Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

Magic Kingdom’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad reopened to parkgoers on May 3, 2026, following a massive 16-month refurbishment. While the coaster returned with smoother trackwork and a freshly painted Tumbleweed, eagle-eyed Disney fans noticed one glaring omission: the spinning possums that traditionally hung over the tracks were completely missing. Credit: Disney Now, just five months after the coaster welcomed back ...

Disney World just cut hotel prices for select guests after recent crowd slumps, and the savings arrive at a good time for anyone planning a fall vacation. Two separate offers can bring room discounts to guests staying at Disney Resorts Collection hotels, with the biggest savings reaching 25%. Disney+ Perks members can also get free Park Hopper benefits with a ...

Disney park guests can no longer access all of Cinderella Castle, more than 40 years after the castle debuted. Cinderella Castle has stood at the center of Magic Kingdom since Walt Disney World opened in 1971. At 189 feet tall, it was built as a grander take on Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle and has changed plenty over the years, including ...

The Disney Visa Card occupies a strange spot in the Disney planning world. It is not a premium travel card. The rewards structure will not impress anyone who optimizes points for a living. And yet it remains one of the more genuinely useful things a frequent Disney visitor can carry, because the perks are not really about rewards at all. ...

A Disney park has come under fire after telling a visually impaired guest that they couldn’t use their cane in the park. Disney’s theme parks welcome millions of guests each year, including visitors who rely on mobility and accessibility aids to navigate crowded spaces. That makes clear and consistent rules around equipment such as white canes especially important, particularly when ...

Most Walt Disney World guests probably aren’t thinking about who knows where they are while walking through Magic Kingdom. They’re thinking about their next ride, checking wait times, or grabbing food. Behind the scenes, though, guests can leave a surprisingly detailed digital trail. Many tools visitors use throughout their vacation can provide information about where they’ve been, often without them ...

The first review is in for HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter reboot. 15 years on from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), HBO is rebooting the wizarding world from scratch. Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton, and Alastair Stout take over as Harry, Hermione, and Ron, with Season 1 – officially titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – following ...

Disneyland tickets almost never go on sale. That is the baseline fact worth starting from, because it explains why these Costco bundles generate the reaction they do. Disney does not discount admission to its California parks in any meaningful way. There are promotional ticket tiers, there are Southern California resident offers, and there is date-based pricing that rewards going on ...

Costuming is one of the few things Disney fans will argue about endlessly without ever quite agreeing on terms. The complaint has been building for years. Magic Kingdom’s costumes used to be aggressively specific. What someone wore in Frontierland did not resemble what someone wore in Tomorrowland, and the difference was part of how the park sold the idea that ...

The Walt Disney Company has officially closed on a major real estate deal in Orange County, purchasing a sprawling 25-acre corporate campus in Cypress, California, for $115.3 million. Public land records confirm that Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. acquired the former North American headquarters of Yamaha Motor Corp. at 6555 Katella Avenue. Credit: Walt Disney Archives Located roughly ...