Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

Even the most beloved, decades old attractions occasionally run into unexpected hiccups, and Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean just had its own brief moment of real world drama. A portable battery caught fire near the attraction recently, prompting an inspection from local firefighters before things returned to normal. It’s the kind of incident that sounds alarming at first glance but ...

Disney streaming subscribers are about to see another change hit their monthly bills. Beginning in September, some longtime customers will have to pay more to keep a bundle that is no longer even available to new subscribers. The increase affects Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN Select, adding another $3 per month for customers who remain on the legacy plan. It may ...

The Walt Disney World Resort is officially in its fall season, and with it comes a series of operational changes across the parks. Most notable: the beloved and hugely popular Magic Kingdom. The Magic Kingdom theme park, home to the iconic Cinderella Castle and attractions such as Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Space Mountain, and Peter Pan’s Flight, is the most ...

Walt Disney World is preparing to give its villains something they have never really had before: a permanent home built entirely around them. That creates an interesting question for Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After. The stage show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is still relatively new, but Disney’s plans for Villains Land at Magic Kingdom could eventually change how the company ...

When a Star Wars fan recalls the original 1977 film A New Hope, several characters come to mind, with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), R2-D2 (Kenny Baker), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), and Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) being among the most iconic. Credit: Lucasfilm Now, with the ...

Guests visiting Walt Disney World on Sunday found themselves in the middle of an intense Florida thunderstorm that brought lightning dangerously close to some of the most recognizable locations at Magic Kingdom. Afternoon thunderstorms aren’t unusual in Central Florida, particularly during the summer. Still, this storm appeared to deliver an especially dramatic experience for guests who were inside the park ...

Magic Kingdom guests are getting another striking look at just how dramatically Frontierland is changing. For months, construction walls, closures, relocated snack carts, and heavy equipment have become part of the landscape as Walt Disney World moves forward with one of the largest projects in Magic Kingdom history. Credit: nick99nack, Flickr Now, another familiar piece of the land has disappeared ...

Arriving at a Walt Disney World theme park by car has always involved a small, familiar moment of decision making, picking a lane at the parking booths and hoping it moves faster than the one next to it. That little bit of flexibility is quietly disappearing across the resort, and the latest park to join the trend is Magic Kingdom. ...

For years, Disneyland fans have been looking toward the eastern side of the park and wondering when the “future” would finally arrive. Last weekend at the D23 Ultimate Disney Fan Event, The Walt Disney Company gave us the answer we have been waiting for: Tomorrowland is officially getting a massive reimagining to restore Walt Disney’s original vision of optimism and ...

Most Walt Disney World vacations get planned around sunshine, park hopper strategies, and dining reservations, not the possibility of getting stuck dangling above the resort in a gondola during a tropical storm. That’s exactly what happened to one guest recently, and the video he shared afterward has quickly become one of the more unsettling storm stories to come out of ...