Magical Vacation Planner by Melissa Abbott

Magical Vacation Planner by Melissa Abbott Disney and Universal Studios Specialist

07/27/2026

Disney Wish Cruise recap
I just recently returned from a 4 night cruise on the Disney Wish
I did the length of stay Rainforest room pass. I love spending time here
I saw the Live action Moana Movie
I watched Seas the Adventure live show
I did the Liquor and Chocolate tasting. This was good I enjoy the information provided during the tasting.
My older teen spent quite a bit of time at Vibe.
In Nassau did the Dolphin Swim at Blue Lagoon we had a perfect day for this it included lunch. Lunch was mediocre there were Hamburgers/ Cheeseburgers, chicken, BbQ chicken legs, corn on the cob, French Fries, Garden salad, Beet salad with onions,
Toppings section with Lettuce, Tomato, Pickles,jalapeños, there were packets of condiments and salt and pepper.
At Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point I stayed on the ship it was hot and is a bit of a walk to get to the Island.

Food
Ate at all of the rotational dining for dinner
Lunch mostly did Merceline Market (Buffet)
Did Goofy’s Grill one day had a cheeseburger, French Fries and Cole slaw.
The burger was decent, the fries were a little soggy, and the Cole slaw was very heavy on the mayonnaise.
Breakfast Mostly Merceline Market (Buffet)
Did sit down breakfast one morning at 1923 Roy Disney side. It was nice to be waited on but there was not anything on the menu that you can’t get at the buffet. They don’t have the passion fruit,Orange,guava juice at the restaurant.
I had soft serve ice cream my favorite is the vanilla/ chocolate swirl.

07/27/2026

Just recently returned from my Walt Disney World Vacation. Here is what was accomplished at each park and where I ate. We did utilize Early Entry and Lightning Lane/ individual Lighting Lane passes. We took a break every afternoon.

Hollywood Studios
Early Entry Rock n Roller Ciaster and Tower of Terror
Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway (LL)
Star Tours (LL)
Millennium Falcon
Rise of the Resistance (ILL)
Toy Story Mania (LL)
Slinky Dog Dash (LL)

Shows
Unfairly Ever After Villains Show
Frozen Sing along

Food
50’s Prime Time
ABC Commissary

Magic Kingdom
Early Entry Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin, Peter Pan
Space Mountain (LL)
Tron (ILL)
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train (ILL)
Haunted Mansion (LL)
Pirates of the Caribbean (LL)
Big Thunder Mountain RR (LL)
Jungle Cruise (LL)

Shows
Mickey’s Philharmagic
Monster’s Inc Laugh Floor
The Enchanted Tiki Room

Food The Lunching Pad: Cream Cheese Stuffed Pretzel
Sleepy Hollow: Fruit and Nutella Waffle
Cosmic Ray’s Chicken Tenders and French Fries
Main Street Confectionary: build your own Popcorn mix
Went to EOCOT for Dinner at Rose and Crown
Back to Magic Kingdom for the Starlight Parade and Fireworks

Animal Kingdom
Flight of Passage (ILL)
Safari (LL)
Expedition Everest (LL)

Jungle Trek trail saw 2 Tigers

Shows
Zootopia Better Zoogether I preferred It’s Tough to be Bug.

Food
Breakfast Sau’tuli Canteen I had the fruit and yogurt dish this was a nice light breakfast.
Lunch Smiling Crocodile Chicken Arepa with Plantain Chips this is good there is no seating in this area.
Dinner Hollywood Studios: Round Up BBQ
(LL) Rode Rock n Roller Coaster before dinner and (LL)Toy Story Mania after Dinner
Round Up BBQ is a large meal.

EPCOT
Soarin
Mission Space (LL)
Test Track (LL)
Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind (ILL)
Journey into Imagination
Journey of Water (walk through)
Short Film Festival
Fireworks

Food
Breakfast: Garden Grill this is a nice breakfast with Characters if you are looking for a sit down breakfast.
Dinner: Space 220

07/12/2026

I will be going to Walt Disney World and on the Disney Wish 4 night cruise. I will try and post information about my adventure as I go along but the cruise post will be after I return home. If anyone has anything they would like me to check out or provide information on let me know.

06/17/2026

My Disney Cruise check in was today. I’m staying at a Walt Disney World resort before the Cruise and using Disney Cruise Line Transportation from the resort. I got Boarding Group 5.

06/11/2026

Last month on my Walt Disney World trip I stayed at Wilderness Lodge. I liked this resort a lot. I enjoyed the food from Roaring Fork Quick Service, Geyser Point Grill and Bar casual sit down, Whispering Canyon sit down and Storybook dining artist Point Character dining. It has a nice pool, hot tub and child play area. For Transportation it has a boat to Magic Kingdom and Bus Transportation to all parks including Magic Kingdom.
For the refillable cups the soda fountain machines are open 24/7.

Here are some photos from my recent trip to Walt Disney World. If you would like help planning a trip please reach out t...
05/27/2026

Here are some photos from my recent trip to Walt Disney World. If you would like help planning a trip please reach out to me via email: [email protected]
My services are always complimentary.

05/22/2026

Here is where I ate and what I had on my most recent Walt Disney World trip.
Day 1 Magic Kingdom
Gaston’s Tavern: Crème Brûlée Croissant
Pinocchio’s Village Hause: Grilled Chicken Cesar Salad
Sebastian’s Bistro at Carribean Beach Resort
It’s an all you care to enjoy meal for $39 plus tax and tip per Adult, includes non alcoholic beverages. This was a nice meal. The pull apart rolls were served with a guava butter and an onion jam both were very good. There was a nice salad that had mixed greens, nuts, mango and key lime vinaigrette.
Main course was grilled Chicken with BBQ sauce on the side, steak strips with chimichurri sauce on the side, pulled pork with a mango sambal on the side and a nice piece of cod fish. Dessert was a pineapple coconut bread pudding with caramel sauce and ice cream.

Day 2 EPCOT
Ate at Flower and Garden Booths at EPCOT
China: crab Rangoon, Dumplings, peach Mango Bobba tea. Also had the egg rolls and bubble milk tea from the regular China quick service stand.
Canada: the Scallops with green beans and potatoes and the beef tips with mushroom gravy mashed potatoes and carrots.
Honey Bee-Stro: chicken and waffle this had a nice sized piece of chicken and the waffle was a cornbread waffle this was tasty.
Florida Fresh: Blackened Fish slider this was one of my favorites. Conch Fritters.
Nectar: coconut Panna Cotta and the Island Escape beverage. The panna Cotta was good but very small for the price it was a mini dessert. The Island Escape was refreshing.

Day 3: Magic Kingdom:
Cream cheese stuffed pretzel from The Lunching Pad
Fruit and Nutella waffle from Sleepy Hollow
These are two of my favorite items at Magic Kingdom
Lunch Cosmic Ray’s: Classic chicken ranch salad with crispy chicken this was good for a quick service meal.
Dinner at Ohana at the Polynesian Resort
This is an all you care to enjoy meal at about $60 per person non alcoholic beverages are included. Including the POG juice which is my favorite. This is a large variety of food. Starts off with their Hawaiian rolls, a mixed greens Salad. Teriyaki chicken wings, Teriyaki noodles, stir fried veggies. The Main course is peel and eat shrimp, glazed chicken breast, teriyaki beef tips, pot stickers. Dessert is their pineapple coconut bread pudding with salted caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream. I prefer this one to the one at Sebastian’s Bistro.

Day 4 break day/ rest day
I had the breakfast platter from Roaring Fork at Fort Wilderness Lodge this was a nice breakfast it had scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, and a cheddar biscuit.

Port Orleans French Quarter and had Mickey Beignets with chocolate dipping sauce.

Lunch I went to The Geyser Point Bar and Grill at Fort Wilderness Lodge it’s the outdoor bar I had the Bison Cheeseburger with marionberry sauce this was delicious.

Dinner I ate at Storybook Dining at Artist’s Point at Fort Wilderness Lodge. This is a Snow White themed Dinner. The dining room is made to look like an enchanted forest. You get to meet Snow White, D***y, Grumpy, and The Evil Queen. This was a fun experience this was $60 per plus tax and tip per adult non alcoholic beverages included. Appetizers were a mushroom bisque soup, a chicken and turkey meatball with a cranberry glaze, and a shrimp cocktail with a Bloody Mary cocktail sauce with shaved celery. You get to choose your main course I had the Prime Rib which came with horseradish mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, and a pop over. I am not a fan of pop overs but this one was good. Then you get a trio of desserts chocolate mousse, a blueberry pie, and a poison apple which is filled with a chocolate mousse as well. I had to take my dessert to go.

Day 5
I was Animal Kingdom
I had the Pulled Chicken Arepa with Plaitain Chips and the Guava Passion Fruit, Orange Limeade with a Chili lime rim from The Smiling Crocodile Quick Service Stand.
The Arepa was delicious the chili lime on the rim of the drink was a little too spicy for my liking. There is not any seating in this area.

Day 6
I was back at EPCOT
I ate at more Booths
Mexico: Calamari Taco and the Chocolate Flan. The Flan was absolutely amazing and Delicious.
Citrus Blossom: Lemon tart and Lumpia the sauce was a tad bit Spicy.
Brunchcot: I had the Avacado Toast. This had a good amount of Avacado on it.
France: Canard Duck Confit if you like Duck and a creamy sauce this was amazing and Delicious it had nice pieces of duck that was moist and tender.
La Isla Fresca: I had their Flan dessert I think the Mexico one was better.
Italy: Arancini this was really good it was nice and crunchy on the outside.
Japan: Frushi which was pineapple and strawberry. This is always one of my favorites.
Connections Eatery: Pizza Bianca this was surprisingly good if you like mushrooms

Geo 82 21+ bar I had the Brown butter old fashioned. I am not a bourbon drinker but this drink is very smooth and absolutely amazing.

Day 7 Hollywood Studios
Hollywood Brown Derby: Pan roasted Halibut that came with a risotto with peas this was good but I don’t think it was worth the price. and I had a Pink Princess for a beverage this was on the sweet side as it was sprite with watermelon.
Dinner: Roaring Fork At Fort Wilderness Lodge I had the Caprese sandwich which came on a homemade Focaccia bread and the Wilderness salad which came with grilled chicken, apple, slices and spiced nuts. I put the chicken on my sandwich and I liked the nuts and apples together. I ended up taking most of salad back to my room and I ate it later.

Day 7 check out day
Breakfast: Whispering Canyon Cafe at Fort Wilderness Lodge: I had the Heritage breakfast skillet which came with scrambled eggs, sausage,bacon, potatoes, Mickey waffle, cheddar biscuit, country gravy. You also get butter, syrup and a fruit compote. The skillets are an all you care to enjoy meal and are per person and can not be shared. I really enjoyed this breakfast.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask. I have eaten at many of the restaurants in the parks and on property. Have stayed at several resorts.

05/20/2026

Yesterday was Hollywood Studios I used Early Entry for Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway was off at 8:43. I had a 9 AM LL for Toy Story Mania which I scanned for at 8:55 and was off at 9:12. Walked over to Tower of Terror in line at 9:32 off at 9:52.
Then waited in line for the 10:30 Villains Unfaairly Ever After Show doors opened at 10:20 was out by 10:50. Walked over to The Little Mermaid Show in line at 10:55 doors opened at 11:10 for 11:15 show was out by 11:35. Walked back over to Tower of Terror had 11 Am LL tapped in at 11:40 was off at 11:56.
Had Lunch reservation at The Hollywood Brown Derby for 12:40 checked in at 12:25 was seated quickly within a minute.
I did the 1:30 Frozen Show
Walked to Star Tours 5 minute standby wait time.
Then went to Rise of the Resistance posted wait time 50 minutes got in line at 2:38 was off at 3:13.
Walked to Millennium Falcon used my 1:40 LL at 3:20 was basically a walk on. Headed out of the park back to my hotel.
If Anyone would like to plan a trip using my complimentary services please contact me through email at [email protected]

05/19/2026

Saturday was a rest day. I went over to Pirt Orleans French Quarter to get the Mickey Beignets, for Lunch I had a Bison cheeseburger with marionberry sauce from Geyser Point Bar and Grill at Wilderness Lodge. Dinner I dined at Storybook Dining at Artists Point at Wilderness Lodge. It is a Snow White themed Character dining. I got to meet the Evil Queen.

Sunday was Animal Kingdom I had 8:15 LL for Na’Vi River Ride and 8:15 ILL for Flight of Passage. I did Na’Vi first to open my LL spot looked for the Safari ride which there was a 10:30 available. Walked over to Expedition Everest did Single Rider line in line at 9:12 off at 9:26 posted Stand by was 20 mins. I had LL for the first Lion King show and for Zootopia at 10:30 I Was done by 11:32. I stopped at The Smiling Crocodile and had a pulled chicken Arepa with plantain chips and the limeade with the chile lime rim. The Arepa was delicious, the rim on the drink was a little too spicy for me.

Monday I was back at EPCOT at early entry I rode The Seas with Nemo, Living with the Land I had a 9:00 Journey into Immagination. I waited for the Encanto Celebration to start and watched that this is fun if you have kids who like interactive shows. I had a 10:00 Frozen LL. I had an 11:45 Guardians of the Galaxy ILL. I had some food from a couple of the Flower and Garden Festival Booths. I took a break at the hotel I had a 6:45 Test Track LL. After my break I bussed to Hollywood Studios and used the Skyliner into the Port of Entry at EPCOT so I was near France. I worked my way around to Mexico stopping at booths that had items that I wanted to try. I did Test Track and came back to the hotel and was in my room before 8 PM. I will say Bussing and using the Skyliner took more time than I expected it is not the quickest way to do it but it saved my feet some walking.
Today I will be at Hollywood Studios.

05/16/2026

Yesterday at Magic Kingdom we used Early Entry to ride Space Mountain on at 8:40 off at 8:45,
Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin standby posted time 30 mins on in 10 mins. In line at 8:48 off at 9:11.
Had a cream cheese stuffed pretzel at The Lunching Pad
LL it’s a Small World for 9:30 on at 9:33 off
at 9:44
LL Haunted Mansion for 10:10 scanned in at 10:05 in the stretching room by 10:10 off by 10:26.
Went to Sleepy Hollow had the fruit and Nutella Waffle
LL Peter Pan’s Flight 10:45 in line, scanned in at 10:49 off at 10:52
Walked over to Country Bear Jamboree in line at 11:10 seated at 11:15 our by 11;26
Walked over to the Tiki Room in line at 11:31 seated at 11:36 out by 11:50
Walked over to Carousel of Progress in line at 12:02 seated at 12:04 out at 12:24
Went to Cosmic Rays had a classic crispy chicken ranch salad.
ILL Tron Lightcycle Run for 1:05 scanned in at 1:10 on at 1:20 off at 1:24
Went back to hotel for a break
Had 5:05 dinner reservations at Ohana left around 6:20 Monorailed to Magic Kingdom
LL Jungle Cruise 6:25 scanned in at 6:45 off at 7PM
LL Pirates of the Caribbean 6:45 scanned in at 7:05 had a delay in getting off the ride off at 7:35
LL Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at 7:50 scanned in at 7:50 off by 8:20 had a delay during the ride
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad posted standby time 60 mins actual was 40-45 in line at 8:25
Went and scoped out our spot for Happily Ever After ended up with a spot in front of the Castle 30 mins. before showtime.
Was back to the hotel around 11PM.
Today is a rest day.

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