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Attraction | "Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party!"

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Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party is held on selected nights from September to the end of October at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. This is a separate ticketed event which means that even if you have a park entry ticket for the day you will need to leave the park by 7pm and will only be allowed to stay if you have purchased the extra ticket. If you don’t have a normal park ticket for that day you are usually allowed park entry from about 4.30 with your Halloween ticket.On arrival you are issued with a coloured wristband to prove that you are a party guest, if you are already in the park you get one of these wristbands by showing your party ticket to a cast member at the Stitch a...Read More

Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party is held on selected nights from September to the end of October at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. This is a separate ticketed event which means that even if you have a park entry ticket for the day you will need to leave the park by 7pm and will only be allowed to stay if you have purchased the extra ticket. If you don’t have a normal park ticket for that day you are usually allowed park entry from about 4.30 with your Halloween ticket.

On arrival you are issued with a coloured wristband to prove that you are a party guest, if you are already in the park you get one of these wristbands by showing your party ticket to a cast member at the Stitch attraction where they will also give you a programme of the evening’s entertainment and a map to show places to trick or Treat.

Many of the rarer Disney Characters can be found around the park at the character stops. Photographers are on hand to take your memorable photos which can be added to your Disney photo pass. We had a brilliant time seeing Snow White with all the Dwarfs, Cinderella in her glass carriage and Tarzan with his side-kick monkey. These characters are not normally available for photo opportunities so queues can build up but they are well managed.

Every guest at the party is given a Trick or Treat bag which is usually printed with the latest Disney release. However guests are also welcome to bring in their own bags. There are Candy trails all around the park and the cast members are very generous when handing out their treats, especially towards the end of the evening if they have lots left. We all returned home with more than 100 treats each which considering we didn’t even go to all the candy stops was quite impressive.

The highlight of the evening for us was the Boo To You Parade. This took place twice in the evening. We saw the second one as we had heard it was not quite as crowded as the first, considering how busy it was I am glad we had opted for the second one but we still had to stake out a good spot about an hour before hand. The parade was brilliant, all of the characters were dressed in their Halloween finery and there were lots of floats, it felt much longer than the daytime parade. The start of the parade was heralded by the ride of the Headless Horseman which some very young children found a little scary but most seemed to love. The dancing was excellent and the gravediggers with their sparking spades were something to behold. Once again bags were quickly filled with candy by cast members along the route.

After the parade were the fireworks. We have seen the Wishes display at Magic Kingdom many times and I have always thought it was fantastic but Hallowishes was absolutely stunning. It was a very long firework spectacular and it felt like fireworks were going off all around us as the Trick or Treat Halloween story centred around the castle was told in music. I have never experienced such a stunning display.

The atmosphere for the whole evening is lovely. We visited near the end of October and the vast majority of party goers, both adult and children, choose to dress up. Disney are quite strict and people are not allowed gruesome or very scary costumes and they are also not allowed to make themselves look like a proper Disney character as this would make it difficult to ensure guest safety if they were not sure if someone was an employee or not. This means that you can dress as your favourite Disney character if you wish but as an adult you must make it obvious that you are not impersonating that character. Costumes can be on any theme and we went as Star Trek characters and we were well received by everyone!

This was an expensive evening and I only purchased it as a special treat but we enjoyed it so much that it might become a regular thing for us. We loved everything about it, the atmosphere, the music, the characters and then the parade and fireworks; it was truly a night to remember.
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Member Rating 5 out of 5 on February 7, 2025

Walt Disney World Resort Magic Kingdom
Interstate 4 At U.S. Highway 192
Orlando, Florida
(407) 824-4321

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Walt Disney World Monorail

Attraction | "Fast Forward"

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Walt Disney World in Florida covers a huge area and Disney run various transport options for getting between the Parks and the Resort Hotels.The most recognisable and novel way to travel around the resort is by using the Monorail system. The Monorail was built as part of the original plan for Disney World and opened in 1971. About 10 years later an extension was made to add Epcot onto the system.All visitors to WDW are entitled to free transportation on the Monorail system, no tickets are required.There are a total of 12 six-carriage monorail trains in use which all have a different coloured stripe along their side which is how they are identified throughout the n...Read More

Walt Disney World in Florida covers a huge area and Disney run various transport options for getting between the Parks and the Resort Hotels.

The most recognisable and novel way to travel around the resort is by using the Monorail system. The Monorail was built as part of the original plan for Disney World and opened in 1971. About 10 years later an extension was made to add Epcot onto the system.

All visitors to WDW are entitled to free transportation on the Monorail system, no tickets are required.

There are a total of 12 six-carriage monorail trains in use which all have a different coloured stripe along their side which is how they are identified throughout the network. It used to be possible to ask to ride with the driver but that practice was halted after a fateful collision in 2009.

The Monorails run along three different sets of tracks:

Magic Kingdom Express- this loop links the Ticket and Transportation Centre located at the Magic Kingdom cap park with the gates to the Magic Kingdom. This is the quickest route to the Magic Kingdom, much quicker than the boat or the Resort Monorail.

Resort Monorail- this loop links Magic Kingdom, The Contemporary Resort, the Ticket and Transportation Centre, The Polynesian Resort and finally The Grand Floridian before reaching Magic Kingdom again. This is a relatively slow journey as there is normally quite a queue of people waiting at each resort to board or leave the train. Keep an eye open when leaving the Contemporary resort as there is a Hidden Mickey sitting on a wall to the left of the monorail.

Epcot Monorail- This direct track leads from the Ticket and Transportation centre to Epcot. Epcot also has its own separate car park so the Monorail is not the only method of reaching it. The delightful thing about using this link is that the monorail circles around Futureworld in Epcot before it stops so it gives a great view of that area of the park.

The Monorails provide a futuristic way of getting around selected areas of WDW. They are wheelchair accessible and also convenient for children in strollers with a small amount of seating and large of areas for standing. Even if you do not need to use the Monorail it is still worth a ride around the Resort Loop to have a closer look at the other hotels and especially the Contemporary resort as the monorail runs right the way through the centre of the hotel. During the night the monorail is quite dark inside so it is wise to warn small children of this as they may be scared by the low-level lighting. The journeys are quick, quiet and smooth with an audio commentary about the resort itself.
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Member Rating 4 out of 5 on October 31, 2025

Walt Disney World Monorail

Orlando, Florida

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Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort

Hotel | "In The Shadow of Magic Kingdom"

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Bay Lake Tower at Disneys Contemporary Resort is actually part of the Disney Vacation Club which is the company’s time-share scheme however a certain number of each room type are also available as part of the ordinary Contemporary Resort inventory. The rooms range from the Studios which have a double-bed, a sofa-bed and a kitchenette, through one and two-bedroom units to the two-storey Grand-villas which can sleep up to 12 people. We stayed in a One-bed roomed Villa.Finding Bay Lake Tower is easy as it is part of the Magic Kingdom resort. Bay lake Tower itself does not have its own reception so we had to park the car outside the main Contemporary hotel to check-in.When we arrived ...Read More

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on October 31, 2025

Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort
Lake Buena
Orlando, Florida 32830

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'Ohana at Disney's Polynesian Resort

Restaurant | "Stitch For Breakfast?"

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‘Ohanas is one of the restaurants found at the Polynesian Resort at Walt Disney World, Orlando. The word ‘Ohana means family in Polynesian and the restaurants is designed to offer a welcoming family-feel to its diners.We had booked a Character Breakfast at ‘Ohanas having read good reviews about it. Bookings can be made 180 days before the required date either online or by phoning direct. Stand-by entrance is very rare for the Character Breakfast so pre-booking is pretty much essential.Our booking was for 8.00am so we used the monorail which stops at the hotel and arrived exactly on time. When we arrived we easily followed the signs to the restaurant and check-in at the desk....Read More

Member Rating 3 out of 5 on October 31, 2025

'Ohana at Disney's Polynesian Resort
1600 Seven Seas Drive
Lake Buena Vista, Florida 32820-1000
(407) 824 2000

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Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake

Attraction | "A Bit of Extra Magic!"

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The Electric Water Pageant is a nice little treat that many visitors to Walt Disney World miss. Every night the Pageant floats across Seven Seas Lagoon in front of Magic Kingdom and makes its way to Bay Lake. The Pageant consists of floating barges illuminated with changing light displays that alternate as it floats across the lakes accompanied by a rather irritating jingly musical score. One minute the pageant looks like the Loch Ness Monster surrounded by sea creatures and the next it is a series of Stars and Stripes flags. This is a very pretty, effective light display so it is worth making the effort to catch it.The Pageant begins at about 9.00pm and can be seen from th...Read More

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on November 1, 2025

Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake
Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom
Orlando, Florida

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