Category — w. Most Recent Stuff

Dear readers, thanks to all of you for an awesome year!

Almost 800,000 of you stopped by this year–more than three times as many as in 2010, and more than 12 times as many as in 2009.  You are currently stopping by at a rate of 150,000 visits a month–thank you, thank you, thank you.

The site had its millionth visitor in November 2011, and its 5 millionth page view and 3000th comment in December.

Almost 50,000 of you are frequent visitors–up from 12,000 last year.

In 2011, you came from more than 14,000 communities in more than 180 countries and territories

I am humbled by your visits, and will keep trying to make the site better, and to add useful, new, interesting, and different material.

TOP 10 PLACES YOU COME FROM

More than 75% of you come to this site by a search engine.

Of the rest, about 1/3 of you come directly, by typing the site’s url or clicking on a bookmark, and about 2/3 come via a link.

Those who came from a link came from one of more than 50,000 links from more than two thousand different domains.

Excluding search engines, Facebook, Yahoo Answers and such, the following are the top ten domains you came from in 2011: [Read more →]

This is the second page of this review. For the first page, click here.

MORE ON DISNEY’S BOARDWALK INN

There are currently 8 official Disney owned and operated deluxe resorts at Walt Disney World.

In their recommended order for first time family visitors, they are

1. Polynesian
2. Wilderness Lodge
3. Animal Kingdom Lodge
4. Contemporary
5. Grand Floridian
6. Beach Club
7. Yacht Club
8. BoardWalk Inn

Many of these also offer Disney Vacation Club (“DVC”) studios and villas, all for rent to the general public–see this for more on the Disney Vacation Club resorts.

ROOMS AT DISNEY’S BOARDWALK INN

[Read more →]

A BUCKET LIST FOR WALT DISNEY WORLD

Welcome to those of you joining from  The World of Deej as Magical Blogorail Teal focuses on Disney World bucket lists this month.

MY DISNEY WORLD DREAMS

A “bucket list” is a list of stuff you want to do while you still have a chance, and especially stuff you might not pursue if you didn’t think it through and make a commitment to getting it done.

So what are the things I hope to do someday at Walt Disney World? They fall into a few groups:

• Do some special hotel stays
• See a fifth gate
• Stay during the Christmas holidays
• Take some tours
• See the rest of the Disney parks

[Read more →]

OVERVIEW: JULY 2012 AT DISNEY WORLD

This page reviews July 2012 Walt Disney World crowds, prices, deals and discounts, weather, operating hours, adds a few other notes, and ends with week by week summaries.

[Read more →]

For a bit of shameless self-promotion about this, see this press release.

For a comic bit from Carl (of the great site Dad’s Guide to WDW), making fun of my shameless self-promotion, see this.

ONE ANGLE ON DISNEY WORLD DEAL BLACKOUT DATES IN 2012

Those who stay at Disney World resort hotels a lot know that sometimes there’s material in your room offering you a discount on future dates if you book before you complete your current reservation.

One of these offers was in my BoardWalk Inn room on a recent visit, and I thought the offer blackout dates were worth noting.

The 2012 dates excluded from the offer were the following: [Read more →]