Park Pass Pro - Disney World - March 2025

Park Pass Pro Tip

How to get through security in record time?  In both Disney World and Universal Studios, you will go through security BEFORE you show your tickets to the park.  Some tips to help keep the line moving and to keep you from getting stopped and searched.

• Do not have weapons of any kind.  This includes mace or a flashlight.
• If you have any metal, hold them out in front of you so they trip the machine before you go through it.  For example, sun glass cases, put them in your hands, stretch out your hands and then walk through.
• If you have a stroller, it will get searched.  So, send 1 person with the stroller ahead of you and then meet up with that person on the other side.  Not everyone in your party needs to go with the stroller.
• Bundle things inside your bag in clear zip lock bags.  The security team will be able to pull out and see things in an organized fashion.  They can see everything in the bag.  And it makes it easier for packing it back up with done with the search.

Recommendation

Nomad Lounge in Disney's Animal Kingdom.  I have walked by this place several times and didn't even know it was there.  It was during my research that I learned about the Churos and drinks at the Nomad Lounge.  Note, you do need to get on the waitlist and they will give you an arrival time.  

The lounge is not just for adults, kids are allowed here also.  If you want air conditioning, then ask for a seat inside.  The deck outside is shaded and has great visuals of the water way that sometimes have characters floating by.

View their menu here:  https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/animal-kingdom/nomad-lounge/menus/

Special Offers

• Save Up to 30% on Rooms at Select Disney Resort Hotels When You Stay 5 Nights or Longer
• Save up to 25% on Rooms at Select Disney Resort Hotels in Early 2025
• If traveling between April 28 - Sept. 27, 2025 and staying Club level, you can save 20% on a Disney Private VIP Tour during their stay.
• Disneyland Anniversary Ticket Offer - Visit for as Low as $100 Per Day with a Special 4-Day Ticket!
• Save up to 20% on Select Rooms at Disneyland Resort Hotel on Sunday Through Thursday Nights
• Book Early and Save Up to 30% on Select Stays at Disneyland Resort Hotel During the Celebration of Disneyland 70th Anniversary.
• Save up to 20% on Select Stays at a Disneyland Resort Hotel During the 70th Celebration This Summer

Call Virginia at 712-490-4545 for the details on all of these offers.

Disney Buzz

• EPCOT International Festival of the Arts comes to an end this week as the park prepares for EPCOT Internation Flower & Garden Festival which will run from March 5 to June 2, 2025.

• Rivers of America in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World will be closing to make way for a new Cars Land ride.  Walt Disney World Imagineering unveiled the research they are doing to show how the Lightning McQueen, Mater, and the rest of the cars are embracing Frontier Land.  The date of closure for Tom Sawyers Island and the Liberty Square Riverboat have not been announced yet.

• Disneyland unveiled the plans for the 2 new rides it will add to it's Adventures Campus
  • Avengers Infinity Defense, you’ll assemble with the Avengers and battle King Thanos across multiple worlds. Join alongside the likes of Black Panther, Ant-Man, Hulk, and so many other favorites to save the universe – again.
  • Stark Flight Lab, will put you inside Tony Stark’s workshop to check out some of the new tech he’s working on and allow you to test it out yourself. 

• Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run in Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World and in Disneyland will be getting a new mission on May 22, 2026.  This is the same day the The Mandalorian and Grogu movie will drop.  It was also unveiled that playful BDX droids will be visiting Battuu in both Walt Disney World and Disneyland starting in 2025.  Keep your eyes open for these guys.

• Muppet Vision 3D will be closing at Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World on June 7th and reimagined.  When completed, you will walk through the streets of Monstropolis and the main attraction will be a thrilling roller coaster ride through the Monsters, Inc. door vault.  

• Beginning May 16, 2025, and running through summer 2026, the Disneyland Resort 70^th Celebration will honor seven decades of happiness and many moments of joy in the making.

• Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT have now switched from Virtual Ques to a standby queue or Lightning Lane experience.

Disney Fun Fact - EPCOT - Mexico Pavillion

• "EPCOT's Mexico Pyramid is modeled after the Aztec Temple of the Feathered Serpent located in the ancient holy city of Teotihuacan (The City of the Gods) near modern-day Mexico City.
  https://uncoveredhistory.com/mexico/teotihuacan/teotihuacan-temple-of-the-feathered-serpent/ 

• EPCOT's Mexico pyramid is open to visitors.  Inside, you can find “The Mirror de los Muertos,” or the “Mirror of the Dead.”  It is an interactive mirror that allows guests to create their own skeleton and transports them to the Land of the Dead, just like in Coco.  Check it out here: https://www.tiktok.com/@wdwprepschool/video/7111454475428236590