Why You DON'T Need a Park Hopper at Walt Disney World
Disney Travel Secrets - How to do Disney
Kerri Stuart
3.7 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
425 - Join Disney travel experts Rob and Kerri Stuart for episode #425 of the Disney Travel Secrets Show! This week, they challenge conventional wisdom with "Why You Don't Need a Park Hopper Ticket at Disney" - perfect for families with young children, first-time visitors, and budget-conscious travelers.
In this value-packed episode:
- Discover when skipping the park hopper makes perfect sense (especially with toddlers!)
- Learn about both Disney water parks being open simultaneously for the first time since 2019
- Get updates on Garden Rocks Concert Series at EPCOT's Flower & Garden Festival
- Hear important Real ID deadline information (May 7th is coming soon!)
- Find out about Disney World 2026 planning
- Learn about the "6 Park Challenge" and how to attempt it
- Exclusive Disney Wish cruise opportunity (Sept 22-26) with cabins still available
Whether you're planning your first Disney World vacation or your twentieth, this episode offers practical advice to maximize your Disney experience while potentially saving money. Subscribe for weekly Disney travel tips, hacks, and insider secrets from experts who live next door to Walt Disney World!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, my friend, and welcome to the Disney Travel Secret Show. |
| 0:04.6 | Robin Kerry Stewart here coming to you from the CMV studio right next to Walt Disney World |
| 0:08.5 | in beautiful Windermere, Florida. This is episode number 425, original air date, April 7th, 2025. |
| 0:15.1 | And this week, our title may confuse you a little bit, why you don't need a park hopper ticket at Disney. I know, just stay |
| 0:22.5 | tuned to find out. So our show last week was also our eighth anniversary show. It's hard to believe |
| 0:26.8 | we've been doing this that long. We thank you for your support. And we are well into flower |
| 0:32.6 | and garden festival over at Epcot, which is my personal favorite. Yes, it is. And we also are very impressed |
| 0:39.7 | with some of the bands that are here for the Garden Rocks concert series. More on that in just a few. |
| 0:47.0 | Take it away, Hugh. Hello, my friends. This is former Disney Imagineer Hugh Darley, and you're |
| 0:51.9 | listening to Disney Travel Secrets with my friends Rob and |
| 0:55.3 | Kerry Stewart. As you can imagine, I have plenty of Disney secrets myself and I can't wait to |
| 1:00.9 | share them with you. Let's get this show on the road. Take it away, guys. |
| 1:10.3 | The response has been, I would say incredible for those of you that are thinking about joining us as a travel agent this year. |
| 1:16.3 | If you filled out the form, you should have received a video explaining what the next steps are. |
| 1:21.1 | And we are very excited for our class of 2025. |
| 1:27.0 | Also a huge thank you to all of you who joined us on March 31st, |
| 1:30.9 | National Wear Your Ears Day. Yeah, so we started this on March 31st of 2020 as the whole world |
| 1:38.0 | shut down just to keep some Disney magic alive. We all knew it was going to be more than just a few |
| 1:43.7 | weeks of Disney being |
| 1:45.0 | shut down, right? Well, thankfully, they were only closed for about four months. Actually, it was, |
| 1:49.1 | I think, 11th from March 16th of 2020 to July 11th of that year, as opposed to Disneyland, |
| 1:55.0 | which was actually closed for 412 days from March 15th of 2020 through April 30th of 2021. And yes, we love you, Florida. |
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