Posts Tagged ‘News’

Patina Group CEO talks about pizzas and more at Epcot’s Via Napoli

August 20th, 2010 | Dining, Featured, Heather McPherson | Read More

Swan and Dolphin serve up Food & Wine Classic Oct. 8 and 9

Swan and Dolphin Hotel's Wine Classic Oct 8 and 9. The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin are offering guests a chance to indulge at the first annual Food & Wine Classic at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Oct. 8 and 9. Separate events from the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival,...

August 18th, 2010 | Dining, Epcot Food & Wine Festival, Heather McPherson, Things to do | Read More

Walt Disney World Resort is a wine lovers paradise

International Food & Wine Festival Oct. 1-Nov. 14 Delicious Discoveries is the theme for the 15th annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival Oct. 1-Nov. 14. It’s no wonder that this festival has grown in popularity. With a Walt Disney Resort wine list of 250 varieties that’s updated...

August 13th, 2010 | Dining, Epcot Food & Wine Festival, Heather McPherson, Hotels and Resorts, Things to do | Read More

A few more words about Fantasyland…

Today’s paper carries a story in which new Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs confirmed that Disney is redrawing the Fantasyland expansion plans it announced last year. The story arose out of an interview Staggs did with the Orlando Sentinel earlier this week. Obviously, space constraints...

August 13th, 2010 | Fantasyland, Fantasyland construction, Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney says Fantasyland expansion plans are changing

Disney is redrawing the sweeping Fantasyland expansion plans it laid out last year, even as bulldozers clear land for the project inside the Magic Kingdom. With the revisions, begun under new Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs, designers are attempting to rebalance the plans, which initially...

August 12th, 2010 | Fantasyland, Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Harry Potter beats Mickey Mouse — but he also helps him

Hogwarts castle looms over the patio of The Three Broomsticks restaurant at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal's Islands of Adventure. (Marjie Lambert/Miami Herald) We know that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter has worked wonders for Universal Orlando so far this summer: The hugely...

August 11th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney offers improved, though still tempered, outlook for its theme parks

The Walt Disney Co.’s theme-park business may finally be near the bottom of what is now a nearly two-year downturn. Disney said Tuesday that fiscal fourth-quarter hotel reservations at its resorts in Orlando and Anaheim, Calif., are running just 1 percent behind the same period a year ago, the most...

August 10th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney earnings could offer clarity to uncertain outlook for theme parks

The Walt Disney Co. reports fiscal third quarter earnings this afternoon amid widespread uncertainty about a theme-park business that is being buffeted by some conflicting crosswinds. There are plenty of positive trends. Universal Orlando, for instance, last week posted an upbeat quarter, with higher...

August 10th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

First look and first bites at Via Napoli in Epcot’s Italy Showcase

Executive chef Charlie Restivo The Italian accents in Epcot’s World Showcase now include an authentic Neapolitan pizzeria called Via Napoli. The 300-seat restaurant is different from other Epcot eateries in that it is awash with natural light. From the moment the automatic doors slide open, guests...

August 3rd, 2010 | Dining, Heather McPherson, Park Tips | Read More

Disney to create new position for workers who direct monorail movements

(Walt Disney World photo) Walt Disney World plans to create a new position — and a higher pay scale — for the employees who direct the movements of its monorail trains. The new “central monorail controller” position will be responsible for overseeing traffic along the resort’s 15-mile-long...

August 2nd, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More