At Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a very rare gorilla named Lilly is about to reach a monumental milestone – her first birthday. And while birthdays in the animal world are not typically marked on a calendar, Lilly’s first year has been historic. Since she was born last Feb. 19, animal care experts
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Changes are Coming to the Disney Vacation Club
The Disney Vacation Club (DVC), Disney’s version of a timeshare program, recently announced a change that almost went unnoticed by me. In fact, if I hadn’t seen an article by Jason Garcia of the Orlando Sentinel, it probably would have gone unnoticed. Currently, there is no distinction between DVC contracts
Disney Dream sails into Port Canaveral
Arriving in Grand Fashion Tuesday Morning is the long waited Disney Dream. After a long journey across the Atlantic it has made its way to Port Canaveral. Hooray!! Jason Garcia at the Orlando Sentinel is reporting on this historic news: Disney’s newest cruise ship, the 4,000-passenger Disney Dream, pulled into
911 call released in fatal Disney bus crash
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting on the 911 call released in fatal Disney bus crash. A 911 call made Sunday when a Massachusetts tourist was struck and killed by a bus at Walt Disney World’s Port Orleans resort was released today. An unidentified caller told a dispatcher the man, later
Man dies after walking in front of Disney bus at Port Orleans resort
This article comes to us from the Orlando Sentinel. A Massachusetts tourist was killed Sunday when he walked in front of a bus at Walt Disney World’s Port Orleans resort, the Florida Highway Patrol said. According to witnesses, Robert Krueger, 69, of Yarmouth Port, Mass., on Cape Cod, was walking
Disney to cut quarter of jobs from global development group
This article come to us from Jason Garcia at the Orlando Sentinel. The Walt Disney Co.‘s theme-park division is eliminating almost a quarter of the jobs within its global business-development group, the unit charged within identifying future growth opportunities for Disney’s $11 billion-a-year parks business. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Disney writes $25,000 check for incoming governor
This article comes from Jason Garcia at the Orlando Sentinel. Like scores of other businesses and interest groups across the state, Walt Disney World is cozying up to incoming Florida Gov. Rick Scott just before Scott is sworn into office next month. Disney this month cut a $25,000 check to
Where to find Santa Claus at Walt Disney World
This article comes to us from Kristin Ford at the Orlando Sentinel‘s Daily Disney Column. It’s December so of course Santa Claus and his elves are extremely busy. Still, The Big Man always finds time to visit Walt Disney World, so make sure your little one is ready for a
Disney, union extend contract until after holidays
This article comes to us from Jason Garcia at the Orlando Sentinel. Walt Disney World and its largest labor group, stuck in deadlocked contract talks, said Wednesday that they have agreed to extend their current pact until after the holidays. Disney’s contract with the Service Trades Council, which represents about
Town That Walt Disney Built Has 1st Killing Since Start
Celebration, Disney’s master-planned, picture-perfect central Florida community, has never reported a homicide in its 14-year existence — until this week. Residents of the town five miles south of Walt Disney World woke up Tuesday to the sight of yellow crime-scene tape wrapped around a condo near the Christmas-decorated downtown, where
Disney World reports flat attendance
Image via Wikipedia This article comes to us from Jason Garcia at the Orlando Sentinel. Attendance at Walt Disney World remained largely unchanged this summer, Disney disclosed Friday, even as overall tourist traffic into Orlando began climbing with the opening of Universal Orlando‘s Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Disney said
Tangled package debuts at Disney World’s Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique
This article comes to us from Kristin Ford at the Orlando Sentinel‘s Daily Disney. Earlier this month, the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique location in the Magic Kingdom began offering a new princess package. Little girls can be transformed into Rapunzel, in honor of the movie’s release Wednesday, for a limited time.
Magic Kingdom makeover: Scary to merry
This article/news comes to us from the Orlando Sentinel. Under the cloak of darkness, Walt Disney World rapidly turns pumpkins into poinsettias. But it’s not the handiwork of a fairy godmother. Dozens of workers shift the Magic Kingdom from Halloween into a full-on, deck-the-halls Christmas mode. The stroke of midnight
Disney hotel rooms to join Priceline
Interesting news from Jason Garcia at the Daily Disney. Walt Disney World is poised to sell hotel rooms on Priceline.com, after years of keeping its hotels off the popular site for bargain hunters. Disney hotel rooms will become a part of Priceline‘s inventory in mid-November, though the rooms will be
