Universal Orlando Resort has confirmed another Harry Potter ride will close soon. Credit: Universal Universal Destinations and Experiences is on somewhat of a historic run. Last year, the Florida resort welcomed a third theme park gate in the form of Universal Epic Universe, while Universal Kids Resort opened in Frisco, Texas, earlier this year. Plans are also underway and progressing ...

A guest at a park in the United Kingdom has been pronounced dead at the scene after reportedly jumping into a tiger enclosure. On Saturday, October 10, 2026, emergency services were called to Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, England, after a guest entered the tiger enclosure. Calls were made to the police at around 1:35 p.m., where emergency personnel began ...

We spent last week watching the Walt Disney World calendar. Disney raised prices on October 11 in 2023, on October 23 in 2024, and on October 8 in 2025. Three consecutive Octobers, which turned the first half of this month into something close to a countdown for anyone holding off on a purchase. Disney Tourist Blog, which correctly called the ...

The Disney Visa Card occupies a strange spot in the Disney planning world. It is not a premium travel card. The rewards structure will not impress anyone who optimizes points for a living. And yet it remains one of the more genuinely useful things a frequent Disney visitor can carry, because the perks are not really about rewards at all. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disney has a whole category of experiences where you make the souvenir instead of buying it. Build a droid. Build a lightsaber. Get transformed into a princess. They are among the most popular things Disney sells, and the reason is obvious once you have done one. A shelf full of merchandise is a shelf full of merchandise. A thing you ...