The BEST Things To Do At Disney WITHOUT Planning!
Very Amusing with Carlye Wisel - A Theme Park Podcast
Carlye Wisel
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Lighting Lane this, Lightning Lane that — yeah, doing a ton of thrill rides in a day is fun, but your daily vacation itinerary looking like your high school AP class schedule...just isn't. I visit Disney World and Disneyland without solid plans ALL THE TIME, and lemme tell you — it's *AMAZING*.
So this week, we're talking about my FAVORITE things to do at Disneyland and Disney World without any plans. If you find yourself missing "the old Disney" or just craving an easier Disney day, this one is for you. (And even if it's not — this episode will give you loads of ideas on what to do between Lightning Lanes...or even on days where you're wondering what to do without Lightning Lanes!)
My perfect Disney moments these days aren't the ones where I'm sprinting between rides, but instead the casual, easy moments I spend at less-busy attractions and restaurants with family and friends. I'm here to tell you there is so much good stuff to see and experience that isn't an E-Ticket ride...and I hope you like the Disney food, entertainment and attractions I have in store!!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:01.0 | And welcome to Very Amusing, your one-stop shop for the stories, secrets, and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Curley Wiesel, and we are dialing up the shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist. I'm Curley Waisal, |
| 0:21.0 | and we are dialing up the shenanigans this week. We have a lot of guide episodes that I've |
| 0:27.2 | scheduled for like the next two months. Basically, I think I've laid this out on here, but |
| 0:32.8 | my child is going to preschool in September. When that happens, I'm getting exponentially more hours of child care than I have had the past two years. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm going to have, like, truly, like, a day and a half more than I used to have where I have time to, like, I don't know, like see a friend or like finally buy sneakers because mine are wearing all the way through. |
| 0:53.3 | Like, I have so much free time just over, just around the river bend that I'm so close to. And then once I hit that, |
| 0:59.5 | we are just, I'm going to be pummeling you with theme park advice. We're talking updated guides. |
| 1:03.6 | We're talking big researched episodes. Like those are coming. But you know, it's summertime. |
| 1:08.7 | And until then, we're just going to have fun. So I did toss aside |
| 1:11.7 | an episode again, so that we could do just a fun, silly one that is actually extremely helpful. |
| 1:17.9 | Because I think sometimes some of us end up in a position where we're at theme parks casually a lot. |
| 1:22.5 | Maybe you move and you become an annual passholder. Maybe you look at the ticket prices and you become an annual |
| 1:26.6 | passholder and you just end up spending a little more free time at parks. Or maybe you have a day where |
| 1:32.2 | you have lightning lanes and you have a day where you don't and you're kind of trying to |
| 1:34.9 | figure out what you should do on the days where you're not bound to a ride return schedule. |
| 1:39.5 | And that is what we're doing this week. Just a little easy Disney episode, real cash, real cool, |
| 1:46.0 | because this is how I'm approaching the trip that I am. |
| 1:49.7 | I just, by the time you listen to this, I will have just done a little Disney World trip |
| 1:54.4 | and then be doing one more on the other end. |
| 1:56.1 | I'm going on a cruise, I'm excited, packing for it, not fun, I am getting through it. |
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