{"id":5737,"date":"2024-12-24T12:09:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T17:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.disneytouristblog.com\/?page_id=5737"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:39:20","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.disneytouristblog.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Disney Tourist Blog and Sarah & Tom Bricker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hello and welcome to Disney Tourist Blog! We’re Sarah & Tom Bricker, and we founded this website over a decade ago as a place to assemble our reviews, recommendations, tips & tricks, and guide for doing Walt Disney World and Disneyland like pros. We strive to provide informative and unbiased advice to fans and first-timers alike planning trips to the Disney Parks around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since being founded in 2011, Disney Tourist Blog has helped hundreds of millions of readers save money, time, and reduce stress in preparing for truly magical vacations. Our site and expertise have been featured by several prominent publications, including the New York Times<\/a>, Washington Post<\/a>, Los Angeles Times<\/a>, CNN<\/a>, Forbes<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>, The Hill<\/a>, Travel & Leisure<\/a>, Business Insider<\/a>, USA Today<\/a>, and more. Our charitable efforts have also been highlighted on several television news outlets, including the Today Show<\/a> and local broadcasts in Central Florida and Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We created Disney Tourist Blog after graduating from college and law school initially as a place to share daily photos and trip reports from our visits to the parks. We resided in the Midwest at the time, and this blog was a good outlet in between trips. In the years since, DTB has grown beyond our wildest expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve relocated on multiple occasions to be closer to the parks to gain a fresh perspective as locals. We’ve lived less than 30 minutes from Disneyland (twice!<\/em>) and under 10 minutes from Walt Disney World (we could see the Magic Kingdom fireworks from our bedroom window<\/em>) for over 4 years. We’ve made these moves in order to intimately understand the ins and outs of Walt Disney World and Disneyland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the primary perspective of this blog remains one of tourists–to help you plan memorable vacations–living near the parks offered invaluable experience as locals. We’re current Annual Passholders on both coasts, as well as Universal’s parks in Orlando and Hollywood. We’re past Annual Passholders at Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Universal Studios Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, we continue to visit Disneyland on a weekly basis and make monthly research trips to Walt Disney World. During those visits, we field test new strategies, put our plans through the paces, conduct hotel stays and restaurant reviews, and more to ensure that our guidance is up-to-date and accurate. On-the-ground field testing to produce planning guides is critically important to us; that along with Disney news & rumors and analysis thereof have become DTB’s primary focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can subscribe to our highly popular and totally-free Disney email newsletter here<\/strong><\/a> for regular news, planning posts, and other updates.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Disney Tourist Blog remains owned and operated solely by Sarah & Tom Bricker. While our family has grown in recent years to include our daughter, Megatron (real name not used here for privacy),<\/em> the team behind the website has not. It’s just us. You will never find a guest post on DTB, because we strive for this blog to have a singular voice and consistent, high-quality research and planning recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We take seriously being objective and critical, but we still enjoy <\/em>the parks a lot. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t visit the Disney parks so regularly or have a blog devoted to the subject. Our goal is to present a frank and candid assessment of all things Disney. You will seldom meaningless fluff words like “magical” here, and this blog most certainly is not “sprinkled with pixie dust.” This is written by real people trying to offer unbiased advice based on actual experiences visiting the Disney theme parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Disney Tourist Blog, we also own and operate a sister site, TravelCaffeine.com<\/strong><\/a>, that revolves around our non-Disney trips. That mostly focuses on California, U.S. National Parks, Japan, and a handful of international cities (mostly ones with a Disney presence, conveniently enough). In addition to bouncing between residing in Florida and California, we also took two “gap years” (or whatever you call it when you’re already established adults), put our stuff into storage, and spent extensive time living as digital nomads in Tokyo, Kyoto, Paris, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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