Essential Apps for your Disney Vacation

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Anchor: We have Ryan here from Nerds On Call and a few apps that can help.

Julissa: Yes, love this, our dear friend Ryan with Nerds On Call. You blew my mind last hour with some hacks and now you’ve got some great tips for Disneyland trips. If you’ve got any plan coming up this summer.

Ryan: Yes, well we just got back from Disneyland.

Julissa: Yes.

Ryan: And we just spent a ton of time there and one of the first things you wanna do is get this, this is called the Disney Countdown Clock.

Julissa: Oh, I love that. Yeah.

Ryan: You see the cool part about this, you see that I got 31 days, you can set the time to whatever you want, whatever date you want.

Julissa: Oh, that’s great. Yeah!

Ryan: But it also gives you, this is one of the coolest parts, this weather history so if you’re going to Walt Disney World you don’t know what the weather is going to be like 30 days from now. So this will tell you the history from last year!

Julissa: From last year?

Ryan: So you can say oh it was raining so maybe I should be a little prepared for some weather.

Julissa: That’s great I like it. Okay, what’s that one called?

Ryan: That one is called Countdown to Disney.

Julissa: Countdown to Disney. Okay.

Ryan: This is one that we used every day single day, this is called Mouse Wait. It’s a little expensive, it’s five bucks.

Julissa: Okay.

Ryan: But it’s worth it.

Julissa: Worth every buck? Okay.

Ryan: So here’s the cool thing. You can check out the events that are near you, it uses your GPS signal on your phone to determine where you are to tell you what’s going on around you. But it’s also got Disneyland wait times.

Julissa: Oh, this is key!

Ryan: You can list it by specific lands that you are in, and you can see “oh, I want to go over there” or which ride is closed and what not. But here’s the other thing, restrooms near you. Ah, we got an advertisement. But there’s restrooms near you so you can get to the nearest restroom.

Julissa: Okay. That’s fantastic.

Ryan: It’s five bucks, well worth it. Now Disneyland came out with their own version, it’s a little prettier.

Julissa: And it’s $3.99.

Ryan: This one’s free. So you’re over here in Fantasyland and you go “oh, what’s that ride?”, turns out that Peter Pan. But you can do other things like you can load your tickets on there, you can also load your PhotoPass on there. So it’s a very useful app and for free you can’t beat it.

Julissa: I like that because you can see your pictures from your PhotoPass.

Ryan: Now after you leave the park, you wanna go back, you wanna relive some memories or have some fun. This is an app that my kids absolutely love.

Julissa: Wait, are we playing Pokémon Go right now?

Ryan: No! But it kind of [unintelligible, 00:02:00]. This is called Disneyland Explorer, it’s also free, and it allows you to kind of cruise around the park and kind of go “oh, I remember that” and “hey, look at that”, and you can click on different things and you can view it.

Julissa: That is so cool!

Ryan: And there’s Tinker Bell flying around. You can find out all about her and view little details and see all kinds of things about her. How cool is that?

Julissa: You know that would actually be great too if you were planning the trip to get the kids excited and hyped up about it.

Ryan: Yes. Now last one. Let’s say you’re standing in line, have you heard of Heads Up?

Julissa: No?

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Julissa: Oh, the game! Yes! Let’s play, let’s play.

Ryan: Well here’s a secret about Heads Up is they have a deck down there called Disney Parks. You can pay 99 cents or if you’re at the park it’s free. It checks your GPS coordinates, if you’re there and you get it for free.

Julissa: Yeah, that’s great.

Ryan: Then you can play Disney trivia while you’re in line!

Julissa: Oh my gosh, I love it.

Ryan: How awesome is that?

Julissa: Yes, because let me tell you. Sometimes you will wait anywhere from twenty-five as you saw to even longer.

Ryan: One of the things about that Disneyland app, the free one, is it will tell you where they’re at, what times they’re there. So my little girl she’s in love with Anna and Elsa and she can see exactly what park they are in. Which is California Adventure, it’s not at Disneyland.

Julissa: It’s not at Disneyland anymore. Yeah.

Ryan: It will tell you where they are and how long they will be there.

Julissa: Yes. Oh my gosh. Anything about the Fastpass situation?

Ryan: Well Fastpass, the Disneyland app will also do Fastpasses for you. Whoa. If I can click on the right thing here. Scroll across the top. There’s PhotoPass, events, tours, gift services, hotels, it’s in there someplace.

Julissa: It’s in there somewhere. Okay. Because that’s key too. All right fantastic.

Ryan: Because you want to know when to go back to your Fastpass.

Julissa: Right, so we went through four or five. We’re gonna list them all on our website here, we’ve got the links there. But some good tips if you are planning a trip, it makes it just a little bit easier.

Ryan: Yes.

Julissa: All right, fantastic. Thanks! Ryan, it’s always good to see you. Thanks so much. Back with you.