Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

The characters that made the Walt Disney Studios lot worth walking through all summer have moved indoors. That was always the plan, and it was always going to leave a gap. Since the courtyard opened in May, guests have encountered Rapunzel, Stitch, Chip ‘n’ Dale, and others roaming the area with no set locations, which is a genuinely different experience ...

Nobody plans a Disney trip around hot sauce packets. But condiments are one of those small things that people notice immediately and feel strongly about, which is why Disney changing them tends to generate more conversation than the size of the change warrants. A ketchup dispenser swap gets a hundred comments. A napkin redesign gets noticed. These are the details ...

Most Walt Disney World guests have no idea how much of the resort’s business has nothing to do with vacations. Conventions are enormous at Walt Disney World. Companies book thousands of room nights at a time, fill ballrooms for keynote sessions, take over restaurants for private events, and buy out theme parks after hours. That business runs on a completely ...

Here is a take I will happily defend. The EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival is the best festival Disney runs. Not the most popular. Food and Wine wins that easily, and it is not close. Food and Wine has the bigger crowds, the longer run, the deeper menu, and the cultural weight that comes with thirty years of history. ...

Disney World room discounts are one of the few things in park planning where timing genuinely changes what you pay. Rack rates at Walt Disney World are the starting point, not the price most people should be paying. Discounts are released in waves, cover specific date ranges, and apply differently depending on the resort tier you are looking at. Book ...

Indiana Jones Adventure is one of the few attractions where the ride system itself is the headline. Most Disney attractions move you along a fixed path at a fixed speed in a calm manner. This one does not. The enhanced motion vehicle used in the Temple of the Forbidden Eye bucks, lurches, and pitches, shaking up guests in a not-so-calm ...

EPCOT hasn’t been the easiest park for young kids in a few years. Yes, there are playgrounds during certain festivals, but there’s nothing really permanently built for kids to play in. This is when I really start to miss Innovations because it was such a great area for kids to play and explore. That is not a criticism so much ...

There is a specific sequence Disney follows before an attraction opens, and people who follow the parks closely know it by heart. Construction walls come down. Signage goes up. Landscaping appears seemingly overnight. Then, at some point in the final stretch, cast members start walking inside. That last step is the one that matters, because cast member previews are not ...

The best theming at Walt Disney World is the kind you find rather than the kind you are shown. That is what makes the Walt Disney Studios Lot at Disney’s Hollywood Studios work as well as it does. Since the courtyard opened in May, Imagineering has been quietly filling it with character statues tucked into places most guests would walk ...

The Mickey waffle is arguably one of the most recognizable breakfast items in the theme park industry. It has been served at Walt Disney World for decades; it shows up on merchandise; people buy the waffle maker to use at home; and there is a genuine argument to be had about which resort food court makes the best. For a lot of ...