ABOUT US

Hi. We are Skye and Arya, and this is a website about doing Disney World as an adult. No kids, no strollers, no character breakfasts, no waiting outside a gift shop while somebody has a meltdown about a lightsaber. Resorts, timing, transportation, and the strategy that gets you a drink with a view instead of a burger on a trash can.

Skye and Arya of Planning the Mouse on a park bench, castle in the background

If you are planning a trip and your whole party is over 21, you are in the right place. Welcome. Sit down. The nap is scheduled for 2 PM.

We have been going to Walt Disney World together for a long time. Skye has been going since 2007, starting with a Food & Wine Festival trip that apparently became a personality trait. Arya joined the habit a few years later and has been making regular Disney World trips since 2010. We are in the parks every couple of months with a group of friends, so what you read here is recent, and it is ours.

Why the pen names

Skye Ellis and Arya Gold are pen names. We both work in the travel industry, and we keep this site separate from our day jobs. That is the whole reason, and it is a boring one. We are not in witness protection.

Everything else is real. Our trips, our receipts, our photos, our opinions. If we recommend a resort, one of us has slept in it. Probably complained about the pillows. Booked it again anyway.

How this site makes money

Right now it does not, and we are fine with that. No ads, no affiliate links. We pay for our own rooms, tickets and drinks. If that changes, this paragraph will change with it, and so will the post.

How we check prices

We watch Disney’s prices like a fox. Room rates, ticket prices and menu prices on this site come from our own bookings and receipts, and they get re-checked every trip, which is more often than we would like to admit to a financial advisor.

Disney changes prices without announcing it, so our posts carry the date the numbers were last checked. Spot one that has changed? Tell us and we will fix it.

Found a mistake?

Use the contact form. We fix errors and note the change on the post. We would rather be corrected than be wrong.

And when the park day is done

The drinks live on our sister site, Drinking Around the World. Every bar, every festival booth, every overpriced margarita, tasted and rated by us so you can skip the bad ones. You are welcome.

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