WDW March 2025

Recently, Disney announced that two of our favorite things at WDW, Jellyrolls and Muppet Vision 3D, would be closing, which is was the catalyst for this quick weekend trip. Our annual passes had expired this past August and we hadn't renewed them because we had non-WDW trips planned and didn't think we'd get enough use out of them to justify the cost. So when we planned this trip, we just book a room and ticket package, but as the trip drew closer, I became more and more annoyed with the high cost of the "day" tickets and we began thinking about when we'd have time to visit WDW again over the course of the year and calculated if would it make sense for us to buy annual passes. I looked at next year's school calendar and there are a couple of three-day weekends when we'll be able to go, so we decided to buy annual passes again to use on this trip and over the next year. I contacted guest services and asked how to go about this, and I was told that when we checked into our hotel, the cast members there would be able to apply what we'd already paid for our three-day tickets to the cost of annual passes, leaving us to just pay the difference.

We dropped Avalanche off at his dog hotel on Friday after school, then flew down to Florida on Saturday morning and took an uber to our hotel. When we arrived, we told them we wanted to upgrade the tickets to annual passes, and they were thoroughly confused. Even the manager claimed that he couldn't do anything and kept making contradictory statements, so it was a very frustrating interaction. We ultimately ended up going to Guest Services at DHS, where thankfully a cast member was able to upgrade the tickets to annual passes with zero difficulty.

Since Jellyrolls and Muppet Vision 3D are closing, those were really our focus for this trip and it was nice to not have school on Monday so that we could spend three days away! We went to three of the theme parks, saw the MK fireworks, enjoyed the Flower and Garden Festival, ate at our favorite Beaches and Cream, and had a great night at Jellyrolls! We loved catching up with Scotty and we will definitely follow him to wherever the new Jellyrolls ends up because he is the absolute best!

We stayed at Art of Animation, whose theming is second to none, and the skyliner makes getting to the parks super easy! We did a little resort hopping, but the best spot turned out to be the solarium at Beach Club; we hung out there for a little while before our dining reservation and Donald, Goofy, and Pluto arrived to interact with guests. So adorable!

Our flight home on Monday night was 2.5 hours late, so we didn't get home until 1:30 am, but being tired is a small price to pay for such a fun weekend!

Happy Tails to you!