Disney

Aloha, Mahalo, ‘Ohana: An Update on Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort

On our first visit to the Poly back in 2011

The Polynesian Village Resort was our first family home-away-from-home at Walt Disney World. It was the perfect spot for me. I arrived a Walt Disney World skeptic and left a raving fan.

While we remain big fans of the Polynesian, the Poly has been in the midst of some major construction projects the last year or so, and we have not stayed there since our first visit.

We did stop by recently though to check out the changes, and provide our friends and clients an update on one of the most unique of the Walt Disney World resorts. [Read more…]

A Day at Animal Kingdom: 3 Things Not to Miss

By Mark

We have a confession to make.

Both as a family vacationing at Walt Disney World, and as travel agents we tend to…well… almost forget about Animal Kingdom.

Why?

Animal Kingdom is Walt Disney World’s newest and largest park. [Read more…]

Instagram Sunset Roundup!

By Mark

Here’s a collection of our recent sunsets and sunrises posted on the Southern Girl Travel Instagram page:

Sunset near Beaufort, NC

A photo posted by Southern Girl Travel (@southerngirltravel) on Oct 29, 2015 at 4:12am PDT

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Making Lemonade in Walterboro, South Carolina

By Mark

As I wrote in the fall of 2014, among all our photographs of all our travels – from Orlando to Outer Mongolia, from Beijing to Beaufort, from Moscow to Montego Bay – the above photograph will remain one of my favorites.

It’s a shot of our children on a nondescript playground in a nondescript place – could be anywhere. It was taken on Jekyll Island, and I think of it as the lemonade shot.

As so often happens with travel, despite all our planning and good intentions, despite owning a travel agency, despite doing everything right – everything went wrong. We ended up 500 miles from home in a beautiful out of the way place on a beautiful fall day – crystal blue skies and calm seas, a day to forgive all sins, our room reservation gone awry and not a vacancy for miles. [Read more…]

5 Disney Websites You Might Have Missed!

By Mark

The wide variety of official Disney websites, along with the dozens of Disney blogs and other fan sites, make our jobs much simpler than they might be otherwise.

While researching for our most recent family trip to Walt Disney World, we came across a few new-to-us Disney websites that we want to share with all of you. [Read more…]

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