Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

Waiting in line is never anyone’s favorite part of a theme park visit, but it’s usually a manageable inconvenience rather than a genuine source of stress. Recent viral videos out of both Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort are a reminder that packed queues can occasionally turn into something far more tense than a long wait. Two separate altercations, ...

New Orleans Square is usually one of the calmer corners of Disneyland, the kind of spot where guests wander past gas lamps and jazz music while waiting for a table at Blue Bayou or a spot in line for Pirates of the Caribbean. That calm got interrupted recently when lights and alarms suddenly activated inside the attraction, followed by a ...

EPCOT has never really stopped changing since it first opened, and this fall is proving to be another genuinely active stretch for the park. One of its longtime dining destinations just closed its doors for a refurbishment, and it’s far from the only thing shifting around World Showcase and World Discovery right now. Between a beloved underwater dining room going ...

Some Disneyland Paris shows quietly slip off the schedule without much fanfare, and others go out with one final, fully attended performance before the curtain closes for good. A Million Splashes of Colour falls into the second category. If you’re at Disneyland Park today, this is genuinely your last chance to see it, since the show’s currently announced run comes ...

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 ...