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May 2017

Disney World, Life, Vacation

Disney World 2017 Day 1: Hollywood Studios and Epcot!

As I’m looking through photos to share in this post, I have some tears a brewin. Why? It was a really fun vacation and something we both really needed. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a vacation and this much one-on-one quality time. I wanted this to be a great vacation for my husband because he’s been working so hard the last few years. PT school straight into a full time job that he puts a lot of hours and energy into. He needed some time off and we had so many thing to celebrate! Graduations, anniversaries, birthdays… it was about time. I’m so glad we had this week for just the two of us; it really was incredible. Now I’m actually crying… aghh. 

To Hollywood Studios! I used the Undercover Tourist Crowd Calendar to plan out which parks what days and Monday was rope drop at Disney’s Hollywood Studios! Hollywood Studios is majorly under construction at the moment which really makes it a 1/2 day park. It’s almost not worth going to unless you have a park hopper… but with that being said, it does have a few of the best Disney World rides.

We were about a 7 minute drive away from the DHS gates and we arrived a tad before 8:30. We still had our magic bands from our honeymoon but we weren’t sure if they were still going to work since it’s been almost 3 years and we’d heard the batteries die after a couple years. Luckily they were still working which was a pretty exciting discovery. I thought for a second it wasn’t going to work, but the cast member was like, “don’t be sad yet!” because I hadn’t scanned my finger yet. Yay! We were in. 

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Life, Vacation

Daytona Beach, Disney Springs, and a budget hotel review

We’re back from Disney World! Well actually, we’ve been back since Sunday but it was an amazing and much needed vacation and I can’t wait to spam you with our vacay photos! We did 5 full days in the parks last week so I’m going to split them all up into separate posts so I’m going to start off with the beginning of our vacation just to catch us up. 

This post is part of a series I’m doing on Disney World – If you want to check out more posts, click here.

We left for our vacation after Brady finished work on Friday (May 5) and started our long drive down to Florida. Driving saved money on flights and rental cars so it’s what made sense. We had a room booked at the Hampton Inn in North Florence, SC on the way down which ended up being a bit over 7 hours drive because of the traffic we hit going around DC. 

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Disney World, Vacation

Why You Should Take A Walt Disney World Honeymoon

After we got engaged in March 2013, we quickly decided on a July 2014 wedding that was the only week Brady would be out of PT school that summer. We looked into a lot of places for our honeymoon with Hawaii and St. Lucia being top contenders. The problem with those options was the long travel time.8 months after getting engaged we looked at each other and said, “Disney World honeymoon?” It was the perfect solution since it would be under-budget, we wouldn’t waste time on travel, there wouldn’t be a language barrier, and it would be a lot of fun. 

Read to the end of the post to get my bullet point top tips for a Disney World Honeymoon. (Jump to Top 10 Tips for the Perfect Disney World Honeymoon)

We decided to rent a vacation home with a private pool that was 15 minutes off-property. This was significantly cheaper than staying in a Disney resort but we also had the benefit of privacy… and our own pool! The home we rented is no longer rentable, but Airbnb has countless amazing options to chose from in Kissimmee/Celebration/Davenport region.

Airbnb Vacation Home in Florida near Disney World - on our Disney World Honeymoon

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