About Orlando Holiday Planner
Orlando Holiday Planner helps British families make clearer decisions about theme park tickets, accommodation, itineraries and the practical details that can shape an Orlando holiday.
Meet Darren Conway
Darren is the UK-based founder and editor of Orlando Holiday Planner. His guides combine lessons from planning and taking multiple Orlando trips with regular checks of official theme park, ticket, hotel and travel information.
His aim is to help UK families understand the trade-offs behind a decision, rather than treating the largest ticket, most expensive hotel or busiest itinerary as automatically right.
What you can expect: practical UK-focused guidance, clear comparisons, honest limitations and links to live booking options where they may help. When a detail can change, the guide should tell you what to recheck instead of presenting an old assumption as permanent.
Why Orlando Holiday Planner exists
An Orlando holiday brings together expensive tickets, different hotel areas, complex transport choices and more attractions than most families can fit into one trip. The site exists to make those connected decisions easier to understand.
Advice shaped around British visitors
Guides consider UK ticket products, school-holiday travel, long stays, currency differences and the planning questions that often arise before a transatlantic family trip.
Trade-offs explained plainly
Instead of declaring one option right for everyone, the site explains who may benefit, who may not and which terms need checking before payment.
The whole holiday considered
Ticket, hotel, transport and itinerary choices affect one another. The guides connect those decisions so a saving in one place does not create a larger problem elsewhere.
What the site helps you plan
Understand what a ticket actually covers
Compare Disney, Universal, SeaWorld and multi-park options by admission, flexibility and likely use rather than the headline price alone.
Choose a location around your plans
Compare on-site hotels, nearby resorts, villas and wider Orlando areas using room fit, transport, included benefits and total trip cost.
Build a holiday with breathing space
Balance park priorities with rest, travel time, water parks, shopping and realistic family energy instead of trying to fill every hour.
Prepare for the decisions around the parks
Find guidance on transport, budgeting, timings, queue systems, day trips and first-visit questions in one connected planning library.
How the guides are researched
Personal experience helps identify the questions families face. Current factual claims are checked separately because park operations, prices, tickets and hotel benefits can change.
Start with the reader's decision
Each guide is built around a practical question, such as which ticket fits, where to stay or how much time to allow.
Check first-party information
Official theme park, hotel, attraction, transport, tourism and government sources are used for rules, inclusions and operational facts.
Review UK booking options
Relevant UK ticket products and booking terms are compared so differences that matter to British visitors are easier to see.
Explain the trade-offs
Recommendations consider cost, convenience, flexibility, family needs and what the reader may give up by choosing an option.
Review changing details
Important pages are checked again, and readers are told when live prices, schedules or supplier conditions must be confirmed directly.
Research is not presented as personal testing. When Darren has not personally used a hotel, ticket product or service, the site does not claim that he has. Published guidance can combine first-hand Orlando experience with clearly researched information.
Editorial independence and affiliate links
Orlando Holiday Planner is an independent planning and comparison website. It is not a ticket seller, travel agency or theme park operator.
How the site is funded: some links are affiliate links. If you click and make a purchase or booking, Orlando Holiday Planner may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support the research, maintenance and running of the website.
What guides should do
Use plain English
Complicated product names and park rules should be translated into the decision a family actually needs to make.
Help you take the next step
A useful guide should leave you knowing what to compare, what to check and what can wait until later.
Show who an option may not suit
Good-value planning is personal. More parks, longer tickets and premium hotels are not automatically better.
Separate stable advice from live details
Prices, opening arrangements and benefits need rechecking; planning principles can remain useful much longer.
Make commercial relationships clear
Readers should understand when a link may earn commission and who controls the transaction.
Correct important changes
When information changes or an error is found, the relevant guidance should be reviewed and corrected.
Where should you start?
Choose the route that most closely matches the decision you are making now.
New to Orlando planning?
Start with the major decisions, common mistakes and a practical order for planning.
Deciding which parks to visit?
Compare ticket types and park combinations before looking at individual suppliers.
Ready to build the holiday?
Use the main planning guide to connect flights, accommodation, tickets, transport and spending.
About Orlando Holiday Planner FAQs
Who runs Orlando Holiday Planner?
Orlando Holiday Planner is founded and edited by Darren Conway, a UK-based Orlando planning researcher with experience from planning and taking multiple Orlando trips.
Is Orlando Holiday Planner a travel agency?
No. It is an independent information and comparison website. It does not take your payment or control a provider's prices, availability, delivery or booking terms.
Does Orlando Holiday Planner sell tickets or hotels?
No. The site explains and compares options, then links readers to third-party providers where relevant. Any booking is made under that provider's current terms.
How does the website make money?
Some links are affiliate links. The site may earn a commission if a reader completes a qualifying purchase or booking, at no extra cost to the reader. Commission does not determine the recommendation order.
How is information checked?
Important factual details are checked against relevant first-party sources, including official theme park, hotel, ticket, attraction, transport, tourism and government information. Live terms should still be confirmed before purchase or travel.
Is every recommendation based on personal use?
No. The site combines Darren's Orlando experience with researched information. It does not claim personal use of a specific hotel, ticket product or service unless that experience exists.
Contact Orlando Holiday Planner
Found something that may need correcting, or have a question about the website? Email Darren at admin@orlandoholidayplanner.co.uk.
Plan the holiday around your family
Start with your priorities, budget and available time. The main planning guide will help you put the decisions in a sensible order.
Start with the planning guide