Your Disney World & Universal Orlando Travel Agent

No. A Disney travel agent is paid a commission by Disney, not by you, so a package booked through an agent costs the same as booking direct, and often less, because a good agent watches for promotions after you book and rebooks your trip when the price drops. My planning help is part of the booking, not an add-on fee.

Much more than book tickets; anyone can do that part. The real work is the calendar: I build your park-day order around crowds and hours, book dining the morning your 60-day window opens, map a Lightning Lane strategy for your specific dates, keep watching prices after you book, and build in the rest days, because the most common theme park mistake is overdoing it. You walk in with a plan instead of forty open browser tabs.

Same reason as Disney: it costs nothing extra, and the hotel call matters even more. A Universal travel agent will tell you when a room at Portofino Bay, Hard Rock or Royal Pacific quietly beats a cheaper hotel because Universal Express Unlimited comes included with the stay, and whether your ticket should include Epic Universe. I carry Universal's Preferred Travel Agency badge, and you work directly with me.

About 12 to 17 miles depending on which gate you measure from, mostly along I-4. The drive runs about 20 minutes in normal traffic and longer at rush hour. There is no official shuttle between the two resorts, so plan on a rideshare or a rental car for the switch-over day.

Yes, and plenty of my clients do. The comfortable version is a week or more: four or more park days at Disney, two to three at Universal, with a split stay so you keep each resort's hotel perks. On shorter trips I usually steer people to pick one resort and do it well.

Disney World is four theme parks, so four park days is the realistic minimum to see them without sprinting. Universal is comfortable in two days, or three to four now that Epic Universe is part of the lineup. On anything longer than five park days, add a rest or water park day in the middle; your feet will thank you.

Universal's third Orlando theme park, opened in May 2025, and the first all-new park in Orlando in decades. It holds five themed worlds: Celestial Park, Super Nintendo World, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Ministry of Magic, How to Train Your Dragon: Isle of Berk, and Dark Universe. As of 2026, 3, 4 and 5 day park-to-park tickets include it; 1 and 2 day tickets do not.

Disney's paid skip-the-line system, sold in three forms: Multi Pass, a rolling set of ride reservations across your day; Single Pass, one premium ride bought a la carte; and Premier Pass, every Lightning Lane in one park at a premium price. Prices move with demand. Disney hotel guests can buy for their whole stay 7 days before check-in; everyone else at 3 days. My complete Lightning Lane guide goes deeper.

Express Pass is Universal's skip-the-line system, and the best version comes with the room at exactly three hotels: Loews Portofino Bay, Hard Rock Hotel, and Loews Royal Pacific. Every registered guest gets Universal Express Unlimited for the entire stay, which often makes those rooms cheaper than a budget hotel plus purchased passes. It does not cover Epic Universe, which sells its own separate Express product.

Usually yes, and not because of the theming. Every Disney hotel, including the cheapest Value resorts, gets Early Theme Park Entry: 30 minutes into any of the four parks before the public, every morning. Deluxe resorts add extended evening hours on select nights. Add the included buses, monorail and Skyliner, and on-site is as much a logistics decision as a splurge.

No. Disney World is not an all-inclusive resort; rooms, tickets and food are all priced separately, though packages can bundle them and Disney offers optional dining plans. If a true all-inclusive vacation is what you are after, that is the other half of my job: start with my Cancún all inclusive resorts guide.

The value windows are mid-January through early February, late August through September, and parts of early November and early December. September is the quietest month of the year, with the trade-off that it is hot and sits in the heart of hurricane season. Holiday weeks, spring break and summer are the peak of both crowds and prices.

Universal's after-hours haunted house event, running select nights from late August through early November. It is a separate ticket from daytime admission, it is genuinely scary rather than family-spooky, and the popular nights sell out. If your crew is into it, I plan the whole trip around the event calendar.

Agents pay the same public prices, but my clients usually end up with cheaper trips anyway, for one reason: promo watching. When Disney or Universal releases a discount that fits a trip I have already booked, I rebook it at the lower price. Do-it-yourselfers rarely ever see those drops.

It costs nothing extra, and this is the vacation where planning is the product. I am an Annual Passholder who is in these parks year round, I carry the Authorized Disney Vacation Planner and Universal Preferred Travel Agency badges, and I handle the parts people dread: the 60-day dining sprint, the Lightning Lane strategy, and the hotel call where the perks quietly pay for the room. You talk to me, not a call center. I am based in the New York area and plan Disney and Universal trips for travelers in NY, NJ, and nationwide.