Planning Tips for Disney World and the Best Month to Go
Disney Travel Secrets - How to do Disney
Kerri Stuart
3.7 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
466 - Planning your first Walt Disney World vacation or looking for insider tips to make the most of your next trip? In this episode, Rob and Kerri answer the most frequently asked questions they receive from clients, covering everything from budgeting strategies to crowd calendars.
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Discover the best (and worst) times to visit Disney World, including why September is consistently the slowest month and which weeks to avoid for lower crowds. Learn about the game-changing 60+10 rule for resort guests and why staying on Disney property offers significant advantages for dining reservations and experiences.
Rob and Kerri share practical budgeting tips, explain the 3-2-1 rule for planning magical park days without overwhelm, and reveal their favorite club level experience at Coronado Springs' Chronos Club. Plus, they discuss how to maximize vacation days around Monday holidays and why their travel business now books more non-Disney trips than Disney vacations.
In this episode:
- Best and worst times to visit Disney World for crowds and weather
- How to budget and save for your Disney vacation
- The 60+10 dining reservation advantage for resort guests
- Spring break dates to avoid (March 16-23, 2026)
- The 3-2-1 rule for stress-free park days
- Club level review: Chronos Club at Gran Destino Tower
- Why September offers the lowest crowds (with caveats)
- Tips for maximizing vacation days with holiday weekends
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KEYWORDS: Disney World vacation tips, best time to visit Disney World, Disney World planning guide, Disney resort benefits, Disney vacation budget, Disney crowd calendar, Walt Disney World tips
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, my friend, and welcome to another exciting episode of the Disney Travel Secrets |
| 0:05.4 | Podcast. We are your travel agent host and authors, Robin Carey Stewart, and we are here in the |
| 0:10.3 | CMV studio in beautiful Windermere, Florida, right next to Disney. This is episode number 466, |
| 0:17.5 | original air date January 19, 2026. And this week is Agent Palooza for us, which that's what we call our annual conference with Creating Magic Vacations. And we just got done with Rob's big birthday weekend. And we know that it was really fun, but we don't know how much fun because as we are recording this, we haven't been yet. We're doing this before Birthday Palusa. That's why we're knocking all these things out. So I'm looking forward to staying over at Coronado Springs. We haven't stayed there in... It's been a while. I don't know how many years. And, again, it's my big birthday. so we're going to say club level and enjoy the Kronus Club, which is something I'm very much looking forward to for my birthday. |
| 1:00.9 | And it's also the kickoff to Epcot's Festival of the Arts this past weekend, or is what we have been calling figment of the arts. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.9 | So we will have also stopped into there, |
| 1:12.7 | but yeah, we're just recording this before all that exciting. Okay, so hide the credit cards. |
| 1:17.0 | So with this show being number 466, there are so many things that we'll start writing a show, |
| 1:22.7 | beginning of the weekend, midstream, like, no, let's switch it to this, or let's add it, |
| 1:27.3 | you know, add this |
| 1:28.0 | topic or this component to it. Yeah, but today we're going to cover a lot of the most basic |
| 1:32.6 | questions and also the ones that come up the most often from our clients and people who follow |
| 1:38.4 | us on the social webs. On the interwebs, including the best times times to go the best month or months to go to |
| 1:46.4 | Disney also times to avoid and a recap of some of the perks of staying at a Disney property |
| 1:51.5 | hello my friends this is former Disney Imagineer Hugh Darley and you're listening to Disney |
| 1:56.5 | Travel Secrets with my friends Rob and Kerry Stewart as As you can imagine, I have plenty of Disney |
| 2:02.3 | secrets myself, and I can't wait to share them with you. Let's get this show on the road. Take it away, |
| 2:08.0 | guys. |
| 2:14.0 | Now, before we get into the rest of today's show, we're asking you for a very small favor. |
| 2:18.0 | So if you're listening to this on the air date, January 19th, like a lot of you people do, |
| 2:23.1 | if you could do this for us and here it is. |
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