{"id":2485,"date":"2011-12-14T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T01:07:18","slug":"the-world-without-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/the-world-without-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"The World without Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World without Parks<\/p>\n<p>By: Ann Dunnington<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When visiting the Walt Disney World resort, you would be remiss if you planned to tour the parks every day of your vacation.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 There are so many (often overlooked) hidden gems around the 47 square miles of the Resort without even stepping foot inside a theme park.\u00a0 The next time you go to the \u201cWorld\u201d check these things out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Parasail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2486\" title=\"Parasail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Parasail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that\u2019s my husband and I way up there hanging from the parachute.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sammyduvall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sammy Duvall\u2019s Watersports <\/a>offers numerous water activities on Bay Lake at Disney\u2019s Contemporary Resort.\u00a0 The staff was fantastic &#8211; very professional and friendly.\u00a0\u00a0 They offer waterskiing, personal watercraft tours, tubing, and parasailing, with a view that you can\u2019t beat.\u00a0 I encourage you to check them out.\u00a0 Though I will never go parasailing again (ha!\u00a0 I\u2019m not a heights person\u2026 the things you do for love!), this was certainly an awesome experience and my husband had a ball!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Salad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2487\" title=\"Salad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Salad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recommend making your table service reservations 180 days in advance for the restaurants you want to visit.\u00a0 We made it a point to get OUT of the parks and visit the unique table service restaurants at the various Deluxe resorts on property, especially those resorts that were new to us.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We were trying to kill two birds with one stone with dining at resorts we had never visited before, which leads me to my next suggestion\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GF-Lobby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2488\" title=\"GF Lobby\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GF-Lobby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026eating an ice cream and walking around Disney\u2019s Boardwalk\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Boardwalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2489\" title=\"Boardwalk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Boardwalk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026watching <strong>\u201cWishes\u201d<\/strong> from Disney\u2019s Polynesian Resort Beach\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/PolyBeach5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2496\" title=\"PolyBeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/PolyBeach5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026shopping at Downtown Disney, and picking up a scrumptious gluten-free dessert from Babycakes, NYC while we were there (ok, I\u2019m not gonna lie &#8211; we might have come back a few more times during the trip for more goodies)\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Babycakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2494\" title=\"Babycakes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Babycakes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026 catching some tunes (and some pretty awesome Irish dancers!) at Raglan Road\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/RaglanRoad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2497\" title=\"RaglanRoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/RaglanRoad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026 and watching an evening movie (Tangled!) at the pool at Disney\u2019s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Pool-Movie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2498\" title=\"Pool Movie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Pool-Movie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So needless to say, this just scratches the surface of what you can do (some of it FREE!) around the Walt Disney World Resort without even setting foot inside a theme or water park.\u00a0 Take the time to explore the extras and you might not need a &#8220;vacation&#8221; from your Walt Disney World vacation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World without Parks By: Ann Dunnington &nbsp; When visiting the Walt Disney World resort, you would be remiss if you planned to tour the parks every day of your vacation.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 There are so many (often overlooked) hidden gems around the 47 square miles of the Resort without even stepping foot inside a theme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79491,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/79491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}