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To infinity and beyond. Welcome to another Rope Drop Radio. I'm Derek Sassman. Of course, we have Dr. Doug with me. Now, Doug, our topic

today, I'm excited to just dive right in because it's one of my favorites because I know you do it

and we do it on every Disney trip. And that's character dining. Absolutely. Character dining

is lots of fun. You get to eat a good meal and meet some characters.

Now, how many character dynings have you

done at Walt Disney World?

I do not know. We have done

quite a few. There are

two or one and a half

that we have not done, and we'll

get to that later, but we've done

almost all of them them and some of them

multiple, multiple, multiple times. That's me. My first, my first experience, what I fell in love

with character dining was back in this Aladdin meal back in like 1992. And it was just a lot of

fun. I was nine years old. I love meeting Aladdin. And now it's been a staple, and it's a great opportunity.

I love seeing my kids get that special one-on-one time with princesses and characters.

You can skip lines.

But the thing you always hear, and the thing we're going to talk about today is it's expensive.

Absolutely.

You've got to have a game plan to pay for it if you're going to do it.

You got to kind of plan out how many it's worth what you really want and what you're looking

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