Planning a Walt Disney World vacation requires more preparation than most destination trips, simply because of the scale of the resort. Four theme parks, two water parks, Disney Springs, and a collection of resort hotels spread across 40 square miles of Central Florida real estate create a logistical planning challenge that experienced guests approach with spreadsheets, crowd calendars, and dining ...

The digital phenomenon known as the “teen takeover” has mutated from a chaotic urban nuisance into a nationwide public safety crisis. Driven by viral social media algorithms, massive crowds of adolescents are converging on public spaces to commit acts of property destruction, looting, and extreme physical violence. As the country enters the high-traffic summer vacation season, this dangerous trend has ...

The Walt Disney Studios area at Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been one of the more talked-about additions to the park since it opened on May 26, and the response from guests who have already spent time in the former Animation Courtyard has been strong enough to suggest that the creative team made the right call in centering the new area ...

Today is the day that families with young Bluey fans have been planning around since Disney announced the experience months ago. May 26 at Walt Disney World is one of the most significant single-day openings the resort has seen in recent memory, with new attractions, areas, and experiences debuting across all four parks simultaneously. Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring The ...

Traveling to an Orlando theme park with young children requires a level of logistical preparation that parents of older kids tend to forget about quickly once the diaper bag era is over. Feeding schedules, nap timing, temperature sensitivity, the particular chaos of a toddler meltdown in a crowd of several thousand people, the need for a quiet space that is ...

There is a version of a Disneyland visit that is easy to overlook in the planning process, particularly for guests who have been to the park enough times to have a routine. You know which rides you are hitting first. You know where you are eating. You have a general sense of how the day will flow, and you execute ...

Disney’s Hollywood Studios is about to change in a way that has been building since the moment the Aerosmith version of Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster closed its doors earlier this year at Disney World. The reimagined attraction, Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets, opens to the general public on May 26, and the road to that opening has already ...

The countdown to one of the most anticipated attraction debuts Disney’s Hollywood Studios has seen in years is now measured in days rather than weeks, and for Annual Passholders who have been planning their approach to the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets preview window, the My Disney Experience app just became significantly more important. The virtual queue for ...

The Walt Disney Company has been named in a class action lawsuit filed in California federal court, and the subject matter sits at the intersection of theme park technology and personal privacy, a combination that is likely to generate significant attention from the millions of guests who visit Disneyland Resort every year. The lawsuit challenges Disney’s use of facial recognition ...

Universal Orlando Resort has spent the last several years transforming Universal Studios Florida into something dramatically different from the park longtime fans remember. Classic attractions have disappeared, entire sections of the park have changed identities, and newer thrill rides now dominate much of the resort’s attention. But amid all those changes, one attraction has continued standing almost untouched: E.T. Adventure. ...