Just in time to plan your holiday visit to the Walt Disney World Resort the Disney Food Blog has announced the grand launch of the DFB Guide to the Walt Disney World Holidays 2015 e-book!

This fully updated e-book features more than 330 pages of information about the holidays at the Walt Disney World Resort including more than 300 color photos of food, events, and resort decorations.

In the book you’ll find a three-month calendar of holiday events, details and descriptions of every holiday event at Walt Disney World Resort, a “new for 2015” chapter, a comprehensive dining section, new scavenger hunts, food and beverage crawls, and much more!

The books also includes ideas on where to eat with a dining reservation, 10 must-eat snacks this holiday season, and recommendations on how to save money during your holiday vacation.

All the Disney Food Blog guides are instantly downloadable PDFs that can be viewed on a computer, smartphone, or tablet and they come with a 100 percent money-back guarantee.

To celebrate the grand launch of the DFB Guide to Walt Disney World Dining 2015 e-book you can get the book for 20 percent off the cover price! Just use the code PEPPERMINT at checkout.

Happy Holidays!

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Are you looking for a Walt Disney World Vacation with all the benefits of staying on property, but far away from the busy park crowds? Well one of the original accommodations at Walt Disney World Resort is a great family escape and still going strong. Tucked back in the trees along the shores of Bay Lake Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground is still one of the most economical ways to stay at Walt Disney World, especially for those that live close enough to drive down with camp gear, or own an RV. I warn you though, once you’ve gone camping at Fort Wilderness, you’ll never want to camp anywhere else again!

Fort Wilderness Campsites come fully-equipped with water, cable television, and electrical hook ups, as well as a grill and picnic table. In addition the majority of sites have sewer hook up and offer high speed internet access for an additional fee. Air-conditioned comfort stations are located nearby on each loop where you will find private showers, toilets, laundry facilities, a telephone and ice machine. Or, if you don’t want to rough it quite that much, guests can call housekeeping for the arrangement of laundry services. Camp Site costs range from $40-$80 in value season depending on the location and amenities you need. A limited number of pet friendly Preferred Hook-Up and Premium campsites are available for your best friend’s enjoyment too.

Recreation is in abundance at Fort Wilderness, with biking, boating, fishing, swimming, camp fires, sing-a-longs, movies under the stars, an arcade, horseback riding, carriage rides and an adventure trail! It’s an outdoor escape all it’s own that will help you create lasting memories for your family, even if you only have a few park days.

Groceries, and limited camping supplies (including propane tanks) as well as sundries can be purchased at the Meadow and Settlement Trading Posts. However many guests prefer to take a trip off property to a nearby local grocery store.

Some of my fondest memories as a child are of camping at the Fort Wilderness Campground where your Disney vacation meets the great outdoors. You can truly get away from it all in a premium camping environment with the added bonus of the Magic Kingdom just a boat ride away.

When I was a young girl and my family would visit Walt Disney World, we always kept to a specific schedule that went like this Park Day/Rest Day/Park Day/Rest Day.  It was pretty easy way back the, when there was first just the Magic Kingdom, and then in 1982 there was Epcot to enjoy as well.  These days, with so many other exciting options available on your Walt Disney World Vacation, it’s easy to forget how important it can be to take a rest day.

For my family a rest day doesn’t mean, “do nothing”, although just lying in a hammock on the beach is a definite possibility. For us a “rest day” means we’re not going to be rushing through a park. Instead, we may sleep in a bit, take a dip in the hotel pool and then take advantage of the many other fun and entertaining options available at Walt Disney World Resort.

Adding a rest day into your schedule has many benefits, including allowing older members of your party to recover from a busy park day, exploring all the nooks and fun Disney has to offer as well as helping to save money by reducing the number of park day tickets needed.

Here are a few of my favorite “Rest Day” activities in no particular order:

• Resort Hopping to figure out where I would like to stay next
• Shopping at Downtown Disney with a movie at the AMC Fork & Screen
• Relaxing with a swim and drinks by the pool
• Interactive Gaming at Disney Quest
• Horseback Riding or Renting a Boat
• Heading to the Spa for a Massage
• Playing a Round of Golf
• Catching a Dinner Show like the Hoop-de-doo

Most of all a rest day should let you relax a bit and really take some time for yourself. After all, you are on vacation at Disney, and there’s a whole world to explore. How would you like to spend your days that aren’t in the Parks? Leave me a comment and let me know!