Princess Half Marathon Weekend 2026 (Feb 26-Mar 2, 2026)

[Herding_Cats]

Do you know if there is a “last day” when the charities can not longer offer bibs?

My mom might join me for the 5k, still undecided… I am monitoring telegram but charities are the back up plan…

Thanks!

it's usually around 1 month before race day. The cutoff for W&D was 9/23, so 5-ish weeks before the expo. I would say it'll probably be around January 20th.

 

[rick1zoo2]

New room discounts released today for Spring 2026 (Jan 4 - Feb 20, Feb 22 - Apr 30) which covers the Princess Weekend. I was able to change our reservation to get an AP discount and save some.

 

[Naomeri]

New room discounts released today for Spring 2026 (Jan 4 - Feb 20, Feb 22 - Apr 30) which covers the Princess Weekend. I was able to change our reservation to get an AP discount and save some.

I saved over $450 off my preferred room at AsMo!

 

[DisneyParrothead]

Hi all! As we get ready for Princess training, I created an Etsy shop for friendship bracelets, and all princesses are represented, plus more! You add a short personalization if you want to. I’ve also added some sports teams since I have a lot of color combos from my cross stitching days. Shop link is in my signature!

 

[Herding_Cats]

Clicking through my usual morning flight checking (because google isn't great about sending me email alerts to price changes) and suddenly my flights are not available? Hmmm. Was there a schedule change that I have gotten ZERO notice about, American Airlines? Yes. Yes there was. Instead of having a quick 30ish minute layover in Chicago where I run from one plane to the next, I get to spend 2 and a half glorious hours sitting in O'Hare. Which means I'm definitely going to be relying on others to grab stuff for me at the expo because it'll probably be really picked over by the time I get there at 2pm (at the absolute earliest) AND I won't be able to get a VQ on my own. And American's policy on a refund? A 3+ hour schedule change.

There's something going on with AA's website because it is showing all 4 flights (2 down, 2 back) as being fully booked, and it auto-placed me in the middle seat of an exit row from Chicago to Orlando when they changed that flight. And it's giving me a message to "Check back later or have your seat assigned at the airport."

There are no other options out of my local airport with an earlier arrival that isn't also double the money. So I am well and truly stuck.

 

[The Expert]

It could still change again -- fingers crossed!

 

[sandam1]

And American's policy on a refund? A 3+ hour schedule change.

Have you tried contacting American and seeing what they could do for you? Maybe if you explain/plead with them on why the new flights don't work, there might be some unofficial options.

There are no other options out of my local airport with an earlier arrival that isn't also double the money.

Are the local options also on American? Might that be a "Plan B" if you get someone on the phone? Computers don't think outside the box the way people can.

 

[Disneyhanna]

ignore

 

[Herding_Cats]

Have you tried contacting American and seeing what they could do for you? Maybe if you explain/plead with them on why the new flights don't work, there might be some unofficial options.

There's nothing else to change me to. I cannot fly out a day sooner because I will likely have a basketball game to work on Wednesday night (I have already turned away a Thursday night game because I'll be at Disney.) There is only one other carrier that has a flight that lands 15 minutes sooner (Delta) and that flight costs $340 more than my current one. Because of all of the other timing stuff going on, I can't fly out of any of the larger airports because of the drive. It appears that a few of the carriers axed flight options since both Delta and United had previously offered similar flights to my originally-booked ones, but with a much higher price point.

It could still change again -- fingers crossed!

Gosh I hope not! I'm more annoyed that I didn't get any sort of notification about it than anything. The next-later option lands at 2:20, and past that I'd be looking at a 9hr flight with 2 stops, which I have absolutely no desire to be stuck with.