This document provides tips for visiting Disney parks, including: - Pack lightly, bringing only essential clothing, electronics, and leaving room for merchandise. - Save money for the trip and use a budget if needed. - Bring a backpack, cargo pants with secure pockets to hold items, and charge electronics frequently while backing up photos and contacts to the cloud. - Come prepared with autograph books, pens, and paper to get character autographs and scan them later for storage.

1. My Disney Park Tips
By Steven

2. Pack Light
● Pack light. Pack small electronics and their chargers
● Pack only necessary clothing and equipment
● Leave room for merchandise
https://www.wikihow.com/Pack-Light
https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/10-tips-for-packing-light.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd87KwDRdGU

3. Money
● Save the money prior to the trip
● Go on a budget if necessary.
○ Google Sheets is a good way to do so.
○ Don’t put any personal info on it

4. Clothing and Accessories
● Use cargo pants and vests for loose articles. Make sure that they have
zippers and secure pockets.
● Exchange Kodak for a smartphone. Most of them have cameras built in.
● Bring a backpack for merchandise

5. Electronics
● Bring chargers into the park.
● Recharge often
● Make sure you have a good charge (85-100%) before entering the park
● Take pictures with smartphone and backup to Google Photos.
○ Make an album for Disney photos in Google Photos (Check unlimited storage)
● Back up contact info into Google Contacts or iCloud incase your phone gets
lost.
● Take advantage of Find My iPhone and Google Play’s version.

6. Autographs
● Bring an autograph book, book with blank paper or a small tablet with a stylus
(then take a screenshot).
● Bring pens (2-3 is good).
● Make sure you have plenty of paper in your books. Use both sides of the
paper if possible
● Scan the autographs, then store them onto the cloud, email, or external
storage.

7. List of free drawing apps for iOS and Android
● SketchBook
● Tayasui Sketches
● Adobe Photoshop Sketch
Source:
https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/these-drawing-and-sketching-apps-turn-anyone-into-an-

8. Save Storage on Devices
● Get 64GB or more base storage
● Back up photos and documents to the cloud
● Save storage on iOS -
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/tricks-to-free-up-space-on-your-iphone/
● Save Storage on Android -
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-free-up-storage-space-on-your-androi
● Compress music with iTunes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=LZRybKseyLg

9. Save Battery Power
Tips apply for both iOS and Android
● Wifi or cellular data. - use one of them at a time
● Lower brightness
● Turn off some notification settings
● Look at settings to see what’s using the most battery power
● Buy external battery cases and wireless chargers
● Turn on “low power mode”
● Look at percentage often.

10. Safety Tips
● https://disneywildaboutsafety.com/parents/theme-park-safety-tips/
● The Wild About Safety App’s available for iOS and Android.
● Organize meeting place in case of separation of group
● Charge phones
● Use Find My Friends and alternatives if group uses both iOS and Android
● Keep phones turned on (No Do Not Disturb or Airplane Mode while in the
parks)
● Only silence phones for rides and stuff.
● Follow the signs posted
● Keep a map handy (both digital and hard copy).
● Secure loose articles
● Listen to cast members during emergencies
● Make sure that your images are safe for work. Ask yourself, “Is this
appropriate to show to my superiors?”

11. Share The Magic
● Do random acts of kindness
● Help people with problems
● Scan and upload autographs onto sites like Flickr that have the option to use
Creative Commons licensing
○ My recommended licenses: CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC
● Buy stuff for friends and family
● Share these tips and links with people
● By nice to co-guests and cast members.