Over one year after a serious accident caused an entire bridge to go down for Disney World guests, things finally appear to be getting fixed. Credit: Martin Lewison, Flickr Disney World Hotel Bridge Still out as Truck Accident Still Impacting Area Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside is in the middle of work along the Sassagoula River, but one conspicuous ...

Walt Disney World is reshuffling plans for one of EPCOT’s longest-running dining experiences. EPCOT’s restaurant lineup has changed repeatedly in recent years, but Coral Reef Restaurant remains one of Disney World’s most iconic eateries. The seafood-focused venue sits beside The Seas with Nemo & Friends, with its dining room looking directly into the pavilion’s enormous aquarium. Coral Reef opened with ...

When Disney announced that Magic Kingdom’s Tiana’s Bayou Adventure would close for a scheduled refurbishment on November 2, parkgoers assumed help was finally on the way. Ever since taking over the iconic Frontierland location formerly occupied by Splash Mountain, the new attraction has struggled with persistent technical glitches, midday shutdowns, and complaints about show quality. A planned maintenance closure felt ...

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 ...

For years, the political brawl between Walt Disney World and Florida state leadership felt like an endless legal war. Between retaliatory legislation, stripped tax privileges, and fierce federal lawsuits, the historic bond between Mickey Mouse and Sunshine State politicians seemed permanently broken. Credit: Inside the Magic Now, that bitter feud is officially ancient history. In a move that signals total ...

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, ...

For over fifty years, the Walt Disney World Monorail System has represented the ultimate ideal of theme park travel. Sweeping past Cinderella Castle, gliding across Seven Seas Lagoon, and passing through the grand concourse of Disney’s Contemporary Resort, the “Highway in the Sky” is a beloved attraction in its own right. Credit: Heather Maguire, Unsplash However, behind the nostalgic charm ...

Disney World is heading into the holiday season from an interesting position. Credit: Disney Dining The latest financial results from The Walt Disney Company show that its Experiences business continues to generate record-level revenue, even as attendance growth at the domestic parks remains relatively modest. In Disney’s fiscal third quarter, the company said global guest numbers (inclusive of park attendance ...

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 ...

An abandoned Disney location has suddenly found a new purpose, and a familiar Pixar character is now at the center of it. For years, the space had become a reminder of what had been there. Its original purpose faded, references to its former identity disappeared, and guests had little reason to pay attention. Now, Disney has brought the location back ...