Most Walt Disney World guests probably aren’t thinking about who knows where they are while walking through Magic Kingdom. They’re thinking about their next ride, checking wait times, or grabbing food. Behind the scenes, though, guests can leave a surprisingly detailed digital trail. Many tools visitors use throughout their vacation can provide information about where they’ve been, often without them ...

Disneyland tickets almost never go on sale. That is the baseline fact worth starting from, because it explains why these Costco bundles generate the reaction they do. Disney does not discount admission to its California parks in any meaningful way. There are promotional ticket tiers, there are Southern California resident offers, and there is date-based pricing that rewards going on ...

Costuming is one of the few things Disney fans will argue about endlessly without ever quite agreeing on terms. The complaint has been building for years. Magic Kingdom’s costumes used to be aggressively specific. What someone wore in Frontierland did not resemble what someone wore in Tomorrowland, and the difference was part of how the park sold the idea that ...

The Walt Disney Company has officially closed on a major real estate deal in Orange County, purchasing a sprawling 25-acre corporate campus in Cypress, California, for $115.3 million. Public land records confirm that Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc. acquired the former North American headquarters of Yamaha Motor Corp. at 6555 Katella Avenue. Credit: Walt Disney Archives Located roughly ...

It may be October, but Christmas is just around the corner, and the biggest Holiday celebration of the year has sold out for another day, locking guests out of Magic Kingdom closer to Christmas Day. Here’s what you need to know! Credit: Rob Bixby, Flickr Date Close to Christmas Sells out, Locking Families out of Magic Kingdom During Party Mickey’s ...

If your idea of the ultimate Disneyland vacation involves arriving early to catch “rope drop,” your morning strategy needs an urgent update. Theme park visitors heading to the Happiest Place on Earth are encountering a whole new hurdle before even scanning their tickets: a maze of green construction walls, narrow pedestrian chutes, and relocated security screening checkpoints right at the ...

Something wicked may be brewing once again. Just as spooky season gets underway, Bette Midler has dropped something Hocus Pocus fans weren’t expecting — and speculation quickly exploded. The Disney icon behind Winifred Sanderson knows how passionate fans remain about the Sanderson sisters. This time, she gave them just enough to start asking some big questions. Midler isn’t giving everything ...

There is a sequence that happens at Disney resort hotels every single day. A family checks in, drops bags in the room or hands them to Bell Services, and then goes directly to the food court. Not for food. For the refillable mugs. Everyone picks a design, the mugs get rung up, and from that point forward, those mugs go ...

There is a specific moment that signals to a Disney traveler that the vacation has started, and it is not at the park entrance. It is standing on a platform at Orlando International Airport, waiting for a driverless tram to glide up, doors opening with that pneumatic hiss, and then riding elevated above the airfield toward the main terminal. No ...

The Disney creator world used to be small. Before 2020, theme park content was a niche with a handful of recognizable names, most of them running blogs or YouTube channels with modest followings. Then the parks closed, millions of people sat at home missing them, and demand for Disney content went vertical at the exact moment the barrier to making ...