Walt Disney World has been building something along Bay Lake for a while now, and the guests who pay close attention to permit filings, construction progress, and the subtle operational signals that tend to precede major resort announcements have been watching it take shape with a mix of genuine excitement and growing questions about what exactly it is going to ...

Disney Springs has been quietly reinventing itself for years. New restaurants keep arriving. Celebrity chefs have become part of the identity. Upscale lounges expanded. The whole area has shifted from the casual, slightly quirky Downtown Disney era into something much more polished and premium. Most of that evolution has been genuinely positive, and the crowds showing up every evening are ...

Liberty Square’s premier spooky landmark is continuing to slip behind construction walls. While Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion remains fully operational on the inside, the physical scale of its exterior refurbishment has expanded yet again as the peak summer travel season kicks off. Credit: Disney Guests visiting Magic Kingdom are discovering that even more of the iconic attraction has been ...

The old theme park playbook for driving attendance spikes used to be simple: bring out the wrecking ball. For decades, operators relied on flattening old attractions and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build shiny new rides from scratch. But in today’s economic climate, building a ground-up mega-attraction is an unsustainable financial gamble. Credit: Disney Instead, The Walt Disney ...

Summer has officially arrived in Southern California, signaling the start of the peak travel season at the Disneyland Resort. As schools empty out and vacationers pack the parks, the resort aims to keep every turnstile spinning and every ride vehicle fully operational to handle the massive crowds. Credit: Justin Ennis, Flickr However, if you have an Anaheim getaway planned for ...

For decades, the standard playbook for theme park growth was simple: bring out the wrecking ball. To keep attendance numbers high and convince families to shell out thousands for a vacation, parks relied on building massive attractions from the ground up. Credit: Disney But clearing land and spending half a billion dollars on an E-ticket ride is an expensive, multi-year ...

Flying to Walt Disney World is supposed to feel like the beginning of something. You have spent weeks, maybe months, building an itinerary. Dining reservations locked in, Lightning Lane passes mapped out, resort check-in timed to the hour. By the time you get to the airport, the hardest work is supposed to be behind you. Credit: Southwest Airlines For larger ...

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 ...

Insects creating giant welts on guests at Disney World are finally being combated as the summer season arrives. Disney World Gets Serious About Invasion of Pest Causing Welts on Guests For many Walt Disney World guests, summer vacations are filled with familiar sights and sounds. The hum of the Disney Skyliner overhead. The gentle wake of resort boats crossing the ...

Walt Disney World Golf occupies a specific and somewhat unappreciated corner of the resort experience that tends to get overlooked in the broader conversation about what there is to do on property beyond the parks. The three courses available to guests, Disney’s Magnolia, Disney’s Palm, and Disney’s Oak Trail, represent a genuine golf destination that has been drawing serious players ...