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/ September 18, 2026
Morey’s Piers is a family-owned amusement complex stretching along the boardwalk in Wildwood and North Wildwood, New Jersey. Founded in 1969 by brothers Will and Bill Morey Sr. after they spotted an amusement slide on a Florida vacation, it grew from a single attraction into…
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/ September 18, 2026
Casino Pier is an amusement park and boardwalk fixture in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, that has drawn Jersey Shore crowds since 1932. Built by industrialist Linus R. Gilbert, the pier once stretched roughly 300 feet into the Atlantic Ocean and, together with its attractions along…
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/ September 18, 2026
Crystal Beach Park was a lakeside amusement park in Crystal Beach, Ontario, that opened on May 28, 1888, and operated for 101 years along the northern shore of Lake Erie near Fort Erie. Its location made it a favorite cross-border escape for Buffalo, New York…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Hotel Cheyenne is a 1,000-room value resort at Disneyland Paris, built in 1992 and designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern to look like a sprawling Old West frontier town rather than a single hotel building. Fourteen wooden lodges named after Wild West staples like…
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/ September 18, 2026
Pixar Place Hotel is the 15-story, roughly 470-room Disneyland Resort hotel at 1717 Disneyland Drive in Anaheim, California, directly overlooking Disney California Adventure Park. Formerly Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel (and before that a Pan Pacific property Disney bought in 1995), the building was reimagined and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa is the deluxe flagship of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, built in an American Craftsman style with a soaring timber-beamed lobby modeled loosely on national park lodges. It opened January 2, 2001, alongside Disney California Adventure Park, and…
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/ September 18, 2026
TusenFryd is Norway’s largest amusement park, located in Vinterbro, about 20 kilometers south of Oslo. It opened on June 11, 1988, on the grounds of a former zoo, and drew nearly 500,000 visitors in its very first season. Today the park is owned by Spanish…
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/ September 18, 2026
Linnanmäki opened on 27 May 1950 in Helsinki’s Alppila district, making it the oldest amusement park in Finland. It is owned and operated by the Children’s Day Foundation, a non-profit organization that has funneled the park’s earnings into Finnish child welfare programs for more than…
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/ September 18, 2026
Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park is a Greek mythology-themed amusement and water park resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, a town that calls itself the “Waterpark Capital of the World.” Founded in 1990 by the Laskaris family, who still own and operate it today, the…
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/ September 18, 2026
Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort is the value-tier hotel inside Universal Orlando Resort, built around a playful 1950s-and-60s beach-motel theme complete with mid-century color blocks, a 10-lane bowling alley called Galaxy Bowl, and two large pools with a lazy river and waterslide. It opened in…
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/ September 18, 2026
Luna Park opened on May 29, 2010, on the former Astroland site at 1000 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn, reviving a name last used by an amusement park that operated nearby from 1903 to 1944. The new park was designed and built by Central…
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/ September 18, 2026
Hard Rock Hotel Orlando is one of Universal Orlando Resort’s on-property hotels, sitting on the CityWalk side of the resort between Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure. It opened in January 2001 as a joint venture between Loews Hotels and Hard Rock International, and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Belmont Park is a small seaside amusement park in the Mission Beach neighborhood of San Diego, California, that opened on July 4, 1925, as part of developer John D. Spreckels’ plan to promote his electric railway and beachfront real estate. Nearly a century later, it…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort is a moderate-tier Walt Disney World hotel that opened in 1997 in the Animal Kingdom Resort Area, themed around Spanish colonial and southwestern architecture spread across a 15-acre lake called Lago Dorado. It’s built as four distinct neighborhoods of guest rooms…
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/ September 18, 2026
La Ronde is an amusement park on Saint Helen’s Island in Montreal, Quebec, built as the entertainment complex for Expo 67 and opened in April 1967. The City of Montreal ran the park for 34 years before selling it to Six Flags in 2001; in…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s BoardWalk Inn is a deluxe hotel at Walt Disney World, opened July 1, 1996, set along Crescent Lake in the Epcot Resort Area between Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Its 378 rooms and suites sit above a quarter-mile boardwalk district styled after early-20th-century Atlantic…
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/ September 18, 2026
Legendia is an amusement park in Chorzów, Poland, set within the sprawling grounds of Silesian Park. Construction began in 1956 and the park opened to the public in 1959 under the name Śląskie Wesołe Miasteczko (Silesian Amusement Park), making it the oldest operating amusement park…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Contemporary Resort is one of the two original hotels that opened alongside Walt Disney World on October 1, 1971, and it’s still one of the most recognizable buildings on property: a towering A-frame on the shore of Bay Lake with the Walt Disney World…
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/ September 18, 2026
Plopsaland De Panne is a family theme park in Adinkerke, part of the coastal town of De Panne in West Flanders, Belgium. The site began life in 1935 as Meli Park, a honey-themed attraction built around a real apiary, before Belgian media company Studio 100…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa opened on June 28, 1988, as the Grand Floridian Beach Resort and took its current name in 1997. Built in a Victorian-era Florida beach-house style along the shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon, it’s Walt Disney World’s flagship deluxe…
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