Kurt Nelson

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Entries for the ‘Orlando’ Category

Orlando Annual Pass Breakdown

My Walt Disney World Annual Pass expires in February. Starting this August, I will be living minutes from WDW and will have plenty of free time on the weekends. So I decided to go annual pass comparison shopping this weekend and came up with these observations:
Pricing:
(Florida Resident assumed when beneficial)

Sea World Platinum Passport: 2 years, [...]

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Mainstreet, U.S.A.

A clump of yellow shirted tourists sits and wanders around on the sidewalk appearing to kill time, maybe waiting for a parade or a spontanious street show that will not happen. A couple, likely european, walks down the street on the left side, oblivious to the balloon hawker. Children skip ahead or lag behind their [...]

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Tourists Are Mental

How can tourists be tourists? To be at a park from 9 in the morning till 11 at night requires incredible stamina.

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Magic Kingdom Photo Update

I went to the Magic Kingdom yesterday and here are a few of my photos:

Even on rails you can have a serious traffic jam.

These Alice in Wonderland cutouts appear on the back path between Tomorrowland and Toontown fair as part of the Halloween Party decorations.

Watch Music at the Grand Floridian
Here is a video I took [...]

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Food and Wine Festival

The Epcot Food and Wine Festival has always been one of my favorite events. But not anymore. The lines are long, the food is overpriced for even Disney, and there is no place to eat your food.
Having a large selection of booths is a nice thing but it comes with a caveat: For each one [...]

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Background Makes The Foreground

Disney’s power to bring back memories.

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Parkhopping

Parkhopping (verb): The insane act of trying to stuff more things into your day than possible. Pushed by Disney because…?

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Lithograph Coupon Hunting

Today I had my first experience with Disney customer service. It was not positive, but they did fix the problem.
I called (407)560-PASS to attempt to figure out why I have never received the Mickey Monitor and the corresponding lithograph coupons. First off, there is no menu option for existing passholders to contact guest relations, so [...]

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