Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

The Walt Disney World Railroad has already been a very different experience at Magic Kingdom for more than a year. What was once a relaxing trip around the entire park has been reduced to a short shuttle between Main Street, U.S.A. and Fantasyland, with the familiar Frontierland portion removed while Disney works on its massive expansion of the park. Credit: ...

Stage shows have always played a bigger role in the Disney park experience than a lot of guests realize, offering a chance to sit down, cool off, and watch genuinely impressive storytelling unfold without the wait times attached to a headline attraction. For fans of Disneyland Paris specifically, one of the resort’s most celebrated shows is about to disappear from ...

Tokyo Disneyland is one of the most meticulously operated theme parks in the world, where thousands of guests can move through restaurants, attractions, shops, and entertainment areas on any given day with little disruption. That carefully controlled environment was briefly interrupted Sunday afternoon when smoke was reported coming from a guest’s belongings inside a restaurant. Credit: Nicholas Cole, Flickr The ...

Disney Springs has become almost as much a part of a Walt Disney World vacation as the four theme parks themselves. For many visitors, an evening at Disney Springs means dinner, shopping, drinks, live entertainment, and a chance to slow down after a long day in Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, or Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Credit: Gary Leavens, Flickr ...

The entertainment world is facing another difficult loss this week, with the death of a performer whose voice became part of the childhoods of millions of people. Peter Cullen, the legendary voice actor behind Optimus Prime in Transformers, has died at the age of 85. Cullen died Wednesday, August 26, at his home in Los Angeles, according to his agent. ...

For nearly four decades, Dollywood has been inseparable from Dolly Parton. The Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, theme park is not simply a destination that happens to carry the name of a famous entertainer. Parton helped shape what Dollywood became, turning pieces of her childhood, music, family, Appalachian upbringing, and personal values into experiences that millions of guests have encountered over the ...

Dolly Parton’s influence has never been confined to one stage, one record label, or even one corner of Tennessee. She became one of the rare entertainers whose name could instantly mean something to people who had never listened to a full country album. Her songs crossed generations, her films became part of American pop culture, and her philanthropy reached millions ...

For generations of visitors, Dollywood has been more than another theme park in the Smoky Mountains. It has been one of the clearest physical expressions of Dolly Parton’s life, music, childhood, and connection to East Tennessee. Her name is on the entrance, her music fills the park, attractions tell pieces of her story, and entire areas are devoted to the ...

Disneyland has a reputation for kicking off Halloween season earlier than almost anywhere else, and Oogie Boogie Bash, the after hours party held at Disney California Adventure, is a huge part of that tradition. The event is already underway and runs through October 31, bringing treat trails, seasonal entertainment, and even a character making its Disneyland park debut this year. ...

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 ...