A woman Disney Bounding as Han Solo at Walt Disney World with Chewbacca
A group of seven people, including a person in a Mickey Mouse costume, taking a photo together outdoors near some plants and benches.
A woman and a young girl riding a carousel horse at an amusement park.
Two women wearing playful holiday headbands with Mickey Mouse gloves, one with round sunglasses, taking a selfie indoors with a colorful, festive setting reflected in their sunglasses.
Two women posing with a large Mickey Mouse dressed as a princess in a regal outfit, inside a decorated room at a Disney-themed event. The woman on the left has glasses and wears a patterned dress with mouse ears, while the woman on the right has a Minnie Mouse headband and colorful skirt.
A smiling girl posing in front of Cinderella Castle at Disney World with other visitors walking around on a partly cloudy day.
Nighttime scene at Disneyland with a large, decorated Christmas tree, surrounded by visitors walking along Main Street U.S.A., with buildings adorned with holiday lights and garlands.
A plate of Japanese curry with rice shaped like a cute white character with a black line for a face, accompanied by broccoli, a heart-shaped piece of fried food, and pickled vegetables.
A young girl with a polka-dotted jacket and starry pants standing in front of Disneyland Park's entrance, holding a balloon. She is wearing a blue wizard hat and Mickey Mouse ears headband.
A woman with wavy, dark hair and large, black sunglasses wearing a black hoodie with a pink and white smiley face design, sitting outdoors with a young girl with braided hair decorated with colorful ribbons, wearing a purple shirt. They are sitting in front of a brick wall and greenery. The woman appears to be smiling slightly, while the girl is looking downward.

I’ve Been Going to Disney Parks Since 1975!

Growing up, I went to WDW a lot and to Disneyland every now and then. I made a few trips as a young adult, but it wasn’t until I became a parent that I began to get serious about going to the Parks again. Our first family trip was in 2016.

Since the end of the pandemic, we’ve been going fairly regularly - and I’ve even been a few times sans kid. In the last few years I have come to realize - no, happily embrace - the truth: I am a Disney Adult.

At time of writing, I’ve been to all six resorts - Disneyland, Walt Disney World (the “Walt” is important - iykyk), Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland, Shanghai Disney Resort, and Tokyo Disney Resort - with my daughter in tow along with various family members. (And I always stay in the bubble because I am 100% that mouse.)

While I’ve only been to Hong Kong and Shanghai once, I’ve been to the other 4 multiple times. I spent my birthday this past June at Disneyland Paris with my oldest friend [pictured]. I can’t wait to go back and see how their new World of Frozen stacks up against HKD’s!

I have… experience, opinions, merch, and advice galore. I follow a lot of amazing content creators who put way more effort into this than I do and I encourage you to subscribe to their channels. This is a hobby - I have a day job! (How else could I afford this hobby!?) I put this site together as a place to store all of the stuff I like to share with folks - stuff I’ve done, and stuff I’m planning to do: pictures from past visits, recommendations, stories, planning scenarios, tips, and so on. And right now it is very much a work in progress so <ahem> excuse my pixie dust…

Here’s a caveat though: Disney makes a lot of changes and it can be hard to keep up. They also do things differently park to park. I won’t go into the why, but I’m not a news site or source of truth for important Disney details because it’s a full time job keeping it all square. But I’ll do my best to verify and/or link out to anything that could potentially trip you up (no pun intended) if you’re doing any planning of your own!

If you’re thinking “Why would I even want to go to Disney in the first place - ew?” then good for you! I’m not here to convince you of anything. Disney parks are crowded enough already - go do something else with your time and money! It’s a big, wide world out there with plenty of other stuff to do.

If you used to love Disney parks as a kid and you think you can’t ever go again… OR you start to tear up a bit when you hear the opening bars of When You Wish Upon a Star but you’re a Serious Person with a Proper Job and a Mortgage so how can you love… an anthropomorphic mouse!? I’m here to tell you that it’s just the magic of storytelling combined with really meticulous engineering and creative theming - plus some 5-star hotels let’s not forget those - doing it’s thing and it’s perfectly normal.

You’ve come to the right place!

- Joanna. June, 2025

A person with pink hair wearing a black hat with Mickey Mouse ears and the name JoAnna embroidered in pink, standing in front of a castle at a Disney theme park.