Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

Walt Disney World guests planning a 2027 vacation have another resort closure to put on their radar. Construction and refurbishment projects have become a familiar sight across Disney property. Right now, work stretches well beyond the theme parks, with several hotels receiving updates of their own. In most cases, that means guests can still stay at the resort while certain ...

Following the death of country music legend Dolly Parton on August 25, 2026, millions of fans worldwide celebrated her unmatched legacy of music, generosity, and iconic style. Behind the scenes, however, Parton left behind a carefully structured $650 million empire comprising vast song catalogs, brand licensing, and major ventures like Dollywood. Credit: Disney Within weeks of her passing, headlines erupted ...

Few attractions at Universal Orlando have been as quiet as Jurassic Park River Adventure this year. The water ride has been closed since January 2026, and the long wait has left fans guessing about what’s really going on behind the walls. Thanks to a fresh round of aerial photography, we now have a much better look, and the clues are ...

HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series, which is billed as a more “faithful adaptation” of J. K. Rowling’s seven novels, marks the beginning of a new continuity that’s unrelated to the films. The same can be said about other relatively new additions to the wider franchise, from video games such as Hogwarts Legacy and Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions to Harry Potter: The ...

Streaming rivals don’t usually hand each other their best toys, but that’s exactly what’s happening here. Disney and Netflix have signed an expansive new licensing agreement that sends a mixed bag of library favorites and current TV shows to Netflix for limited stretches of time. The two companies still fight over subscribers every day, yet Disney clearly sees something valuable ...

Universal Orlando Resort has built a surprisingly deep hotel lineup, and picking where to stay isn’t as simple as choosing the most expensive option. There are hotels with water taxis, sprawling pools, family suites, rooftop bars, and even theme park entrances practically outside the lobby. Then there are places that strip away some of those extras and give guests something ...

If you’ve ever tried to plan a Disney dinner for just you and one other person, you may already know the feeling. The calendar looks wide open for a big family, then you drop your party size down to two and the green dots vanish. That’s exactly what’s happening right now with reservations for the reopened Diamond Horseshoe in Magic ...

When EPCOT’s World Celebration Gardens opened in late 2023, the embedded pavement lighting was promoted as the park’s ultimate futuristic centerpiece. Designed to echo the classic EPCOT logo around the central planter, hundreds of feet of custom LED strips were built to pulse and change colors in sync with Spaceship Earth. Credit: Disney Instead, the high-tech feature quickly turned into ...

If you have ridden Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT recently, you know the exact preshow moment that became an inescapable park meme. Credit: D23 As guests gather inside the Galaxarium briefing room, actor Terry Crews appears on screen as Centurion Tal Marik of the Nova Corps. Welcoming Earth visitors, he hesitates while pondering what citizens call themselves: ...

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 ...