You get off the Plane at Orlando International Airport ready to start your week long mical Disney Vacation. You gather the bags.

What is your next step in your vacation? A rental car, a taxi?

Well they are both good choices, but ...

Rental Cars, you drive enough at home and you have to get one that fit the entire family. Plus navigating to and from Disney world. Plus you drive to your onsite Disney Hotel and park the Rental Car for a week. So now your paying hundreds of dollars to pak a car for a week.

A Taxi, to and from the airport, probably $60 maybe more. A little less than the cost of a rental car.

But what about FREE. Free is a great word, and when there are no string attached, free is even better.

Magical Express is just that, Free with no strings attached.

Just stay on Disney property, and when your booking your hotel, or your entire vacation package ask for Magical Express. Your agent will give Disney your flight information. You then get cool Magical Express luggage tags. And when you land, Disney will take your luggage for you to your room (this process does take time). You do not even have to carry your bags. A really cool bus will then take you to your hotel. And when your vacation is over (yes this is the sad part) Disney will take you and your luggage back to the airport.

Simple, fast, superb service. All for FREE.

Now you cannot beat that

Well the long wait is almost over. The Disney Dream is being built right now as we read, and a new announcement the other day gave us a teaser of some of the features the Dream will have when she sails.

How about the First Ever Ship-board water coaster.

Or maybe the Virtual Porthole, all inside staterooms offer a "window" to the world with a real-time view outside the ship using high-definition cameras. Observe the view, or glimpse a magical surprise: animated characters like Mickey Mouse may pop by the Virtual Porthole.

Living Characters - In youth spaces, Disney Characters come to life and interact with children in one-of-a-kind experiences. Crush, the animated sea turtle from the Disney•Pixar motion picture "Finding Nemo," or the mischievous animated alien Stitch make scheduled appearances to chat, play and joke with kids in live, unrehearsed conversations.

And there is a lot more.

I do not know about you, but I cannot wait.

Keep checking back for more.

Dos that get your attention, it should.

Disney has started this trend this year giving away free nights when you but a vacation with them. And it is a really good deal.

This summer Disney introduced a buy 4 get three free. This Disney deal was so popular, Disney had to increase park hours for a few weeks at most of the Florida Parks due to the parks reaching capacity.

For Fall/Winter the deals keep on coming with a new promotion.

7 for 4 Promotion
Buy a non-discounted Walt Disney Travel Company 4-night, 4-day Walt Disney World® Resort room and ticket package at select Disney Moderate, Deluxe or Deluxe Villa Resorts, they’ll get three more nights with tickets FREE.

Or on-discounted Walt Disney Travel Company 5-night, 5-day Walt Disney World Resort room and ticket package at select Disney Value Resorts, they’ll get two more nights with tickets FREE.

These Magic Your Way Packages include accommodations for seven nights and a 7-day Magic Your Way Base Ticket.

Booking Window:
Now through Dec. 20, 2009

Travel Window:
This offer is available for stays most nights:

• Nov. 1-24, 2009
• Dec. 8-24, 2009
• Jan. 3 – March 27, 2010

Sample Pricing:

• $1,628 for a family of four (2 adults, 1 junior, 1 child) staying at a select Disney Moderate Resort in a standard room for stays most nights Jan. 3 – Feb. 11, 2010. That’s like paying $59 per person, per day.
• $1,441 for a family of four (2 adults, 1 junior, 1 child) staying at a select Disney Value Resort in a standard room for stays most nights Jan. 3 – Feb. 11, 2010. That’s like paying $52 per person, per day.

As you can see Disney wants you to come to the parks this winter. And they are willing to give you free nights to do so.

Plus the Holidays are one of the most magical times at the parks.

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Happy Travels.

OK the last time I saw Fantasmic was roughly 6 years ago.

My daughter was 2 and she started crying in the middle and we had to leave. So this was my truely first real show.

The Hollywood Hills Amphitheater, holds a lot of people. I though it would be ok to line up 1 hours before show time but I was wrong. The line at 1 hour before showtime stretched all the was back to the villians shop and more and more people were showing up all of the time.

They let us in 45 minutes prior to show time and it took all 45 minutes to fill the stadium. It was a steamy hot Florida night and after a few Crowd waves rolls, the lights dimmed and we were off.

Now there is bathrooms and consessions in the stadium, along with roaming vendors so if your hungry, thirsty or need to potty (sorry I am a dad after all) wait till you get into the stadium and get settled. Then one person watch the seats while the other goes off. Also bring the DS's or something for the litle ones to do. Sitting for almost an our looking at a dark rock formation is not fun.

I will not go into much of the story because of spoilers, but safe to say it does not disapoint. Fantasmic is worth the hassle and the wait. Princesses, the Fab Five, and a host of other Disney Characters and Villians make appearances. Heck this is Mickey's imagination so you never know who is going to show up.

Fantasmic only runs a few times a week. So check www.waltdisneyworld.com calendar section for what nights it is on and plan accordingly.

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First, I want to express my sympathy to the family of the Cast Member that was killed in the July 5th Monorail accident.

Next I want to say that this accident is nothing more than that, a freak accident and not a reflection on the Monorail system as a whole. The Walt Disney Monorail System has been running 365 days a year, some days up to 20 hours a day for the past 38 years. This was not the first accident and it probably will not be the last. The accident should in no way discourage Park Guests from using this amazing mode of transport.

It really is the safest most efficient way to get around the parks. And many Disney Fans (my self included) have been dreaming of new Monorail spurs that go to Disney's Hollywood Studios and to Animal Kingdom for years. The bus system is great. And the Monorail system is more efficient, greener (it is electric) and has a greater capacity.

The accident brought down the monorail system for most of Monday. I think it reopened at 3 p.m. The entire time it was closed Disney had to use buses to move people around seven seas lagoon and from the Magic Kingdom to Epcot. And I can tell you from what I have read that it was a nightmare.

So please, do not let this discourage you from using the Monorail System. Disney is looking into what went wrong and I assure you that they will find the problem and fix it.

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Continuing my Blogs about my past Cruise on the Carnival Liberty I will now talk about the food.

There are four basic ways to eat on the ship.
1) The Main Dining room, split into two separate dining areas Gold and Silver.
2) Emile's, Lido Deck buffet area. Four separate buffet lines, plus three extra stations, plus a dessert station.
3) Room Service
4) The Pizza Station, Burrito Bar, Deli Sandwich shop.

First the main dining rooms. We only ate in the main dining rooms for Diner. And each meal was great. They offer the usual cruise menu of appetizers, salads, soup (one cold one hot) main entrees including beef, fish, chicken, vegitarian. They also offer their Carnival Classics, a set menu that is always available. A steak, a pasta. a fish. The menu for the week ranged from Coq au Vin to Prime Rib twice to Lobster. With pastas dishes each night that were real tasty (this is comming from an Italian that is picky about his pasta). There was only a Ceazar salad offered, this is bad because I would have liked a normal salad onece or twice. The soups were real tasty and flavorfull. Carnival is not shy about stretching its culinary wings and getting creative with the spices. Some Cruise lines might not put the spice in their dishes fearin that people will not like it, but not Carnival. And to this I tip my hat at them. The desserts, they only offered two different choices (plus the usual ice cream fare) each night. And they were all great.

Room service, we did not spend much time in the room. So the only time I had room service was for my morning coffee, which was always prompt and hot.

The Lido deck, has great food also. Breakfast had the standard fare each morning, with some twists. Like differently prepared breakfast potatoes and a carving station with fresh ham three timees on the cruise. There is also two omlett stations, but they were always busy so I did not partake. Lunch always had a theme, French, Italian, Indian. And aside from salads and lunchmeats there was five dishes presented in this theme each day, plus a carving station and desserts There is also a stirfry station (the omlett station) and this was also tasty. There is a place called Fish and Chips, but it is upstairs on deck 10 and real out of the way, so I did not visit it.

The last is the pizza bar which is always open and has fresh hot pizza all day. A grill that serves hamburgers, fries and nachos poolside. A Burriot bar where they will fill a wrap with whatever you want. And the Deli that has fresh hot and cold sandwiches. And they also have a Suchi bar on deck 5 open also.

Overall I was real pleased with the food. Very constitant and good. If you have bland taste buds you might want to watch what you eat. But if you like flavorfull food , you will be in for a treat.

No I do not mean we should all go to Rio. But that would be cool.

I am talking about Carnival Cruise Lines.

It is weird that this is my first Carnival Cruise. Living 1 hour from the number two and number one ports in the world you think that I would have gone on a Carnival Cruise before. I just never had the opportunity.

Well let me say that I am hooked. The Carnival Cruise Line experience was am amazing one. Now not all of the cruise was good there were some faults. And I will address some of those in the future posts.

But for now let me say that The Carnival Liberty is a great Ship, with one of the best Crews I have seen in a long while. The food was excellent and the party non-stop.