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Gionni's big group WDW trip - PREP 504

WDW Prep To Go - a Disney World planning podcast

Shannon Albert from WDWPrepSchool.com, a Disney World planning site

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Gionni planned a late February multi-generational trip for 13 people to Walt Disney World Resort, coordinating dining, Lightning Lanes, and logistics while the group stayed at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort and visited several parks. Despite ride downtime, weather, and transportation challenges, the trip balanced park touring with resort time, with a few favorite meals.
 
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0:00.0

Today we'll have Gianni's big group Disney World trip.

0:03.1

That's coming up on this, episode 504 of WW Prep to W.J. Prep to Go retalk strategy and ideas and have lots and lots of trip reports for people planning their Disney mailchips. I'm your host, Shannon Albert from WDWPropSchool.com. Thank you for being here for episode 504. Today is another

0:39.0

trip report and it is Wigiani who recently traveled with a big group family. I'm always

0:45.3

fascinated by the dynamics of these trips because so much can be good about it, but there's also

0:51.0

a certain level of challenge that you wouldn't have with a smaller group. So you'll hear that in just a minute. I always remind you to follow on social media.

0:59.4

That way, it's not a one-way street. But I also wanted to mention to you, if I haven't ever before,

1:05.6

I can't remember, that we have some tools. We've been creating lots of helpful tools to help people.

1:15.6

If AI is going to take our content and display the results in Google searches, then we're going to create tools that cannot be easily copied and taken like that.

1:19.6

So we have a lightning lane calculator so that you can see how much damage you are likely in for when you go to make those reservations

1:29.4

just before your trip begins. I also think it's really helpful just to kind of play around with

1:34.0

the variables and see, okay, do we really need an Animal Kingdom? Maybe we can save, you know,

1:39.3

a couple hundred bucks there, that kind of thing. So it's good to know what dollar amounts you're

1:43.8

in for. We have that. We have a trip cost estimator. Same kind of thing. So it's good to know what dollar amounts you're in for. We have that.

1:44.9

We have a trip cost estimator. Same kind of thing. I love playing with the variables and seeing like,

1:50.0

okay, if we stay at a different hotel, we can save money and stay under budget, et cetera. I've been doing

1:55.2

this a lot to, for instance, come up with trips that can stay in the $5,000 range. So that's been super helpful.

2:03.1

We have had a navigator for a very long time, but it's recently been updated to work better.

2:08.9

And basically, you put in any two points at Disney World and we tell you what we think the best

2:12.5

routes are because the Disney World app does not give these kind of instructions.

2:17.4

We also have had a Disney dining

2:18.6

plan calculator for a long time. And the gist of this is you put in what your plans are for eating,

2:24.4

like where you plan to eat, how you eat, and we will tell you if we think the Disney dining

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