MNE Ep. 72 “December WDW 2009 Live Trip Report Part 1”
Hello and welcome to Episode 72 of The Magic Never Ends Podcast with Will and Shannon. Follow us on our journey through the Disney parks as they explore the Imagination and Dreams of Disney.
On this episode, we bring you along on our December Walt Disney World 2009 trip.
First, we start on the plane ride to Orlando with Will briefly sharing his pre-trip thoughts while Shannon and Princess Preanut nap.
Next we catch up with Will, Shannon and Princess Peanut on their Disney’s Magical Express bus to share more pre-trip thoughts.
This episode boasts some Holiday Musical interlude from the parks. First from MK with Main Street Philharmonic and finally at Animal Kingdom with the Village Beatnicks. Some great music that maybe you haven’t heard. And if you’ve heard them, they are great to hear again!
Finally catch a sleepy Will and Shannon during late night Magic Kingdom park hours as they detail their trip during the first few days.
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Episode Length: 1 hours 05 minutes 58 seconds
MNE Ep. 71 “Baby WDW Travel Stories With Mouse Guest Weekly”
Whoa! Did we just take a 2-month hiatus? Sorry. We didn’t mean to take that long break! But spending time with the Princess Peanut and then Halloween and Thanksgiving came, filling up our schedule. Hopefully you missed us and are ready for some more Will and Shannon audio shenanigans!!!
The bulk of this episode was recorded back in September. Eric and Cathy, from the Mouse Guest Weekly Podcast, join to swap stories and share tips about traveling to Walt Disney World with an infant. We enjoyed sharing experiences with other parents and even learning a few things.
Eric and Cathy want to earn their Tween Card, so we test them by asking their thoughts on “Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie”.
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Episode Length: 1 hours 56 minutes 6 seconds
MNE Ep. 70 “The Wave, Wizards and Wackiness”
On this episode of the Magic Never Ends Podcast, we’ve got The Wave, Wizards and Wackiness!!!
Shannon reviews The Wave restaurant at Disney’s Contemporary Resort. Hear Shannon’s “foodie” take on this new restaurant to Will and Shannon.
Embrace Your Inner Tween with a review of the newest Disney Channel Original Movie, Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie! What did the Tweens think of the full length movie treatment of the popular Disney Channel series?
Wackiness abound as Will and Shannon catch up on YOUR e-mails. Yes. We’re quite behind on the e-mails. Sorry! But please still send in your e-mails and voice mails. Will and Shannon have fun hearing from you and giving out advice from their trip experiences.
Can’t forget that we’ve got Carlos (The Northern Mouse Podcast) and daughter Chantal to review the Jonas Brother Toronto concert! They go into excellent detail about the experience that is a JoBros Concert Experience.
Also we have a fun audio from two friends taking part of “What Will You Celebrate?” at Disneyland.
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Episode Length: 1 hours 40 minutes 24 second
MNE Ep. 69 “August WDW 2009 Trip Rewind and Remix”
On this episode of the Magic Never Ends Podcast, hear the REWIND and REMIX of the August 2009 Walt Disney World vacation, which celebrated Will and Shannon’s NINE years of marriage and the birth of the Princess Peanut.
This is a not-to-be-missed episode, as Shannon takes you on an “in your mind” exploration of the Treehouse Villas at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, which is a one of the newest Disney Vacation Club offerings. These Villas are so beautiful and amazing!!
We also recount our adventures (and mis-adventures) with Disney’s Grand Gathering Safari Experience.
Ever the proud papa, Will updates you on the Princess Peanut’s latest developments. He appreciates you indulging him time to gush about his beautiful daughter’s achievements!
Lots of DAP, shout-outs and the usual Will and Shannon audio shenanigans as we finish off the remaining days of our trip and reflect upon the trip as a whole. We have lots to cover so we super-sized this episode! Don’t be scared. Just grab your favorite snack and beverage…or better yet, take us along on your walk, bike ride or run!
Did you listen to Part 1? Head over to MagicNeverEnds.com and look for Magic Never Ends Podcast Episode 67!
Did you listen to Part 2? Head over to MagicNeverEnds.com and look for Magic Never Ends Podcast Episode 68!
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Episode Length: 2 hours 11 minutes 22 seconds
MNE Ep. 68 “August WDW 2009 Live Trip Report Part 2″
Will and Shannon have returned from our Walt Disney World vacation, which celebrated their NINE years of marriage and the birth of the Princess Peanut.
On this episode of the Magic Never Ends Podcast, hear our PART 2 WDW August 2009 trip report LIVE from our return flight on Southwest Airlines. Not as exciting as Part 1, when Will and Shannon were in the Magic Kingdom right after Wishes and you heard the Kiss Goodnight…but Will and Shannon still bring the audio shenanigans!
Did you hear Part 1? Head over to MagicNeverEnds.com and look for Magic Never Ends Podcast Episode 67!
We begin this Episode about to board our superfast limo ride, which is also our last ride for the trip. We’re having a last bit of shenanigans with good friends Kyra and Jen from the ConnieJenKyra Family, Annie, Brady, d_dreamer and Katie. It was Brady’s and Mrs. Buckethead’s FIRST time on Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith!!!! Hear quickly their post-ride thoughts!! (Which is mostly Mrs. Buckethead screaming excitedly!) Tune into The Adventures of a Teenage Disney Geek Podcast for the full adventure of Mrs. Buckethead’s FIRST TIME on Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster!!!
From Disney’s Hollywood Studios, grab a seat with Will and Shannon on their flight to BWI Airport as they pick up their trip report from Episode 67. They skip around and ramble a bit. It’s Will and Shannon being Will and Shannon!
Sorry for the lower audio quality for the Trip Report discussions. I tweaked it as best as possible given that we had to deal with the background airplane noise.
Princess Peanut and the flight conspire to prevent the Tweens from completing their Trip Report, so look for Episode 69 as they Rewind and Remix all the details from the August WDW 2009 Trip!
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Episode Length: 53 minutes 31 seconds
MNE Ep. 67 “August WDW 2009 Live Trip Report Part 1″
We are currently in Walt Disney World!!!
On this episode of the Magic Never Ends Podcast, hear our PART 1 WDW August 2009 trip report LIVE from the Magic Kingdom!!!
You’ll also hear the Kiss Goodnight.
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Episode Length: 43 minutes 50 seconds
MNE Ep. 66 “August WDW 2009 Pre-Trip Report”
We are currently in Walt Disney World!!!
On this episode of the Magic Never Ends Podcast, hear our pre-trip thoughts on what we think and hope we’ll accomplish and experience during our WDW August 2009 trip!! The food. The attractions. All the fun with the much more aware Princess Peanut!!!
Will begins the episode updating Shannon on Disney news, (Tween, park and movie news). We then update you on the Princess Peanut! Finally, we share some recent listener feedback before getting into the Main Topic of the August WDW 2009 Pre-Trip Report.
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Episode Length: 1 hour 36 minutes 41 seconds
MNE Ep. 65 “Year Three”
Episode #65 marks the beginning of Magic Never Ends YEAR THREE!!
MNE Year One was about discovery.
MNE Year Two was about change and expansion.
MNE Year Three is about…well, the three of us (Will, Shannon, and the Princess Peanut)…and Celebrating the Princess Peanut!!! We’re back to the discovering phase: Discovering what is means to be parents to the Princess Peanut and how to travel to the Disney Parks with a young child. All the challenges but all the fun!
Thanks for making our two years of podcasting a success! We hope you continue to join us for all the fun, silliness and excitement! Plus you might just learn a few things while we entertain you.
On this episode:
- Princess Peanut Update
- Will catches Shannon up on DPN and Disney news, including reports on Tron and Alice In Wonderland from the 2009 San Diego Comic Con and updates on your favorite Disney Channel Stars
- Princess Protection Program and Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana Review and Commentary
- Steakhouse 55 Restaurant Review
We close out the episode with much shenanigans so make sure to keep listening!
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Episode Length: 1 hour 31 minutes 34 seconds
Disney will send cruise ship back to Europe in 2010
From the Orlando Sentinel Blog:
Disney is sending its cruise ships further a field than ever before.
The company is announcing this afternoon that it will send the 2,700-passenger Disney Magic cruise ship overseas for five months in 2010, for a series of sailings that will take it from Russia to Northern Africa. The April-through-September schedule will mark the longest stretch that a Disney cruise ship has yet spent away from its home port at Port Canaveral.
Disney’s schedule includes eight 10- and 11-night tours through the Mediterranean, where the Magic spent the summer of 2007. But it will also feature the company’s first sailings in Northern Europe, with four 12-night voyages that will take the ship from Dover, England, to St. Petersburg, Russia, with stops in half a dozen other countries.
“We had a huge success when we went to the Med the first time. And there were a lot of guests who, frankly, didn’t have an opportunity to go,” said Tom McAlpin, president of the Celebration-based Disney Cruise Line. McAlpin personally toured Northern European ports in June. “Now we’re going back for an extended season.”
In addition, while it has one ship overseas, Disney plans to shift its second ship, the Disney Wonder, to slightly longer sailings out of Port Canaveral. Instead of three- and four-night Caribbean trips, the Wonder will offer four- and five-night voyages with new stops in Key West and an extra stop at Castaway Cay, Disney’s private island in the Bahamas.
McAlpin said the shift is designed to accommodate families clamoring for longer Caribbean cruises in the summer, when children are out of school. “People just want a little more time,” McAlpin said.
Disney’s return trip to Europe comes as it is having two 4,000-passenger cruise ships built in Germany. While the company has committed to basing the new vessels at Port Canaveral for the first few years after they arrive in 2011 and 2012, Disney has been silent about where it plans to send the existing ships.
Some analysts have speculated that California and Europe are the most likely destinations. And Disney’s scheduling so far — it has twice sent the Magic to California, for the summers of 2005 and 2008, and has now announced its second stint in Europe — suggests that both are strong possibilities.
McAlpin cautioned against drawing conclusions from the moves.
“I think you can read into it that we’re exploring new waters and testing the levels of demand,” he said. “But there are a lot more new frontiers.”
McAlpin said Disney expects to reveal its 2011 plans for the Magic and Wonder in the latter half of next year.
Disney’s 2010 schedule calls for the Magic to begin and end the season in the Mediterranean. Many of the ports Disney will visit remain the same from 2007 — including the gateways to Rome, Florence and Nice, France — but Disney has also added stops at the island nation of Malta; the French island of Corsica; and Tunis, the capital of Tunisia on the North African coast.
The Northern European sailings will be sandwiched in between, in June and July. Sailing out of England, each voyage will include stops in Oslo, Copenhagen, and the gateway port to Berlin, as well as either Helsinki, Finland, or Tallinn, Estonia. Each trip will also include an overnight stop in St. Petersburg, Russia, giving passengers an extended window to explore the storied city or plan a day trip to Moscow. McAlpin called the St. Petersburg stop “the gem of the itinerary.”
Disney will also offer a pair of 14-night, one-way “repositioning” cruises that will take the Magic from Port Canaveral to Barcelona and back. McAlpin said Disney is studying special themes for the transatlantic voyages in hopes of boosting their appeal.
Beyond catering to Americans looking to visit Europe, the new overseas sailings will offer Disney a chance to begin marketing its cruise line directly to European travelers. Earlier this year, Disney Cruise Line opened an office in London with about 20 employees, in part to help the company better tap into the European cruise market.
“We’re looking to explore marketing in Europe,” McAlpin said. “That’s not a primary focus. But it’s certainly an opportunity.”
Pirates of the Caribbean Beach Resort
According to Scott Powers at the Orlando Sentinel:
Walt Disney World has unveiled a rendering and a few details of some retheming and renovations in the works for Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort — theming it after the hugely-popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride/movies/games franchise.
Beds that look like ships. Dressers that look like old crates. Curtains that look like tattered sails. The attached artist’s rendering shows a few of the details.
Disney is planning the look for 384 rooms in the Trinidad South Village Area, set to be ready sometime next year. The resort has a total of 2,112 rooms.
Disney also announced a revised Magic Your Way plan. For fixed price per day, guests can add a Quick Service Dining starting Jan. 11, 2009. The package offers two quick service meals and two snacks for each night of stay, as well as a refillable drink mug for unlimited refills of non-alcoholic beverages at Disney resort hotels.
Clients who book through Walt Disney Travel Co. also will receive a new benefit — 30 minute play-cards for Disney’s resort hotel video arcades.
Some interesting changes coming! Shannon and I aren’t huge fans of the WDW quick service (QS) establishments. There are some fine QS places. But we chose the Dining Plan to “afford” better food at the table service (TS) restaurants. And the Dining Plan gives us QS credits. So not sure if we’d only want to eat at QS while at WDW.
But I do see a benefit to this plan. It takes people away from the sit-down establishments and shuttles them towards the quicker moving counter service. It’s a big boom in potential revenue for Disney. Disney gets the guaranteed money from the QS Dining Plan without negatively affecting any potential walk-up customers as the previous Dining Plan did to the sit-down restaurants. QS places might experience a higher volume though but so much that people can still eat at their favorite QS spot.
Additionally those that wanted to participate in the savings from a Dining Plan can now do so. Or tempt those that were on the fence before about purchasing a Disney Dining Plan. While no price is quoted, it is QS after all and probably be around $30/person for each night of their stay.
The re-theming of Caribbean Beach Resort will probably generate some groans from the general public. More, pirates?! I like pirates! I am unsure why Disney didn’t think of this sooner. I’m more interested in staying at CBR with the pirate theme.
Plus, again, we look at the money angle. Most boys love pirates. They want to be pirates. Now the little Disney boys will want to stay at CBR, an under-performing and often criticized resort. This also might tempt families to upgrade from a value to a moderate resort.
Disney has tempted me again. Although not a fan of QS places so much, I want to test out this new dining plan. And I love pirates so I want to stay at CBR. Guess that means more “research” trips!
MNE Ep. 73 “December WDW 2009 Live Trip Report Part 2”
Hello and welcome to Episode 73 of The Magic Never Ends Podcast with Will and Shannon. Follow us on our journey through the Disney parks as they explore the Imagination and Dreams of Disney.
On this episode, we bring you along on for the conclusion of our December Walt Disney World 2009 trip!
I know…I know… We’re WAAAAYYYY behind…and took another long (unplanned) hiatus. We begin this episode with life updates, catching you up what we’ve been to these past few months. We are back to our rambling selves as we might be a bit rusty in podcast. But this is hopefully why you (in part) tune into Will and Shannon; to hear their fun, witty banter.
This is a longer-show than originally planned…again, the silly rambling took over! With us being on the hiatus, we had some magic saved up so enjoy this jam packed episode.
The in-park audio begins with a very excited Princess Peanut in line to see Santa Goofy! It’s a very cute and special vacation memory for Will and Shannon.
Then follow along Will, Shannon and Princess Peanut as we take you to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort, Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
Join us next episode for Westfest 2009 audio!!!
Don’t forget about Westfest 2010, 4/29/2010 – 5/2/2010 at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California!
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Episode Length: 1 hours 53 minutes 10 seconds
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