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Disney to sell annual pass good for all its U.S. theme parks

Disney announced today that it will begin selling new annual passes good for admission to both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. The “Disney Premier Passport” will cost $700 plus tax and include admission to all four theme parks and both water parks in Orlando and both theme parks in Anaheim, Calif....
March 10th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney ends ‘Give a Day’ promotion after 1 million volunteers sign up

With a little help from Mickey Mouse, Chicago residents (from left) Danielle Rub, Dwayne Gibson and Marissa Sproul begin a volunteer project Sept. 29, 2009 at the Bethune School of Excellence in Chicago. (Photo by Gene Duncan/Walt Disney World) The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday ended a promotion offering...
March 9th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney picks general contractors to run Fantasyland expansion

Walt Disney World has picked a pair of construction firms to lead an overhaul of the Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland section, the biggest-yet expansion of the Orlando resort’s oldest and busiest theme park. Disney has hired Barton Malow Co. of Southfield, Mich., and Birmingham, Ala.-based Hoar...
February 26th, 2010 | Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Hectic moments preceded Disney World fatal monorail crash

At about 2 a.m. July 5, as the last of Walt Disney World’s theme parks was closing after one of the busiest days of the year, there was still much to do inside the resort’s monorail-maintenance shop. An electrician there was juggling multiple tasks as he operated the track switches linking the...
February 24th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney turns to ’storybook’ themes to fill hotel rooms

Rick Allen, general manager of Disney's Caribbean Beach and Pop Century Resorts, talks about the "storybook" theming of select rooms at Caribbean Beach, at Walt Disney World, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. The specially decorated rooms feature custom made themed-furniture, pirate artwork, nautical...
February 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Hotels and Resorts, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Race-track operator at Disney World says it might raise age limits if legal waivers aren’t reinstated

Fans of stock car racing can get behind the wheel or ride shotgun at Walt Disney World Speedway. (Walt Disney World photo) The Richard Petty Driving Experience, which operates a race track at Walt Disney World, says raising age limits to exclude children from driving or riding in its stock cars is “a...
February 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney World and others in Florida’s tourism industry try again to restore parental waivers

Horseback riding at Walt Disney World. Fourteen months ago, the highest court in Florida ruled that parents did not have the authority to sign away their children’s civil-lawsuit rights before participating in potentially dangerous commercial activities — a decision that outraged the state’s...
February 19th, 2010 | Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney World cleared of any safety violations in stunt worker’s death

File photo from the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular Walt Disney World has been cleared of any workplace-safety violations stemming from an accident last summer in which a resort employee died after breaking his neck while rehearsing his part in a popular stunt show. The U.S. Occupational Safety...
February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

In a recession, Disney’s tour business adds cheaper trips

Adventures by Disney is now offering lower-priced, fewer-frilled versions of some of its most popular trips, including one to London and Paris. (Photo courtesy of Adventures by Disney) At a time when travelers are trading down, Adventures by Disney is going budget. The Walt Disney Co.’s premium-priced...
February 15th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Just how wonderful is the most wonderful time of year for Disney theme parks?

Christmas is always the most wonderful time of the year for Orlando’s theme parks, as hordes of families flock to the resorts while their kids are briefly out of school. The Walt Disney Co.’s latest quarterly earnings offer a glimpse of just how profitable that holiday period really is. Thanks...
February 10th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More
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