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Recapping my holiday trip (w/tips) - PREP 487

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

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Recapping the Ultimate Disney World Experience: Tips, Parties, and New Surprises
 
In episode 487 of WDW Prep to Go, I recap my recent trip to Disney World, including discussing the first Mickey's Very Merry Christmas party and Jollywood Nights.
 
The episode goes into specific details about the new Zootopia show at Animal Kingdom and our experience meeting Nick and Judy. 
 
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0:00.0

Today I'm recapping my recent Disney World Trip.

0:02.3

That's coming up on this episode 487 of WW Prep to Go.

0:27.5

We talk strategy and ideas for people playing their Disney World trips.

0:30.8

I'm your host Shannon Albert from WDW Prep School.com.

0:34.4

And today I want to recap and share the tips that I learned on my recent trip where we went

0:40.8

to do party things but also other new things that aren't necessarily holiday party related

0:46.0

so I want to share those tips with you as always a reminder to follow on social media

0:50.6

which does include YouTube because YouTube videos are going up. I'm a huge fan of both

0:55.7

podcasts and YouTube, so I always appreciate when people have that content out there, and I'm

1:00.1

constantly sharing tips about everything two to three times a week. So if you would like,

1:06.1

please go and watch it. I'm enjoying the process. It kind of reminds me of the early days of the

1:10.8

podcast and just figuring out the formatting and the editing. I'm enjoying the process. It kind of reminds me of the early days of the podcast

1:11.0

and just figuring out the formatting and the editing and the topics and all that kind of stuff.

1:16.0

It's kind of fun to do that. But let's get into my trip, which was very focused on the parties.

1:26.4

We always come for the very first Christmas party, and now that also includes the first Jollywood nights.

1:31.0

And then, of course, we fit in anything else that happened to me be new during our trip as well, which this time included some things, the Animal Kingdom, as well as a couple other things.

1:41.8

So I'm going to get through that.

1:43.1

In general, this trip had mostly

1:44.9

fantastic weather, like the parties especially were best, the best we've ever had, probably.

1:50.4

It makes me really happy for the people that are at the parties with us because I'm like,

1:53.9

they get to have the best experience, whereas in some years we've been completely rained out

1:58.2

and that kind of stuff. And that's not nearly as fun because you

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