Date Night Disney: The search for the perfect Date Restaurant

My sister-in-law Nancy and I are collaborating on a project.  In June, we’ll be taking our families to Disney’s Bay Lake Tower resort for a family vacation – as documented in “Planning the Multi-Generational Family Vacation”.  Since we have nine people in our reservation party, part of the conspiring that

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Disney Shares Holiday Cheer Year-round at Coalition for the Homeless

Did you know Disney VoluntEARS prepare and serve nearly 750 meals a month at Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida? It’s a tradition that spans at least a decade and one of many ways that Disney lends a helping hand at the Coalition, which provides food and shelter to

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Social Media Moms Celebrations at Walt Disney World

Join Us March 17-20, 2011 at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa for the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration! Registration opens at 2:00pm EST on 12/02/2010! *space is limited The Walt Disney World Resort® near beautiful Orlando, Florida is the setting for the second social media conference. You’ll experience special events, conference

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Mousetrapped 2010 – Disneyworld Workers on Strike

There has been alot of buzz going on about the Disneyworld Workers who are protesting my home away from home. Now a video has surfaced called Mousetrapped. While I am unable to find the complete video here is trailer. Here is the lastest word from James the creator of the

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Disney & Avant Gallery To Launch Reimagined Airline Chair In Collaboration With Designer Cory Grosser

Disney Consumer Products and Avant Gallery are pleased to announce the launch of the Walt Disney Signature Airline_009 Chair in collaboration with Cory Grosser as they recreate a classic Disney inspiration. The launch event of the exhibit will take place December 2, 2010 during Art Basel/Design Miami fairs. Los Angeles

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Win a Trip to Walt Disney World with “Magic Santa” and Sympatico.ca

Canadian users of the Magic Santa video platform now have another reason to share the joy of the holiday season – a chance to win the trip of a lifetime to Walt Disney World from Sympatico.ca. Canadian residents can win a family vacation valued at $10,000 by creating a free

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Police Investigate First Ever Suspicious Death in Disney-Developed Fla. Community

This article comes to us from CBS News. Police are investigating what may be the first ever murder in Celebration, the Disney-developed community in Florida. Osecola County sheriff’s deputies said a woman who was checking on her neighbor found a body inside a Celebration apartment around 9:40 a.m. Monday, according to

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Hanes’ Sweepstakes Gives Away Eight Free Disney Vacations

Collect Hanes Comfort Rewards Points for your chance to win one of eight vacations to your choice of Disneyland or Disney World in the Make Memories in Comfort Sweepstakes. Eligibility: USA, 21+ Start Date: November 14, 2010 End Date: January 14, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. ET Entry Frequency: 1 entry

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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

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Schedule of festivities for the 2011 Magical Families Gathering Weekend

Here we go! We’re excited to announce the schedule of festivities for the 2011 Magical Families Gathering Weekend! These are the scheduled events where you can count on finding other Magical Families. During times that are not listed on the schedule, design activities and select the theme parks that work

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Top 5 Disney World Character Dining Restaurants

Everyone please welcome Mike to the Chip and Company family. Mike will be helping out with our News & Views section of C&C. He starts out his first article with us talking about Character Dining. Here is his Top 5 WDW Character Dining Restaurants. My wife Cindy and I have

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Walt Disney World at Christmas Time: Planning Time for Decoration Hopping

Among the many fun and festive things to do at Walt Disney World during the Holiday Season, is “decoration hopping”: that is, visiting the various Disney resorts to see the wonderful decorations. If you have a Disney trip planned for the month of December, you are in for a treat and I encourage you to plan some time in your trip to do just this.

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Top 10 Disney World Holiday Favorites by Chris

It’s that time of year again!  I love Christmas and I really love Christmas in  Disney World. Come early November, you can’t miss it. The parks, the resorts, everything is decorated and gorgeous.  There’s so much to do and enjoy it’s nearly impossible to see everything, but here are my

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