On this weeks show Anna and Leah talk about the new Starlight night time parade, their experience at 2 different Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Parties and Leahs one day in Disneyland Paris!

Episode 40 Notes -

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Our last show was in January…oooops. In our defense our children were seniors in high school, trying to figure out college, graduating from said high school, then my dog Lottie had a litter of 9 puppies, you went to Europe, then the girls off to college, and now maybe life has calmed down?!

Current Disney deals - So many! 2026 is looking like a great year price wise to go to Disney or even take a Disney cruise. For all of 2026 kids 3-9 eat free when an adult is getting the dining plan. There are some crazy discounts you can stack with that as well. It’s been a long time since Disney had stackable discounts.

Side note I tested using multi pass later and while it is cast member dependent I was able to use a multi pass 3 hours after it expired. You can definitely use your multi pass up to one hour after expiration and make your next selection when the pass’s one hour is up so you could in theory hold 4 at a time.

Starlight

• 1st lets start with your thoughts on it. Beautiful but needs more performers in between the floats. We give it a B- to B.
• Best viewing - A little back from the front and raised if possible to be able to take in the large floats.
• Pro tip for watching the fireworks after starlight. I was coming from adventureland and they were routing everyone to the back of main street after the parade to then walk to the front of main street. We ended up at the last minute getting routed through the emporium and got a fantastic spot for HEA on the hump in between the emporium and plaza ice cream.

MNSSHP

• I did not have the best night due to the weather, but I think you did? Leah had great weather and did notice the crowds were elevated. They did not have the lower waits some of the earlier sold out parties had. Having characters in the treat trails was awesome and hopefully they keep it. Leah was able to get everything done she wanted to, but the line for Haunted Mansion was ridiculous all night, and Anna experienced the same wait time during her party.
• It was raining when we got there at about 4:30ish. So there was no one out in the alley to walk in, kinda disappointing. So they route you through the tomorrowland terrace. The girls were dressed as Cinderella and Aurora and wanted to meet their counterparts, but because it took us so long to get through the entrance route we didn’t get to meet them. Apparently princess fairytale hall closes early on party days to get ready for the treat trail. So that was the first bummer. I used our strategies from our MNSSHP episode to get all of the overlays and special things done early to be able to see fireworks, parade, and then end with the Sanderson sisters. Well because of the rain th

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It's been a while!
*Side note we apologize for the end of the show. Anna kept getting a phone call and children walked in the house so we got a little distracted.

Real quick update. Free dining is back end of May until the beginning of August with the week of July 4 being blocked. There are also other discounts as well. Also non Disney related the new hotel at Universal, Tera Luna looks better than i was expecting. Still don’t sleep 5, but it looks very nice. Universal is still also running their promotion where you can get up to a $1000 gift card for dining!

All the different options

Multipass : Paid fastpass

Singlepass : One extra paid ride in each park, MK has 2 with Tron and 7 dwarfs mine train

Premier Pass : you buy it for one park only and you can ride each ride once for all rides included in multi and single pass whenever you want during the day.

We have now both used the Multipass and single pass a few times at Walt Disney World. Leah, you used it a week after it was launched and I used it a month after. Let's talk about how it worked, what we liked and didn’t like. We are not going to fully go through the basics because there are so many great videos to watch. Just know your best use of it is staying on site and making all of your selections 7 days before check in, not 7 days before your first park day.

Leah looks at it as you will definitely get 3 rides and the rest is bonus, she doesn't go into thinking she's going to get lots of rides and stay on her phone booking like Anna did.

Pro tip: If you can put MK on your second or third day to make sure you can get Tiana’s. With Big Thunder closed it’s going to be even more precious of a selection.

Tip for Tianas: You cannot have overlapping plans. Any other ride you can book within 15 minutes of each other, but not Tianas.

Overall tip: Anna used Multipass in August and in October. October definitely went smoother, but there can be hiccups along the way. Her biggest complaint with multipass is you really have to start your day by 10am. Not having to book at 7am is nice, but to get your money's worth you need to be up and where you are starting your day by 10 at the latest.

Top 3 choices for each park

MK
Tiana’s
Pirates
Haunted Mansion

EPCOT
Remi

HS
Slinky Dog Dash
Tower of Terror
Toy story mania

AK
Navi River Journey
Kilamnjaro Safari
Expedition Everest

Tip: Day of keep checking for earlier times. I was able to modify toy story mania from 2:30pm to 10:30am day of at 9:30am.

We were able to do 3 parks in one day on our 3rd day. We started in EPCOT, then went to AK, then HS, then watched HEA at Top of the World,and finished back at EPCOT for extra magic hours for deluxe guests. For AK we rode one ride and HS we rode 2 rides, but we used multipass for everything and did all the rides we wanted using MP at EPCOT.

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If you need help planning a Disney or Universal vacation you can reach out to, Anna Eason, and she would love to help plan a magical vacation: anna.eason@cruiseplanners.com.

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