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Get everyone in the photo with Disney's PhotoPass!

My family and I have been visiting the Walt Disney World® Resort since 1992, and after all of these years I can honestly say my favorite souvenir is our photographs. Over the years, we have placed them in frames, in photo albums, in scrapbooks and even in boxes for storage!  We love to go through them and relive magical moments. We enjoy flipping through the photo albums and scrapbooks, recalling the story each photo tells. There are pictures that we have taken ourselves, which of course means the photographer is left out of the photo, and we also have many pictures taken through the years by Disney’s professionally trained photographers, which capture the whole family!

Disney has made collecting these photographic souvenirs quite convenient with PhotoPass.  PhotoPass is a unique system of taking and storing the photos that Disney’s photographers take for you on a PhotoPass card. The card is the size of a credit card and works in a similar manner. Before snapping a picture of you and your family, the Disney photographer will swipe your card and the image is then stored under your card number.  You will reuse the Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to Seaside New England. Once you walk into this beautiful, elegant resort you will be taken back to the late 1800s. With the rich hardwood floors (polished almost daily), brass accents, with the art located all around the lobby you really are taken back to yesteryear. Disney’s Yacht Club Resort is famous for two things. One is the location within walking distance to Epcot® and Disney’s Hollywood Studios^TM, and the other is Stormalong Bay, Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts’ very popular pool.
Staying at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort? You can’t ask to be any closer to Epcot®. Just a short walk or boat ride away, guests can enter Epcot® via the International Gateway-know by some as the “backdoor” to Epcot®. The International

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As the year draws to an end, it only seems fitting to take a moment to reflect on the year behind us, look forward to the year ahead and give thanks for all of our blessings. We at CruisingCo.com® - MouseEarVacations.com® are first and foremost thankful for YOU! 

Since 1987, we have enjoyed working with travelers like you creating vacation memories, both big and small.  You see to us, you are more than just our clients, you are friends. We greatly appreciate the opportunity you give us by placing your trust and confidence in us and allowing us to be a part of your very individual and personal travel journeys year after year.  We get to live vicariously through your travels as we help plan, research and walk through the details along with you.

Whether helping someone visiting Walt Disney World for the first time decide which hotel and dining plan is best for them, finding the right cruise for that upcoming family reunion or navigating through the options when unexpected changes travel plans, we love being there for you!   Our passion for travel is fed each and every day by the experience you, our clients, provide us with in living those dreams with you.

We recently unveiled our Family Travel Favorites tab on both our CruisingCo.com® and MouseEarVacations.com® homepages.  Many of you come to us looking for our one-on-one planning services when planning a Disney vacation, but we know you may also want to travel to different destinations at various times in your life.  Our Family Travel Favorites tab will bring our most trusted family travel partners right to you.  We’ve done all the leg work in researching the best of the best in family travel so you can rest at ease.    We are also happy to say that we have now almost 800 fans on our Facebook page and growing each day. What a great place to enjoy fun facts, quotes, trivia and most recently a first hand report from Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas®.  Our blog is also a bustling place where you can see a great collection of our agent’s tips and reviews of various travel experiences. We thank you for all for joining in the fun and spreading the word to your family and friends.  As you can, see 2009 was quite eventful and we are excited to see what 2010 will bring.

From all the agents and staff at CruisingCo.com®  - MouseEarVacations.com® we wish you all the happiest of holidays, and a most prosperous, healthy and Happy New Year. We look forward to helping you visit all the places on your bucket list in 2010!  Where will you go?

Fun for all the family!

Most people expect sun and fun when they get to Florida. But according to Disney legend (as documented on www.Disneyworld.com): “The story behind Disney’s Blizzard Beach begins with a freak snow storm that blanketed Florida.Within the blink of a snowflake-tipped eye, a ski resort sprang up with slalom courses, toboggan slides and iceberg walkways. Then, just as quickly, the weather shifted back to hot. The whole resort started to melt. An enterprising alligator saw an opportunity! Clad in a scarf and hat, this Ice Gator slid down the snow-less ski jump, shouting ‘Yahoooo!’ all the way. With a big splash he landed in a pool of melted snow below the mountain. It was at this moment the slushy, slippery slopes became an exhilarating Water Park with a ski theme. “

Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park is a great place for both the adventurous members of your family, as well as the kids. The main attraction is Summit Plummet, on Mt. Gushmore. At 120- feet high, it’s the world’s tallest, fastest free-fall speed slide, a breathtaking 60 mph plunge straight down and visible from almost anywhere in Read the rest of this entry »