Well, hello there, my friend, and welcome to another exciting episode of the Disney Travel Secrets podcast.

We are your travel agent host and authors, look behind me, Robin and Carrie Stewart,

and we are here in the CMV studio and beautiful Windermere, Florida.

Episode number 465, we are, there's a lot of episodes.

You say that every week. I do that, but they don't get it original air date january 12th 2026 and this is the week before super bowl yes

and we call this our super bowl week not the football one but our agent pelusa starts january 21st and so that's next week. I get it. I get it. We're excited to have about 100 of our agents come down from literally all over the country, and about 30 of our travel partners, think cruise lines and tour companies like sandals and beaches and Amma Waterways and who else? We're all a Caribbean and celebrity. I'm not going to name them all because that'll take up the whole show. It's going to be a fun event over at Disney's Contemporary Resort. Yeah, I'm super excited about that. For the second year in a row, we're at Contemporary. Yep. And can you believe it? There is another Epcot Festival that starts later this week. Already? Are you sure?

Shocking, I say. But of course, we're looking forward to it, as we always do for all the festivals.

Hello, my friends. This is former Disney Imagineer Hugh Darley, and you're listening to Disney

Travel Secrets with my friends Rob and Carrie Stewart. As you can imagine, I have plenty of Disney secrets myself,

and I can't wait to share them with you. Let's get this show on the road. Take it away, guys.

To open this week's show, we really want to give another very heartfelt thank you and shout

out to our amazing team of agents over at Creating Magic Vacations. And we have, I would say active, because

you know, a lot of people go dormant, but we do have, I would say, probably about 125, 130

active. And a hundred of them are coming to our Agent Palooza this next week. And I have to say,

I've done events for many, many years, and that is the highest percentage of attendees and not just in travel,

but in any industry coming to an event that isn't a mandatory event. Well, yeah, if it's mandatory,

that's a low number. Well, if you think about it, we had the coaching call we did a week or so ago.

We had 55 agents on. Again, that's over almost half of our active agents. So absolutely,

we did have another record year thanks to our team and our clients. We are going to start

bringing on the next team of agents starting in about mid-February. And every year,

we have a theme at Creating Magic Vacation.

So last year, the theme was Elevate, and the one for 2026 is Evolve.

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