I’m just going to put this out there:

Disney World gives me hives.

There. I said it.

I am a parent of a toddler and given a choice between eating a vat of worms and going to Disney World, I would chow down on worms a la mode every single time. Fear Factor, here I come.

I know, that makes me a bad person. I’m working on it with my therapist.

So when I first heard about Jenn Hart, I had to find her and make her talk. Hart, 34, has been to Disney World no fewer than 54 times.

You heard me. Fifty-four times. By choice.

Dude, I had to know why.

Affairs of the Mouse

The Naperville, Ill., resident began her love affair with a certain dapper mouse three decades ago, when she and her family traveled to Florida on vacation.

“The park opened in 1971, I was born in 1972 and I went to Disney for the first time in 1973,” recalls Hart. “I was itty-bitty. My dad’s boss had a condo in West Palm Beach, and so we went to check out this new place.”

The trip to visit Mickey and the gang became an annual tradition for Hart’s family.

“We would go back once or twice a year,” Hart says. “My brother took his first steps in Disney. ”

Once Hart and her siblings reached school age, the family began to make an annual, two-week pilgrimage to Florida—get this—in July.

Holy humidity, Batman! My last visit to Florida was in April, and it was so hot and wet that you practically needed to wear your bikini to bed. You should have seen my hair. It was not pretty, friends.

Not surprisingly, Hart says summertime is the busiest time of year at the Magic Kingdom, but not necessarily because it’s when kids are on summer break.

“There are a lot of tour groups [in summer], especially from Brazil, because it is their winter,” Hart explains. “You’ll find groups of thirty to forty people, and if one of those groups gets in front of you, you’re going to have a very long wait.”

Line-Cutting and Other Sneaky Secrets

Ah, yes. The famous Disney lines. I have to admit that waiting to ride some of the attractions wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. The park is very efficient and moving people is a science for Disney employees.

Even so, Hart highly recommends using the park’s “FASTPASS” system. This line-management method allows you to swipe your ticket through a “FASTPASS” machine, located near the more popular rides and attractions.

Once you swipe your ticket, you get—you guessed it—a pass, printed with a specific time. When that time arrives, take your pass, head to the special FASTPASS line, and jump the queue.