The DUO Podcast – a Brits Walt Disney World vacation planning podcast

We’re back, baby! After a mini two-week break to prep some fun and fresh episodes for you, we’re back with a conversation we’ve been desperate to talk about.

Food & Wine Festival over at EPCOT has become a firm favourite event for us to add to our Orlando vacation due to its absolutely spectacular range of flavours and dishes you can get from around the world.

In this episode, we’re taking you through alllll the memorable eats we’ve been lucky enough to gobble down over the years, along with some stand-out moments of the festival.

We’d love to know what your favourite dish or drink has been at EPCOT’s Food & Wine Festival so be sure to reach our @DUOPo on Twitter and @the.duopodcast on Instagram. Happy drooling!

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Throughout the years, we have trialled various tips and tricks, worked through many obstacles and jumped through a lot of hoops to help establish how we could get the most of our Walt Disney World vacation. Today, we’ll be taking you through our 10 Must Dont’s On Your Disney Vacation having done them ourselves, made the mistakes and got the t-shirts.

We would love to hear your Must Dont’s that you often tell first-time visitors or pass onto your fellow Disney fanatics so be sure to reach out at @the.duopodcast on Instagram and @TheDUOPo on Twitter!

Also, we're now on YouTube! We wanted to offer another platform to listen to our episodes on and would love it if you went and subscribed to our channel.

Please do like and review this podcast where you can as it really supports us. Thanks and enjoy the show!

We know that there are many of you out there who may have had trips booked to Orlando right now and our hearts are with you on that! Even so, we want to help you escape all the drama that may be occurring and step into a Dream Day which takes both of us through our ideal 4th of July celebrations.

If you've been to Orlando during the 4th of July or were planning to be there for it this year, let us know what your plans would be via @the.duopodcast on Instagram and @TheDUOPo on Twitter! Just remember that if you're not able to visit in 2020, everything happens for a reason and we are confident that it's absolutely for the best. So use today's episode as a pick-me-up to get you excited for your next trip to the best vacation destination.

Also, we're now on YouTube! We wanted to offer another platform to listen to our episodes on and would love it if you went and subscribed to our channel.

Please do like and review this podcast where you can as it really supports us. Thanks and enjoy the show!

With vacations being cancelled or postponed, masks being required in theme parks and shopping areas, social distancing being enforced across the board and more unprecedented happenings in our favourite locations destination, there is a lot of uncertainty over how to enjoy our future trips to Orlando.

Whilst we don't have all the answers on how to enjoy your next trip with these new (or hopefully temporary) guidelines in place, we have been talking at home about how we would consider enjoying Orlando minus the parks, if it was necessary to do so ('cause, we don't know about you, but wearing a mask in 35-degree heat on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is NOT our idea of fun)... Over the past 16 years of us travelling there, we have been able to seek out some of the hidden gems that Orlando has to offer; from farmers markets to lakeside walks, vibrant sports bars to American classics. Today, we're going to tell you all about them!

For this episode, we welcomed back our lovely Dad to take us through a weekend of off-property activities and it's one of the most fun we've recorded! Let us know on social media if you have any off-property locations you think we should add into our future plans or if you've visited some of the spots mentioned during the discussion.

Connect with us at @the.duopodcast on Instagram and @TheDUOPo on Twitter!

Also, we're now on YouTube! We wanted to offer another platform to listen to our episodes on and would love it if you went and subscribed to our channel.

Please do like and review this podcast where you can as it really supports us. Thanks and enjoy the show!

Over 16 years our opinions on restaurants in WDW have fluctuated. Some have remained firm favourites, a lot we have grown to love over the years, and sadly, others that have let us down on the occasion. In this episode, we're talking about the five eateries in Walt Disney World that were so surprisingly tasty and the ones that left us with a sour taste (pardon the pun).

Do you agree with our choices? Let us know at @the.duopodcast on Instagram and @TheDUOPo on Twitter!

Also, we're now on YouTube! We wanted to offer another platform to listen to our episodes on and would love it if you went and subscribed to our channel.

Please do like and review this podcast where you can as it really supports us. Thanks and enjoy the show!

Today we have been joined by another amazing guest, one who we have been listening to for years and feel it's more than fair to say is one of the OG's if not THE OG of Disney podcasters.

Lou Mongello is an author, speaker, Disney expert and host of the 17-year old podcast WDW Radio which has been awarded Best Travel Podcast for 9 consecutive years and is the show you want to direct yourselves to if you're interested in the detailed and amazing history of Disney, ultimate top 10-themed episodes and a really loveable, friendly and passionate delivery from Lou as a host.

As I said, we've been listening to Lou's show for a while and our dad has for even longer, so it was a pretty fun, fangirl, and all-round amazing experience for us to chat to him and learn what a genuine person he is.

Gabbi and I were talking for a while about what topic would be best to explore and arrived at the decision to just talk to Lou about his journey with Disney as a whole. From humble beginnings as one of the first people to enjoy Walt Disney World in 1971, to now becoming one of the most renowned individuals that people turn to for travel tips, trivia and ideas to make your vacation THE best it can be, Gabbi and I feel so lucky to have had this time to talk.

This episode is wonderful, motivational and very much like a warm hug and we can't wait for you to hear it. We know right now there is a lot going on in the world that a lot of people are struggling with so we hope we can offer you a mini escape for an hour or so and appreciate every single one of your for listening and supporting us. Remember to please rate this podcast where you can as it really helps us get the word out.

Podcast: WDW Radio | Facebook: @wdwradio | Instagram: @ loumongello | Twitter: @LouMongello | YouTube: WDW Radio

In this episode, we chat about our favourite rides at both Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios. From golden classics to thrilling newbies, we take you through some of our first memories of stepping on these rides on our first trip in 2004 until today.

What are your top five favourite rides across both parks? Let us know at @the.duopodcast on Instagram and @TheDUOPo on Twitter!

Also, we're now on YouTube! We wanted to offer another platform to listen to our episodes on and would love it if you went and subscribed to our channel.

Please do like and review this podcast where you can as it really supports us. Thanks and enjoy the show!

Today on the show we are joined by an extra special guest - our dad, Richard! He’s the man who has booked our trips to Orlando over the past 16 years and we chose to pick his brain on today’s episode to learn about how he did it.

We will be talking about the reasons behind always booking our trips independently, tips to how we may have scored the best deals and ways we have found it easier to navigate our favourite destination.

As we mention in the episode, these are just our experiences and our way that we like to book our holidays, this is no way means that there is a wrong or right way to do it. We do our trips quite differently to most and that is only because it has evolved over time with our ages, interests and energies.

Let us know how you tend to book your trips by getting in touch on Instagram (@the.duopodcast) or on Twitter (@TheDUOPo)! Also, we're now on YouTube! We wanted to offer another platform to listen to our episodes on and would love it if you went and subscribed to our channel.

Please do like and review this podcast where you can as it really supports us. Thanks and enjoy the show!

Today on the show we were joined by another four super special guests to us. As you may have listened to our previous episode with the Despicable Three, it was by watching some awesome vlogs that we felt really encouraged to go for it with starting our podcast and another vlogging family that we thank for that are Cheers Ears!

The Cheers Ears family is made up of Daisy, Luke, Tracey and Keith and they have been visiting Orlando for the past 15 years or so and vlogging about their adventures since 2018. Gabbi and I felt like we really connected with them through their funny-not-funny dad jokes, relatable references and just a lot of good clean fun.

We had a few episodes in mind to do with them and arrived at the decision to lead with a family-like theme of discussing each other's guilty pleasures and are so happy that all 10 were completely different to one another.

These guys are a beautiful family inside and out (as you’ll probably hear us gushing about in the episode) and we’re really grateful that they made the time to chat to us all together on a Sunday morning.

I’ll leave all their links below on how you can follow and binge-watch their vlogs, so go subscribe to their channel and support them with lots of love. As always please do give this podcast a nice rating or review wherever you can!

I want to mention that there was a moment or two where the sound dropped a little bit on our conversation but it only lasts a few seconds or so.

Thank you guys for listening and supporting and we really hope that you enjoy this episode!

YouTube: Cheers Ears | Instagram: @cheersears_ | Twitter: @ears_cheers

Random traditions; every Orlando visitor has 'em. Whether it be sitting in the lobby of your favourite resort to people watch, buying and downing a Butterbeer upon entering Hogsmeade in Universal Studios, visiting your favourite local market around the city... What are the things, activities and experiences that you must do without fail in order to mark the occasion with your loved ones?

We would love to hear what your random Orlando traditions are, so make sure to let us know via @the.duopodcast on Instagram or @TheDUOPo on Twitter.

As always, we would massively appreciate it if you could give our podcast a friendly rating if you're listening on Apple Podcasts and please do reach out to let us know you're enjoying it - it'll make our day!

Happy listening, x