One of the best things about Disney Springs is that it never really looks the same two weekends in a row. You can walk the same loop from The Landing through Town Center a dozen times over a summer and still stumble onto something you did not expect. A merchandise pop-up that was not there last Saturday. A live band ...

When Walt Disney Imagineering officially opened Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at the Magic Kingdom in the summer of 2024, it was heavily marketed as a stunning, technologically advanced leap forward. Promising next-generation Audio-Animatronics and a vibrant, immersive celebration of The Princess and the Frog, the attraction was supposed to seamlessly replace the legendary—but highly controversial—Splash Mountain. Credit: Disney However, two years ...

Guests waited nearly a decade for Disney to upgrade the animatronics inside EPCOT’s Frozen Ever After, and Imagineering finally delivered earlier this year. But just months after the long-anticipated refresh debuted, guests are reporting a string of malfunctions across some of the attraction’s most anticipated scenes. A Decade-Overdue Upgrade Frozen Ever After opened in EPCOT’s Norway Pavilion in 2016, replacing ...

A fall trip to Walt Disney World can sound almost perfect on paper. The summer heat begins to ease, seasonal events take over the resort, and staying at a Disney hotel puts guests close to everything happening across the property. But anyone planning to stay onsite this fall may want to prepare for a trip that could be more difficult ...

Disney’s Lightning Lane system has been a source of frustration, debate, and genuine strategic obsession for Walt Disney World guests ever since it replaced the beloved and sorely missed FastPass system. The transition was not smooth, and the reactions were not kind. Guests who had spent years mastering the art of the free FastPass suddenly found themselves staring down a ...

Disney World is looking to keep its most loyal fanbase alive and well through 2026. New expansion days have reached the parks, giving Annual Passholders exclusive access to premier days and times to visit their most loved locations on Walt Disney World property. Annual Passholders Receive Even More Reasons to Visit Disney World in 2026 Walt Disney World Annual Passholders ...

Walt Disney World is a place for thrilling roller coasters, character meet-and-greets, and immersive escapism. It is also a place where finding an empty spot to sit and eat can feel like an extreme sport. That is exactly why a recent scene at Disney’s Hollywood Studios has caused a massive fracture across social media: a group of women occupying multiple ...

One of Walt Disney World’s most popular hotel perks has suddenly stopped for guests staying at one particular Deluxe resort. Disney Resort hotels offer several advantages that can make a vacation easier, especially for guests who plan to spend most of their trip on Disney property. Complimentary transportation remains one of the biggest. Now, guests at one Deluxe property have ...

There are certain things at Walt Disney World that never go out of style, no matter how many years pass, how many new attractions open, or how many times the resort reinvents itself. The silhouette portrait is one of them. It is the kind of souvenir that does not collect dust on a shelf or get tucked into a closet ...

For more than three decades, the Hollywood Tower Hotel has loomed over the end of Sunset Boulevard, looking almost exactly as guests expect it to look: abandoned, weathered, and frozen in another era. Right now, however, part of that familiar exterior looks very different. Construction activity continues to spread across The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, ...