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Len Testa started TouringPlans.com Part 1: He left his career to help others vacation better

Len Testa started TouringPlans.com

Len turned his passion and love for Disney World into a career helping over
100,000 vacationers a year. With The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World,
Touringplans.com and Lines mobile app he continues his crusade to make vacations
more fun. We also talk about his other vacation books about Universal Studios
Orlando, Las Vegas, Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris.

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Episode 11
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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welcome to the dreamers podcast on your
host Joe Carter and today I’m

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interviewing land tested

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who is living his dream of making a
career out of visiting disney world

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welcome to the show land picture of Nijo
how’s it going it’s going outstanding

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outstanding it’s a borrow a phrase you
should never heard that before my life

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but I think it’s gonna catch on that I i
think so i think it’s right on the cusp

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of going viral

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awesome so why don’t we begin by giving
our audience a brief background about

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yourself

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I Malatesta my co-author the unofficial
guide to walt disney world official

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guide disneyland and if you’re kinda
disneyland paris that we have to do a

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book called the unofficial guide to be
on disney which covers universal i did a

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book on British theme parks so i’m
really invested in the in theme park

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research and I got that way because in
graduate school I studied a certain kind

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of scheduling problem that lends itself
to figuring out how to write a bunch of

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rides into parks without waiting in line
very long and then fame fame came

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naturally is that so in graduate school
I a I got recruited by Bob challenger

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from an official guide to work on the
guidebook and then it took a few years

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but eventually became a full-time member
of the staff so now I visit Disney is it

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anything park roughly every six weeks
got a staff of people who do nothing but

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work in the parks everyday looking for
things like you know what’s changed or

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what’s new one menus and things like
that

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we run a website called touring plans
com in addition to the guidebooks and we

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try to make people’s vacations as good
as as good as we can so it’s it’s it’s

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really actually kind of identifying the
really makes you feel good sort of the

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end of the at the end of the day or the
end of the year to look back and see how

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many people you’ve helped have a good
vacation at a disney theme park is a

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really good of course because i really
like disney theme parks and I want other

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