Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

Before anyone panics, this is a week over Walt Disney World closures. Seven days, in the back half of January, more than a year from now. The Disney Skyliner is not going anywhere, nothing is wrong with it, and Disney has already published the dates for the year after that too. This is scheduled maintenance on a piece of machinery ...

When Brightline finally connected Miami to Orlando, South Florida Disney fans reacted like the commute had been solved. And for a lot of people, it had been. Families in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Aventura had spent decades doing the same miserable drive up the Turnpike, three and a half hours in the best case, considerably ...

Alien Swirling Saucers has had a strange couple of months. For most of its existence, the ride was the most predictable thing in Toy Story Land. It opened with the land in 2018, it spins for about ninety seconds, the height requirement is 32 inches, and the Aliens dangle from the claw while The Claw plays overhead. Families use it ...

In July, we wrote about another round of Disney layoffs for 2026. At the time, that felt like the story. Three rounds in twelve months, hitting marketing, corporate functions, ESPN, the film studios, and Disney Entertainment Television, with Pixar absorbing the largest number of studio cuts and National Geographic hit hardest within DET. Familiar names went with it, including longtime ...

Oga’s Cantina should be the easiest recommendation at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. It is a functioning cantina inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, with a droid DJ, exotic drinks, and the kind of theming that made people cry when the land opened. For a certain kind of Star Wars fan, walking into that room is the whole reason to visit the park. ...

Disney’s Hollywood Studios has never been an easy park for young kids, and that is not a new complaint. The headliners are thrill rides. Rise of the Resistance, Slinky Dog Dash, Tower of Terror, Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster, Smugglers Run. Most of them carry height requirements, and the ones that do not still skew older in tone. So when Disney ...

Almost every time I write about the Disability Access Service at Disney, the story is a bad one. Guests are denied after years of qualifying. Families rearranging entire trips around an interview outcome they cannot predict. People are being told, in one way or another, that what they need is no longer available to them. I have covered that repeatedly, ...

There is a version of “it’s a small world” that converts skeptics, and it only exists for about eight weeks a year. If your entire experience of this attraction is the standard one, the reputation makes sense. The song, the doll faces, the fourteen minutes. Plenty of guests walk out of it politely. Then they ride it in December and ...

Solo park days are their own specific skill, and single rider lines are the single best tool you have. If you have never done Disney alone, that probably sounds dramatic. But when you are by yourself, the calculation changes completely. You are not coordinating with anyone. You do not need to sit together. You will happily take whatever seat is ...

Yesterday, we wrote about what Lilypad’s arrival would mean for Toy Story Land. Today, she is physically standing there. The larger-than-life tablet has been installed outside Alien Swirling Saucers at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, sitting atop a large orange toy block. She is not active yet, displaying only her “The Pond” interface with no other graphics running. Disney has said Lilypad ...