Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

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 ...

EPCOT in the late summer and fall is a different park from the one guests experience in the spring or early winter. The crowds shift. The energy shifts. And starting on a date that comes around reliably every year, the park itself physically transforms. Food booths appear along World Showcase Lagoon. Festival decor fills spaces that were empty the day ...

Disneyland Paris opened in 1992 with a Fantasyland that was designed to feel like the inside of a storybook. The attractions in that land were built around the animated films that defined Disney’s golden era, and several of them have been operating continuously since opening day. They are not the flashiest rides in the park. They are not the ones ...

Tokyo DisneySea is not the kind of place that invites casual disrespect. The park, which sits alongside Tokyo Disneyland at the Oriental Land Company resort outside Tokyo, is widely considered the most beautifully designed theme park in the world by a significant number of people who have spent serious time evaluating that question. The attention to detail across its themed ...

The Mickey and Friends parking structure at Disneyland Resort is one of the largest parking garages in the United States, a multi-story facility that sits at the entry point of the Disneyland experience for the majority of guests who drive to the park. On any given day, tens of thousands of people move through its levels, collecting trams, heading to ...

Disney’s Animal Kingdom has always operated a little differently from the other Walt Disney World parks. The pacing is slower by design. The immersion runs deeper into actual natural environments rather than constructed fantasy worlds. And the ride lineup, while smaller than Magic Kingdom or EPCOT, contains some of the most genuinely thrilling experiences on property. Expedition Everest sits at ...

Plaza Inn is one of those Disneyland experiences that earns its reputation specifically because it does things nobody else at the resort does quite the same way. It is the most affordable character dining option at Disneyland Park, it routinely features seven or eight characters at a single meal, and it offers a variety of characters that stretches well beyond ...