Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

Imagine standing in the Esplanade at Disneyland around 11:30 at night. The park is closing. Tens of thousands of people are moving toward the exits at the same time, the way they do every single night. Then the exit in front of you closes. Cast members start pointing you somewhere else. There are helicopters overhead. There are drones. There are ...

Walt Disney World is in one of its heaviest construction stretches in years. The Walt Disney World Railroad is down for refurbishment. Tiana’s Bayou Adventure closes November 2. Seven construction permits were filed for Disney Springs in a single week. The Disney Skyliner already has its 2027 maintenance closure on the calendar. Solar trash cans are being swapped out resort-wide, ...

There are exactly two attractions at Walt Disney World where no two rides are the same. One is Jungle Cruise because the skipper performs live, and every skipper is different. The other is Kilimanjaro Safaris, and the reason there is simpler and stranger. The animals are not on marks. Nobody cues a giraffe. Nobody positions the lions for the 10:40 ...

Most people who do the International College Program at EPCOT go home afterward. That is how the program is designed. Young people from the countries represented in World Showcase come to Walt Disney World for a few months, work in the pavilion that represents their home, and then return to finish school and build a life. It is a season, ...

rest of the country gets to spend October being fully committed to Halloween. We do not. We are watching Halloween Horror Nights wind down, watching Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party wrap its season, and simultaneously watching Christmas merchandise appear in the Emporium while people are still buying Halloween ears. By the second week of October, the parks are already quietly becoming ...

Ten days ago, the story was that nothing had sold out. Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party had gone deep into September without a single sold-out date, which broke a pattern. In 2024 the first sellout came September 3. In 2025 it came September 10. This year the first one did not arrive until September 29, which had people asking whether ...

If you are an American Disney fan, Duffy probably registers as a footnote. A teddy bear Minnie made for Mickey. You may have seen the plush somewhere, or caught a reference, or noticed a small merchandise display and walked past it. In the United States, Duffy has never been a major character. Outside the United States, Duffy is an institution. ...

There is a specific ritual to a Disney trip with your best friends. Somebody creates a group chat months in advance. Somebody else makes a spreadsheet nobody uses. You argue about rope drop. And then at some point, usually in a shop on Main Street, U.S.A., on the last afternoon, somebody says you should all get matching something. It is ...

A traditional trash can cannot break, but it can overflow. That sounds obvious until you sit with it. A standard park trash receptacle is a container with a hole in the top. It has no power source, no moving parts, no electronics, and no network connection. The worst thing that can happen to it is that it fills up, which ...

Disney+ continues to go through highs and lows. Streaming prices went up, with the ad-free Premium tier reportedly moving from $18.99 to $21.49 a month, and the response in Disney fan spaces was about what you would expect. Threads filled with cancellation posts. People did the annual math and did not like it. A few days later, subscribers on the ...