food IS a theme park
Disney is CELEBRATING!
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2025 marks the 80th anniversary of The Three Caballeros with a brand-new, LIMITED EDITION MagicBand+ offering which is currently available at Disney’s online shop!
Want to eat for FREE on your next Disney World vacation? You can… IF you act fast!
Dining Plan
Currently, Disney is offering a FREE DINING PLAN with the purchase of a “non-discounted 3-night, 3-day Walt Disney Travel Company package that includes a room at a select Disney Resorts Collection hotel and a theme park ticket with a Park Hopper option—for arrivals most nights from May 27th to June 26th as well as July 7th through August 6th. When this offer was first announced, it came with the caveat that trips needed to be be booked by February 10th. However, that limitation has been lifted, and we confirmed with Disney that there are no timeline limitations on this booking.
As the winter of 2025 turns into spring and then summer, many are planning trips to Walt Disney World, and looking to take advantage of some of the limited-time discount offers currently available from the “Most Magical Place on Earth.”
Cinderella Castle
Two of the biggest current offers at the resort are the Save, Stay & Play offer, which is valid for arrivals most nights from February 26th to June 30th, and the Free Dining Plan offer, which is valid from May 27th to June 26th and again from July 7th to August 6th. The former offers savings of up to $200 a night (depending on resort level) when booking a “3-night, 2-day Walt Disney Travel Company room-and-ticket package at select Disney Resort hotels” while the latter offers a free Disney Dining Plan (the type of which depends on the level of hotel booked) to those who book a “non-discounted 3-night, 3-day Walt Disney Travel Company package that includes a room at a select Disney Resorts Collection hotel and a theme park ticket with a Park Hopper option.” So, which of these offers is better? Well, that depends…
Every week, we report the average Disney World wait times in every park so that you can be prepared for your next trip to Orlando!
Magic Kingdom
Disney World’s average attraction wait times increased across the board this past week, with nearly every ride at the resort seeing a massive increase…with one notable exception at Rise of the Resistance. The biggest wait times jump belonged to this week’s busiest ride, Avatar: Flight of Passage, which saw its average wait jump to OVER 90 minutes.
Updated as of February 1st, 2025
Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass premiered in 2024, replacing the previous Genie+ skip-the-line system.
Lightning Lane
For a fee, this service allows you to skip the long standby lines at rides and use the shorter Lightning Lane queues instead. Now, we’ve tried this service out over and over to get you all the best tips and tricks on how to use it. Also, in case you didn’t know, you can purchase it IN ADVANCE of your Disney World trip. So that means we get a good idea of what prices are going to be in the future. So let’s take a look at the Lightning Lane prices in February 2025.
In the aftermath of the devastating fires that have ripped through the greater Los Angeles area in recent weeks, Universal Studios Hollywood is offering first responders complimentary tickets in recognition of their heroic efforts.
Universal Studios Hollywood
Universal’s announcement about the exclusive tickets reads in part, “Universal Studios Hollywood salutes first responders for their heroic efforts during the devastating Los Angeles wildfires with the ‘First Responder Heroes Ticket.'”
It’s that ALDI time of the week!
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In recent years, ALDI has become one of our FAVORITE places to shop. The quickly expanding supermarket chain offers everything from essential theme park items to toys to adorable home goods. Each week, we scour their newest listings, and they nearly never disappoint, especially when it comes to Disney items! However, since ALDI doesn’t offer online shopping, we’ve also tracked down some equivalent items on Amazon for those of you without a geographically convenient ALDI location.
What’s in a name?
Swirls on the Water!
New snack options are ALWAYS coming to Disney World, and we’re always eager to try them! Now we’re headed to Disney Springs to try one of the newest cones at Swirls on the Water in Disney Springs.
Disneyland guests have been spoiled with a litany of great new food options lately, from the seasonal specialties during the park’s Lunar New Year celebrations to a new Peanut Butter Flavored Mickey Waffle treat to a Snack-sized Mardi Gras Monte Cristo to Nutella-Stuffed Mickey Waffles!
The Price
On our most recent trip to the resort, we sampled another new offering: The Peanut Butter Raspberry Chocolate Square.
If you’re heading to the Disneyland Resort in March, be forewarned that one of its premier hotel restaurants, Storytellers Cafe, will be closed for a brief refurbishment.
Storyteller’s Cafe
The popular eatery, located at the Grand Californian Hotel, will be “temporarily closed for refurbishment for a few weeks in March,” according to Disney.
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