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Travel Dates: May 26 - June 7, 2008

Walt Disney World has released specially priced room only discounts for most of the Villas resorts at Walt Disney World, only the Animal Kingdom Villas are excluded. Only the night during the Travel Dates listed above are discounted, though you can extend your trip after the travel dates, those dates outside of the travel period would not be discounted.

Some Sample Rates:

• Saratoga Springs, studio: $204 per night
• Saratoga Springs, one bedroom villa: $319 per night
• Saratoga Springs, 2 bedroom villa: $519 per night
• Boardwalk Villas, studio: $259 per night
• Boardwalk Villas, 1 bedroom villa: $384 per night
• Boardwalk Villas, 2 bedroom villa: $684 per night

To book your Walt Disney World vacation with the special Villa discount, please contact our wonderful sponsor Mouseketrips, who specializes in making your Disney vacation special. Make sure you ask for code CXY!

Travel Dates: May 26 - August 2, 2008

Walt Disney World has released room only discounts for Annual Passholders for the Summer of 2008. You must check in during the travel dates listed above, and you must present a valid annual pass at check in to get the discount.

Some sample nightly rates:

• Value resorts, standard room: $94
• Value resorts, preferred room: $106
• Moderate resorts, standard view room: $144
• Moderate resorts, water view/king bed room: $164
• Wilderness Lodge, woods view room: $199
• Beach Club, standard view room: $274
• Polynesian, garden view room: $303
• Grand Floridian, garden view room: $339

These prices are the nightly price, and do not include the 12.5% room tax. Weekday and Weekend nights appear to be the same price.

To book your Walt Disney World vacation with the Annual Passholder discount, please contact our wonderful sponsor Mouseketrips, who specializes in making your Disney vacation special. Make sure you ask for code FJY!

The Disney Cruise Line, due to ever escalating fuel costs, has decided to implement a surcharge for each passenger to help compensate for the increasing costs. Just a heads up for those planning a Disney Cruise.

The surcharge is $8 per person, per day for the first two Guests in a stateroom and $3 per day for all other Guests. It is effective for new bookings only made on or after May 28, 2008. Additionally, the surcharge will be capped at $112 each for the first and second Guests in a stateroom and $42 each for all other Guests in the stateroom. 

The good thing is that the surcharge will not start for another month, so if you have been thinking of booking your Disney Cruise, do it now before the surcharge kicks in and increases your price.

The Disney Cruise line rarely releases any sort of discount, and when they do, it is usually limited to Florida residents or another small group, which I never seem to be a part of. The one discount they do release on a regular basis are the Magical Rates. These are specially priced category 12 staterooms on selected cruises are aren’t selling as well as Disney would like. These Magical Rates are usually only available for a limited time, and the number of staterooms that are offered are limited, so if you happen to see one for a cruise you want to go on, grab it and ask questions later.

Remember, category 12 staterooms do not sleep 4, but you can book them with a party of 4, and you will automatically be upgraded before you arrive to a better stateroom. You can read more about it here:

Book a category 12 stateroom to get an automatic upgrade

MouseMisers will keep an up to date list of available Magical Rates and dates on the Disney Cruise Discounts page. They are updated weekly (usually on Monday), so check back to see if rates have been released for your dates. If you have already book a Disney Cruise, and a Magical Rate comes up for your dates, you can switch by calling Disney Cruise directly, or your Travel Agent.

You’ve finally made the mental leap and decided to take the whole brood to Disney for a vacation. OK…so…now what? Where do you start? Walt Disney World in Florida or Disneyland in California? Or maybe a Disney cruise? How long do you need to stay? Should you stay in a Disney hotel or is a nearby off-site hotel better? Do you need a rental car? What about park admissions? Isn’t there a breakfast where your kids can eat with the princesses? How are you going to get around?  What documents do you need? How do you get to the cruise terminal?

These questions, and hundreds more, are very common for most folks who are planning a Disney vacation. The simple fact is that Disney, just within its domestic United States operations, features 6 major theme parks, two water parks, two major shopping districts, two 2,400 passenger cruise ships, a private Bahamian island, 27 resort hotels, the sixth-largest marine fleet in the world, the busiest monorail system in the world, and over 27,000 acres of land. Disney is a huge operation with a mind-boggling array of options offered to travelers. How in the world are you supposed to wade through all of the information and options to design the vacation that’s perfect for you?

Well, you have one of two options. First, you could spend hours and hours and hours online visiting the thousands of web sites that specialize in Disney content. You would have to determine from that information what is fact and what is not, whether the writer’s opinions, preferences, and tastes match yours, and where you would then go to begin making vacation arrangements. You could talk to friends and neighbors who have been to Disney and ask their opinions. You could spend hours on the phone talking to others who might or might not be interested in helping you find the best deal on the best vacation.

Or, you could simply contact a travel agent that specializes in Disney and let them do all of that and more for you. For Free.

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