EPCOT’s 18-story geodesic sphere has defined the Walt Disney World skyline since opening day in 1982. But while its shimmering Alucobond panels remain as breathtaking as ever, the attraction inside is struggling through one of the rockiest stretches in its four-decade history. Spaceship Earth isn’t just showing wear and tear—it is visibly limping toward a promised refurbishment that can’t arrive ...

If you have spent any time at Disney Springs, you know Basin by smell before you know it by sight. It is the shop that announces itself from down the walkway. Walls of soap stacked like bakery goods, bins of bath bombs in colors that do not occur in nature, little displays of salts and salves and body butters. People ...

Walt Disney World is heading into one of its biggest years in recent memory. New rides, major transformations, entertainment experiences, entire lands, and even a new hotel are all part of Disney’s plans for 2027. Disney’s Animal Kingdom will introduce its new Tropical Americas land, while Disney’s Hollywood Studios will begin welcoming guests into Monstropolis. Magic Kingdom will bring back ...

Getting to and from Magic Kingdom is the most complicated arrival in all of Walt Disney World, and it is not close. Every other park is basically a parking lot and a gate. Magic Kingdom makes you choose. Monorail, ferryboat, resort launch, or bus, each with its own loading area, its own route, and its own crowd. At park close, ...

Your Disney World vacation could change soon, affecting how you and your family enter the theme park. Here’s the latest major rumor that looks to remove the current entrance policies. Credit: Joe Schlabotnik, Flickr Disney World Theme Park Entrance Gates Rumored for Major Overhaul Walt Disney World Resort could eventually replace its familiar park entry readers with automated gates, according ...

Your Disney World vacation could change soon, affecting how you and your family enter the theme park. Here’s the latest major rumor that looks to remove the current entrance policies. Credit: Joe Schlabotnik, Flickr Disney World Theme Park Entrance Gates Rumored for Major Overhaul Walt Disney World Resort could eventually replace its familiar park entry readers with automated gates, according ...

News Ask any parent what the hardest part of a Disney World day actually is, and very few of them will say the cost, the walking, or the heat. They will say the waiting. A theme park day asks a four-year-old to do the exact opposite of everything a four-year-old is built to do. Stand in this line. Do not ...

In early October, Walt Disney World Resort announced that the Rose & Crown Table-Service dining location in the United Kingdom World Showcase Pavilion at EPCOT would close for refurbishment next year. On Tuesday, Disney moved up the closure and extended it to encompass both the restaurant’s dining room and the separate pub area, which guests originally assumed would remain open. ...

Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa has been through a rough stretch, looking like a construction site with a Victorian hotel attached. The resort has been working through refurbishments inside and out. The roads feeding it have been torn up and rerouted. Walt Disney World’s first-ever roundabouts opened just down the way in August, which changed how traffic moves through ...

If you struggle with food allergies and visit Disney often, you already know the moment I am about to describe. You are at a quick service counter at peak lunch. There is a line of thirty people behind you, the cast member is moving fast because that is the job, and you need to explain that you cannot have dairy ...