How to Plan a Disney World Trip in 2023 - PREP 344

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

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Our goal is to help you plan your dream Disney World vacation, and that all starts right here.

This episode will walk you through planning a trip in 7 easy steps.

After that, we’ll go through some of the other important information you’ll need to know before you go.

Consider this a Cliff Notes version for getting started (or even for getting reacquainted) with Disney vacation planning.

The past few years have brought many changes – some of which are fairly significant. Here are the ones that are the most important for you to be aware of:

FastPass+ service is out and Genie+ is in
Extra Magic Hours (EMHs) have been replaced with a new program called “Early Theme Park Entry“
Extended Evening Theme Park Hours have been added – but only for onsite guests at Deluxe and Deluxe Villa resorts
Reservations are required to visit the parks
Disney’s Magical Express has been discontinued (no more free rides between the airport and your Disney Resort)
Park hopping can only be done after 2 PM
Advanced Dining Reservations are made at 60 days out now (instead of 180 days)
Disney Dining Plan is not currently being sold (although Disney has confirmed it will be back sometime in the future)

Our best advice is to make sure you do not assume that everything is the same – because it isn’t.

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0:00.0	Today, we're going to talk about how to plant Disney World Trips in 2023.
0:03.5	That's coming up on this episode 344 of WWPrep To Go.
0:25.7	Hello and welcome to WWPrep To Go, where we talk strategy and ideas for people
0:29.6	planting their Disney World Trips.
0:31.1	I am Hoshan and Albert from WWPrepSchool.com.
0:33.8	Thank you for being here for episode 344.
0:36.9	Today is going to be a standalone episode where I just talk through some things to teach
0:42.1	you about Disney World Planting.
0:43.8	I haven't done one of these in a little while, so we want to throw this in the mix so that
0:48.6	you can learn about the proper steps if you've never listened to or read our planting process
0:55.9	before.
0:56.9	Before we get into that, I wanted to share some reminders that I always share.
1:01.0	One is to follow on social media, WWPrepSchool, on all the platforms, and if you want to be
1:06.4	a trip report, guess, feel free to submit that through the SpeakPipe information that
1:10.2	is in the show notes of every episode, leave a voice mail with your trip information,
1:14.2	and if it works out a member of my team, we'll reach out to get it scheduled.
1:21.6	So today I wanted to talk about two main things.
1:25.6	One is our seven step planting process for plenty of Disney World trips.
1:30.2	We have since I started the site 10 and a half years ago, I have always had a planting
1:34.3	process.
1:35.3	The point of it is to help you feel less overwhelmed, but also make sure that you do things
1:40.6	in the right order.
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