Travel Nightmares: Stories to Haunt Your Best Vacation Dreams | Part 1
Addicted to the Mouse: Disney Podcast | Disney World, Universal, & Cruise Vacation Planning
Dan and Leslie Lowry
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Disney podcast, we are telling some of our own travel nightmare stories, but also sharing so many from all of you out there. From lost luggage and horribly-timed illnesses to stolen passports and cruising without luggage, there are some scary cautionary tales here (and maybe a few that are good for a chuckle). Thanks so much to all of you that have shared your worst travel moments with us. We loved hearing and sharing them. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Today is a new kind of podcast that we have never done before, and I'm actually really excited for this one. |
| 0:06.3 | Hello and welcome to a Dick to the Mouse. Today is Wednesday, May 20th. You're listening to episode number 799, and this is all about travel nightmares, stories to haunt your best vacation dreams. Vacation Dreams. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey everybody, Dan and Leslie here. |
| 0:34.9 | Thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:11.8 | And thank you to everybody out there that sent in your horror stories. I have been appalled. I have been shocked. I have laughed. I mean, it has been so much fun reading all of these stories. So I'm excited to share them with you today. Dan hasn't read them. I was going to say, I can't wait because I have intentionally not looked at any of them. So I'm excited to be all the emotions you just said. Horrified and all the things. And yes, thrilled and happy and sad and all the things. And I'm going to just go ahead and apologize in advance because sometimes I'm laughing and I was like, this is not funny, but I can, I can feel the funny in it now. |
| 1:17.3 | Like, because sometimes the anxiety like takes over and it becomes more of a, oh, this is so uncomfortable like I'm chuckling to just get through it type of situation. Yeah. But I mean, |
| 1:21.9 | we've had our own share of horror stories and we're going to get there. But we do have a little |
| 1:25.8 | bit of news first. Okay, let's do this. |
| 1:28.0 | Let's do this. |
| 1:28.7 | Okay. |
| 1:29.1 | First, this is really exciting. |
| 1:31.3 | The airport luggage transfer at Disney is piloting to expand to include American and United. |
| 1:38.6 | All right. |
| 1:39.2 | So it looks like... |
| 1:40.2 | Is it still at value resorts or are we at all resorts now? |
| 1:43.0 | It looks like it's going to expand select Disney resort hotels to include American and United |
| 1:49.7 | in addition to Southwest for eligible arriving and departing domestic flights. |
| 1:54.0 | It allows eligible guests to have their checked luggage transferred between the airport and their Disney Resorts Collection Hotel. |
| 2:00.5 | It doesn't specify. |
| 2:02.1 | So it's very interesting. |
| 2:03.2 | And usually, you know, anytime they release a promotion, they say select Disney Resort |
| 2:07.5 | hotels. |
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