Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

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 ...

Slow, peaceful boat rides are supposed to be the calm middle of a busy theme park day, the kind of attraction guests choose specifically to catch their breath between bigger thrills. That’s exactly what makes a recent video from Living with the Land at EPCOT so entertaining, since it captured the exact opposite of a relaxing moment. A fire alarm ...

Getting stuck on a Disney ride is practically a rite of passage for longtime park visitors, usually resulting in a funny story about sitting in a stalled boat or a paused coaster for a few extra minutes. What happened to one couple on Tower of Terror at Disney’s Hollywood Studios recently takes that experience to an entirely different level, and ...

Disney’s Hollywood Studios has always had a certain nostalgic charm around Echo Lake, from the reflective water views to the quirky, boat shaped Dockside Diner floating along its edge. That familiar scene looks noticeably different right now, since the lake itself has been drained for refurbishment work, leaving an empty lake bed and construction scaffolding in place of the usual ...

Disney Parks fans got a genuinely big night out of this year’s D23, and the buzz wasn’t limited to any one park or coast. From a surprise celebrity cameo to a first teaser trailer for a brand new ride, the event delivered a steady stream of Avengers Campus updates that theme park fans have been waiting years to hear. Add ...

Anyone who has spent real time in Central Florida during the summer knows the heat is simply part of the deal, but there’s a clear difference between a hot afternoon and an entire week of sustained, dangerous conditions. That’s exactly where Orlando currently stands. What started as a single heat advisory has now stretched into its seventh consecutive day, with ...

Walt Disney World’s dining scene keeps expanding in ways that go well beyond the theme parks themselves, and the latest update makes that expansion easier to actually take advantage of. Two acclaimed restaurants that have technically been part of the Walt Disney World Resort for years are now fully integrated into the same booking system guests already use for everything ...

Planning a Walt Disney World trip usually starts with the basics. Which parks to visit, how many days to budget, and maybe which rides matter most to your group. What a lot of guests don’t think to check until much later is whether the park they’re planning to visit is even open at the hours they expect. This fall, that ...

Florida summers come with a well known tradeoff for Disney World guests. Long days at the parks mean near daily chances of an afternoon downpour, and anyone who’s visited Magic Kingdom during the wetter months has probably experienced at least one sudden storm that sends everyone scrambling for cover. Most of the time, that just means a quick shower, a ...

If you’ve spent any time in Disney fan groups over the past week, you’ve probably seen the debate. Credit: Anna Fox, Flickr Guests riding Haunted Mansion at Magic Kingdom started reporting that something felt off in the stretching rooms, specifically that the hanging corpse, a small but memorable detail that’s been part of the attraction for decades, seemed to have ...