safe. Obviously you can't just like
• 22:13
  let them roll and like do whatever you want, but you at
• 22:15
  least it's in a space. But even in a quiet space where
• 22:18
  you can just like, make a breath for a little bit.
• 22:21
  Absolutely. The the other thing that I love
• 22:23
  about the baby care centers is they always have the like an
• 22:27
  extra large bathroom that usually has a smaller potty for
• 22:31
  little kiddos that might need it, which can be super helpful
• 22:34
  if you've got a little little that is really nervous to use
• 22:37
  the potties that are really big and and automatic loud toilets.
• 22:45
  Yes, you know, if if it's possible, it may not always be
• 22:47
  possible for you to get to the baby care center when they need
• 22:50
  to go it. You know, that's just life and
• 22:52
  you just as a parent have to be prepared for that.
• 22:54
  But if you're nearby, choosing to go there to use the bathroom
• 22:58
  might be a better, a better place for you and like Kate
• 23:00
  said, much less crowded, much less hustle and bustle of the
• 23:04
  bathrooms. You know, there's so many people
• 23:06
  around. The bathrooms are in constant
• 23:07
  use from all sorts of people, so.
• 23:10
  Also a great place to go if you've forgotten supplies that
• 23:13
  you need, like baby wipes or diapers, or you know they have
• 23:17
  everything like deodorants and stuff.
• 23:18
  They've got all kinds of things baby cares that are so it's even
• 23:21
  if you don't have a baby and you need something.
• 23:24
  I've gotten deodorant from there before, when I might have
• 23:27
  forgotten. Hey, you know.
• 23:32
  Right, Yeah. And then family restrooms too
• 23:35
  that are located around the parks.
• 23:37
  There are restrooms that are available for if you just need
• 23:40
  space to go with your kid. But other even in our regular
• 23:43
  like women's bathroom, there's like extra large stalls and
• 23:46
  there's multiple of them. So you don't have to feel like,
• 23:48
  well, I'm taking this away from somebody who might need it for
• 23:52
  differently enabled people that might need it.
• 23:54
  They I think that they accommodate that the fact that
• 23:56
  some families you can't just leave your child necessarily
• 24:00
  outside the stall and you have to come in with you.
• 24:02
  I remember those days. I'm.
• 24:05
  Glad I am. Like, I don't know what it is.
• 24:08
  I'm just this is one of my things as a helicopter parent
• 24:12
  that I will proudly admit that I'm a helicopter parent, but I
• 24:15
  am still not totally comfortable with my seven and five year olds
• 24:20
  being alone in the bathrooms. I just there's there's just a
• 24:27
  lot to unpack there that I'm not going to get into.
• 24:30
  But so I forced them to come in with me and they don't always
• 24:34
  like it, but it's like you know what I, and you know I talked to
• 24:37
  them about I need to have my eyes on you so I know that
• 24:40
  you're safe. It's it's just something that
• 24:42
  mommy needs and something that is going to keep you extra safe.
• 24:45
  So we're going to just take turns and we'll turn to give you
• 24:49
  your privacy so you can go, and then we'll take turns and we'll
• 24:52
  we'll all be safe that way. Yeah, it's gotten easier as my
• 24:56
  kids have gotten older, especially because I have two
• 24:58
  girls and so usually if I'm not out, one of the other ones are
• 25:02
  out and they can kind of use the buddy system.
• 25:04
  So, and that's a lot. I think if I just had one, I
• 25:06
  probably would have a little bit more anxiety about it.
• 25:09
  But they're also, my kids are also much older now than yours,
• 25:12
  so it helps once they get older. And we always have the rule of
• 25:16
  do not leave the the bathroom without me.
• 25:18
  That was the one we taught, especially at Diffie because
• 25:20
  there's multiple exits sometimes to the bathroom, right?
• 25:23
  Know where they go. So that's like don't be.
• 25:27
  Right, and honestly, it's funny because my 5 year old she would
• 25:30
  probably be better about just like standing right outside, but
• 25:33
  my my 7 year old, newly diagnosed with ADHD kiddo, is
• 25:38
  probably more likely to find something interesting and wander
• 25:42
  off and go look at it. Not intending to leave and not
• 25:45
  meaning to worry my my anxious heart, but it it just is what it
• 25:51
  is. So he is my he is my kiddo that
• 25:53
  I'm like, Nope, I gotta be able to see you, right?
• 25:56
  No, I totally. Get that?
• 25:58
  Yeah, I did have a comment in here that is a good point that
• 26:00
  we've talked about before that using a Mickey sticker or a post
• 26:04
  it note or something over those toilets for your kiddos is
• 26:06
  always helpful and we've done that before too.
• 26:09
  So definitely a good. Tip I also have a comment from
• 26:14
  our earlier thing that we were mentioning from Chris's as if
• 26:17
  your child has a magic band, Disney can help find them too.
• 26:20
  So if they're currently wearing your pool, they can also help
• 26:24
  find your kiddo. So.
• 26:25
  I never thought about that. Thank you, Christa, for
• 26:28
  mentioning that. Yeah, too bad my kids won't wear
• 26:31
  their magic band. They're on my bag 90% of the
• 26:37
  time. Find your bag if you lose.
• 26:41
  Perfect. I mean that's important.
• 26:44
  You know, it's, it's good. But yes, so all of those things
• 26:49
  to be considered when you're, you know, looking for a safe
• 26:52
  place if you need to use the restroom, baby care centers,
• 26:55
  family restrooms, some of the places in the parks even have
• 26:58
  companion restrooms if you're able to utilize those.
• 27:00
  So different options there. This next one is one that I have
• 27:05
  personally had issues with. When my husband and maybe and I
• 27:07
  have like divided out to do things is when you go to eat
• 27:12
  meals. You really need to think about
• 27:14
  strategically how you are going to handle.
• 27:17
  And this is not only just Disney, this is everywhere you
• 27:20
  know, but how you're going to handle that.
• 27:22
  So first of all, mobile order. Do not stand in line with your
• 27:26
  kiddos because it's going to be hard for them to stand in line
• 27:30
  no matter how old they are, especially if it's around a meal
• 27:32
  time when they're super hungry. So mobile order is your best
• 27:36
  friend. And well, you're like trying to
• 27:38
  decide what everybody wants to eat.
• 27:40
  It's so stressful. I remember that and often times
• 27:45
  I again, I over plan everything. I am the person that like I
• 27:49
  typically have. I know where we're going to try
• 27:51
  to eat or I have maybe two options of where we're going to
• 27:53
  try to eat. And I know what my kids are
• 27:55
  going to order, so I just have it like ready to go in a
• 27:58
  spreadsheet because I'm that person and I just pull it up on
• 28:01
  my phone and. Then I just.
• 28:03
  Plug it in and then we're good to go.
• 28:04
  And I just like, double check with them like, hey, you want
• 28:06
  this, right? And they're like, yeah, if
• 28:08
  you're not Jackie. Yeah.
• 28:10
  Another thing you can do is if you're waiting in line for a
• 28:12
  ride, which inevitably you will at some point, that's what we
• 28:16
  usually do is we turn everybody while we're waiting in line and
• 28:19
  be like, what do you want to eat?
• 28:20
  Here's the option to show them the things, have them back them
• 28:23
  out. And we've talked a lot about
• 28:25
  mobile ordering in general, so I don't know if we should go too
• 28:28
  deep into that. But yeah, I did.
• 28:30
  Just using mobile order will save you.
• 28:33
  And some of the times, depending on the location, sometimes
• 28:37
  they'll give your order in like a bag or something.
• 28:39
  It'll make it easier to carry all the stuff out.
• 28:43
  And that is the major thing that is so hard is when you mobile
• 28:49
  order or order it all or are waiting for your order.
• 28:53
  You've got to think of a head about, OK, do I have a stroller
• 28:56
  that I have to also handle? Do I have kids that can sit at a
• 28:59
  table because they're old enough and they can wait for me at the
• 29:02
  table? All those things coordinating.
• 29:05
  How many trays am I going to have?
• 29:06
  The cast members are there to help you.
• 29:09
  So make sure you ask for help. Often there are cast members
• 29:13
  just standing kind of in that area that I'm sure will be more
• 29:17
  than happy to help you carry a tray to your table.
• 29:19
  So ask for help. Yeah, yeah.
• 29:24
  And if you have older kids too, they can usually help you carry
• 29:27
  something but will not a full trait will have food, but you
• 29:30
  know, maybe they can push the stroller with a younger sibling
• 29:33
  and stuff like that. So don't be afraid to ask your
• 29:35
  kids to, you know, just help out a little bit with those things
• 29:38
  too. So.
• 29:38
  Yeah, and sometimes, depending on where you're going, and this
• 29:41
  is hard to, you know, decipher, like, OK, this place is this
• 29:44
  way, this place is the other way.
• 29:45
  But sometimes it's easier to take your stroller in with you.
• 29:48
  I suppose it's easier to leave it outside.
• 29:49
  So like you may want to do like a scope out of the area if it's
• 29:53
  a new restaurant that you haven't been to before.
• 29:55
  Some places are are drastically one way or the other.
• 29:58
  In some places it's like it's your preference, but like some
• 30:01
  of the tables are really close together and you're not going to
• 30:03
  be able to push a stroller between them.
• 30:04
  Right. And it's just makes a huge
• 30:06
  hassle for everybody, I agree. Yes, so keep that in mind, but
• 30:10
  yes, mobile order have a plan. And and you could also do table
• 30:17
  service if your budget allows for it, because it might be
• 30:20
  easier for you in some situations where you don't have
• 30:22
  to carry your food to something or Jackie does a lot of
• 30:26
  picnicking. I know it was so that that might
• 30:29
  also be an option if you're on a budget, but you don't want to
• 30:33
  worry about hassle of airing food places.
• 30:36
  Or maybe you just order some small things that are easy to
• 30:38
  carry and then the rest of your meal is something that you
• 30:41
  packed for lunch. So you can do that, yeah.
• 30:44
  Absolutely. Lots of options.
• 30:45
  But just again, you just got to kind of think ahead, especially
• 30:48
  if you're someone who maybe isn't used to solo parenting.
• 30:52
  If you're someone like Kate was mentioning where she just kind
• 30:54
  of takes her kids, you know, solo to the park, those are kind
• 30:58
  of those things that you're like, oh, right.
• 30:59
  I don't have a person that can sit with the kids while I go get
• 31:01
  the food or I don't have, you know, those types of things.
• 31:04
  So if you're. Forget the forks or something.
• 31:06
  Yes. Oh my gosh, now I have a table
• 31:09
  full of food and these children and the forks are way over
• 31:12
  there. And luckily my kids are old
• 31:14
  enough now that I'm like, yeah, go get us some forks or I'll go
• 31:16
  get some words. We'll be right back.
• 31:18
  But when they're little, you're like, Oh no, yeah, I don't have
• 31:22
  any napkins. I don't know any warmer.
• 31:24
  And it just becomes like a huge thing they have to see.
• 31:27
  When you just travel solo, like, I feel like it sat down with all
• 31:30
  of my food. I'm like, I don't have a utensil
• 31:32
  and all my stuff's here and it's over there.
• 31:37
  So think about. Right this and I will say most
• 31:41
  of the quick service restaurants that I've been in at Disney have
• 31:46
  some sort of condiment utensil napkin dispenser somewhat with
• 31:51
  the eyesight. So like, yeah, you can kind of
• 31:54
  run back. It just really depends on where
• 31:56
  you're at. It happened to the day it was.
• 31:58
  Like. Food for lunch.
• 32:00
  I was like, oh, OK, gotta go get that.
• 32:04
  Anyway, so moving on, let's let's keep rolling here.
• 32:07
  Cuz I have to go have dinner soon.
• 32:08
  So let's Next up is. Don't over exert yourself.
• 32:15
  I think this is a really great tip because it's like take a
• 32:18
  stroller or don't. You had a little insight into
• 32:20
  this, Jackie. Yeah, it, you know, my kids are
• 32:23
  really at the age where this last trip when we just went in
• 32:26
  November, there were some days that we did not take our
• 32:29
  stroller with us and there were some days that we did.
• 32:31
  But like, I know physically who I am as a person.
• 32:36
  If I was traveling solo with both of my kids and trying to do
• 32:41
  a stroller, I am not strong enough to manipulate our double
• 32:45
  stroller with both of my kids in it through the parks.
• 32:49
  It's just not something I can physically handle.
• 32:52
  So it man, it, you know, listen, I know well, it's like my kids
• 33:00
  are to the age where, like, especially my oldest, he chooses
• 33:03
  to walk most of the time. But like, because here's the
• 33:06
  other thing, that me as a parent, again, this is a lot of
• 33:09
  my input and take it or leave it and no judgement for anyone
• 33:13
  who's different. But for me as a parent, if I'm
• 33:16
  going to be solo in the parks with both of my kids and I have
• 33:19
  a stroller, you're in the stroller when we're walking
• 33:21
  around because I can't push the stroller and have a hand on you.
• 33:25
  And that would right? That doesn't fly for me
• 33:28
  personally. It's really frustrating to have
• 33:30
  this tub manage the stroller and be like watching them and they
• 33:33
  move at a separate pace and you're like now like everybody
• 33:35
  in the stroller so we can get to where we need to go.
• 33:39
  Yes, exactly. And I just know physically I
• 33:42
  would not be able to handle that, especially when you think
• 33:44
  now the majority of the parks have fairly flat walkways, but
• 33:48
  there are some hills and there are, especially if you're
• 33:51
  thinking about like coming to and from like Magic Kingdom, if
• 33:54
  you're taking the monorail, it's a hike to get up to the monorail
• 33:57
  platform, you know, different things like that.
• 33:59
  Like exercise, calf workout to get them, you're up that.
• 34:05
  Hill. So if it were me and I was
• 34:07
  taking both of my kids by myself, I would have to plan
• 34:09
  those leg breaks accordingly. And that would go into my plan
• 34:12
  of if I'm doing a sit down meal if I'm alternating you know
• 34:16
  waiting versus Genie plus you know a little bit of that maybe
• 34:19
  to help if I'm doing some shows in between lots of different
• 34:23
  ways that you can do that or if we're taking like a full on
• 34:25
  resort break in the middle of the day.
• 34:27
  So lots of different options, but just really think about, you
• 34:32
  know, don't don't try to do too much because you'll just your
• 34:36
  your kids need you in that moment and if you have
• 34:39
  overexerted yourself and you have tapped out, no one's going
• 34:43
  to be having a good time at the at the parks, so.
• 34:47
  Yeah. And if stroller is not something
• 34:49
  that you want to do, but you know that your kiddo is maybe
• 34:52
  like toddler age or younger. You know, sometimes like the
• 34:56
  little kid like trying to the carriers, right, that you can
• 34:59
  carry your kiddo in like we used one that was, I don't remember
• 35:02
  the name of it. It's Ergo.
• 35:03
  I think I used the Ergo carrier. I was like what was the name of
• 35:05
  it? And it was transitioned from the
• 35:08
  front to the back. And so we can carry them on our
• 35:10
  back as we needed as they got a little bit older.
• 35:12
  And that thing saved us so many times, especially when our kids
• 35:15
  got tired. But they wouldn't.
• 35:17
  Our kids would not sleep in the stroller.
• 35:19
  I don't know you guys who have kids be in the stroller.
• 35:22
  I'm so jealous like mine. Wouldn't either?
• 35:27
  But they would sleep if I was carrying them, so that would
• 35:30
  really saved me a lot, especially when I was when I was
• 35:35
  by myself or a high had bike kid while my family was elsewhere.
• 35:38
  It was like it was really easy to be able to carry them around,
• 35:40
  so I would hopefully recommend that.
• 35:43
  Yeah, lots of lots of different options for that.
• 35:46
  They also have now, I've seen like ones that you put kind of
• 35:49
  on your hip for like older kids that they can sit on while
• 35:52
  you're holding them to save your arms.
• 35:54
  Lots of different options for that type of thing.
• 35:56
  So definitely something like that.
• 35:59
  That looks amazing. I know.
• 36:00
  I'm like, I'm jealous. My My kids are too big now.
• 36:07
  Yeah. Yeah, but.
• 36:08
  But also along those lines of taking a break, utilizing quiet
• 36:11
  spots in the park. If you need a break, you like
• 36:15
  things like playgrounds for the kids to burn off energy.
• 36:18
  There are several playgrounds across the parks depending on
• 36:22
  where you are and what parks you're visiting where they can
• 36:25
  burn off energy. I mean, just off the top of my
• 36:28
  head, I know of a couple that are at Epcot.
• 36:31
  Magic Kingdom has a couple places you could go.
• 36:34
  You can go to Tom Sawyer Island. There's lots of different places
• 36:37
  that you can go if you just want to sit and be able to see your
• 36:41
  kids while they burn off some extra energy.
• 36:44
  Yeah, and here in Disneyland they have in Toontown, there's
• 36:49
  like the Goofy's house has all kinds of places where they can
• 36:53
  run and play, and you can sit and just watch them or play with
• 36:56
  them, you know, depending on what you need.
• 36:59
  They used to have a kind of big grassy area for the play and but
• 37:01
  they've been using it for stroller parking recently, so
• 37:03
  it's a little bit less likely that they'd run around that
• 37:05
  area. Toontown's a great one.
• 37:08
  And then over in California Adventure Redwood Creek
• 37:11
  Challenge Trail is really great. It is.
• 37:13
  Depending on the age of your kids, you might have to run
• 37:16
  around with them because it's a really big space.
• 37:18
  So when my kids were really little, we had like the every
• 37:23
  with the slides. We just like parked it there and
• 37:25
  my kid would run up and go down the slide a couple times and
• 37:28
  then I could sit down and have a break.
• 37:31
  But if your kids are older and you feel comfortable, you can
• 37:34
  probably, they can probably run around there, but that's a good
• 37:37
  place to get energy out to. Even something just as simple
• 37:40
  as, like finding a space where it's a little bit of grass or a
• 37:43
  little bit of shade or whatever. And if you've got bubbles with
• 37:46
  you or you've got something like that, that can you know that the
• 37:49
  kids will run. If you've got Littles, it'll run
• 37:51
  around and play, you know, and be content with that for even
• 37:54
  just 2-3 minutes so you can catch a quick breather, drink
• 37:56
  some water and then be ready to go again.
• 38:00
  Yeah, also like the jumping fountains that I've caught is a
• 38:03
  really fun place too. They can kind of like try to
• 38:05
  catch the water and things like that.
• 38:07
  So yeah. And we talked about earlier
• 38:09
  utilizing those baby care centers.
• 38:10
  Like Kate said, often times they'll have a movie in there,
• 38:12
  they'll have little tables and chairs that the kids can sit at
• 38:16
  while you sit on the benches, you know, lots of different
• 38:18
  options for that. So just make sure that you're,
• 38:20
  you're taking that into consideration when you're making
• 38:22
  your plans and knowing kind of where you can go if you get to a
• 38:26
  certain point in the afternoon and you're like we need a break.
• 38:30
  And I would also say, I think and people who are solo parents
• 38:35
  all the time probably already know this, but people who maybe
• 38:39
  are taking us a kids solo who aren't used to doing it just,
• 38:43
  you know, it's it's tough because you don't have anybody
• 38:47
  there who you can hand your kid off to, you know.
• 38:49
  And so for all people who are traveling solo with kids, make
• 38:54
  sure you find a time to take a little mental break for
• 38:56
  yourself. Whether you take a break back at
• 38:58
  the hotel maybe and let your kid watch your favorite show or read
• 39:02
  a book or whatever it is that you can have a little time away
• 39:06
  to adults for a little bit. Because it can get very
• 39:11
  exhausting being always on because there's nobody else that
• 39:16
  is watching your kiddo. So that's my advice.
• 39:19
  Time for yourself. As well, yes, I think that's
• 39:22
  great advice. So that kind of wraps up our
• 39:25
  little section on solo parenting.
• 39:28
  Like I said, this is kind of a hodgepodge episode of a couple
• 39:30
  different topics. So we're going to jump now into
• 39:34
  some advice for if you're traveling in uneven numbers, or
• 39:39
  if you know that you're going to be going on certain types of
• 39:42
  rides and uneven numbers, we want to kind of give a little
• 39:46
  bit of advice. There's not a ton we can say
• 39:48
  other than here's some advice for specific rides.
• 39:53
  No. Yeah.
• 39:55
  Well, I mean, I have a family of five and the world was built for
• 40:00
  the family of four. Everything is built for a family
• 40:03
  of four. It is very frustrating to travel
• 40:06
  with a family of five to the point where I'm just like, this
• 40:09
  is just ridiculous. Like now Dizzy does make some
• 40:12
  accommodations. They have things like hotel
• 40:14
  rooms that hold, you know, 5 people and whatnot.
• 40:17
  I can't even imagine having more than five.
• 40:19
  So I'm God bless you if you've got more than, you know, three
• 40:23
  children, but. But it does make it.
• 40:27
  It is like a lot of Disney things, luckily are not all
• 40:30
  designed just for a family of four.
• 40:32
  So do you want to talk a little bit about?
• 40:35
  Yeah, so taking a few seconds to review your ride choices,
• 40:40
  because we talked about, you know, we always talk about
• 40:42
  planning and and prioritizing those ride lists and determining
• 40:45
  which ones you might need to plan ahead to figure out how
• 40:49
  your kiddos and grown-ups are going to sit.
• 40:52
  So there are several rides that will seat three or more across
• 40:58
  depending on your needs. So lots of them at Epcot 3 Cabs,
• 41:04
  Figment, Living With the Land, Sauron, Mission Space, and Test
• 41:07
  Track will all accommodate more than just two.
• 41:10
  When you're going on those rides at Hollywood Studios, Star
• 41:14
  Tours, Tower of Terror, and Alien Swirling Saucers will
• 41:17
  accommodate more than two, so those are all rides that you'll
• 41:20
  be good to go. You won't have to worry about
• 41:23
  what combinations you're going to use for those.
• 41:27
  Quite a few at Magic Kingdom. The Railroad, obviously is one
• 41:30
  with those bench seats. Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the
• 41:33
  Caribbean, Haunted Mansion. You can typically squeeze 3IN if
• 41:37
  you've. Got.
• 41:39
  If if you've got smaller kiddos, we squeezed all four of us into
• 41:44
  Haunted Mansion on my last trip with my daughter on my lap.
• 41:49
  And the cast members were like, You sure?
• 41:51
  We're like, yeah, we're good because we wanted to ride.
• 41:54
  Together, three adults is not. Unless they're nine adults.
• 41:57
  Three adults he's not. Because Kirk and Lev and I all
• 42:00
  in one, and I was like, we are in here.
• 42:04
  Yeah, yeah, on on my trip in May, my, my friends Becca and
• 42:09
  Ellie and I all squeezed into one dune buggy, and it was real
• 42:12
  close. You're like, hey, we are.
• 42:15
  Nope. So that one has kind of an
• 42:18
  asterisk by it, so to speak, because if you've got Littles,
• 42:22
  you'll probably be OK Small World, Mad Tea Party and Peter
• 42:28
  Pan will all fit more than just two, so it'll be good on those.
• 42:32
  And then an animal Kingdom dinosaur, the Safari and Kali
• 42:36
  River Rapids will all seat more than two.
• 42:38
  So this next little list is like kind of like what we said with
• 42:41
  Haunted Mansion. These ones you could probably
• 42:44
  squeeze if you need to. I would not say, you know that
• 42:49
  we're talking about squeezing with kids here.
• 42:52
  So not not talking more than two adults, but if you had to
• 42:57
  squeeze, you could probably squeeze more than more than two,
• 43:02
  probably not more than three, but you could squeeze 3 on at
• 43:06
  Epcot, Nemo, you could squeeze into your clamshell, you could
• 43:09
  squeeze 3. Magic Kingdom.
• 43:12
  There are several that are kind of set up to appear as two
• 43:16
  seaters that you could Squeeze, Magic Carpets, Big Thunder
• 43:20
  Mountain, Dumbo, Pooh Bear, Peter Pan, Little Mermaid, the
• 43:25
  Speedway, and People Mover. Yeah.
• 43:29
  So those are all ones that you could squeeze and then on in
• 43:33
  animal Kingdom Triceratops spin you could squeeze as well.
• 43:39
  I was trying to think about these for Disneyland.
• 43:41
  I know, and I couldn't find a good list for Disneyland.
• 43:44
  So most of them, you know, if you've got a lot of the ride
• 43:48
  vehicles for like the dark rides are very similar to what you see
• 43:51
  at Disney World for Disneyland. So most of them will see two, or
• 43:54
  you could squeeze three if you've got little kiddos with
• 43:57
  you. Yeah, like Space Mountain in
• 44:01
  Disney, it's two and two. So you can you'd be OK for that.
• 44:09
  And then I'm like trying to think of all the others, but
• 44:10
  they're a lot of them are similar to Magic Kingdom.
• 44:13
  So the things that we said here pretty much apply.
• 44:16
  Peter Pan's flight is seated is different.
• 44:18
  So you it's another one, it's only one bench seat versus
• 44:20
  there's two in Magic Kingdom. So that is you probably Max
• 44:24
  could fit three like two adults and a child probably or adult
• 44:28
  and two children. But yeah, I I think just in
• 44:32
  general thinking about what ride you're going on and how you're
• 44:37
  going to do that. And again, it got tricky for us
• 44:39
  because when it's just me and my husband and then I have one
• 44:43
  kiddo that was like too young to ride by themselves, but other
• 44:46
  two that could, you know. And so then I just had to like
• 44:49
  do this combination of like, OK, well, who's gonna fit with the
• 44:52
  one who can't ride by themselves?
• 44:54
  Or if you have multiple ones that can't ride by themselves,
• 44:57
  you gotta, you know, split that up so that it works.
• 45:00
  It's a lot of mental math of like, who's sitting with you,
• 45:03
  with you. Unfortunately, yeah.
• 45:07
  And it's like we mentioned earlier, anyone who is under the
• 45:10
  age of seven has to have someone 14 or older riding with them.
• 45:14
  I was like, wait, how did they? So just keep that in mind and
• 45:19
  thank you. Yes, I missed somehow that rise
• 45:21
  of the Resistance is four in a row too.
• 45:22
  I don't know how that got missed off my list.
• 45:24
  So thank you for that. But yeah, so again, you can look
• 45:29
  up if there's certain rides that you're like, I don't know how
• 45:31
  many or you haven't been on it before and you're like, I don't
• 45:34
  know how it works. Lots of things that you can just
• 45:37
  Google online or look up a point of view or you know, lots of
• 45:40
  ways that you can find that online.
• 45:41
  That was just kind of my off the top of my head list that I could
• 45:44
  think of when I was thinking down through all of the
• 45:47
  different rides at the parks, so.
• 45:50
  Yeah, Kayla's saying she didn't know I had kids.
• 45:54
  I do have three. I have a kid.
• 45:55
  I have three kids. I have a 13 year old, an 11 year
• 46:01
  old, and an 8 year old. How to think about that?
• 46:02
  Because she just turned. As I say, you just had
• 46:04
  birthdays. But they all changed.
• 46:07
  Yeah, so I've got three kids. So that's why we do this podcast
• 46:10
  of Mon St. USA to help parents and people
• 46:13
  who also go to the park with children have better Disney
• 46:17
  vacation. So yeah, Speaking of which, an
• 46:20
  option for that, but obviously this would be for older kids
• 46:25
  that are I guess technically older than 7.
• 46:29
  But you know, that depends on your comfort level like we
• 46:31
  talked about. But if you can use single rider
• 46:35
  and everybody's OK with not sitting together, this is really
• 46:38
  in critical. Don't go on single rider and
• 46:41
  expect to sit together, don't do it.
• 46:44
  That's it's very clearly single rider for a reason because
• 46:46
  they're just pulling you to fill a seat.
• 46:48
  That's so you have a plan to meet up with your kid at the
• 46:52
  end, Wait for me at X place. If they go ahead of you or you
• 46:56
  know me, maybe you go first so you could wait for them at the
• 46:59
  end. Whatever works best.
• 47:01
  But in Disney World, they have a test track, X, there's an Abra's
• 47:06
  Walking Roller coaster and Mother's Run.
• 47:08
  Here in Disneyland we have Goofy, Sky School and Credit
• 47:11
  Coaster, Radiator Springs Racers, Grizzly River, Run, Web,
• 47:15
  Slingers, Soren, Smugglers Run Mattered, Horn and Space
• 47:18
  Mountain all have Single Rider and they're they're great.
• 47:22
  If you're if you're a solo and a particle thing they're pretty
• 47:25
  great. But there are also things here
• 47:29
  in a lot of people don't know that Soren has single rider
• 47:32
  here. It was not labeled.
• 47:33
  So you have to go up and like ask for a single rider and
• 47:36
  they'll like put you in the right place for that.
• 47:39
  So, but it's kind of like a hidden Seek Rider Single.
• 47:44
  And then there's also the. Buddy.
• 47:45
  Pass for Monsters Inc that they have here and I've just recently
• 47:52
  heard about this, but it's like 1 because they seat.
• 47:57
  What is it two and two or three and three?
• 47:59
  Like you have to have like 2 of you and then they you pass for a
• 48:03
  buddy pass and then you can bypass the line to get to it.
• 48:06
  I I need to do a little bit more research into that you know
• 48:09
  exactly how to do it. Yeah.
• 48:11
  Recently. Interesting.
• 48:13
  I hadn't heard of that, so. Yeah, I would.
• 48:15
  If you find out more, please share with us on a future
• 48:17
  episode or in the Discord. There's another one for another
• 48:20
  ride and I can't. Remember what it is.
• 48:21
  If anybody does, please speak up at the chat, because I haven't
• 48:24
  used it myself. I've just seen other people use
• 48:26
  it. So yeah, and I have a question,
• 48:30
  do we think that Rye should have single rider?
• 48:38
  I don't know where they would put it.
• 48:39
  They would have to. Do the exit or something, which
• 48:41
  would be interesting because of the way the queue works.
• 48:43
  So I don't know right, but because you would.
• 48:47
  Right. Like it's not set up to do that.
• 48:49
  And if they put you in that, you'd have to go into the
• 48:53
  initial pre show. So I don't know that there's
• 48:57
  necessarily a need because you have so many people funneled
• 49:01
  through the pre shows at one time.
• 49:03
  I don't know that there's necessarily as much of A need
• 49:06
  for a single rider at RISE just because of the the multiple pre
• 49:11
  shows and the way that you're kind of pushed through as a
• 49:13
  group and you meet up with the group in front of you.
• 49:16
  So I feel like there's enough people that they probably can
• 49:19
  just very easily pull from, put single riders in.
• 49:23
  But I've been on Ryze a couple of times where I've been in like
• 49:25
  a group of three and they don't put a fourth with us.
• 49:29
  Yeah, yeah, I don't. Know that would be interesting.
• 49:32
  It would be nice to have that option.
• 49:34
  I think it's single rider. I'm always pros, I mean.
• 49:38
  Short answer, yes, we would love to have single rider options on
• 49:42
  multiple more attractions if it's possible, but like again,
• 49:45
  some of them it just doesn't make sense to some of them
• 49:48
  there's no space to. So it really just depends and I
• 49:53
  will just. Mention just from a Disney.
• 49:54
  History, perspective. Single rider was kind of a Walt
• 49:57
  Disney, like he really was an advocate for the single rider
• 50:00
  option to get people that capacity level up.
• 50:03
  But we didn't really see it come into play until the rocket rods
• 50:06
  came about and Rocket Rods broke down like constantly and they
• 50:10
  had terrible capacity because of that.
• 50:12
  So that to move people through there faster, that's when they
• 50:15
  really started pushing that single rider option.
• 50:18
  But ever since then, it's really been kind of just part of the
• 50:21
  park culture. I'm about that.
• 50:23
  Interesting, yeah. So who?
• 50:25
  Who'd have thought? That there was a.
• 50:26
  History and a story behind Single Rider lines and
• 50:30
  everything. Jackie.
• 50:32
  I know. OK.
• 50:36
  So I think that kind of wraps up just some general information
• 50:39
  about uneven parties. Again, you just really have to
• 50:43
  plan ahead, Know who wants to ride what.
• 50:45
  Know if you've got people that don't want to do some of the
• 50:48
  thrill rides, it may solve that problem for you.
• 50:51
  So just really talk to the people that you're traveling
• 50:54
  with, find out what everybody wants to do and and make your
• 50:57
  plans accordingly. Yeah.
• 51:00
  So shall we move on to our third part of this hodgepodge Friday?
• 51:05
  Shall we? Yes, which will be traveling
• 51:10
  with thrill seekers and non thrill seekers.
• 51:13
  Basically people who want to do 2 different things.
• 51:16
  What do you do in that situation?
• 51:19
  And this comes up a lot because you've got maybe kids that are
• 51:24
  too scared or too young or too short don't want to do thrill
• 51:27
  rides or maybe some older adults that are like I don't want to do
• 51:31
  a thrill ride or you have teenagers that want to go do all
• 51:34
  the thrill rides travelling with Elsa.
• 51:36
  I mean, you know, anytime you have this like mixed group, it
• 51:39
  becomes very complicated, very fast because people are like, I
• 51:42
  don't want to do that, I want to go do this.
• 51:44
  So what do we do, Jackie? What do we do with that
• 51:47
  situation so? My.
• 51:49
  Biggest suggestion is there are often other attractions or
• 51:53
  activities that can be done while you're waiting.
• 51:56
  Most of the time it's going to be your thrill seekers are doing
• 52:01
  a thrill ride and everyone else that doesn't want to do that is
• 52:03
  waiting. OK, So what does that look like?
• 52:06
  The first thing that I will always suggest is if you're
• 52:08
  utilizing Genie Plus, it's super easy to do.
• 52:11
  You can very easily select and unselect people from those
• 52:16
  different times. Now, it is tricky to get times
• 52:19
  that always coordinate with each other.
• 52:21
  So it really just depends on the day.
• 52:23
  It depends on how busy it is. It depends on what rides you're
• 52:26
  trying to do. Lots of different things with
• 52:27
  that. But it is possible to do that on
• 52:29
  GE Plus. So I get that question a lot
• 52:31
  because I do so much with the app.
• 52:34
  It is possible to only have two of your six do Big Thunder
• 52:39
  Mountain because the other four don't want to ride it.
• 52:41
  You can absolutely manipulate that on the app, so that's where
• 52:45
  I would start from. There, you just got to look.
• 52:50
  Around I would not include the people who are.
• 52:52
  Not going to go on the ride on that reservation because then
• 52:55
  you're just. Creating a big headache for
• 52:57
  yourself? Yeah, yes, because if they don't
• 53:00
  then tap into the lightning lane, it will mess up your
• 53:04
  ability to book your next one. So just don't even include them
• 53:08
  if they don't want to ride it. Don't even put them on there
• 53:11
  because it'll be much easier. And even if you don't book
• 53:14
  something for them in the meantime, it will still be
• 53:16
  easier because once those that are riding the thrill ride tap
• 53:19
  into that lightning lane, the people that are not on the ride
• 53:22
  can be booking the next one. So.
• 53:25
  Just don't even put them on. There.
• 53:27
  Open up like they don't exist. That's crazy.
• 53:31
  No ride for you. No for you.
• 53:36
  Yeah, absolutely. So I love.
• 53:40
  Jackie Jackie is so great. She made-up the list of because
• 53:44
  I've been busy at Disneyland this week.
• 53:46
  Obviously this list of main thrill rides at each park and a
• 53:50
  suggested non thrill activity to go with it.
• 53:52
  And then I looked over the Disneyland ones to to help her
• 53:55
  out a little bit. But do you want to talk about
• 53:56
  Magic Kingdom a little bit? Yeah.
• 53:58
  So again, these. Are what I would consider thrill
• 54:02
  rides. Different people have different
• 54:04
  opinions on what thrill rides are.
• 54:05
  Are not Don't come for me, this is rides that maybe kids would
• 54:11
  be. Uncomfortable or too short to go
• 54:13
  on? Like, let's just go with that.
• 54:15
  Definite, right? Yes.
• 54:18
  So at Magic. Kingdom Big Thunder Mountain is
• 54:22
  1 so with Big Thunder Mountain places nearby that you can go to
• 54:29
  do, there is still the play space that is by what will
• 54:32
  future be Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
• 54:35
  Last I knew that play space that was from formerly Splash
• 54:38
  Mountain was still open. If someone who has been to the
• 54:43
  parks recently knows different please let us know.
• 54:45
  But last I knew, that little play area that they had at the
• 54:48
  exit of what was Splash Mountain is still open.
• 54:51
  So that is one place you could go.
• 54:52
  You could hop on the railroad. If the line is super long for
• 54:57
  Big Thunder and you people are planning on waiting, hop on the
• 55:01
  railroad and take it for a spin. That'll take up a good amount of
• 55:04
  time. So we're.
• 55:06
  Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly.
• 55:09
  And then kind of down and around the corner, you've also got the
• 55:13
  tiki room that is not too far away that you could go and enjoy
• 55:16
  the show over there for that as well, yeah.
• 55:20
  And. We have this.
• 55:23
  Do you want me? To go go for it.
• 55:27
  We have the seven. Dwarfs mine Train nearby.
• 55:30
  We also we have Little Mermaid ride as nearby as well as poo
• 55:35
  and then the teacups are also there.
• 55:36
  So those are all really easy ones.
• 55:38
  And if it was a really long line you could also maybe do
• 55:41
  Enchanted Tales with Belle. That's around the corner too, so
• 55:44
  if your kid wants to do that one.
• 55:45
  I always love that attraction, and I always forget it's there
• 55:47
  because it was closed, so right. Yeah.
• 55:51
  Oh, yeah, 7:00. Dwarfs is an easy one.
• 55:52
  There's so much around that you could do.
• 55:54
  You could even venture up into Storybook Circus and do Dumbo or
• 55:57
  walk through the shop or there's character.
• 55:59
  I mean, there's a ton to do around there.
• 56:01
  I just kind of picked the three that were closest.
• 56:04
  Yeah, sure. There's so.
• 56:05
  Many things to do there, yeah. And then Tron is the big.
• 56:08
  Thrill ride that just opened, you know, most recently it's a
• 56:12
  little more out of the way. So my suggestion is if you're
• 56:16
  going to Tron, depending on which direction you're
• 56:19
  approaching it from, you can approach it from like we just
• 56:22
  talking about Storybook Circus area.
• 56:23
  There's a ton to do in there. If you're approaching it from
• 56:26
  Tomorrowland, there's not as much on the way.
• 56:29
  So I would stop at either the Tomorrowland Speedway or venture
• 56:34
  up into the teacups. And then you're kind of in that
• 56:36
  area of Fantasyland again where you have a lot to do there as
• 56:39
  well, yeah. We I have a.
• 56:43
  Comment too that says Tom. Tom Sawyer Island is a great one
• 56:46
  also for Big Thunder Mountain that is really close to there.
• 56:48
  So I agree that's a that's a great one.
• 56:50
  And you didn't list Space Mountain, but I would the stuff
• 56:54
  that's by Tron also applies for that and like a people Uber is
• 56:58
  in that area as well and Astro Orbiter and all those kinds of
• 57:01
  things. So lots of things to do in that
• 57:04
  area makes Space and Tron pretty much the same area.
• 57:08
  So you didn't do the thing. Yeah, I don't know how I.
• 57:11
  I missed that. One sorry.
• 57:13
  It's cool. I was just like.
• 57:14
  I think space is on there too. I'm considered all a thrill
• 57:17
  ride. It was like the original 1.
• 57:19
  Great. But I have it down for
• 57:21
  Disneyland. I just.
• 57:22
  Forgot it for Disney World and I just want to put this.
• 57:25
  Put this out there that from the other Disney history
• 57:28
  perspective, the There were really no thrill rides when
• 57:33
  Magic Kingdom opened in 1971 because they thought they were
• 57:38
  planning like Disneyland was a local community.
• 57:41
  Like it's the ones that mostly went to the parks.
• 57:43
  Even though they were planning it to be a vacation destination,
• 57:46
  they still assumed a lot of it would be locals and they thought
• 57:49
  a lot of the local population of Florida was maybe on the elderly
• 57:52
  side. So they planned a lot more shows
• 57:55
  instead of thrill rides and they quickly realized that they
• 58:00
  needed to remedy that over the years have.
• 58:02
  But that's why Magic Kingdom has so many fit down shows.
• 58:06
  It's because of that reason. So it's great.
• 58:10
  Good to know. No, that's.
• 58:12
  Great. So let's hop over to.
• 58:15
  Epcot A couple thrill rides in Epcot.
• 58:19
  Now, I will say there are some other rides here that are dark
• 58:21
  rides that might have drops or might have kind of a few little
• 58:24
  spaces that might be considered thrilling.
• 58:27
  I'm not including those on this list, kind of going for the more
• 58:31
  big thrill rides like Kate and I mentioned.
• 58:33
  So at Epcot Cosmic Rewind, obviously Guardians of the
• 58:37
  Galaxy is a big throw right over there.
• 58:40
  Lots of different options there. They've got a couple play places
• 58:43
  in Mission Space, A play place by Connections.
• 58:46
  There's usually one right on that side, right outside there.
• 58:48
  It's usually themed to whatever festival's going on.
• 58:52
  If you venture kind of towards World Showcase 3, Caballeros is
• 58:55
  right around the the corner that you could do that as well.
• 58:57
  So lots of different options and lots of just sites to take in at
• 59:02
  Epcot. I feel like, yeah, yeah, all
• 59:05
  that new. Area they just put in with all
• 59:06
  the lights and stuff too. So they said at night time
• 59:09
  that's a fun yeah. And it was interesting because
• 59:12
  as I was. Looking this up, pretty much the
• 59:14
  majority of the thrill rides at Epcot are all like on the same
• 59:17
  side of the map. So.
• 59:20
  Those options, kind of. Hold true, if you're looking at
• 59:23
  something like mission space or Test track, Test Track is
• 59:25
  questionable as a thrill ride. You know, it's kind of just got
• 59:28
  that fast part towards the end. So give or take, if you choose
• 59:32
  to consider that a throw ride, same with Mission space.
• 59:35
  It's a throw ride for those of us and maybe you don't
• 59:36
  appreciate the type of attraction that that is, no.
• 59:41
  Mission Space Spring and if you wanted to wander a.
• 59:45
  Little bit further too, you could walk over to Moana journey
• 59:49
  of water. That would be a really great
• 59:50
  place to take the kids. It's just a tiny bit of a longer
• 59:53
  walk, but not that bad. So well, and now that that
• 59:56
  center space. Is open in Epcot.
• 59:58
  It really opens up a world of possibilities because you can go
• 1:00:01
  towards Spaceship Earth, you can cut straight across, and you can
• 1:00:04
  go towards Figment or Nemo. They're really not that far now
• 1:00:07
  that you can actually walk through the center.
• 1:00:11
  And you're not having to go out and around to get to things.
• 1:00:13
  It's really not that far. When you're going between those,
• 1:00:16
  those two areas, Yeah, I'm not gonna.
• 1:00:20
  I'm not gonna know what to do with myself.
• 1:00:22
  I know, 'cause I'm the well, so I'll be walking around just
• 1:00:27
  'cause I don't know how to go through anyone, right?
• 1:00:30
  So we. That's pretty much Epcot a
• 1:00:32
  nutshell, because those are the major thrill ride.
• 1:00:34
  Should we move on to Hollywood studios?
• 1:00:36
  Yes. So we've got.
• 1:00:39
  Smugglers run, so while you're in that area of Batu you can do
• 1:00:44
  some bounty hunting, which is a great one using I just uses the
• 1:00:49
  light app, I haven't used it in a long.
• 1:00:51
  Time you've it's. With your.
• 1:00:52
  Magic Band Plus, it has to be a Magic Band plus if you're going
• 1:00:55
  to do that. So not the old school ones, but
• 1:00:57
  the new fancy LED chargeable ones.
• 1:01:00
  And then yes, the Play Disney app.
• 1:01:02
  So those are the only two things that you need.
• 1:01:04
  You start, there's like a screen that you start on that will send
• 1:01:09
  you kind of all around and it's like a giant game of hot and
• 1:01:12
  cold, super fun. You can also do shopping in the.
• 1:01:16
  Marketplace and or you can walk out and go to Muppets and I
• 1:01:21
  think you could also go the other way if if aliens were
• 1:01:25
  aliens were soccer didn't have that vulnerable await you know
• 1:01:30
  you could go that way or midway I mean yet those but those do
• 1:01:33
  tend to have a longer weight so it depends on how long smugglers
• 1:01:38
  run how long the weight is there if you want to attempt one of
• 1:01:41
  those Yep absolutely and. I don't know why I didn't put
• 1:01:44
  these together on the list, but we'll talk about Rise of the
• 1:01:46
  Resistance quickly, since we're kind of already in that area.
• 1:01:49
  Same idea. They're both in that same
• 1:01:51
  Galaxy's Edge area. So depending on which way you
• 1:01:53
  want to walk, if you're walking towards the Marketplace, if
• 1:01:55
  you're going towards Toy Story, if you're going back towards
• 1:01:58
  Muppets, all of those options hold the same for if you're
• 1:02:00
  waiting on someone doing Rise of the Resistance, sure.
• 1:02:05
  And then we've got rock. And Roller Coaster as another
• 1:02:09
  and Tower of Terror. We'll kind of combine those two
• 1:02:11
  together as well because they're basically in the same area.
• 1:02:14
  That area is a little more secluded, not as many options if
• 1:02:17
  you don't want to walk too far. They do have the Lightning
• 1:02:20
  McQueen Racing Academy show that exists at the the far end of
• 1:02:24
  that, that walkway as well, which is a good one.
• 1:02:28
  It's super cute. Like even if you've got a little
• 1:02:30
  bit older kids, maybe night might not want to the Lightning
• 1:02:32
  McQueen animatronic, I guess you would call it is really cool.
• 1:02:35
  So, you know, I think it's neat. Someday.
• 1:02:40
  Someday add it to the list of. And then they've.
• 1:02:44
  Also got the Beauty and the Beast musical that is on that
• 1:02:47
  air in that area as well. So if you time that accurately,
• 1:02:51
  I think they do show times every hour from like it's usually like
• 1:02:54
  10:00-ish to 5:00-ish depending on the day.
• 1:02:57
  So check your app for times for that.
• 1:02:59
  But you would might be able to sit and catch that while your
• 1:03:02
  party goes and does both of rock'n'roll coaster and tower
• 1:03:06
  tear, depending on the timing, yeah.
• 1:03:10
  OK. So then we also have Slinky Dog
• 1:03:12
  Dash. And that again is like what I
• 1:03:15
  said, because it was right next to Rise.
• 1:03:17
  So it's going to be like Aliens, Swirling Saucers or Toy Story
• 1:03:19
  Mania, probably going to be your age or two.
• 1:03:21
  Or you could grab a snack at Woody's Lunchbox there and just
• 1:03:25
  sit down and well, if you could find a seat.
• 1:03:30
  So Drew Seating is not as ambitious for me to say you
• 1:03:33
  should sit down, but you could grab a snack there and maybe
• 1:03:37
  stand and eat it in the sun. In the sun.
• 1:03:43
  All my memories of eating there is always.
• 1:03:45
  Standing in the sun to eat. Yeah, it's not easy to find
• 1:03:49
  seats. There, that's for sure.
• 1:03:51
  OK, let's hop over now to Animal Kingdom.
• 1:03:56
  A couple different thrill rides over here.
• 1:03:59
  Flight of Passage is one over in the Pandora area.
• 1:04:02
  Really the best thing that you've got there is if you want
• 1:04:05
  to do Navi River Journey or I mean even just walking around in
• 1:04:09
  that area, they've got lots of little interactive, They've got
• 1:04:11
  like a little drum area that the kids can play the drums.
• 1:04:13
  They've got lots of socially. If it's towards evening time, if
• 1:04:17
  the park is open that long, it gets really pretty and lit up.
• 1:04:20
  There's lots to look at. So walking around or doing
• 1:04:23
  Knobby River Journey are your best options there, Yeah, sure.
• 1:04:26
  And. Then when it comes to dinosaur,
• 1:04:29
  which sounds like it would be a kid friendly ride, but it's
• 1:04:32
  really not. Nope.
• 1:04:35
  Lying for children? And really quite violently bumps
• 1:04:39
  you around, so just keep that in mind.
• 1:04:42
  The warnings are accurate for that.
• 1:04:45
  With Triceratops spin, there's also carnival games, so you can
• 1:04:48
  also like, look, there's a couple of animals that are
• 1:04:50
  there. There's also the boneyard, if
• 1:04:52
  it's open, that's a play space that you think will be.
• 1:04:56
  Yes, that's true. That's one that I always forget
• 1:04:59
  about because I feel like it was closed for so long, but it has
• 1:05:02
  been reopened. Again.
• 1:05:03
  So yes, I would add that to that list for sure.
• 1:05:05
  Bone Yard. It's like a big old.
• 1:05:07
  Playground with only one entrance, so that's good.
• 1:05:09
  If you know your kids are older, they can run around by
• 1:05:11
  themselves, or you can run around with them if they're
• 1:05:13
  littler and you need to keep an eye on them.
• 1:05:16
  But there's only one way in and one way out, which is always
• 1:05:18
  great as a parent to not have to worry about them running out.
• 1:05:22
  So that's helpful, absolutely. So then also Expedition Everest,
• 1:05:27
  another thrill ride at Animal Kingdom.
• 1:05:28
  A couple different options for this one, depending on where
• 1:05:32
  you're headed or where you're coming from.
• 1:05:34
  The theater for the Finding Music Finding Nemo musical is
• 1:05:37
  not far away from that, it's just right across the bridge, so
• 1:05:39
  if you've timed that correctly, that is an option.
• 1:05:42
  Keep in mind though, that show is like a full half hour.
• 1:05:45
  So if you're planning on that, maybe if it's 1/2 hour wait
• 1:05:48
  forever soon your party's going to wait.
• 1:05:50
  That would be and the timing is right that would work out.
• 1:05:53
  You also have kind of back the other direction, Cali River
• 1:05:57
  Rapids and the Maharaja Jungle Trek walking trail for animals.
• 1:06:01
  So a couple different options that you could utilize.
• 1:06:04
  If you're in that area of the park, yeah, that's a great
• 1:06:07
  option. Because you can kind of control
• 1:06:09
  your timing for that too, because you can speed up if you
• 1:06:12
  know that they're probably, you know, you can take your time if
• 1:06:16
  it might take a while. And there's also a little, a lot
• 1:06:19
  of little places in there to get snacks and stuff too, which is,
• 1:06:23
  yeah, I will say with Everest. If the line is not terribly
• 1:06:26
  long, my kids love sitting. If you go all the way to the end
• 1:06:31
  of the walkway towards the mountain, there's some benches
• 1:06:35
  that you can sit and watch the trains come down through the
• 1:06:37
  mountain on the ride. My kids love sitting there and
• 1:06:41
  they could probably sit there for 20 to 25 minutes and be
• 1:06:45
  perfectly content, yeah. It's fun thing about that.
• 1:06:49
  It's like you watch the one go up and you watch the one come
• 1:06:51
  down and it's very satisfying. I don't know why.
• 1:06:55
  And it's fun because, like, we've been able to.
• 1:06:57
  Like catch, like my husband, when he's been on, when we've
• 1:06:59
  been watching, we're like, oh, look, there he is.
• 1:07:02
  I've done that with Elliot because he's he will.
• 1:07:04
  I'll go on once and that's like as much as I can do and then
• 1:07:07
  he'll continue to go on it. And so I'll go sit there and
• 1:07:09
  wait for him and just wait as he goes.
• 1:07:14
  Great. I think that's all for Animal
• 1:07:16
  Kingdom. Should we hop over to
• 1:07:18
  Disneyland? Yes, let's talk about West
• 1:07:20
  Coast, so. Big Thunder Mountain, What's
• 1:07:26
  nearby? The Mark Twain Columbia,
• 1:07:28
  depending on what's running or what's going around.
• 1:07:30
  Right now, the Mark Twain is still under refurbishment, so
• 1:07:33
  it's just the Columbia, the Tiki room is not very far away.
• 1:07:36
  Nothing's really that far away in Disneyland, you guys know.
• 1:07:41
  Also, I threw in their storytelling at Royal Theatre
• 1:07:43
  only if it's running on that particular day and check the
• 1:07:46
  showtimes for that. But that show is wonderful and I
• 1:07:50
  think not enough people go to it.
• 1:07:51
  So storytelling at Royal Theatre is fun.
• 1:07:55
  Go there and make Kate. Happy.
• 1:07:58
  And then the Adventureland. Treehouse, which is now reopened
• 1:08:02
  Hazama it it's a really fun one that doesn't take very long to
• 1:08:07
  go through that one. So you might have you were able
• 1:08:10
  to combine two things to do that maybe you have a snack and do
• 1:08:14
  the Adventureland Treehouse. Then there's also the Gadget
• 1:08:18
  coaster, which is actually a pretty small coaster, so most
• 1:08:20
  kids probably would do that one. But those if if you have one
• 1:08:24
  that wants to and one that doesn't, there's tons of stuff
• 1:08:26
  to do over in Toontown, I would say that's also good for Roger
• 1:08:29
  Rabbit Spin. Some kids don't want to go on
• 1:08:31
  that one for some reason. Maybe it looks a little more
• 1:08:33
  intimidating, but there's character meets.
• 1:08:36
  There's just exploring Toontown in general with like Goofy's
• 1:08:39
  house and whatnot. And then there's also a runaway
• 1:08:42
  railway. That would be harder if you just
• 1:08:44
  said it's a long line so you have to budget time for that.
• 1:08:48
  But Gadget goes lawn too. It's only what, a 23 second ride
• 1:08:51
  but the OR lawn? So there goes it.
• 1:08:54
  Only one. That's crazy if I just.
• 1:08:57
  Won't wait for it anymore. Yeah, with my.
• 1:09:01
  I have other things too. You're like no thank you.
• 1:09:05
  Also. In Disneyland, we've got.
• 1:09:07
  The Indiana Jones adventure, which is very similar in a lot
• 1:09:09
  of ways to dinosaur which we just talked about in Animal
• 1:09:11
  Kingdom, can be fairly rough for kiddos and for non kiddos too.
• 1:09:18
  So some options that are nearby there, Jungle Cruise, the tree
• 1:09:23
  house again and pirates depending on again wait times
• 1:09:26
  and that, those types of things. But those are some other options
• 1:09:29
  that you could use for that. Some kids are super intimidated.
• 1:09:32
  By the two drops on Pirates, though, so keep that in mind.
• 1:09:36
  My kids hated hated pirates because of the drops for a long
• 1:09:40
  time when they're just now starting to come around.
• 1:09:43
  Yeah, my. My kids got re mad at Pirates
• 1:09:47
  when we just went to Disney World because we got wet because
• 1:09:50
  the Disney World one. I feel like over the last two
• 1:09:52
  years has gotten more like you get more wet on it than you ever
• 1:09:56
  used to. And I always forget to remind my
• 1:09:59
  kids. And my son was really.
• 1:10:03
  Unhappy with me, at least that you know how.
• 1:10:07
  When you go on Frozen and like the back of the seat is wet,
• 1:10:10
  Yep, you always get come off with like being wet in the back.
• 1:10:14
  Yeah, that's how Pirates is here.
• 1:10:16
  That I feel always coming off wet.
• 1:10:20
  And that's what happened to us at Disney.
• 1:10:22
  World. We sat down and my son looked at
• 1:10:24
  me and was like, mom, this is not OK.
• 1:10:27
  And I was like, oh, I'm sorry. There's literally.
• 1:10:30
  Nothing. You can do.
• 1:10:31
  You're like, man, this is our life.
• 1:10:32
  No, you're just wet. And when it's cold outside, it's
• 1:10:35
  even worse. Yeah, he was not happy with.
• 1:10:38
  Me and, yeah, the cannons, right, Becca?
• 1:10:39
  Becca said. The cannons.
• 1:10:40
  The cannons will get you on there, too.
• 1:10:42
  So it's not just the drop, it's the cannons, too.
• 1:10:46
  So. True.
• 1:10:47
  Yeah. So.
• 1:10:47
  Pirates, maybe? Maybe not, depending on your
• 1:10:50
  kids. Yeah, so then also the
• 1:10:55
  Matterhorn Bobsleds, you can go a lot of places you can.
• 1:10:59
  It's pretty much next to Fantasyland.
• 1:11:01
  Used to be part of Tomorrowland. Now it's part of Fantasyland.
• 1:11:03
  Officially, there's the Teacup story that land canal boats are
• 1:11:07
  the closest to that, but there's also Alice is right there.
• 1:11:11
  The small world is right around the corner.
• 1:11:14
  You can go. Autopia is not that far away
• 1:11:17
  either. Finding Nemo Submarines is
• 1:11:19
  around the corner if you want to go get claustrophobic.
• 1:11:25
  Lots of things to do, you know, I thought about putting.
• 1:11:30
  The submarine on my list. But I was like, oh, I don't know
• 1:11:32
  if kids would really enjoy that cuz I I I have not been to
• 1:11:35
  Disneyland yet. I have not done it yet.
• 1:11:38
  The kids I feel like mostly, really.
• 1:11:40
  Like that ride, it's very kid friendly.
• 1:11:42
  It's so they use the same technology as they do in the
• 1:11:47
  Nemo that's in the seas over in Epcot.
• 1:11:50
  They use that same technology for that ride as they did for
• 1:11:53
  this one. So it's very in that way, but
• 1:11:56
  it's like it's very fun for kids cuz they actually go under,
• 1:11:59
  You're in a submarine under the water like wind right up that.
• 1:12:02
  So most kids, I would say probably actually really like
• 1:12:05
  that, right. And it's parents that are like,
• 1:12:07
  oh, OK, so. Plan accordingly with that one
• 1:12:13
  in So in Disneyland. They also have Galaxy's Edge
• 1:12:16
  with Smugglers Run and Rise of the Resistance.
• 1:12:19
  Kate and I were messaging about this one.
• 1:12:20
  It's real far away, yes. So play.
• 1:12:24
  It accordingly if. You're going into Batu and you
• 1:12:28
  know that you've got people that don't want to ride Ryze or
• 1:12:31
  smugglers run. Depending on which direction
• 1:12:34
  you're coming from will depend on maybe what options you choose
• 1:12:39
  for that one. Kate, do you want to give a
• 1:12:40
  little insight on that for us? Yeah.
• 1:12:42
  So if you're coming. In from So there's three
• 1:12:45
  entrances to this area. So there's one that's like from
• 1:12:49
  Fantasyland into Frontierland. There's one that's mid
• 1:12:53
  Frontierland and there's one that's on the other side in
• 1:12:56
  Critter Country. OK, so if you're coming from
• 1:12:59
  Critter Country, you could backtrack you could go do the
• 1:13:02
  Haunted Mansion, you could go do the canoes, you could go do you
• 1:13:06
  could do Tom Sawyer Island. You could do the Railroad with a
• 1:13:09
  little farther walk for that. You can do anything on that
• 1:13:12
  side, right? Or you could go the other
• 1:13:14
  direction. You could go and go to
• 1:13:16
  Fantasyland and explore Casey Junior and Storybook Land, Canal
• 1:13:20
  boats and all the all the things like Snow White, Pinocchio, all
• 1:13:23
  the things like Carousel. So it really depends on where
• 1:13:25
  you go, but it is because it's just kind of tucked way back in
• 1:13:29
  the back of the park. This is why in this area of the
• 1:13:32
  park also kind of it like closes early and it provides the wait
• 1:13:36
  times drop at the end of the night because like nobody's back
• 1:13:38
  there at all front of the park. Yeah, fireworks and stuff.
• 1:13:42
  So they close. Rye's early here in Disneyland.
• 1:13:45
  The queue for it closes before the park closes, which is really
• 1:13:49
  different for Disney. So just be aware of that.
• 1:13:53
  But yeah, if you're in that back forty of the park, then you're
• 1:13:57
  going to have to walk somewhere to get to something if you're
• 1:14:01
  not going to just hang out in that too.
• 1:14:02
  So I would maybe just recommend getting a snack or the split
• 1:14:06
  before you go to Batu. Yep.
• 1:14:08
  I was going to say plan. Plan.
• 1:14:09
  So you don't even go into Batu like, unless you want to see it
• 1:14:12
  and walk around in there, obviously.
• 1:14:13
  But like, if you're like, Nah, I'm good, then just don't even
• 1:14:16
  go all the way back there. Yeah, there's some characters.
• 1:14:19
  And stuff that walk around, obviously that are really fun to
• 1:14:22
  see and Babe Yoda and all those kinds of things.
• 1:14:25
  So there's there's fun stuff to see there.
• 1:14:27
  It just is. It's not the best for having
• 1:14:30
  like Littles. There's no ride for Littles
• 1:14:32
  there, so that's awesome. Yeah.
• 1:14:35
  And then I think the last. One that we didn't talk about
• 1:14:38
  yet was Space Mountain, and really, Autopia is your best bet
• 1:14:41
  with that. It's the closest, but again,
• 1:14:43
  like Kate mentioned, there's a ton of stuff within walking
• 1:14:46
  distance pretty much anywhere you're at in Disneyland.
• 1:14:48
  It just depends on what your group wants to do, but Autopia
• 1:14:52
  would be your closest for Space Mountain.
• 1:14:54
  Yeah, Buzz Lightyear is not that.
• 1:14:56
  Far from there either you could go do that one, but it's again
• 1:15:00
  that wait can get really long. So it really depends on or
• 1:15:03
  what's going on. There's no people over, so you
• 1:15:05
  know not there about that at all.
• 1:15:08
  Also my. Subs.
• 1:15:10
  Is in that area too. It's it's narrower and or you
• 1:15:13
  could take a ride on the monorail because they will go,
• 1:15:15
  it'll go to the Disneyland hotel, but then I'll make a loop
• 1:15:18
  and come back so you can always do that as well.
• 1:15:21
  True. So see options.
• 1:15:24
  Should we go to California? Adventure.
• 1:15:26
  Yes, let's so. 1st on the list is Goofy Sky School and there
• 1:15:35
  are ten options depending on what you choose to do.
• 1:15:40
  So you can do jumping Jellyfish, The mermaid rides over there,
• 1:15:44
  Gold, The Golden Zephyr, Silly Symphony swings.
• 1:15:47
  Kate added a a pro tip for us. You can hang out.
• 1:15:51
  In the. Shady Paradise Gardens area.
• 1:15:54
  There Let's stay up. Live music.
• 1:15:56
  That's a nice little escape and you can also meet Coco and the
• 1:15:59
  Plaza de Familia. Also the Redwood Creek.
• 1:16:02
  Redwood Creek Challenge Trail is not that far, which we've
• 1:16:05
  already mentioned earlier, but that's not that far from there.
• 1:16:08
  Yeah, perfect. And.
• 1:16:09
  Then another thrill ride over in DCA Guardians of the Galaxy
• 1:16:13
  Mission Breakout. Again, a couple options over
• 1:16:16
  there. The red car Trolley.
• 1:16:18
  The Animation Academy is not far from there as well.
• 1:16:21
  If you want to go draw while you wait and turtle talk with Crush
• 1:16:24
  are over in that area as well, yeah.
• 1:16:28
  Then we have. The Incredi coaster over on that
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  side, I love that they put it used to be in the Bugs Land
• 1:16:36
  area. They they rethemed it and put it
• 1:16:38
  over here. It's the inside out emotional
• 1:16:40
  whirlwind. It's kind of like sitting in the
• 1:16:42
  middle of a roller coaster. It's a very strange place for
• 1:16:45
  it. Some people don't even know it's
• 1:16:47
  there if they don't like walk back in that area, but that's a
• 1:16:49
  really fun one for Littles. Also, Jesse's Carousel, always a
• 1:16:54
  win for kids that like carousels and then yeah, and then
• 1:16:58
  everything else from Goofy's to high school.
• 1:16:59
  If you walk around the Bay there there's all kinds of things and
• 1:17:02
  if your kid likes Ferris wheels, don't go on.
• 1:17:05
  The swinging ones really like thrill rides, but the non
• 1:17:09
  swinging ones, as long as they're not afraid of heights,
• 1:17:11
  that's also what often they just can be really slow loading.
• 1:17:14
  So it might take a little bit longer to go on that one.
• 1:17:17
  So yeah, and then if. We venture back towards the cars
• 1:17:21
  area, Radiator Springs Racers again kind of on the same lines
• 1:17:25
  as what we said with test Track. Some people may consider that a
• 1:17:27
  thrill ride, some may not. Just depends on your personal
• 1:17:32
  opinion. But if you are someone who does
• 1:17:33
  not choose to ride that either Luigi's or Meters Junkyard
• 1:17:37
  Jamboree back in Cars would be options that you could use as
• 1:17:40
  well. Cars land tends to have longer
• 1:17:42
  waits for a lot of their attractions, so just plan
• 1:17:46
  accordingly. You may not be able to easily
• 1:17:48
  jump onto one of those other ones and wait.
• 1:17:50
  Just really depends on timing for sure, so.
• 1:17:55
  Then Grizzly River Run is the last one, which is pretty
• 1:17:58
  intimidating to a lot of kids cuz that's a really big drop in
• 1:18:01
  it and some cases don't like getting wet, which is also
• 1:18:05
  valid. So I would recommend the Redwood
• 1:18:08
  Creek Challenge Trail for that. It's right next door, right
• 1:18:11
  across the way. I think they designed it that
• 1:18:13
  way so it would be an easy play place for kids.
• 1:18:15
  So I I don't really have many recommendations beyond that.
• 1:18:18
  I think it's it's a great one and there's so many areas of it
• 1:18:22
  that there's stuff for Littles and stuff for bigger kids.
• 1:18:24
  So yeah, perfect. And I do want to.
• 1:18:28
  Mention that kind of wraps up the majority of our list.
• 1:18:30
  I think hopefully we hit everything other than when I
• 1:18:32
  forgot Space Mountain earlier. But if you are curious about a
• 1:18:37
  ride, if you're visiting for the first time to the parks, check
• 1:18:40
  out the app. Because if you click on the
• 1:18:42
  attractions on the app and you Scroll down on that particular
• 1:18:45
  attraction, it will tell you like what ages they suggest.
• 1:18:49
  It'll say kids, tweens, teens, everybody you know, like it'll
• 1:18:53
  give you some more input for that.
• 1:18:55
  It'll also tell you if they consider it, if Disney considers
• 1:18:58
  it a thrill ride, or if it's a dark ride or slow moving or
• 1:19:02
  drops. There's all sorts of information
• 1:19:04
  on there, so utilize that because that.
• 1:19:08
  Can be really really helpful. When you're planning, especially
• 1:19:11
  if you've never been on something before, I was.
• 1:19:14
  Finding new things in the app that I.
• 1:19:16
  Didn't know were there like and I'm like, I literally use this
• 1:19:20
  thing all the time, right? Like every month I'm on this
• 1:19:22
  thing. But you know, I really love also
• 1:19:25
  the Guest services tab. I think it's one that people
• 1:19:27
  overlook a lot, but that's where it will locate your baby care
• 1:19:30
  centers, your first aid stations, charging areas for
• 1:19:35
  like fuel rods and things like that.
• 1:19:37
  There's so many things that will tell you the services that are
• 1:19:41
  available. So that one's a really helpful
• 1:19:42
  one too. Yes, absolutely.
• 1:19:45
  So definitely use that to your advantage.
• 1:19:47
  Again, this was kind of a hodgepodge episode that kind of
• 1:19:51
  wraps up that particular section of information that we've got
• 1:19:55
  for you this evening. Shall we hop into our Ask the
• 1:19:58
  Moms for tonight? OK, so.
• 1:20:02
  If you. Do not know.
• 1:20:03
  We end every podcast episode with our Ask the Mom segment
• 1:20:07
  where we take a question from our Mom St. community that may
• 1:20:12
  or may not be related to the topics of our podcast episode
• 1:20:14
  and we do our best to give you guys some answers.
• 1:20:17
  So our Ask the Moms tonight is a a little more complicated than
• 1:20:20
  some of the questions that we've had recently.
• 1:20:23
  And the question is, does everyone in my travel party need
• 1:20:28
  their own login for the app? So we're just talking about the
• 1:20:31
  app. So let's see you know how we can
• 1:20:33
  help with this and can one person handle all of our
• 1:20:35
  reservations and booking for everyone and how does that work?
• 1:20:39
  Sounds like an excellent. Question for you today.
• 1:20:43
  Looking right up your alley. Oh my God.
• 1:20:50
  OK, so let's. Handle the first part of this.
• 1:20:53
  Does everyone in my travel party need their own login for the
• 1:20:56
  app? Short answer, no.
• 1:20:59
  But it really truly depends on your situation if you're all in
• 1:21:03
  the same family. For example, my immediate
• 1:21:07
  family, my husband, does not have his own login.
• 1:21:10
  He uses mine. He can do everything he needs to
• 1:21:12
  do. We can both do everything we
• 1:21:14
  need to do in the app. It will not interfere with each
• 1:21:17
  other if you are both in the app at the same time.
• 1:21:21
  So that's Section 1. So I'm like, oh, interesting,
• 1:21:27
  yeah, so the only thing that it would like interfere is like, it
• 1:21:30
  won't let you double book things.
• 1:21:32
  So like if you're both in there trying to get a virtual queue,
• 1:21:35
  whoever gets it first will get it.
• 1:21:37
  The other person's not going to get one.
• 1:21:38
  So like that's the only instance where like it interferes with
• 1:21:42
  itself. Kind of.
• 1:21:43
  But as far as anything else goes, the only other downside I
• 1:21:48
  could. See with that is, if you say you
• 1:21:51
  needed to try to make a dining reservation that overlapped with
• 1:21:54
  another one and you couldn't because you were already booked,
• 1:21:57
  you would need a separate e-mail address, a separate account to
• 1:22:00
  book that other one. I think that's the main reason
• 1:22:02
  that Elliott made his was because I needed a second
• 1:22:04
  account to book something that was overlapping at the time.
• 1:22:08
  I don't remember when, but yeah, probably that tends to be.
• 1:22:11
  That tends to be the reason and that's why I would say like if
• 1:22:14
  you on the other side, if you've got more than one family
• 1:22:19
  traveling together in a party, let's say you've got you know
• 1:22:22
  for example if I were to go with my extended family, it would be
• 1:22:25
  my parents, my sister and her family and then me and my
• 1:22:27
  family. So that would be 3 different
• 1:22:28
  families. I would suggest all three of
• 1:22:30
  them having a separate login just for instances like that.
• 1:22:33
  One. You're going to be able to book
• 1:22:36
  your you're going to need a login to be able to book your
• 1:22:38
  resort. If you're staying on property,
• 1:22:40
  you're not going to be able to. You probably could book
• 1:22:43
  everything through the one account, but it gets a little
• 1:22:46
  more complicated when you're going to like you can use your
• 1:22:49
  app to unlock your room and different things like that gets
• 1:22:52
  a little bit more complicated. And then dining reservations are
• 1:22:55
  the big one, because the the app will not let you book multiple
• 1:22:59
  dining reservations with conflicting times.
• 1:23:02
  So occasionally when you have bigger parties that you're
• 1:23:04
  traveling with, if you need to book for a party of 10, maybe
• 1:23:10
  you want to split it down to five and five to see if you can
• 1:23:12
  get reservations easier that way.
• 1:23:15
  And often times you can. We did like.
• 1:23:18
  Four and three or something. We had a really big party.
• 1:23:22
  Yeah, so you definitely need like Kate.
• 1:23:24
  Was mentioning you definitely need two accounts and two emails
• 1:23:27
  for that instance. So again, yes and no.
• 1:23:32
  So the second part of the question for asking moms was can
• 1:23:34
  one person handle all the reservations and booking for
• 1:23:36
  everyone? Again, yes and no.
• 1:23:38
  Kind of similar to what we just talked about.
• 1:23:40
  If you want one person to handle it all, then you're going to
• 1:23:43
  need to give them your login so they can manipulate whatever
• 1:23:46
  needs to be manipulated. That's what I'm really good at.
• 1:23:49
  That's what I often do. Is is doing I I do?
• 1:23:57
  Now I will. Also.
• 1:23:59
  Remind you that giving your login to someone needs to be
• 1:24:02
  someone that you trust, because there is information in there
• 1:24:05
  that you may or may not want someone to have access to if you
• 1:24:08
  don't know them. Again, if you're traveling with
• 1:24:10
  them, chances are good that that's fine and no issues there,
• 1:24:13
  but just can you control the like?
• 1:24:14
  Cancel your vacation. And stuff too.
• 1:24:16
  So you have to be very careful with anything you can do.
• 1:24:19
  Yeah. Yes, Kate trusts me, so.
• 1:24:24
  So just keep that in mind. And basically how that works is
• 1:24:28
  just the one thing that you really do want to make sure is
• 1:24:32
  that everybody is LinkedIn your party.
• 1:24:34
  And that is sometimes the biggest headache.
• 1:24:37
  And often times if I'm helping people do that, I I literally
• 1:24:40
  will just tell them like, I it's not that I don't trust you to do
• 1:24:43
  it, but just give me your login because it's way easier for me
• 1:24:46
  to just go in and do it because it's like 6 different steps.
• 1:24:50
  And Disney has recently added new steps to where you have to
• 1:24:54
  give individual people specific permission to view your all your
• 1:24:59
  reservations and your photo pass.
• 1:25:01
  And this that like there's so many options now, which is
• 1:25:05
  great. If you're someone that utilizes
• 1:25:07
  it a lot or has an annual pass and is linked to lots of
• 1:25:09
  different people, that's fine. But if you're just trying to
• 1:25:14
  link for your it's it's just a lot.
• 1:25:16
  Especially if you've got kids on multiple accounts because they
• 1:25:20
  don't have their own logins, you have to like go through four
• 1:25:23
  extra steps to add them. It's a lot.
• 1:25:25
  So just find someone that knows what they're doing to help you
• 1:25:30
  because trying to do it on your own is is a headache.
• 1:25:33
  And but I will also say if you don't get it done before you get
• 1:25:37
  to Disney, that's fine, Go to your front desk, go to your
• 1:25:40
  concierge. They will be able to help you do
• 1:25:42
  it at your front desk before you get into the parks, yeah.
• 1:25:47
  I will say at Disneyland it just works differently in terms of
• 1:25:50
  tickets and accounts and things. They're similar but not the
• 1:25:54
  same. So if you are going from 1 Park
• 1:25:57
  to the other, just know that it's going to be a little bit of
• 1:26:01
  a different ball game in some ways.
• 1:26:04
  Genie Plus works very similarly in most ways, but not all and
• 1:26:09
  but I think the biggest thing going park to park is I always
• 1:26:13
  forget to. Transfer my magic.
• 1:26:14
  Band the ticket out of my Magic band.
• 1:26:16
  I was like, I always have to unlink it and then link it to my
• 1:26:18
  other ticket because then I go to like, go to the park and
• 1:26:21
  they're like, but you don't have a ticket.
• 1:26:23
  I was like, wait a minute. Yeah, they do.
• 1:26:26
  Right. Or then it gets out of line.
• 1:26:28
  And. Fixes it.
• 1:26:29
  So yeah, so Disneyland has an extra step.
• 1:26:32
  In there so so just know that if you're.
• 1:26:35
  If you're going to Disneyland, it's a it's a slightly different
• 1:26:38
  than Disney World and so make sure you put that, yeah and in.
• 1:26:43
  Disneyland you. Really, truly only link someone
• 1:26:46
  by adding their ticket to your account.
• 1:26:49
  It's not kind of thing, yeah. It's not a friends and family.
• 1:26:53
  Situation, it's very different. So you literally just add their
• 1:26:57
  ticket and once their ticket has been added to your account then
• 1:27:00
  you're able to book for your party.
• 1:27:04
  And again, this is important for doing things like Genie Plus and
• 1:27:09
  you have to. Do that unless they're.
• 1:27:10
  Going to book there separately, which becomes a huge headache
• 1:27:13
  like don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, please don't do it.
• 1:27:16
  Moral of the story? Does everyone.
• 1:27:18
  Need their own login? Yes and no.
• 1:27:21
  Can one person handle all the reservations and booking?
• 1:27:25
  Yes and no. So it really just depends on
• 1:27:27
  your situation. Again, I will always encourage
• 1:27:30
  people. If you need help, please reach
• 1:27:32
  out. I had someone this week in
• 1:27:34
  Pocket Fam that was like hey, I know that you know what you're
• 1:27:36
  doing can you help me link with my family?
• 1:27:38
  And I was like yes I can. So reach out if you need help.
• 1:27:42
  I am more than happy Kate is more than happy if she's able to
• 1:27:44
  help you to link you and all that good stuff.
• 1:27:47
  It's it's a lot of steps If I'm. I'm not going to lie just
• 1:27:51
  because I I have no time to help anybody in.
• 1:27:56
  So I'll be like, here's Jackie's contact info, Kate.
• 1:27:59
  Don't ask Kate. Never mind.
• 1:28:01
  I take it back. She doesn't want to help you.
• 1:28:04
  No, I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding, I said.
• 1:28:06
  I can talk history, but I. Just don't.
• 1:28:08
  I just like, I can't. I'll be like, I don't know.
• 1:28:13
  Yes, and I do a lot in the app I.
• 1:28:15
  Help a lot of people with their their itineraries and Genie
• 1:28:18
  Plus. So it's like second nature to me
• 1:28:20
  and I have gotten fairly decent at explaining it, so yes, well.
• 1:28:27
  That's. Great.
• 1:28:28
  I think that pretty much wraps up this episode.
• 1:28:30
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:28:31
  So as always, thank. You to those of you who have
• 1:28:33
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• 1:28:37
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• 1:28:40
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• 1:28:42
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• 1:28:59
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• 1:29:04
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• 1:29:15
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• 1:29:30
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• 1:29:33
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• 1:29:35
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• 1:29:37
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• 1:29:54
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• 1:29:58
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• 1:30:00
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• 1:30:08
  Bye guys. Bye.