It’s being reported on several sites (like WDWMagic.com) that Walt Disney World areas – resorts, restaurants, lobbies, bus loading areas, pool areas – now have free wifi available. This is great. And also not so great. Great – because I travel to cover Walt Disney World for the Boston Herald – both as a travel [...]
Disney Vacation Club is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary by offering extra vacation points with every 100 purchased. Here’s the note from DVC: “Happy Anniversary! And thank you for being a big part of 20 years of vacation magic at Disney Vacation Club. We began in late 1991 with Disney’s Old Key West Resort, and now [...]
The highly-anticipated (by me, anyway) Royal Guest Rooms at Port Orleans Riverside have officially thrown open their doors to guests. I had a chance to tour the Royal Guest Rooms model last year. It was considered unfinished at the time, and there were Imagineers and other Disney people stationed in the room to answer questions, [...]
Disney revealed on its Parks Blog today that Imagineering has put the finishing touches on the new Art of Animation Resort’s marquee – which can mean we’re closer than ever to being able to book and stay there. At 46-feet, six-inches, the sign is now the record-holder as the largest freestanding marquee at Walt Disney [...]
Here’s a look at the still-being-worked-on Art of Animation resort. My first thoughts: – That’s not Stacey. – Her pigtails are distracting. – I’m a little surprised at the rate of progress. I thought they were further along. – I think I’m going to have to stay here soon after it opens. Interested in staying [...]
I do plan on getting to Hawaii someday – a quest that seems much more do-able since Aulani opened. So when I got some interesting info about the quick dining options at Aulani, it caught my eye. I thought I’d pass it along here, because, you know, food. When I’m not trying to spot Dog [...]
Mousejunkies J and Deb spent a few nights at Bay Lake Towers and are now moving over to the Beach Club. He touches on a few of the smaller details I haven’t seen in reviews so far. Here’s a quick report live from WDW: Bay Lake Tower rooms are very nice. The layout is the [...]
The long whispered about DVC property at the Grand Floridian isn’t such a secret anymore. WESH 2 is reporting that “Disney is about to begin expansion project at its priciest resort. As WESH.com reported in march, a permit application shows the proposed addition of a large building to the south of the existing resort buildings, [...]
I had a chance to tour the new Royal Rooms planned for Disney’s Port Orleans Riverside resort this fall. I was also told to not even think about photographing the room. I understood – it was a mock-up of what was to come and would not be a fair representation of the Imagineers’ work. Regardless, [...]
According to the man who would know, Disney’s impressive, new Aulani resort is finishing up right on schedule for its August grand opening. I sat down to breakfast with Jim Lewis, President of Walt Disney Vacation Development this morning (though you may know him from his greetings editorials in the DVC magazine, or even his [...]
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