Walt Disney World Resort Water Parks Offer Summer PhotoPass Locations

  Is your family headed to the Walt Disney World Resort this Summer? If so, you may want to consider including a visit to the Disney water parks to capture your magical family moments, on camera. Disney’s Blizzard Beach and Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon are filled with fun summer photo opportunities,

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‘Frozen’ Summer Games have Returned to Disney’s Blizzard Beach

Walt Disney World is bursting with extra fun this Summer! Pandora – The World of Avatar recently opened, Magic Kingdom is showing the new Fireworks show “Happily Ever After” nightly, Hollywood Studios is featuring “The Music of Pixar LIVE! A Symphony of Characters at Theater of the Stars, three times a night;

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‘World’s Largest Swimming Lesson’ Coming to the Water Parks of Walt Disney World

The 8th Annual “World’s Largest Swim Lesson” is coming to the water parks of Disney World just in time for the official start of summer! The “World’s Largest Swim Lesson” is an annual event held at an estimated 500 water parks, pools, and other aquatic facilities around the world. This

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Blizzard Beach Slated To Close For Refurbishment in October

During the off peak months, Walt Disney World will usually close one of its water parks for routine maintenance and refurbishments.  In keeping with this schedule, Disney released news this week that Blizzard Beach will be closed from October 30, 2017 until January 6, 2018 for refurbishments. Guests hoping to

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Typhoon Lagoon Announces May Maintenance Closure

For anyone heading to Walt Disney World in May that is planning on hitting the Water Parks, Walt Disney World resort has announced that Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon will be closing its gates to visitors on Monday May 15th through Tuesday May 16th and will re-open on Wednesday the 17th. Here’s

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Disney Water Parks Testing New Virtual Queue System for Certain Rides

The lines for rides at Disney’s Parks can sometimes be longer than what we wish for, and that can even happen at Disney’s two water parks: Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach. To alleviate guests spending their time waiting, instead of out playing, we hear from WDW Magic that Disney is

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Bus Transportation to Blizzard Beach Discontinued from Animal Kingdom Lodge

Guests staying at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge will need to allow a little extra time for bus transportation to Disney’s Blizzard Beach. Bus transportation from the resort to Blizzard Beach has recently been discontinued. Guests staying at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge will now need to catch a bus to Disney’s Animal

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Wheelchair rental prices now the same at all of Walt Disney World’s Parks

In a move that makes the wheelchair rental at Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach no longer a complimentary service, Disney announces the new fees for the wheelchair rentals at the water parks. WDW Magic reports that the water parks are now charging $12 for a wheelchair rental, with a $100

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Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach Scheduled Winter Closures

Each winter, during the cooler months, Disney alternates the refurbishment closures of it’s two water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach.   The 2016 Water Park refurbishment closures for this winter are as follows: Blizzard Beach will be closed from October 23 2016 through to December 24 2016 Typhoon Lagoon

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Top 10 Amusement Parks in the U.S. according to Trip Advisor

For the second year in a row Universal Studios’s Island of Adventure won top spot in Trip Advisor’s Travelers’ Choice awards for Amusement Parks and Water Parks. The winners were chosen by the quantity and quality of reviews and ratings for parks worldwide over the period of 12 months. If, you

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New Preferred Parking Option Coming Soon to Disney’s Water Parks

Disney’s Water Parks will soon offer a preferred parking option similar to its four theme parks. Preferred parking at Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon will cost $15 and get you a spot closer to the park entrance along with a bottled water for each guest.  This might actually be a decent value for larger

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“Frozen” Games at Blizzard Beach Begin on May 27th

Kristoff and Olaf from Disney’s hit animated film “Frozen” will appear at Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park beginning on May 27th until August 21st for the inaugural “Frozen” Games. As members of Team Kristoff or Team Olaf, guests can participate in a variety of winter-themed activities including: Ice Pail Relays where

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Broken Pipe shuts down 2 slides at Disney’s Blizzard Beach

It appears that Disney has been having some mechanical issues with Summit Plummet and Slush Gusher at Blizzard Beach. Apparently the water slides have been closed for weeks, with no firm re-opening date in sight, due to a broken pipe. We reported that Blizzard Beach was closed March 16-17th, and

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