358 - The Focus Is On Disneyland Paris

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 358, for Sunday 11th April 2021.

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We also send our best wishes to Kevin Rafferty, who retired from Walt Disney Imagineering on 1st April 2021.

Our friends over at All Ears have a wonderful review of his career visit - All Ears post.

In our on this day in Disney history section, we mention that Euro Disney opened on this day in 1992 making next year its 30th anniversary. Due to Covid-19, sadly the park remains closed. However, we take a few moments to celebrate the things we love about this beautiful theme park.

Michelle's Top 5

Sleeping Beauty Castle together with La Galerie de la Belle au Bois Dormant and Taniere du Dragon, which Jayne also agreed with!

Phantom Manor - Jayne's also!

Big Thunder Mountain - Jayne's also!

Disneyland Railroad

Walt's American Restaurant

Jayne's Top 5

Sleeping Beauty Castle

Facebook live from DLP

Phantom Manor

Big Thunder Mountain

View from Phantom Manor

 

Adventure Isle

Le Pays des Contes de Fées

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357 - The Disney Easter Eggs

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 357, for Sunday 4th April 2021.

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EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival begins 15th July 2021. Notice, Disney have removed the 'Taste Of' away so one can hope that this will be full festival! The last full festival began on 29th August 2019 til 23rd November 2019, where as 2020's paired back offering started 15th July til 22nd November 2020.

Touch of Disney events have been held over in Disneyland and are continuing through April. 

Our friend Wendy Cooper attended and headed straight for the Lamplight Lounge reservation she had made (12.50). She had the Angus burger sliders and a couple of drinks. Later, she visited Wine Country Trattoria and had a mimosa flight and artisan cheese plate, which she highly recommends. 

 

However, she didn't manage to visit many of the food kiosks because of the heat - it was over 90 degress. Her evening ended by seeing the lighting of the neon in Radiator Springs and then grabbing the Monte Christo from Smoke Jumpers. 

Disney Cruise Line 2022 itineraries were released but no details for the Disney Wish, which is due to have its maiden voyage Summer 2022. Also, Disney announced they were sending the Magic to the UK for the summer for a series of cruise to nowhere. Detail to follow in April!

We end the show by sharing some of our favourite Easter eggs but not the chocolate variety! I guess you will have to listen in to get all the info! 

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356 - The Show with Disney Banter

 Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 356, for Sunday 28th March 2021.

 If you want to listen, whilst reading these notes, just click the player below or alternatively find us on iTunes, Libsyn, Stitcher Radio, or any good podcast catching apps.On this week's show, there is our usual Disney history and banter and then we review the delicious Easter offerings.

Guide to Easter Foods

We thought we would share some of the edibles that we really like the sound and look of. Let us know if you try any of these! We will start by sharing some of the choices from Walt Disney World.

Amorette's offering

Thumper Cupcake

Contempo Cafe Mini Cake

Beack Club Marketplace

 

Grand Floridian Easter Egg Display

Lets not forget Disneyland!

Ralp Brennan's Jazz Kitchen Express

Trolley Treats

But lets be honest... Hong Kong and Tokyo do win on the cutenesss stakes!

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355 The Trip - Walt Disney World March 2021

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 355, for Sunday 21st March 2021.

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On this week's podcast, we are joined by our very good friend - Anthony Markham - as he shares details of his recent Walt Disney World trip. 

Anthony drove from North Carolina and met his friend Josh there. They choose to stay at Pop Century and found the resort to be working well and did not find any issues with thee room nor transportation. 

Anthony split his time so that he could visit each park once and managed a half day trip also to Disney's Hollywood Studios. He was there just before Flower and Garden began so benefitted from the lighter crowds as well as being able to admire the beautiful toparies. 

EPCOT looked stunning but alas no food booths were open and neither was the much anticipated Remy's Ratatouille Adventure.

Anthony managed to partake in a range of delicious foods and highly praised the new plant based Loco Moco at Kona Cafe, whilst Josh tucked into the sampler platter. 

We will be sharing more pictures from Anthony's trip over on our instagram page this week. 

That's about it for this week - we hope you enjoy the show and we will be back next week for some more Disney chatter.

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354 - The Best Disney Mum Discussion

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 354, for Sunday 14th March 2021.

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In the UK, today we celebrate Mother's Day so we thought we would discuss some of our favourite Disney mums:

Mrs Jumbo - Dumbo

Duchess - Aristocats

Queen Arianna - Tangled

Perdita - 101 Dalmations

Sini - Moana

Sarabi - The Lion King

Eudora - The Princess and The Frog

Mrs Davis - Toy Story 

Bambi's Mum - Bambi

Elastigirl - The Incredibles

 Who would be on your list?

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353 - The WDW Transportation Upgrade Discussion

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 353, for Sunday 28th February 2021.

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On this week's show, we invited our friend Len Testa to 'armchair imagineer' a way of improving the Walt Disney World transportation system.

You will no doubt recognise Len from his own podcast - Disney Dish but also from TouringPlans.com

So, how did Len tackle this challenge? At the forefront of his mind was to consider the impact on the environment for the solutions he wanted to champion. 

So he suggested two pathways to connect the resorts to the hotels. With Disney recently completing the Grand Floridian to the Magic Kingdom path, these ideas sounded fantastic.  Would you enjoy a stroll from Animal Kingdom Lodge in to Disney's Animal Kingdom?

The next idea was based around using the Skyway and expanding it into a true network. Below, this map shows the current routes.

The idea being, resorts could be connected to parks, as well as Disney Springs, to alleviate the pressure on the bus system plus taking adventure of this cleaner, and popular, transportation system.

We then moved the conversation to looking at the exisiting transportation systems and considering what could be done to improve them.

What do you think to Len's suggestions? We would love to hear from you with what you think.

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