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Shanghai Disneyland Hotel: The Flagship Resort Stay

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/ September 18, 2026

Shanghai Disneyland Hotel is the flagship on-site hotel of Shanghai Disney Resort, opened June 16, 2016, and set on Wishing Star Lake directly across the water from Shanghai Disneyland park. Built in an elegant Art Nouveau style with Disney theming woven through its 420 rooms…

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A Millennium Force train climbing the 310-foot lift hill, framed by early-fall trees at Cedar Point, September 2007

Millennium Force Through the Trees

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/ September 18, 2026

Millennium Force's lift hill through the trees, Cedar Point, September 29, 2007. Open Shadows-style edit. Original ThrillZing photo of Millennium Force at Cedar Point.

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Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta: Sleep Inside the Park

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/ September 18, 2026

Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta is the deluxe hotel operated by Oriental Land Company as part of Tokyo Disney Resort, and it’s unlike any other Disney hotel in the world: it isn’t next to Tokyo DisneySea, it’s built directly into it. The hotel’s Italian-seaport facade forms…

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Tokyo Disney Resort: Parks, Hotels & Planning Guide

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/ September 18, 2026

Tokyo Disney Resort is Oriental Land Co.’s two-park complex in Urayasu, Chiba, a short trip from central Tokyo. It’s built around two distinct parks: Tokyo Disneyland, the original Japanese Disney park that opened in 1983, and Tokyo DisneySea, a nautical-themed park found nowhere else in…

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Disney Davy Crockett Ranch: Log Cabins Near Disneyland Paris

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/ September 18, 2026

Disney Davy Crockett Ranch is Disneyland Paris’ campground-style resort, set among 55 hectares of woodland in Bailly-Romainvilliers just outside the main resort perimeter. Instead of hotel rooms, guests stay in one of 595 self-catering log cabins arranged along pine-shaded loops, each with a kitchenette, bunk…

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Disney Hotel Santa Fe: Disneyland Paris’ Budget Pick

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/ September 18, 2026

Disney Hotel Santa Fe is the entry-level on-site hotel at Disneyland Paris, opened in April 1992 and designed by architect Antoine Predock to evoke a Pueblo Revival motel in the American Southwest. Its roughly 1,000 rooms are spread across low-rise buildings named for Cars characters…

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Disneyland Paris: Parks, Hotels & Complete Planning Guide

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/ September 18, 2026

Disneyland Paris sits in Marne-la-Vallée, about 40 minutes east of central Paris by train, and is built around two theme parks: the castle-anchored Disneyland Park and Disney Adventure World, the reimagined park that replaced Walt Disney Studios Park in March 2026. Around those two gates…

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Walt Disney World Resort: Parks, Hotels & Planning Guide

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/ September 18, 2026

Walt Disney World Resort sits on roughly 27,000 acres in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, just southwest of Orlando. It opened on October 1, 1971 with Magic Kingdom and has grown into four theme parks — Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and…

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Disney Hotel New York: The Art of Marvel Resort Guide

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/ September 18, 2026

Disney Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel is a deluxe resort hotel at Disneyland Paris, built in 1992 by postmodern architect Michael Graves and completely reimagined in June 2021 around Marvel’s characters and artwork. It sits right next to Disney Village, within a…

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Universal Terra Luna Resort: Value Stay Near Epic Universe

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/ September 18, 2026

Universal Terra Luna Resort is a 750-room hotel operated by Loews Hotels & Co that opened March 25, 2025, right next to Universal Epic Universe on the Universal Orlando Resort property. It’s classified as a “Prime Value” hotel, Universal’s newer budget-friendly tier, with a space-exploration…

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