Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

Pirates of the Caribbean is not just a ride. At Disneyland, it is something closer to a birthright. The attraction opened in 1967, the last ride Walt Disney himself oversaw before his death, and it has spent the decades since becoming the kind of experience that guests return to on every single visit without needing a reason. The queue winds ...

A Disney cruise is a specific kind of vacation that does not appeal to everyone but deeply appeals to the people it appeals to. The ships are floating theme parks with character dining, Broadway-caliber stage shows, pools with waterslides, and a level of immersive storytelling that Disney does not phone in anywhere it puts its name. The Disney Wonder in ...

The Fourth of July at Walt Disney World has always carried a particular weight that other holidays do not quite match. The parks lean into it fully. Main Street, U.S.A. gets draped in red, white, and blue. The Dapper Dans add patriotic numbers to their rotation. The Electrical Water Pageant drifts across the Seven Seas Lagoon as dusk falls, and ...

Animal Kingdom Lodge is one of those Walt Disney World experiences that genuinely earns the word immersive. The resort was designed from the ground up to feel like a safari camp on the African savanna, and Disney did not half-commit to that concept. The savanna views from guest rooms, restaurants, and common areas look out over real animals. Giraffes. Zebras. ...

There is a certain rhythm to planning a Walt Disney World vacation that regular visitors know well. You book your resort months out, lock in dining reservations as soon as the window opens, build a rough park schedule, and then settle into the waiting. By the time an email from Disney lands in your inbox a few days before departure, ...

Walt Disney World has a transportation system that most guests take for granted, and honestly, that is part of what makes staying on property feel worth it. You check into your resort, and suddenly getting anywhere on the property becomes someone else’s problem. Buses, boats, monorails, the Skyliner, all of it runs on a network that connects the theme parks, ...

A frightening incident unfolded at Disneyland on Sunday evening, June 21, and it has been widely discussed across social media since it occurred. A boy reportedly exited a ride vehicle at the top of the final drop on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and slid down the attraction’s 52-foot plunge. He was taken to the hospital as a precaution and is reportedly ...

There are standard summer days at Disneyland Paris and then there are days when the weather itself becomes the emergency. This week falls firmly into the second category. Credit: Gary Campbell-Hall, Flickr France is currently experiencing a heat wave that Meteo France, the national weather service, has described as exceptionally intense and comparable in scale to the devastating August 2003 ...

Tom Hanks has voiced Woody in the Toy Story franchise for over thirty years. He has played the character through four films, countless promotional appearances, and now a fifth installment that just had one of the biggest opening weekends in Pixar history. And until this week, he did not know Woody’s last name. Credit: Disney The moment was captured during ...

Disney quietly retired one of its longest-running operational tools last week, and the person who helped launch it marked the occasion with a reflection that is worth reading in full. Credit: Wally Gobetz, Flickr Jonathan Reuel, OpSheet Ecosystems Product Director at Walt Disney World, confirmed that Disney has completed the conversion of the last FLIK location in a Disney theme ...